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POT OF GOLD IS NOW FULL – The Town of La Conner has been awarded a $500,000 economic development grant in support of building a new library from Skagit County. The $3.74 million dollar project is now fully funded. Way to go Library Foundation Director Susan Macek – along with multidudes of others. Today's editorial names some of them. – Photo by Ken Stern
La Conner has the funds to build a new library. The last $500,000 was approved by the Skagit County Board of Commissioners Monday, some 16 months after the state legislature appropriated the project’s first $500,000.
The grant, to the Town of La Conner, is for economic development: job training and job creation.
Commissioner Ron Wesen confirmed that in a Monday phone call, saying, “Community jobs in the future is what they are supposed to get done.” He referenced the many funding sources and the route to obtain them, including his participating in a February visit to the legislature organized...
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