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New Information:
Business
Preparedness Planning
NewsTribune.com November 2009
SecSection: Business
A NEW DYNAMIC
Although
Pacific
County
might be better known to the public for its tourism attractions such as
the Long Beach
Peninsula, it’s becoming a center for small manufacturers. Examples include
Menlo-based Willapa Marine Products Inc., which makes shellfish harvesting
gear such as clam guns and crab pots; Pacific Gro in Raymond, producer of
organic fertilizer made with scraps from fish processing plants; Harmony
SoapWorks in Oysterville; Terra Firma Cosmetics in Raymond; and multiple
seafood processing companies.
Pacific
County
may be out of the way,
but it’s a good place to nourish small manufacturers employing five to
10 people, said Cathy Russ, executive director of the Pacific County
Economic Development Council. “We’re fortunate that we have the space
and can give them a shot,” she said. “We can handle the workforce, we
can handle the space, we can handle the environmental issues because
it’s not large scale.”
Russ
said the EDC plans “more of a campaign to get our manufacturers out
there” in 2010. “As many as we have, we need to talk about it.”
The
counties of
Southwest Washington
need success stories and lots of them to offset the battering they’ve
taken in forest products and the companies that cut trees and turned them
into building products sold to the now-decimated home-construction market.
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