Chamber Newsletter: June 2013

June 2013

Luncheon Speakers

Jefferson County Chamber of Commerce luncheon meetings are held at the Port Townsend Elks Lodge, 555 Otto St., at noon each Monday, federal holidays excluded. Everyone is welcome!

June 3 - Future Business Leaders of America

FBLA members will present their Business Plan and Partnership With Business projects they are preparing to take to the National FBLA Competition in Anaheim, Calif.

Sponsor Food Co-op.

June 10 - Amy Smith

Smith will report on the Boiler Room, Port Townsend’s non-profit, volunteer-operated coffeehouse, music and arts venue, and social services hub. Sponsor The Leader.

June 17 - Michael Tweiten and Rick Doherty

Volunteers for Citizens for Local Food will present the 2012 Jefferson County Farmers Survey Report that tells us who is farming here, what they are growing, and who is buying it.

Sponsor Kristin Manwaring Insurance.

June 24 - Karen Anderson The manager of the Port Townsend Visitor Center will discuss how the Visitor Center helps Chamber members and County tourism.

Sponsor Coldwell Banker Best Homes.

Leader to launch new website More than a redesign, site to feature more content, more interaction and new tools for businesses In early July, the Port Townsend & Jefferson County Leader will unveil an entirely new website that gives businesses more access to the Leader’s highly ranked web pages and provides subscribers with much more online information and resources.

“We are completely redesigning and upgrading the site,” said Publisher Scott Wilson. “It will be more fully integrated with social media, more accessible to users, more useful to businesses, more interactive with the community and have more content. This continues a tradition of The Leader pressing ahead with innovations on our way to truly being a multi-media information and marketing company.”

Users will discover that many of their favorite features remain free and open for browsing. The popular classified section, a merchant directory, blogs and other postings will always be available without limit, just as they are now on ptleader. com, the news website launched in 1995 as the first newsroombased website in Washington State.

But, like many media comthrough a metering system. The articles and features, but steady panies, the Leader will begin system will still allow users free use will eventually trigger a charging a small amount for access to a certain number of meter. full access to its news content

For the first 30 days, the limit on free access to stories will be generous to allow for complete exploration of the site. By the end of September, however, most people who consistently access news content on the website will be asked to pay either a modest short-term charge or subscription.

The good news is that current print subscribers will have “all access” to the complete website and, if they want, the popular “E-Leader” which is a digital and interactive facsimile of the newspaper. Or, should you choose, you can have the all-digital access and forego the printed newspaper. Also, for everyone, subscription prices will be low. A dollar gives full access for a week. An annual subscription is even less.

In the upgraded business directory section, business owners will see doors swing open to a number of options. The section will include a free listing of all businesses in East Jefferson County. Businesses can upgrade their listing to include blogs, Google maps, photos, videos and other content. At the premium level, business press releases and announcements, clearly marked as promotional information, will be posted diContinued on Page 2

Leader: expanding

Power of mentorship sets young man on path toward boatbuilding success

Continued from Page 1 rectly onto The Leader homepage. The merchant directory will make it simple for businesses to get more online traffic and increase their local exposure to connect with local and visiting customers.

All of this will have easy social media integration.

Items on ptleader.com can be shared across a wide range of social networks with the simple click of a button, and posters throughout the county will find it easier to bring their own observations to the website and its wide local audience.

In addition, Leader website users will be able to do most transactions online anytime it is convenient for them. They can post classified ads to the site and order them for the print edition, order photo reprints and buy subscriptions.

The website will remain an active public forum, taking comments and debate.

But only subscribers will be allowed to comment,

This letter was sent to the Port Townsend Marine Trades Association by Cooper Parish, who received a scholarship to the Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding from the PTMTA. Since place-based education, mentorship and opportunities for young people are important topics of community conversaCooper Parish tion in Port Townsend, the Marine Trades Association decided it would be enlight- realized that my best opening to share this success tion was just 20 minutes from my house in Port story.

