Economic Development
Doc & Jacques: CCD Business Development Corporation
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Curry Café: Brookings-Harbor Area Growth, Traffic, Housing, and More
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The Brookings/Harbor area was the topic of this week’s discussion on Curry Café. Opinions on growth, traffic, housing, and the overall quality of life here were just some of the issues talked about. Ray Gary, Shirley Hyatt, Jim Newman, and Rick McNamer, made up this week’s panel. Ray and Shirley both produce and host shows on KCIW. Shirley and Jim both perform separately as local musicians. Rick is a KCIW Board Member and volunteer.
Host: Ray Gary, Producer: Ray Gary
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Intro and end music by Kat Liddell.
Our Community: Moving Into the Future
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This week on Our Community, host Candice Michel is joined by fellow KCIW Board members Rose Weiss, Doug Hanson, and Tom Bozack to discuss the plans for increasing the station’s range to Full Power. Learn how you can help expand your community radio’s coverage to include nearly all of Curry County, and what that could mean in a disaster.
Host: Candice Michel; Guest: Curry Coast Community Radio Board members Rose Weiss, Doug Hanson, and Tom Bozack; Producer: Candice Michel
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Ewing’s Doings: A Carousel for Brookings
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Painting courtesy of Dale Wells, a well-known artist in Brookings
A Carousel for Brookings was a vision that Bud Halliday carried with him since his youth as a “carnie”. With this idea in mind, he set about planning it literally from the ground up. Not an easy task, but this dedicated group of enthusiasts now spend many hours planning fund-raisers in Brookings for their mission to bring entertainment and industry to the Brookings-Harbor Wild Rivers Coast.
Hear Angela’s interview with Burrill Catanach, one the Board members of A Carousel for Brookings.
Host: Angela Ewing; Producer: Angela Ewing; Recording Tech: Justin Only; Sound Editor: Justin Only
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Community Conversations: Expanding Healthcare with Curry Health Network CEO Ginny Razo and Brookings Mayor Ron Hedenskog
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Did you know that Curry Health Network has already invested $21 million in our community at the Fifth Street clinic?
In this edition of Community Conversations host Connie Hunter reaches out to Brookings Mayor Ron Hedenskog and Curry Health Network CEO Virginia “Ginny” Razo to provide factual information and perspective about Ballot initiative 8-84. Measure 8-84 provides for the expansion of the Curry Health District into south Curry County.
Ron, Vice Chair of the Friends of Curry Health District Political Action Committee (PAC), gives his perspective on the importance of the improved access to health care that the expanded healthcare district will provide. Ginny provides facts absent any opinion – the law does not allow her to make any political statements because of her position as CEO of the Curry Health Network.
The recent Tea Party town hall meeting on this issue is a good place to start one’s personal search for information, but the community dialog shouldn’t stop there. As the debate unfolds, it’s up to individual citizens, the media, and advocates on both sides of the issue to go the extra mile to address the the misconceptions and illuminate the facts. This issue is literally a matter of life and death.
The purpose of Community Conversations, particularly in this interview, is to remind people that freedom is a two-sided coin. One side is freedom, one side is responsibility. With an open mind, please exercise your responsibility and delve into this important issue. Additional pertinent information might well change your mind!
Producer: Connie Hunter
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Community Conversations: Curry County Outreach Forums with County Commissioner Susan Brown
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What’s Curry County’s greatest asset? According to Curry County Commissioner Susan Brown the answer to that question is easy. The citizens of Curry County are the innovators, community builders, and strategic planners whose many gifts will craft the future success of Curry County.
This installment of KCIW’s Community Conversations provides an in-depth report and update on Curry County’s Community Outreach Forums with Commissioner Brown. The forums consist of a three-part series of 15 meetings held at locations across the County.
As part of the ongoing mission to provide factual and nonpolitical information for citizens, show host Connie Hunter and Commissioner Brown work together to make sure that the citizens of Curry County have one more avenue for citizen involvement and civic engagement. Brown provides important County information and highlights the County’s efforts to initiate a call to action for the citizens of Curry County.
With Curry County poised on the edge of a fiscal cliff, the Curry County Outreach Forums challenge and empower the county citizens to “be the change” they want to see. These forums provide a jumping-off point for the Curry County visioning process. Commissioner Brown hopes to encourage citizen involvement in creating a vision for what “we want to be when we grow up.”
