Greetings and welcome to Friday and to Seafood & Wine Festival weekend!

 

Due to the crazy weather this week, Paul’s Wednesday Klamath IDEA Talks event was rescheduled to the third week in April. The pass he was going to take from Medford to Klamath Falls got 24” of snow on Tuesday and another foot on Thursday morning. Yipes!

 

Also, Rogue’s online bankruptcy action begins on Monday morning: https://www.proxibid.com/Commercial-Industrial-Auctioneers/Rogue-Ales-Online-Bankruptcy-Liquidation-Auction/event-catalog/291551?p=2&sort=4&srchloc=true#cnTb

 

Here’s our weekly team update:

 

    • Partner Support/Community Support
  • CCFW – Sarah attended the executive committee and full board meeting for CCFW.
  • Take Action Lincoln County – Stacie began updating the website for the 2026 Neskika Illahee Pow-Wow and Leslie created and sent the invoice to CTSI.
      • ART Toledo – The team created a report on ART Toledo’s beginnings and EDALC’s support for the initiative including our stepping up last year to ensure that Art, Oysters & Brews happened. Sarah, Paul, and Stacie presented the report, which will inform whether/how the City will continue the initiative, at the City Council meeting on Wednesday. Council will include further discussion about the future of ART Toledo in an upcoming work session.
  • Blue Economy/O2IH
      • Challenger Biosciences – Paul worked this week to support Mark Farley as he drafted a short project description for a demonstration project using bacteria and PHA to remove nitrogen from seawater systems – the goal is to bring in some funding from Schmidt Marine Technologies (their foundation) for this work.
  • Economic Mobility
      • Stacie shared a potential “Strategic Doing” partner with Allyson.
  • Entrepreneurship
      • EDA Disaster Supplemental – Paul prepared an EDALC financial statement and an in-kind commitment letter as part of the last steps of preparing our application materials for the Oregon Coast Business Incubator Feasibility Study project. Paul also proofed the narrative for proper style, verbiage and bullet-list punctuation consistency.
  • Core Economic Development Services
      • Community and Economic Development Grant Program – On Wednesday, Paul attended the Lincoln County Board of Commissioners meeting. EDALC’s Board of Directors’ funding recommendations were approved as submitted! Paul worked with county staff to plan out communications and reached out to the awardees and those that didn’t receive funding with the news. The county is currently working on grant award contracts and a press release that should go out early next week.
  • Lincoln County Economic Summit – Stacie sent targeted email invitations to key community partners, and created/posted a sponsor thank you to Thompson’s Sanitary Service for being our second sponsor (Bronze level $500). She also connected with a potential entrepreneurship panelist in Seal Rock. Sarah worked on various summit planning things, coordinated speakers,  resource tables, and organized info that’ll be put in the event packet. Paul and Sarah met with Cara Turano, the keynote speaker.
  • Oregon Prospector – Sarah updated listings on Oregon Prospector and added new ones.
  • Community Connecting
  • Oregon Coast Community Forest Association (OCCFA) Local Woods Project Implementation – This project was Leslie’s priority this week, as the years of dreaming and networking finally culminated in moving a LOT of well-aged, locally sourced, beautiful lumber from a barn in South Beach to both Lincoln County ReStores, Taft High School’s Woodshop, and, soon, a last batch will go to Newport High School’s Woodshop. The Venn diagram of people, businesses, schools, non-profits, and sectors connected in just one day was pretty mind-blowing (even for Leslie’s brain). Given the underlying concept, lumber aging, and networking logistics have been in the works for many years, it was incredible to see it come to fruition. A huge thank you goes out to all the folks in the network who made the effort possible – especially on an icy Thursday morning. Leslie’s work over the next few days will include recapping the full story behind this effort, including pictures, recognizing all those involved, and announcing the availability of stunning, challenging-to-source live-edge slabs available at Newport and Lincoln City Restores. 
  • Organizational Management
  • Marketing & Communication
  • Stacie managed EDALC social media.
  • Admin
  • New Directors – Paul is setting onboarding meetings with EDALC’s three new directors.
      • Stacie attended Leadership Lincoln on Wednesday. The focus was Health and Human Services and Mental Health. She also participated in (and project managed) a group presentation on Conflict Management.

 

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)