Townsend.

The Northwest School To the folks at the Port Townsend Marine Trades of Wooden Boatbuilding’s local feel, their amazing Association: I realized recently that new construction project, I never formally gave my Sliver and contemporary program were all very thanks for the generous scholarship I received for attractive. Not to mention that my dad was a tuition to the Northwest ’06 graduate, and I had School of Wooden Boatspent numerous days in building. About this time the shop with him as a kid two years ago, I began falling in love with the contemplating my life campus and waterfront in after high school. I knew lower Hadlock. My only that I wanted to attend some sort of college. After reservervation was the tuition. I didn’t feel like months of searching for the right school (including racking up thousands in debt, and I was hesitant to a trip to Maine for a visit to The Landing School), I commit to the year long

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and real names will be required. We want our reader comments to contribute to a wide ranging but civil discussion of local affairs.

Other users will be able to flag comments they deem inappropriate and after three objections, comments will be reviewed by an editor to determine whether they should stay on the site or be removed.

Advertisers will find themselves well served by the new site’s capabilities, too. A wider range of attention-getting ads will be available, from pencil thin ads that expand when a mouse arrow hovers over them, to peel down page corners, sponsorships and the traditional tile and banner ads. Shortly after the launch of the new website, our sales team will visit local merchants to explain the site options and reserve limited space.

So start the countdown and get ready for the launch. It’s all coming to ptleader.com July 3.

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and the wonderful job I earned afterwards were made possible by this scholarship. Half tuition at the Boat School is a truly generous sum of money, and one that certainly did not go unappreciated.

I’m so thankful I had the opportunity to attend, to work on Sliver, to meet new friends and finally to have a job when it was all over! My future as a shipwright is looking great. I have no plans yet but when the project here is done I want to travel and maybe end up in San Francisco, hopefully with a job building modern wood composite boats with the skills I gained here in Port Townsend.

No matter what happens, I will keep the knowledge from my fantastic year at the Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding with me for the rest of my life.

Thank you so much for opening the door to an amazing career in the marine trades!

Sincerely, Cooper Parish

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program because of that.

When I heard about the scholarship offered every year, I was ecstatic! I applied, and to my great joy was awarded half tuition. The decision to attend suddenly became extremely easy.

One year went by very fast, but that’s what seems to happen when one is having fun. I learned so much in that time, met and worked with so many knowledgeable people and gained tons of priceless experience. I realized early on that being at the boat school was like having a job with the best in the business, with a few small but important differences -- I could mess up, take my time, and ask as many dumb questions as I wanted. After graduation I was lucky to come back to the Hammond Shop at the school. My work on the Sliver was good enough that I was asked to come back and join the crew as a shop assistant working full time on the boat.

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part but the building of the community. Catherine Durkin, 24, who moved from Maine to work for Chimacum’s Spring Rain Farm last year, and is now working for Midori Farm and will be helping manage the Chimacum Market, spoke of hoping to bring “the energy people have for local food in Port Townsend and moving it down here to where a lot of the food is grown.”

Catherine’s goal is to broaden the access to local food at the Chimacum Farmers Market, and she is excited to work on Jefferson County Farmers Market’s new Gimme 5 campaign. Folks on food assistance receive direct matching funds in the form of $5 tokens when The Chimacum Farmer’s Market is the best place to get they use their Food Stamp card or Market Vouchfarm fresh produce. The market reopens June 2. ers. The $5 tokens help Hebling, 25, moved to the years ago. He ended incentivise people to use area to intern at Finnriver up baking for Pane their food benefits at the and then went to work D’Amore before meeting market and help lessen for Dharma Ridge. Her John Shelly, 34, who had the perceived cost barrier partner Nina Sajeske just finished building his in buying high quality moved from Chicago mobile wood fired pizza nutritious local produce. to work for Frog Hill oven out of the epony“We can’t grow more farm and then worked at mous Dented Buoy. Now local food without also Mount Townsend Cream- Mark lives in Irondale growing the community ery before moving onto and is bringing the pizza of eaters,” explained Dharma Ridge. While oven back to the Chima- JFCM board member and there, the two young cum Market, where it got Finnriver farm manager women decided to launch its start in 2010 before Janet Aubin, 28, whose their own endeavor in heading to the more berries and produce have conjunction with the expopulous Port Townsend fed more and more Jefisting farm, adding pork, market. Mark is excited ferson County residents eggs, and chicken to the to manage the wagon on every year, “and this is existing mixed vegetable his own and he’s excited especially true in Chioperation run by Haley to, as he says, “see my macum. We need more and Zach Wailand, both community build up by folks in the south county 35. The two farms will be feeding people delicious to come to the market.” selling in the same booth pizza.”

