{"id":5143,"date":"2011-12-01T12:00:56","date_gmt":"2011-12-01T17:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=5143"},"modified":"2011-12-08T11:57:42","modified_gmt":"2011-12-08T16:57:42","slug":"regional-council-does-north-country-proud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2011\/12\/01\/regional-council-does-north-country-proud\/","title":{"rendered":"Regional council does North Country &#8220;proud&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our own Ellen Rocco was in Albany yesterday with the group representing the North Country\u00a0 at the regional economic development competition being run by the governor\u2019s office.<\/p>\n<p>It pits eight regions of the state against each other for economic development aid from the state. The four winning regions each get $40 million, the others split $40 million. Big stakes.<\/p>\n<p>Ellen was there with two other people involved in one of the projects selected for presentation to the panel of judges: North Country Pastured, which hopes to get a mobile poultry processing facility going in the St. Lawrence Valley.<\/p>\n<p>Others on the travel team:\u00a0\u00a0 Kevin Elkin of Elkin Tree Service in Indian lake ( a passionate broadband proponent) and representatives of a company based in Syracuse and Ogdensburg that\u2019s working on advanced LED lighting technology. Leading were co-chairs Garry Douglas of the North Country Chamber of Commerce in  Plattsburgh, Clarkson University President Tony Collins, and Kate Fish, a North Country Council member representing the Adirondack North Country Association.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a link to the website with all the regions&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/nyworks.ny.gov\/content\/regional-economic-development-council-final-five-year-strategic-plans-2012-2016#overlay-context\">full videos<\/a>. (Don&#8217;t worry&#8230;you should be able to fast forward to various bits.)<\/p>\n<p>The co-chairs did the presentation, and each of the judges had questions, with interjections from time to time.<\/p>\n<p>The big takeaway \u2013 \u201cWe think we did the North Country proud,\u201d says Ellen. She says all the panelists said the North Country presentation stood out, partly because this region\u2019s council was the only team to bring actual people who could talk about their own projects. And the visuals were smart and looked good\u2026not your typical \u201cdeath by Power Point\u201d presentation.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ll see, soon. A decision is expected Dec. 14.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our own Ellen Rocco was in Albany yesterday with the group representing the North Country\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[5614,10,6592,6590,20],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5143"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}