Reventing Community Part 3
Series: Reinventing Community
From: Northwest News Network (N3)
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Piece Description
On the Washington coast, an economically distressed timber county is going green. Grays Harbor County wants to transform itself from a community of extraction to a community of renewables. As part of our weeklong series on Northwest communities reinventing themselves, Correspondent Austin Jenkins introduces us to some young adults at the forefront of this economic transformation.
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Grays Anatomy: On the Washington Coast, a Timber County Embraces Green
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On the Washington coast, an economically distressed timber county is going green. Grays Harbor County wants to transform itself from a community of extraction to a community of renewables. As part of our weeklong series on Northwest communities reinventing themselves, Correspondent Austin Jenkins introduces us to some young adults at the forefront of this economic transformation. [3:35 SOQ]
Host Back Announce: Tomorrow in our series on economic development in the rural Northwest, we go to Joseph, Oregon. It?s trading chainsaws for high art.
Twenty-three year old Lisa Marthe knows what people think of her hometown.
Marthe: ?When I went away to college and everybody asks you know where are you from I say I?m from Aberdeen, oh...
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