Greetings and welcome to Friday!

First on the docket – it’s finally time to share our “There’s No Wrong Place to Start” video. The professionally created video (created by TZOM Films) was paid for by a small competitive grant we received from Business Oregon’s ROI program. Here’s the link to our facebook post. The video is also available on our youtube channel here.

Today, Paul and Leslie are in North Bend for the Coastal Caucus Economic Summit. Paul also toured the South Coast Development Council’s business incubator and Innovation Hub on Thursday afternoon. Next week, Paul and Leslie will be traveling to Bend for The Ford Family Foundation’s Rural Community Building Summit.

Next Tuesday, Sarah and Stacie will be traveling to Corvallis for the quarterly Economic Development Practitioners luncheon – a great recurring working lunch where regional practitioners get together to give updates and share best practices.

Here’s our weekly team update:

  • Partner Support/Community Support 
      • Business Oregon – On Tuesday, Paul travelled to a Business Oregon Incentives Summit at the Knife River Training Facility in Albany (what an amazing facility!). Alison and Seth from Lincoln City were also in attendance. It was a chance to pull together regional economic development practitioners (collectively with hundreds of years of experience) to talk through existing state business incentives (what’s working and what’s not) and brainstorm potential new incentives.
      • CWEDD – Sarah and Stacie will be meeting with some of the CWEDD team on Tuesday to discuss the EDD and CEDS awareness video project.
      • Lincoln City – On Monday, Paul presented an EDALC update to the Lincoln City city council and fielded questions. The city council then voted unanimously to support EDALC’s work for another fiscal year, approving $20,000. Thank you Lincoln City!
      • Newport – This week, City Manager Nina Vetter presented a letter of commitment to EDALC  for $10,000 in matching funds to help bring in an EDA Disaster Supplemental “Readiness path” award into the Newport area.
      • OEDA – Sarah continued to work on arranging logistics for the OEDA adventure day.
      • Rural Prosperity Partners – With Newport’s support (above) RPP and EDALC will be submitting an application to The Ford Family Foundation’s GRO program for additional matching funds for the EDA grant application.
      • Strengthening Rural Families – Sarah attended a board meeting for Strengthening Rural Families. 
  • Blue Economy/O2IH
      • Bio-Manufacturing – On Monday and Tuesday, Paul and Mark Farley will be meeting with Don Gerhart of Challenger Biosciences and Molly Morse of Mango Materials to discuss a potential Lincoln County-based bio-manufacturing consortium. Paul and Sarah connected with Newport’s Derrick Tokos to lock in a few potential industrial sites to scope out.
      • O2IH – Stacie published the September Blue Story and Blog post.
  • Core Economic Development Services
    • Oregon Prospector – Sarah updated Oregon Prospector listings.
  • Community Connecting
  • Organizational Management
  • Marketing & Communication
      • Stacie shared relevant partner/regional posts on various social media channels – as well as the usual Friday roundup of central coast goings on.
      • Stacie and Sarah worked on posting and sharing out the “No Wrong Place to Start in Lincoln County” business support video to all the participants.
  • Project Work
        • Stacie updated existing projects and created new project plans for the winter market and bio-manufacturing consortium projects.
  • Admin
      • Stacie took her Leadership Lincoln assessment and began her weekly peer coaching calls.

 

Reminder: EDALC’s September Board of Directors meeting will be next Thursday, October 2nd at 3:30pm, via Zoom. Here is the Zoom link:

Topic: September EDALC BoD Meeting

Time: Oct 2, 2025 03:30 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)

Join Zoom Meeting

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/9178104987?pwd=bVJDN0VlUEM3aG9EaFhJQUZjcDJHUT09&omn=89714415175

Meeting ID: 917 810 4987

Passcode: 0NyksK

Also, save the date (November 6th, 3:30pm) – this will be our first in-person meeting of the new fiscal year, and we’ll be holding it at our Waldport offices. There will be some tasty treats, plus also some Pacific Sourdough bread for those who make the trek. We’ll be inviting some prospective new Directors to the meeting as well. Come and join us and see where we work!

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!

Cheers,

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