Greetings and welcome to Friday! I wonder if anything interesting happened this week? Hmmmm... well, it looks like the OCCC OCATT bond measure passed by a WIDE margin!! Woo hoo! A $31M bond, which triggers an additional $8M from the state... a million here, a million there... eventually we're talking [...]

Greetings and welcome to Friday! Don't forget that tomorrow is Bloom Newport at the PAC (3-7pm). Leslie and Sarah will be hosting an EDALC table there. Here's a link to this awesome event: https://coastarts.org/events/bloom-newport/ Here's our update for this week: Blue Economy:: This week, Sarah and I (as well as [...]

Greetings and welcome to Friday and welcome what looks to be a gorgeous, sunny weekend! Hats off to Stacie for her excellent social media ninja work this week - using the 2024 International Economic Development Week to share EDALC's impacts across Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn! Also remember that Sunday is [...]

Greetings and welcome to Friday and welcome to May! A big thanks to all who made our May EDALC Board of Directors meeting on Zoom yesterday! I always get so energized when we come together to sharpen the EDALC saw! Here's our update for this week: Blue Economy:: This week, [...]

Greetings and welcome to Friday! And welcome back to our weekly update after a one-week hiatus due to conferences, travel and such! Here's our update for this week: Blue Economy:: This week, I attended an AK, OR and WA meeting convened by Washington's Maritime Blue to explore coordinating a phase [...]

Greetings and welcome to Friday! Be sure to dodge those velella velella if you head out to the beach this weekend! Here's our staff update for this week: Blue Economy:: This week, we wrapped up the signing of two subgrant agreements. The first is with OCVA, to support their coast-wide [...]