Greetings and welcome to Friday! And Happy Halloween! What’s your favorite scary movie?   The Oregon Economic Development Association held their annual conference from Sunday through Tuesday at Salishan. Paul taught a section of the Business Retention and Expansion course on Sunday afternoon and offered welcoming remarks during the Sunday [...]

Greetings and welcome to a damp Friday! It’s atmospheric river time (that sounds like the name of a country song)!   The Fall newsletter went out Wednesday afternoon. If you haven’t had a chance to read it you can find it here.   Starting on Sunday, the Oregon Economic Development [...]

Greetings and welcome to Friday! Just two weeks until Halloween - are you prepared? Also, what is your favorite trick or treat candy from when you swerve a kid? Paul remembers one of the older neighbors down his street always giving away leftover little bags of stale Kiwanis peanuts - [...]

Greetings and welcome to Friday! Looks like a damp weekend - time for some cozy meals and indoor projects!   Paul and Leslie attended The Ford Family Foundation’s Community Building Summit in Bend last weekend (the first in six years). The conference delivered numerous actionable sessions and some vibrant (and [...]

Greetings and welcome to the first Friday in October! Time to pull out those Halloween decorations and gourds and pour yourself a warm cup of pumpkin spice something-or-another. Here is a hilarious (and profanity-laiden) article from McSweeny’s heralding the arrival of Fall:   https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/its-decorative-gourd-season-motherfuckers   Thanks to all who attended [...]

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 [...]