Greetings and welcome to Friday and the start of summer. The days only get shorter from here on out!

 

I wanted to pass on some information from Sarah – she called me this afternoon. Late last night, Sarah’s significant other Trystan was in a serious head-on car accident on the Siletz Highway and was life-flighted to Portland. Sarah is up there now supporting him and his family. I’ll pass on more when I know more – and Stacie, Leslie and I will step up to cover Sarah’s spinning plates next week and as needed in the near future. Send good energy Sarah’s way!

 

Here’s our weekly update:

 

    • Partner Support/Community Support 
  • ART Toledo
        • Team is distributing Art, Oysters & Brews call for vendor postcards
        • Stacie submitted AOB ad/details for inclusion OCCA Event Calendar
  • YBEF 
  • Stacie reached out to flower farm re: centerpieces
  • Reinventing Rural 
        • Sarah created the Lincoln County Entrepreneur Workshop Survey to collect preferences for a 10 week business development course. Stacie designed post in Canva and posted to LI, FB, and IG.
  • Waldport Chamber
        • Paul, Susan and Leslie attended the quarterly Waldport Chamber of Commerce breakfast, at the Angell Job Corps campus in Yachats. It was amazing to learn more of this HUGE effort that is a joint collaboration between the Forest Service and the Department of Labor. We had no idea they could support up to 160 students at a time.
  • OCCC
      • Last night, the OCCC Board of Education met to pass the largest budget in OCCC history (thanks to the bond passage) as well as approve the resolution authorizing the sale of the bonds.

  • Blue Economy/O2IH
    • On Tuesday, Paul and Sarah finished up and submitted  the narrative for the Oregon portion of the three state phase 2 NOAA Climate Resilience Accelerator grant application.
    • Today, Paul met with the ERG team to begin planning a series of three events (two live and one virtual) to disseminate the NOAA Moc-P Economic Impact report findings. The in-person presentations will be at a Newport Port Commission meeting and at an in-person EDALC meeting (with key partner and stakeholder invites).

  • Broadband
    • This week was the monthly four-county Broadband Action Team meeting. BDP grant applications were discussed – $400+ million in asks for about $160M in funding (looking to provide service to over 39,000 broadband serviceable locations statewide). Two non-overlapping projects were submitted that look to connect households in Lincoln County – one by CTSI and one by Pioneer Telephone Cooperative.

  • Community Connecting
  • Take Action Lincoln County Website Development
  • This project took most of my non-meeting time this week, as I finished creating all the item images (including accessibility text) and the item name script for my team’s cut-and-paste uploading onto the website. 
  • A huge thanks to Paul and Stacie for entering all 112 individual dance category awards into the online store platform we’ll be using to gather sponsorships for CTSI’s Nesika Illahee Pow-Wow. 
  • We’re on the homestretch! Next, we’re checking in with our CTSI contacts for their final site review and to finalize media and donation check handoff details. 
  • Staff support of the CTSI sponsorship portal
      • Stacie and Paul added the full inventory of 100+ sponsorship categories 
      • Stacie and Leslie drafted an email with next steps (feedback/edits, confirmation of donation transfer, comms plan) for CTSI with the goal of launching the site early July. 
    • Here’s the link to Leslie’s full report:June 21, 2024 EDALC CC Weekly Report

  • Marketing & Communication
    • Stacie continued working on brand guidelines/brand identity with the goal of presenting for feedback on 7/11 and posted weekly LC roundup to IG and FB stories. 

  • Admin
    • Biweekly team meeting 6/21 – We finalized the location and discussed the agenda for the 7/11 team retreat. Also discussed details of CTSI donation portal launch. 
    • Today, Paul and Carrie met at the Aquarium to talk through EDALC’s plans for FY2024-25 and how we can best support Carrie’s upcoming board presidency and how the board can best support EDALC’s efforts.

 

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, and don’t be stingy with your ideas – we love hearing from you! Paul will be off on Monday (he’s doing two nights of camping at Blackberry).

 

Cheers,

 

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