Help us keep our at the Chimacum Market.

When I talk with the young entrepreneurs Mark Ennis, 27, vendors at the Chimagrowing. Come out to originally moved to cum Market, this sentithe Chimacum Farmers Chimacum to work for ment gets echoed over Market on Sundays, June Finnriver Farm four and over. Not the pizza through October.

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By Will O’Donnell The Chimacum Farmers Market, which reopens Sunday June 2, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on the grass at the Corner Store, originally sprung out of a reenergized Chimacum Grange in 2008. In 2010, it moved to the larger more visible corner and helped identify the space as the center of the local food scene that the Corner Store would begin building on the following year. This year when the market reopens, the goal will be to do what farmer’s markets have always done: to gather people together and to put a face on the food we eat.

And the face of local food, especially in contrast to the county’s recent designation as being the oldest in the state, is remarkably young. The local food movement has been quietly drawing in young people from across the nation to work on Jefferson County, but especially Chimacum area, farms.

Karyn Williams, 34, whose Red Dog Farm is only a mile away from the corner, spoke at the Chamber of Commerce in 2012 and detailed how she has a broad pool of highly educated young applicants to choose from when she hires her handful of workers for the farm. Some of the workers stay on with her a second year, and some move on to other farms or other local businesses, and some start their own.

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New members Crossroads Music Did you know that Crossroads Music has been in Port Townsend for 16 years offering quality musical instruments for all levels? Not just a “pick and string store,” Crossroads Music has become the destination store on the Olympic Peninsula for North American-made instruments including locally hand-crafted instruments such as guitars,

ukuleles, resonator guitars and banjos. They are a full-service musical instrument store. Crossroads Music offers on-site music lessons, expert repairs, quality rental instruments, CD duplication, PA systems and more.

Dan Gessner and Sarai Lopez moved from California to purchase Crossroads Music from George Rezendes and Lindsay Hamilton 8 years ago.

The staff at Crossroads Music can help you choose an instrument and then teach you how to play it.

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Dan’s passion for music came at the age of 10 with the guitar and now owning a musical instrument store has been a most rewarding experience for him.

Sarai always dreamed of being an entrepreneur and her skills in business management and Dan’s passion for music make them a great business team. Dan and Sarai want their customers to feel that Crossroads Music is their store, too. If a customer wants them to carry a special item that they like to use they will gladly stock it for them. Customers’ suggestions have helped create an excellent selection of books and accessories. If you don’t find what you’re looking for, just ask and they can order it for you.

Crossroads Music joined the Chamber of Commerce because they wanted to reach more of their local community.

After meeting with Teresa Verraes and her team, the enthusiastic energy, useful marketing ideas and insights about local business trends made the decision to join very easy.

Crossroads Music is located at 2100 Lawrence Street, Port Townsend (on your way uptown). Open Monday through Friday 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Saturdays noon to 4 p.m.

Phone 360.385.1471. You can also reach them on the

web at www.crossroadsmusic.com.

