Meetings & Events
The Spokane Valley Chamber of Commerce will host a Business Connections Breakfast on Friday, Dec. 17, at the Mirabeau Park Hotel & Convention Center, 1100 N. Sullivan, in Spokane Valley. The program, Season of Sharing, will showcase nonprofit organizations. The cost is $25 for members and $50 for others. The Spokane Valley Chamber also will hold a Member Orientation on Tuesday, Dec. 21, at its office, 9507 E. Sprague, at 4 p.m. For more information on either event, call 924-4994.



The Spokane chapter of the Washington Society of Certified Public Accountants will hold a luncheon meeting on Wednesday, Jan. 12, at the Spokane Club, 1002 W. Riverside, downtown, from noon to 1:15 p.m. Steve Scranton, chief investment officer at Washington Trust Bank, will present an Economic Update. The cost is $30. For more information, call Sandi Pendleton, at 455-5300.

Workshops & Seminars
The Spokane Home Builders Association will host a Builder Assessment Review and a Professional Remodelers Experience Profile, offered through the Building Industry Association of Washington, of Olympia. Both will be held on Dec. 17 at the SHBA headquarters, at 5813 E. Fourth, in Spokane Valley, from 1 to 5 p.m. The cost for each class is $195. For more information, call Amber or Amanda at 1-800-228-4229.



BizStreet, the small-business program of Greater Spokane Incorporated, will hold a free home-based business connection workshop on Social Media on Tuesday, Jan. 4. Cheryl-Anne Millsap, a freelance columnist for The Spokesman-Review, will speak. BizStreet also will hold a workshop titled 2010 Federal Health Care and Your Business on Tuesday, Jan. 11. Angela Dowling, of Payne Financial Group here, will speak. The cost of the workshop is $15 for members and $30 for others. Both workshops will be held from 8 to 9:30 a.m. at the Spokane Regional Business Center, 801 W. Riverside, downtown.



The Procurement Technical Assistance Center at Greater Spokane Incorporated will hold a free workshop titled Introduction to Government Contracting on Thursday, Jan. 6, at the Spokane Regional Business Center, 801 W. Riverside, downtown. For more information, call Leslie Miller at 321-3641.