Beginning with a “state of” Curry County report, Brown discusses recent survey results, provides a civics lesson regarding the county’s budget, and explains “the money-in and money-out” relationship with the 45 districts that provide services for Curry County citizens. Brown also discusses how part two of Curry County’s Outreach Forums provides a simple format for county-wide “brain storming.” Brown asks citizens to share their ideas for increasing our County’s income/revenue and for suggestions for county priorities as input to a Curry County strategic plan. Beyond recruiting businesses to come to Curry County, citizens’ suggestions include everything from a sales tax, gas tax, and transient lodging tax, to event fees and even revenue from a toll bridge.
Join in the conversation that is kicking off the new smart growth strategies for Curry County economic development.
Show host Connie Hunter embraces Brown’s core values supporting a safe culture of civic engagement and citizen involvement. This is the beginning of a brighter future for Curry County – and, this conversation is filled with hope and direction.
Host: Connie Hunter, Producer: Connie Hunter
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Community Organizer: Disc Golf with Shane Stephens and Ian Hannum
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Did you know that Disc Golf is one of the fastest growing sports in America? And did you know that the Brookings-Harbor area is poised to become a disc golf Mecca.
In this edition of Community Organizer Shane Stephens and Ian Hannum from The Southern Oregon Disc Golf Association talk with Scott Clapson about the growing disc golf community on the Wild Rivers Coast. They talk about the fun, recreation, and community building this sport provides and the three new courses in our area at McVay Rock State Park, Azalea Park, and Salmon Run Golf Course.
The Southern Oregon Disc Golf Association is a non-profit organization started in 2014. Based in Brookings, Oregon, their goal is to help build disc golf courses through direct action and to educate those new to the sport in the Southern Oregon/Northern California area. They’re able to do these things thanks to the generous support of the City of Brookings, local businesses and private individuals.
Host: Scott Clapson, Producer: Scott Clapson
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Community Conversations: Brookings City Update with City Manager Gary Milliman
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Brookings City Manager Gary Milliman
In another in-depth Community Conversations interview, Connie Hunter talks with Brookings City Manager Gary Milliman following the May 11, 2015 City Council meeting about important issues and events affecting the City of Brookings.
Topics include:
- Brookings declared the safest city in Oregon!
- More about the City’s role in obtaining the administrative green light for a stand-alone emergency room at the Curry Medical Center in Brookings
- Expansion of the Brookings Curry Medical Center to provide new capabilities and services
- A proposal to annex Brookings and Harbor into the Curry Health District
- Emergency preparedness improvements
- Loree Pryce leaving as city Public Works and Development Services Director to be replaced by city Building Official LauraLee Snook
- The upcoming Wild Rivers Music Festival in Azalea Park
- Azalea Park development plans
- Access to Social Security Bar
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Our Community: Shop Local with Bonnie Wilson
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Downtown Brookings, Oregon
Why is buying locally important? How does it benefit you as well as your community? Join Shop Local First’s Bonnie Wilson as she discusses this and more on Curry Coast Community Radio’s latest Our Community podcast with host Candice Michel.
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Community Conversations: Economic Development with Julie Schmelzer
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Got vision? KCIW’s Community Conversations explores what a sustainable, prosperous future for our neck of the woods “looks like!” Connie Hunter interviews Curry County’s Director of Economic Development and Administration, Julie Schmelzer. Julie shares her vision of growing a sustainable economy through tourism development and a creative economy. Julie suggests more cooperation with the cities is an integral part of creating a good “perfect storm” for a more hopeful economic future!
Curry County, Oregon
Data collected in Oregon’s Creative Vitality Index gives rise to the idea of a unique tourism “recipe” for Curry County – a unique blend of cultural, stewardship and eco-tourism. A stellar example of arts and culture tourism as an engine of economic development is cited in the Index: the annual $58 million positive economic impact in Ashland, Oregon, because of the Shakespeare Festival. This interview poses the question, what can a creative economy do for Curry County?
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In this edition of Doc and Jacques, hosts GiGi “Doc” Reed and Jacques Kepner speak with another “Ladies First” guest, Kemberly Todd. Kem is the Technical Assistance Coordinator for the CCD Business Development Corporation, covering Coos, Curry, and Douglas Counties, helping many businesses along the way.
Hosts: GiGi “Doc” Reed MD, Jacques Kepner; Producers: GiGi “Doc” Reed MD, Jacques Kepner