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Face of Grace offers a full menu of services -- facials, microdermabrasion, peels, oxygen treatments, dermaplaning and full service waxing in the upstairs treatment rooms, while Eminence Organic Skin Care, Jan Marini Skin Research, and Jane Iredale Face of Grace Makeup are featured lines Pure Skin Care sold in the retail location This month marks one on the first floor. year for Face of Grace Julie has been a Pure Skin Care at its licensed esthetician since downtown Port Townsend 1992 and has been worklocation. Esthetician and ing in Port Townsend Face of Grace Owner Julie since 2006. She graduated Hoffman will celebrate from the Aveda Institute this anniversary with an in Minneapolis and the open house scheduled for renowned Euro Institute June 22. in Seattle. “I truly have a Julie’s decision to open passion for my work.” She a retail space and move is also certified in manual her practice downtown lymphatic drainage, a was a good one, as it massage technique used increased visibility and on the face and neck with business. She recently every one hour facial. received a regional excel- “My goal is to provide a lence in the industry nurturing experience, with award from Eminence Or- clinical results.” ganic Skin Care for Most Face of Grace is loOverall Growth in 2012. cated 633 Water St. For an appointment, please call “This community has Julie at 360-301-5060 or been very good to me,” the store at 360-385-9294. she said. “I have a wonderful loyal clientele, and On the web, like Face of new clients are finding me Grace’s Facebook page and visit faceofgraceskinevery day.” care.com.

Joining the Chamber, Julie says, goes handin-hand with building a strong business. She is excited to participate in

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World’s End Tourists and locals of the Victorian seaport of

Port Townsend need look no further than World’s End for a shopping adventure. Nautical and Victorian influences venturing into pirate and steampunk effects can be discovered at this clothing, accessories, and gift store. While customers often turn to bygone models of inspiration in their style, they nevertheless want to dress of-the-moment—vintage but modern, yesterday today. They want to turn heads that wear smiles.

World’s End understands whimsical practicality.

Owner Joyce Janetski set out to bring the spirit of Port Townsend’s historic waterfront into the shopping experience. A native of the Northwest and alum of the University of Washington, Joyce and her husband, Joel, retired to Port Townsend after raising their family in Utah. Joyce’s vision of a shop worthy of the town’s reputation does not disappoint. As one customer said, “This place really picks up the vibe of Port Townsend!”

That “vibe” has always been defined by people who are free spirits. The enthusiasm that drove the building of a colorful seaport is today captured by the folks who visit or have settled in this magical tip of the Northwest. People of all ages and types come to the historic district hoping to discover and take home with them treasures from their junket to Port Townsend.

World’s End should give the curious traveler one more good reason to remember our delightful edge of the world!

World’s End is located at 1020 Water Street in Port Townsend. (360) 3796906. Hours are Mon–Sat: 10 a.m to 6 p.m and Sunday, Noon to 6 p.m.

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New members Jefferson County Chamber of Commerce for its gracious invitation to join a vibrant network of community support. Thank you, Teresa!

Partnering with Fort Worden State Park, Bon Appétit Management Company brings you Local Goods, a café passionate about great food and inspired by our commitment to sustainability. We Olympic Camping and believe that food serves a Vacation Rentals much larger purpose for This summer will mark the community. A café is a our third year living in the gathering place. Breaking Pacific Northwest and the bread together helps cresecond season for Olymate a sense of community pic Camping and Vacaand comfort and a sense tion Rentals. We hadn’t of family. We recognize intended to move here and the importance of Fort were literally captured by Worden in our community the area. We were about and we take great care half way through a 12 in serving you and your month road trip in a motor guests. We provide caterhome when we headed ing service at Fort Worden, to Port Townsend to visit Do you want your campsite to look like this? Get in touch with Olympic Camping and The Northwest Maritime friends whom we had met Vacation Rentals.

