Greetings and welcome to Friday the 13th! Avoid those black cats and don’t walk under any ladders!

 

A reminder to those of us who operate in a last minute world – tomorrow is Valentine’s Day. Nothing says I love you like a gas gift card from Pilot and a new car air freshener!

 

Today was CTE day at OCCC, in partnership with LCSD, the Eddyville Charter School and the Siletz Valley School – showcasing their Career and Technical Education programs and projects.

 

Next week, Paul will be travelling to Klamath Falls to give a presentation at the February Klamath IDEA Talks event. While there, he’ll be meeting with the SCORI (SOuth Central Oregon Innovators) Innovation Hub team, as well as some business faculty from Oregon Tech.

 

Here’s our weekly team update:

 

    • Partner Support/Community Support
  • CCFW – Sarah had a meeting with Jim King regarding CCFW’s new strategic plan and budget.
      • Take Action Lincoln County – Stacie provided an export of the project plan for the online donation portal for the 2026 Nesika Illahee Pow-Wow. Leslie sent the plan and received clarification on invoicing preferences.
  • ART Toledo – Stacie got the ball rolling on EDALC inclusion in next week’s City Council discussion of ART Toledo’s future. Stacie and Sarah will be providing a report on ART Toledo at the meeting.
  • Blue Economy/O2IH
  • Challenger Biosciences – Paul and Mark Farley connected today to talk through some verbiage for a demonstration project in partnership with Challenger Biosciences, Mango Materials and EDALC/O2IH.
  • Website – Stacie published a blog post highlighting OOC’s 2025 Regenerative Travel Impact Award. 
  • Economic Mobility
      • Workplan Update – Paul and Nina met with Allyson to review the first draft of her Economic Mobility workplan. They also discussed a proposed multi-layered internship project and how the (required) Co-Design process could be used to shape desired outcomes.
  • Entrepreneurship
      • Cascades West Innovation Hub – Paul attended the CWIH Leadership Advisory Committee meeting on Tuesday. All of the regional leads presented on their challenges, opportunities and desired assistance and mentoring they’d like to see from the committee.
      • EDA Disaster Supplemental – Paul met with Rural Prosperity Partners to continue final draft polishing on EDALC’s grant application. Early next week, the narrative will be submitted to the EDA for preliminary comments. Paul also received the final three letters of support (from the Economic Development District, OSU’s Advantage Accelerator and the SBDC) for the application package.
  • Core Economic Development Services
      • Lincoln County Economic Summit – Sarah worked on various summit planning things, she ordered nametag ribbons, sent the press release, coordinated speakers and resource tables, and organized info that’ll be put in the event packet. Stacie created and shared social media posts announcing Cara Turano as the keynote + a reminder to register. Sarah and Stacie met with Allyson to finalize a potential plan for a Resilient Oregon (PRO) activity/survey (pending program approval). 
      • Opportunity Zones – Walter contacted Paul about next steps in registering eligible areas in Lincoln County with the second generation Opportunity Zone incentive program. In the first iteration of this program, the only OZ region in the county was around Devil’s Lake (and not very impactful). This incentive program allows the deferment of capital gains taxes for investment in zone regions. This go-round, the OZ regions can be aligned with other incentives (EZ, Urban Renewal Districts, etc.). The local process to determine zone areas (that still need to be approved by BusinessOregon – even though this is a federal incentive) is just starting up.
  • Oregon Prospector – Sarah updated listings on Oregon Prospector and added new ones.
  • Community Connecting
  • Cape Perpetua Collaborative (CPC) Annual Partners Meeting Activity: Pilot Project Data processing – This week, Leslie compiled the pilot activity contributions into a spreadsheet, via a Google Form that can be easily replicated for future in-person and virtual updates. Then she analyzed the data and recognized five themes that evolved. She’s started with the first steps of “partner matchmaking” under the overlapping themes that arose during the activity. This resource will list the partners’ topic-aligned “offerings” and “needs” under each theme for easy collaboration reference.
  • Click here to see the spreadsheet of information contributed at the Annual Partners meeting.
  • Click here for the one-pager (first draft) describing the themes and overall resource concept. 
  • Organizational Management
  • Marketing & Communication Stacie created new graphics for Presidents’ Day, and managed EDALC social media.
  • Admin
      • Stacie attended The Center for Rural Innovation webinar State of Rural America: Trends Shaping What’s Next.
      • The team meeting took place at Local Ocean.

 

That’s it for this week – thanks for ALL that you are doing out there. Keep us posted if you have anything you want us to share – we love hearing from you! Have a wonderful weekend!

 

Cheers,

 

-The EDALC Team (Paul, Sarah, Leslie and Stacie)