Local job growth gets a financial lift


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YAKIMA, Wash. -- Yakima and Klickitat counties are receiving part of $3.3 million in loans and grants to create job and business growth.

The money, which will be shared with Asotin and Lincoln counties, was awarded Thursday by the Washington State Community Economic Revitalization Board.

In Klickitat County, a $25,000 grant was awarded to the city of Goldendale. It will fund a study to determine the feasibility of constructing and managing a publicly owned incubator in support of growing alternative energy -- producing wind farms, vineyards and wineries and other businesses. The grant is being matched by $16,000 in local funds.

In Yakima County, a $275,000 loan was awarded to the Port of Sunnyside. It will be used for infrastructure construction in the Midvale Rail Industrial Park. The project is matched by $275,000 in local funds.

Since 1982, CERB has committed more than $144 million to counties across the state, an investment generating nearly 36,000 jobs.



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Posted by Nick at 11/20/09 04:10AM        Post ID#: #18657

I wonder just who those "jobs" will be targeted toward. For the past 15 years or more, any new jobs in this valley that aren't ag-related and done by migrants, have been minimum pay-scale jobs.

More money wasted by the Federal Government in the stimulus boondoggle that will have to be paid back by our grandchildren.

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