Greetings and welcome to Thursday! We’re closed on Friday in honor of the Juneteenth holiday.

 

The team worked remotely on Wednesday and Thursday this week – OCCC is installing new network and security equipment across all of their campus buildings this week, so campus buildings were closed.

 

This weekend is Beachcomber Days in Waldport – you can check out the whole schedule here: https://findyourselfinwaldport.com/waldport-beachcomber-festival-june-19-21-2026/

 

Also, don’t forget that Sunday is Father’s Day. It was first celebrated in Spokane on June 19th, 1910. It became a nationally recognized holiday in 1972. Get those grills cleaned and have extra fuel (charcoal, propane or pellets) on hand – it’s grillin’ time!

 

Also, Summer Solstice is Sunday (at 4:24 am PST) – the longest day of the year with 15 hours and 30 minutes of daylight. The stones of Stonehenge are lined up to frame the rising of the Sun on the Summer Solstice, perhaps suggesting a connection to the day and as a celebration of the Sun. However, it isn’t clear if marking the Summer Solstice was indeed its purpose. The stones also mark the position of sunset on the Winter Solstice, and so may instead indicate a place to request the return of the summer months.

 

Here’s our weekly team update:

 

    • Partner Support/Community Support 
  • AOB – Sarah and Paul put the finishing touches on the press release. Paul worked on the event posters and drafted a grant for the City of Toledo to send to GP (which was submitted today). Stacie followed up with the Toledo Chamber of Commerce on logos and volunteer recruitment, sent a reminder to local artist re: supply list, proofread the press release, and finalized primary event graphics to accompany the press release.
  • CCFW – Sarah ran a CCFW board meeting on Tuesday.
  • Entrepreneurship
  • CWIH – Paul (along with Heather Stevens of Business Oregon and Courtney Flathers of the Regional Solutions team) met on Monday with the principles of Tactical Laser Defense Systems. They are an innovative Lincoln County company who have developed a laser-based target disruption system to scramble military drone targeting (they have six patents and two pending). Stacie and Paul met to review current reporting structure and discuss the program scope changes pending on RAIN’s side. 
      • EDA Disaster Supplemental Grant – Paul was contacted by the EDA review team for some additional EDALC financial information as they work though our grant application – which he submitted today. Asking for more information is always an encouraging sign!
  • Fail Fest 2026 – The team reviewed venue quotes and settled on Primaltones for the 10/29/26 event. Stacie reached out to Primaltones and requested a contract at their convenience. Paul also wrote and submitted a grant application to GP to sponsor the event.
  • Core Economic Development Services
  • Major Employers Report – Sarah continued to reach out to businesses for their employment numbers.
  • Newport Grant Program – Stacie set up a meeting with Sarah and Paul to outline our program design plan and timeline to prepare and submit a proposal for program design + administration to Nina by September 1st. She also built out a basic project board for the anticipated work through May 2030 in Monday.com.
  • Oregon Prospector – Sarah updated Oregon Prospector listings and added new ones.
  • Community Connecting
  • OPB Filming of Cape Perpetua Collaborative (CPC) Sea Star Survey – On Wednesday morning, Leslie joined CPC Staff, Board Members, interns, and volunteers at Yachats State Park with a film crew from OPB’s Oregon Field Guide. She sported her EDALC team jacket (which proved to be a fabulous layer for rolling in wet sand while contorting under sealife-covered rock overhangs) as she and CPC Executive Director, Talaina King, paired up on a sea star-filled section of the beach. It will be a few months until the story airs, but Leslie’s excited to see how many of her interview answers and unbridled exclamations on sea creature cuteness make it to the final cut. From CPC’s Jamie Kish’s follow-up email: “I am so darn happy to report that together we counted 1,618 sea stars!!! That’s incredible! Granted we had a good size team out there/more eyes, but even still, our past surveys haven’t broke 1000! The size distribution was also fantastic, a great mix of babies to beefcakes.” 
  • Organizational Management
  • Marketing & Communication – Stacie managed social media and scheduled Juneteenth posts for Friday.
  • Admin
      • Stacie did some general Monday housekeeping (archiving, deleting, moving projects to new folders) so that the Workspace is more streamlined.

 

Upcoming – Paul will be on vacation from July 7th-20th – he and Susan will be doing a Viking River Cruise from Basel, Switzerland to Amsterdam. Paul points out that he was last in Amsterdam in 1969, so it’s been a minute.

 

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)