Center and throughout the while living on Maui. peninsula. Bon Appétit Though it turned out were perfectly located for employees, guests, comfocus makes Bon Appétit a catering services range that they didn’t live here anyone heading to Olymmunity and environment. unique company for which from small breakfast anymore, we never left pic National Park from This socially responsible to work. pastry platters with freshly and the road trip came to anywhere from Bellingham an end. Within two weeks to Portland. We’ve since we were bidding on a had customers from Israel, house in Port Hadlock and South Africa and the United figuring out what we were Arab Emirates. Though going to do here. Havmany local people already ing owned and managed own their own gear, we’ve vacation rentals before become the go-to place for and seeing the amount of out of town guests, first time tourism that there is here, campers, groups and those offering vacation rentals who don’t want to invest in again was an easy deciowning their own gear. sion. We enjoy helping We operate 12 months visitors have a great time a year and can be reached while they’re visiting this at: olympiccampingrentals. beautiful region. com and olympicvacationAfter spending six rental.weebly.com. 360months full time in the 301-1344. motor home, we were in a “camping” mode and immediately noticed that this area has many, many camping opportunities. What it did not have, however, was Bon Appétit a way that visitors could Bon Appétit was rent camping equipment. founded in 1987 as a San With airline baggage Francisco-based catering limits getting tighter and company, and from day more restrictive, it’s gotten one we were fanatical much more challenging to about serving fresh food. travel with camping gear, especially the heavier, more We have also had a longtime commitment to doing comfortable car camping 360-385-4195 the right thing for our gear. We also saw that we

brewed coffee, deliciously prepared hors d’oeuvre, elegant plated receptions and beautiful buffets to picnic baskets, barbecues on the beach and everything in between.

We believe in serving only the freshest food, prepared from scratch, using authentic ingredients.

We serve only all-natural beef. Our chicken and eggs are always antibiotic free.

Seafood is purchased only from sustainable sources. We use locally grown and organic produce whenever possible and our bakery items are made from scratch.

For more information about the healthy and sustainable choices we make, please visit our website at: bamco.com or call us at (360)344-4440 or email us at catering19035@ cafebonappetit.com.

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Volunteers sample spices, Cellar Door, vintage planes VIC volunteers need to know where to shop, where to eat, and what to visit. Familiarization tours, where we visit local businesses in person, are always a great reminder of the incredible places we have in Jefferson County!

New Port Townsend shop owners, Judy and Jon, opened their business, The Spice and Tea Exchange, in December 2012. They are from Port Angeles, but felt Port Townsend’s high pedestrian traffic and appreciation for smaller stores would be better for their store. All spices and teas are meant to be experienced in some way before purchased.

Customers are encouraged to open the teas for smelling and grind some herbed salt for tasting.

All of their tea and spice blends are organic and made in the shop. They are finding that their customers are happy to find their needs filled in Port Townsend rather

VIC volunteers visited the Spice and Tea Exchange on Water Street in Port Townsend. than having to drive out of the county. Jon and Judy are excited at the chance to support other local businesses in the area. They feature an art gallery in the upstairs space and are open for every gallery walk.

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The Spice & Tea Exchange • 929 Water St., PT • 385-1633 • spiceandtea.com The Cellar Door is the new hip spot in Port Townsend, but you have to be in-theknow, or know someone who is, to find it. The four co-owners want to change that and make their establishment a destination. When the Cellar Door was just a twinkle in these young entrepreneurs’ collective eye, the challenge was finding a location perfect for their vision. As they scoured the town for the right spot, the space under 940 Water Street became available. With a name like ‘The Cellar Door,’ it only seemed appropriate to be located underground. This new location was perfect but its interior didn’t match the speakeasy vibe they were going

for. The four of them jumped into renovations feet first never looking back, doing 90 percent of the work themselves, complete with a handlaid penny floor in the restroom. They worked toward a “warm, homey sort of place while keeping the integrity of the space and Port Townsend alive” within. The Cellar Door opened for business January 2013. They specialize in locally sourced, original tapas (small plates) to share, and specialty signature cocktails. “Our whole shtick is that we’re a cellar, a speakeasy. It’s dark and we want you to feel like you’re somewhere else…we want you to be transported to another place,” co-owner, Megan told us. Fostering good relationships with other restaurants and small businesses is part of their key to survival. Having great food, drinks, and a cool atmosphere doesn’t hurt though.

