Jefferson County
Business Success Stories
Port Townsend Aero Museum
The museum was completed in 2008 after 7 years of fundraising by founders Jerry and Peggy Thoute and many adult and youth volunteers. In this interview, youth program memeber Christine, talks about the value of learning to fly and repair aircraft to her becoming a mature and responsible pilot - one whose work is safe enough for others to trust in the air.
Pane D'Amore
Pane D'Amore's reputation continues to grow! Read this beautiful review on "The Fresh Loaf: News and Information for Amateur Bakers and Artisan Bread Enthusiasts": Bakery Profile of Pane D'Amore
Karyn Williams and Red Dog Farm
Identifying the B.G. Brown Trust property and homestead as critical to the preservation of farmland and the Chimacum Creek watershed, JLT Resources worked with ShoreBank Enterprise Cascadia to purchase 23 acres of farmland from B.G. Brown Trust. Karyn Williams connected with the Jefferson Land Trust through Jefferson LandWorks Collaborative and is now on her way to farming this property, with the option to buy the parcel from JLT in a few years. This property incorporates many of the outcomes sought after by the LandWorks Collaborative, including farm land preservation, conservation easement, habitat restoration, job creation, producer wealth, the increase of local food/fiber production, leveraging community investment, increasing local food security, and decreasing urban sprawl.
LaBella Day Spa
Owned by Kelly Barlow, LaBella Day Spa is located in Port Townsend’s Uptown 
Historic District. At LaBella, Barlow, a licensed massage practitioner, invites clients to “experience a restorative pampering” by offering deep tissue and Swedish massage as well as reflexology, facial and body treatments such as the European Rose Mud Wrap to pamper clients and help restore health and relax the mind.
ShoreBank Enterprise Cascadia is committed to helping small women-owned businesses grow and flourish. By providing Barlow with the funds to purchase new equipment and make improvements to LaBella. Enterprise Cascadia continues its commitment to small entrepreneurs who are the back-bone of small town communities.
The Wooden Boat Foundation
The Wooden Boat Foundation was founded in 1978 with a mission of education and preservation of our wooden boat heritage. Major achievements include the creation of the annual Wooden Boat Festival, which draws thousands of visitors to Port Townsend every year, and the establishment of The Chandlery, a retail operation selling traditional boat related hardware and other goods.
Nearly 15 years ago, Wooden Boat Foundation founders and supporters began to envision a permanent home – an expanded "center" for maritime education on the historic Port Townsend waterfront. In 1999 a group of Foundation supporters and staff helped take that vision to reality, forming the Northwest Maritime Center to undertake planning and capitalization to develop a new multi-purpose facility.
ShoreBank Enterprise Cascadia provided a scope of services to the Northwest Maritime Center regarding analysis of their Chandlery retail operation. The goal was to develop a business framework for transition and expansion of the operation as a mission and profit center for the planned new Maritime Center facility. To learn more about the Wooden Boat Foundation and new Maritime Center visit www.nwmaritime.org.
Compass Rose Farms
Michael and Kateen Fenter had a vision of getting back to their farming roots. Jefferson Land Trust (JLT) had a vision of protecting a critical piece of salmon habitat, farm and forestland on Snow Creek in Discovery Bay. With the help of Jefferson LandWorks Collaborative, the Fenter’s and JLT came together in an elaborate, unique, and successful relationship that put the Fenter’s on the 40 acre 
parcel with a conservation easement to protect property and watershed forever.
ShoreBank Enterprise Cascadia, a founding partner of the LandWorks Collaborative, financed the property purchase and allowed Fenters to use the proceeds from the conservation easement to do infrastructure improvements on the property. Now referred to as Compass Rose Farms, the Fenters are farming vegetables, herbs, sheep for wool and meat, chickens, and honey bees on this property. Most importantly, there are now three generations of Fenters living on a family farm.
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