EYE ON BUSINESS: This week’s meetings

■ Port Angeles Regional Chamber of Commerce — Twice-monthly luncheon meetings are held on the first and third Mondays at noon in the second-floor meeting room of the Red Lion Hotel, 221 N. Lincoln St.

This Monday’s meeting will feature Eric Lewis, CEO of Olympic Medical Center, who will review current expansion activity in Port Angeles for 2016; Russ Veenema, who will display images of the past 15 years of chamber activity; and Ron Jones, conductor of the Port Angeles High School Roughrider Orchestra, who will accompany student musicians Mariia Dzhenkova, Ben Basden, Lauren Waldron, and Daniel Williams as they perform holiday favorites.

Tickets for the luncheon are $15 and can be purchased from the meeting room cashier. For those not having lunch, there is a $3 participation fee that includes a beverage.

■ Sequim-Dungeness Valley Chamber of Commerce — Twice-monthly luncheon meetings usually are held at 11:45 a.m. on the second and fourth Tuesdays of the month at SunLand Golf & Country Club, 109 Hilltop Drive, Sequim.

There will be no luncheon this Tuesday due to the Christmas holiday.

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

There will be no gathering this Wednesday due to the Christmas holiday.

■ Jefferson County Chamber of Commerce — Weekly ­luncheon meetings usually are held Mondays at noon at the Port Townsend Elks Lodge, 555 Otto St.

There will be no program this Monday.

■ Port Angeles Business Association — Breakfast meetings are held Tuesdays at 7:30 a.m. at Joshua’s Restaurant, 113 ­DelGuzzi Drive, Port Angeles.

The next PABA meeting will be Tuesday, Jan. 5. There are no meetings over the Christmas and New Year’s holidays.

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All of the above meetings are open to the ­public.

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