Greetings and welcome to Friday!

 

Paul was out Wednesday-Friday of this week (he and Susan are exploring some north Willamette vineyards), but he promises the team not to have so much fun next week!

 

Here’s EDALC’s update for this week:

 

    • Partner Support/Community Support 
      • ART Toledo – Sarah and Stacie continued to work on the Art, Oysters & Brews event including sending out logistical emails to vendors, marketing coordination, distributing posters, communications with the City of Toledo, outreach to prospective artists and food vendors etc. Sarah scheduled another ART Toledo meeting for 7/30 to finalize details and coordinate volunteers.
  • Blue Economy/O2IH
      • Challenger Biosciences – On Monday, Paul met with Mark Farley (Hatfield) and Don Gerhart (Challenger Bioscience) to discuss next steps in the ongoing process to utilize methane and methanol in processes that can provide value-added products and carbon bunkering. They were able to come up with some immediate next steps to prepare a potential pitch deck to seek out some planning funding through private impact funders.
  • Entrepreneurship
      • Cascades West Innovation Hub – On Tuesday, the core partners of the CWIH met to discuss next steps once Business Oregon announces the next round of Innovation Hub funding (which should be coming out within the next two weeks). It looks highly probable that the CWIH will receive some impactful implementation funding, so the meeting was largely to discuss initial steps so our regional Innovation Hub can hit the ground running once the announcements are made.
  • Core Economic Development Services
      • Enterprise Zone – Paul finally got word back from Business Oregon – our Lincoln County Enterprise Zone did NOT expire on June 30, 2025, but is set to expire on June 30, 2032, when the state EZ program sunsets (state expiry date takes precedence over local ordinance dates).
      • Oregon Prospector – Sarah updated Oregon Prospector listings that were about to expire.
  • Community Connecting
      • Planning steps for Café Aquarium 2025 – This week progressed with more logistical decisions and communications with Oregon Coast Aquarium staff for this year’s multilingual community resource event at the Aquarium. Leslie will meet with lead partner Beatriz Botello this afternoon to discuss the next planning steps and roles before sending the invitation list to partner tabling organizations. Contact Leslie, leslie@businesslincolncounty.com as soon as possible if you’d like to support or table at this year’s event in September!
      • See Leslie’s full weekly update here: July 25, 2025 EDALC CC Weekly Report
  • Organizational Management
    • Marketing & Communication
      • Stacie finalized/sent the summer newsletter and posted the announcement to social media. She also shared relevant partner/regional posts on various social media channels – as well as the usual Friday roundup of central coast goings on which is tentatively branded as Looking Forward Friday (#lincolncountyoregon)
    • Admin
      • Stacie, Sarah, and Leslie met Thursday to talk through potential funding opportunities and discussed possible dates for the 2025 Fail Fest.
      • Sarah attended the SBDC’s nonprofit class on strategic planning on Wednesday. It was very informative and helpful!

 

Reminder: EDALC’s first Board of Directors meeting of the fiscal year will be on Thursday, August 7th at 3:30pm, via Zoom. Agenda and calendar invite will be going out next week.

 

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)