Category: Jefferson Community
Diversified Resources is a Community Development Corporation building sustainable, locally controlled assets for the Olympic Peninsula through collaborative mobilization of resources.
Jay Bennett has been the Diversified Resources Development Director since 2003.
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Jefferson County EDC still optimistic it has a role in economic development
PORT TOWNSEND -- Left to go its own way by the county and facing the loss of state funds, the Jefferson County Economic Development Council is nevertheless still in business, according to the president of the board.
``What we're doing is just retooling our organization,'' said Lawrence Graves, president of the 12-member board of the newly reconstituted EDC.
New EDC bylaws give the agency three months to rebuild.
``This an interim board,'' said Graves, vice president and manager of Frontier Bank on Upper Sims Way.
``We're doing the grunt work. We're doing the basic building.
``We're doing the groundwork to make it a successful organization.
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