Long Beach Merchants Association Honored with Nancie Payne Award at Regional Economic Forecast & Innovation EXPO
Photo by Shanna Paxton Photography for the Thurston EDC. From left to right: Sue Yirku, Executive Director, Pacific County Economic Development Council, Sue Svendsen, Long Beach Merchants Association Board Member, and Long Beach City Councilmember, Karla Jensen Martin, President of the Board, Long Beach Merchants Association and Cheryl Fambles, CEO, Pacific Mountain Workforce Development Council.
Nancie Payne was a longstanding Pacific Mountain Workforce Development Council (PacMtn) board member, business owner, and advocate for workers of all abilities. On December 2, 2021, at the Regional Economic Forecast & Innovation Expo, PacMtn awarded Long Beach Merchants Association with the 6th Annual Nancie Payne Workplace Excellence Award.
“Long Beach Merchant’s Association represents the ideals of this award,” said Cheryl Fambles, Chief Executive Officer of PacMtn. “Their support of the local community deserves recognition. They demonstrate the excellence, teamwork and caring that is embodied in the Nancie Payne award.”
The Long Beach Merchants Association exists to promote tourism, improve the economic climate, and promote local activities that will stimulate business in the area of the city of Long Beach, Washington.
Long Beach is located in the southwest corner of Washington state, at the mouth of the Columbia River on the Pacific Coast. Along with tourism, significant local industries include commercial and sport fishing, oyster production, and cranberry farming.
The award recognizes companies demonstrating workplace excellence and customer service, meaningful employee engagement, a constructive, diverse and progressive workforce culture that commit themselves to better business management practices to ensure successful mission achievement.
