Greetings and welcome to the end of 2021! While we've done some great work this year as an organization, we've still had to deal with the pandemic in every aspect of our work and personal lives - hopefully 2022 will see some sort of new normal arrive! Here's our EDALC [...]

Greetings and welcome to Thursday! We're a day early this week because of the Christmas weekend. I hope you all have a wonderful and very Merry Christmas! Here's our (slightly shorter) EDALC update for the week: ==== Rural Opportunity Initiative - We received our ROI contract from Business Oregon this [...]

Greetings and welcome to Friday! Here's our EDALC update for the week: ==== O2IH EDA Build Back Better - First, let's rip off the bandage. Some of you have certainly heard this, but earlier this week, the EDA announced the recipients of the Build Back Better Phase 1 funding and [...]

Greetings and welcome to Friday! Looks like a wet weekend - sounds like a great time to make a batch of chili! Here's our EDALC update for the week: ==== Oregon Business Plan - On Monday, I attended (virtually) the Oregon Business Plan Leadership Summit. It was a pretty strong [...]

Greetings and welcome to Friday! A chilly but gorgeous day out there (what a beautiful drive into the office this morning!). And welcome to December - yowza, where did 2021 go (and perhaps, good riddance)? Thanks to all for a great grant-review Board of Directors meeting yesterday - so nice [...]

Greetings and welcome to Friday! What a wet day out there - please be careful driving and walking those dogs! Here's our EDALC update for the week: ==== Rural Opportunity Initiative - I put together a press release on our ROI award and shot that off to our regional news [...]