PORT ANGELES — Clallam County Economic Development Council was once in a business recruitment rut.
Today — through a Clallam netWorks economic development approach that encourage job creation at home — things have changed.
“People outside are looking at us differently and looking at us as an opportunity, and that’s a huge change,” said Jim Haguewood, Economic Development Council executive director. “The EDC is not doing the same thing as it was doing five years ago.
“We found that are strengths are here, and not what companies we can bring here.”
It will be a busy Friday for Haguewood, Phil Kitchel and Karen Rogers. Before they celebrate Clallam netWorks second anniversary that night, the trio presents “Clallam netWorks: Creating an Interdependent Community,” to the Governor’s Conference on Economic Development in Seattle.
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The rest of the story appears in the Thursday Peninsula Daily News Clallam County edition.
