WILTON — The Jay-Livermore-Livermore Falls Chamber of Commerce will hold its October breakfast meeting on Friday, Oct. 2, at the Comfort Inn & Suites on Route 2 East, in Wilton.

An invitation has been extended to members of the Greater Franklin Chamber of Commerce to join them.

The meeting will start at 7 a.m. with breakfast and networking. At 7:30 a.m. a business meeting will be called to order.

Immediately following the meeting, Peter Gore, vice president for Advocacy and Government Relations, Maine State Chamber of Commerce, will speak and follow up with a question-and-answer period, to allow for the topics that are key to members to be addressed.

Gore joined the Maine State Chamber staff in 1994 as a senior governmental affairs specialist and currently holds the position of vice president for Advocacy and Government Relations. He is responsible for directing the Chamber’s advocacy and government relations efforts and represents the Chamber and its members before the Maine Legislature, the Office of the Governor, and various state agencies on a variety of issues, including workers’ compensation law, labor-management issues, and health-care policy.

Since 1996, he has served as the chair of the Workers’ Compensation Coordinating Council, an organization formed in 1993 to monitor the Workers’ Compensation Board and assist members of the board in administering the 1992 Workers’ Compensation Reform Act. He served as chair of the Board of Governors of the Residual Market Pool from 1997-2001. Gore is a graduate of the University of Maine at Orono, with a bachelor of arts degree in journalism and a minor in sociology.

The public is invited to join the meeting, but is asked to RSVP to the JLLF Chamber immediately at 897-6755, or e-mail [email protected].

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