EYE ON BUSINESS: This week’s meetings

■ Port Angeles Regional Chamber of Commerce — Monthly luncheon meetings usually are held on the second Wednesday of each month at 11:15 a.m. in the second-floor meeting room of the Red Lion Hotel, 221 N. Lincoln St.

This week’s luncheon will be held at the Elwha Klallam Heritage Center, 401 E. First St., with Clallam County Sheriff Bill Benedict speaking on “The Heroin/Opiate Problem in Our Community” and a brief update on the shooting that occurred in Port Angeles last weekend .

Tickets for the luncheon can be preregistered — $18 for members and $25 for nonmembers — at http://tinyurl.com/pdn-chambersignup.

■ Forks Chamber of Commerce — Luncheon meetings are Wednesdays at noon at Blakeslee’s Bar & Grill, 1222 S. Forks Ave.

This Wednesday’s gathering will feature District 3 commissioners Bill Peach, Clallam County, and Kathleen Kler, Jefferson County.

Lunch of $9.75 will include an entree and sides.

■ Jefferson County Chamber of Commerce — Twice-monthly ­luncheon meetings are held on the first Monday at noon at the Port Townsend Elks Lodge, 555 Otto St., and the third Monday at noon at Fort Worden Commons, 200 Battery Way.

This Monday’s program will feature Kevin Hoult of the North Peninsula Small Business Development Center on “Why Should I Network When Everyone Already Knows Me?”

The luncheon’s sponsor will be The Business Guides.

Lunch by Subway costs $8.

■ Port Angeles Business Association — Breakfast meetings with networking and educational programs are held Tuesdays at 7:30 a.m. at Joshua’s Restaurant, 113 ­DelGuzzi Drive (off U.S. Highway 101) in east Port Angeles.

Keven Hoult of the North Peninsula Small Business Development Center will present on “New and Exciting Things the SBA, the NPSBDC and the PABA Can Do for the Small, Struggling Business.”

There is a $3 minimum charge by Joshua’s for those at the PABA meeting who do not order breakfast.

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All of the above meetings are open to the ­public.

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