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The Aero Museum was a fascinating stop for Visitor Center volunteers.

kids who have taken to are rewarded for physidrugs, or who might drift cal labor with hands that way, have an intense on training rebuilding desire for acceptance antique airplanes. Many and structure, and he has of the kids have gone on about 350 former students to receive their pilot’s who will agree with him. license and some to fly In 2009, Jerry and Jerry’s drill and flight commercially and still Peggy Thuotte were instructor background consider the Thuottes voted Citizens of the made him the perfect part of their family.

Year by local service teacher to offer what The outcome is inspiorganizations for runthese kids need. He will rational for the kids and ning a program to get also incredible for the and keep kids off drugs. be the first person to say that the program is hard. planes. Big, shiny, asTheir personal family He describes it as “boot tonishing, flyable planes story is where the Port camp from hell. And it gloriously suspended Townsend Aero Munever ends, never.” The overhead as if still in their seum was born. kids will agree, but also heyday, as well as being The museum is filled appreciate the trust and able to stand nose to nose with beautifully restored respect established among with these specimens antique airplanes. Every themselves and with offers a sense of wonder single thing you can see to even the smallest and was done by kids between Jerry.

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Chamber Ambassadors turned out for a ribbon cutting on a sunny day at Marrowstone Vineyards. On hand were Ambassador Pam Lampman, Laurie Liske (First Federal), Marrowstone Vineyards employee with owners Judith and Ken Collins, Vi Koenig (PT Laundromat & Self Service Car Wash), Back row, Connie Segal (Connie Segal Natural Skin Care), Karen Anderson (VIC), Cammy Brown (Peninsula Legal Secretarial Services), Debbie Wardrop (Resort at Port Ludlow), friends of Marrowstone Vineyards, and Chamber President Dominic Svornich (Kitsap Bank).

Team Jeff looks at helping tech companies grow When you ask high tech manufacturing business owners in Jefferson County what’s important to them, you might expect them to give an answer about infrastructure or financing. Turns out there’s another issue that these entrepreneurs are passionate about: education.

That’s what EDC Team Jefferson learned upon convening the Advanced Technology Manufacturing Group, a gathering of business and education leaders in the county. The group was formed in order to find out how Team Jefferson could offer support to these kinds of businesses to help them thrive and grow here. Jefferson County

is blessed with many quality manufacturers who compete successfully in the international marketplace and one of their biggest needs is well educated, qualified employees.

It was therefore a natural fit to invite the Port Townsend and Chimacum School Districts into a conversation about internships, cooperative education efforts, and programs which would give students exposure to and experience with working in local advanced technology manufacturing businesses.

On May 15, the effort was kicked off with a tour of four local manufacturers: Port Townsend Foundry, Marketech

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International, Mobilisa, and Atlas/VivaFresh.

Seven math and science teachers from both school districts attended, as did Port Townsend School Superintendent, Dr. David Engle.

The group was treated to a pour at PT Foundry, watched precision machinery at work at Marketech, learned about the powerful wireless software and hardware technology developed

by Mobilisa, and was introduced to the specialized products of Atlas Technologies, who manufacture vacuum chambers for everything from quantum physics research to containerized preservation of perishable goods.

This tour was just

EDC/Team Jefferson toured four local manufacturers as a first step in a broad effort to familiarize students with the exciting, world-class career opportunities which exist right here in Jefferson County. Above, members tour Marketech. the first step of a broad effort being developed to familiarize students with these and other

companies, give them educational opportunities in practical applications, and exposure to the ex-

citing world-class career opportunities which exist right here in Jefferson County.