Greetings and welcome to Friday, and what might turn out to be a wet weekend. 

 

This is also our last weekly update of the FY2025-26 fiscal year – wow – that went fast! Don’t forget that we’ve got our by-laws-mandated annual meeting next week, where the Board of Directors will vote on the new officers for FY2026-27.

 

On the docket for this weekend is the Glastonbury Renaissance Fair in Toledo – 10am – 5pm on Saturday and Sunday at the Waterfront Park. Time to pull out those capes, thigh-high boots and your lute (we know they are hiding deep in your closet!) and make ye way to the faire.

 

Here’s our weekly team update:

  • Partner Support/Community Support 
      • AOB – Sarah sent a couple local radio stations a blurb for AOB marketing and sent some info to Bristo food truck about being an additional food vendor. Stacie sent out the volunteer sign up sheet to partners, confirmed Homie House participation, and promoted the event on social media.
      • Newport High School – Paul met with a student working on a year-long International Baccalaureate research project. He’s doing research into the impacts (both positive and negative) on global tourism, specifically in the Newport area.
      • OCCC – Paul worked with OCCC’s Dan Lara to get two EDALC letters of support together from some grant applications due this week. At Wednesday’s Board of Education meeting, the OCCC FY26-27 budget was unanimously approved, as well as the expenditure of the remaining fund to complete the Oregon Coast Advanced Trades and Technologies Center.
      • OCWCOG – Sarah attended a OCWCOG Loan Program Advisory Committee Meeting.
      • Strengthening Rural Families – Sarah attended a SRF board meeting.
  • Blue Economy/O2IH
      • Mango Materials – Paul and Stacie, along with Mark Farley and Cinamon Moffet from Hatfield and Don Gerhart (Challenger Biosciences) met with the Mango team to review the scope and timing of the nitrogen removal demonstration project (funded by Schmidt Marine Technology Partners). Step one (happening in July) is sampling multiple seawater effluents in Newport. Stacie reviewed the project proposal in preparation for the meeting and began working on a project initiation document.
  • Economic Mobility
      • City of Newport Economic Mobility Co-Design Planning Meeting – Leslie met with Gia and Allyson to catch up on the invite list, scheduling, and next steps of this exciting, community-centered alternative to conventional ad-hoc committees advising new collaborative municipal programming.
  • Entrepreneurship
      • Rural Opportunity Initiative – ROI held their monthly peer-learning session. Paul (with help from Stacie, Sarah, and Leslie)  prepared and delivered a presentation on EDALC’s FailFest series of events. Jason Hartmann of MCEDD also presented on the Gorge’s highly successful pitch event (and Paul saw a pic of our own Greg at the event – we sometimes forget he wears two hats!).
      • YEP – Sarah put together the YEP program videos and got it onto a hard drive for the SBDC.
      • CWIH – Stacie created an aggregated hub participation tracking spreadsheet and updated (to the best of her ability) for Q2 2026.
      • Fail Fest – Due to a conflict with the Oregon Coast Economic Summit Stacie reached out to Primaltones about moving the event to 11/12/26.
  • Broadband
      • Broadband Action Team – This week was the monthly regional BAT team. On the BEAD program, fifteen of the state’s BEAD applications were declined by the submitting ISPs (about 13,000 BSLs, but none in Lincoln County). Those can now be bid on by already approved ISPs, either at the offered funding level (which means automatic approval) or with another bid (triggering a review). Of the 15, 12 have already been re-bid.
  • Core Economic Development Services
      • Oregon Prospector – Sarah updated Oregon Prospector listings and added new ones.
      • Major Employers Report – Sarah continued to reach out to businesses for their employment numbers.
  • Community Connecting
      • TFFF Grant Application – Leslie finished up the narrative for the FY26-27 TFFF grant to support her community connecting work (total requested: $55,000). Paul and Leslie fine-tuned the language, and Paul worked through the two required budget documents. One more review and it will be submitted.
      • See Leslie’s full weekly update here: June 26, 2026 EDALC CC Weekly Report
  • Organizational Management
    • Marketing & Communication – Stacie managed social media and updated the media tracker.
    • Project Work – Stacie confirmed the final headcount for the annual meeting and updated the meeting agenda.
    • Admin – The team met on Wednesday to go over Paul’s pre-vacation punch list.

 

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)