STEAMBOAT CHIROPRACTIC – Progress Program Recipient
May 12, 2023 Torrington, WY --- The Goshen Economic Development Board of Directors awarded Steamboat Chiropractic $5,000 to help with the purchase of an XLR8 laser. The low-level laser is utilized in the practice to benefit patients and the conditions they are being treated for. Low-level laser therapy is low-intensity photonic energy used as a treatment modality for many conditions. Photonic stimuli infuse the body’s cells with energy to reduce inflammation, increase cell function and increase blood flow. In turn, lasers reduce pain, reduce edema and promote healing. This type of laser therapy is not utilized in Goshen County. [...]
M LAZY HEART FEEDS, LLC – Progress Program Recipient
May 12, 2023 Torrington, WY --- The Goshen Economic Development has awarded $7,500 Progress Program funding to aid M Lazy Heart Feeds in purchasing a delivery trailer and advertising tarping. M Lazy Heart Feeds is expanding their territory, and a planned delivery route will include Wyoming, northern Colorado, eastern Utah, southern Montana and western Nebraska. The trailer will be rolling billboard advertising for M Lazy Heart Feeds while on delivery runs of feed and other livestock supplies. M Lazy Heart Feeds, LLC is owned and operated by Paul and Christine Miller. It is located in the old sale barn [...]
BAST Manufacturing – Progress Program Recipient
May 11, 2023 Torrington, WY --- Goshen Economic Development Board of Directors awarded BAST Manufacturing $5,000 to aid in their website build. BAST Manufacturing is the 2022 Goshen County Start-Up Challenge Winner and, more recently, the 2023 John P. Ellbogan $50K Entrepreneurship Competition winner. BAST Manufacturing utilizes a hemp media in its residential HVAC filters. They are currently producing small quantities of these filters with growth in mind. BAST has also set themselves apart by creating a reusable filter frame and sending the hemp media periodically through a subscription. BAST Manufacturing is a startup business located in Goshen County [...]
Get the facts on the ¼ penny for economic development.
This November, you get an opportunity to vote “YES” to continue the ¼ penny sales tax for economic development. (That’s just 1/400th of a dollar!) Here are the facts about the ¼ penny sales tax, and how we put ¼ penny funds to use right here in Goshen County. Funds collected from the ¼ penny sales tax help local businesses start up, expand, and relocate. Want to know which of your favorite businesses we’ve helped grow? Find out here! ¼ penny sales tax funds go toward making community improvements. Click here to see which ones… and where! Thanks to ¼ [...]
Bear Creek Rubs, LLC – Progress Program
September 2, 2022 Photo includes: Judith Bartmann, Owner of Bear Creek Rubs, LLC; Moriah Harkins, Membership and Marketing Manager, Goshen Economic Development Torrington, WY --- Goshen Economic Development (GED) presented Bear Creek Rubs, LLC with a grant utilizing ¼ cent sales tax for economic development funding. The grant will help fund the cost of the trademark process, granting them full ownership of their brand. Bear Creek Rubs, LLC has come a long way from farmers’ markets and craft shows to creating a website in 2020 to kick-start growing its company beyond Goshen County. They continue to expand the locations [...]
Working Together to Take Care of Each Other
When it comes to looking out for each other, Goshen County residents do it best. In fact, one of the most impactful ways you’ve taken care of your neighbors has been voting to continue the ¼ penny sales tax, which funds our Progress Program. Through the Progress Program program, we’ve awarded $1.2 million in grant funds to Goshen County businesses, non-profits, and municipalities. Some of the funding has gone toward economic development projects; some has made community improvement projects possible; and some has gone toward important infrastructure projects that take care of our communities—and enhance the quality of life for [...]
Together, We Make Our Community A Better Place!
When it comes to building community, progress is key—and by working together with neighbors like you, we’ve made incredible progress right here in Goshen County.Over the years, as you’ve chosen to renew the ¼ penny sales tax, you’ve also chosen to be part of creating progress. All funds collected through the ¼ penny sales tax are used to fund our Progress Program, and through that program, we’ve awarded $1.2 million in grant funds to our community businesses, non-profits, and municipalities.As a Goshen County resident, that means you’ve played an important part in: Bringing a splash pad [...]
Progress Program – Torrington Rotary Club
June 28, 2022 Scott Prusia GED Board President; Nate Hibben Rotary President; Jeff Jones GED Vice-President and Rotarian; Al Meloni GED Secretary/Treasurer and Rotarian; Brett Malm Rotary Past-President; Brayden Connour GED CEO and John Hansen, Rotarian. Torrington, WY --- Goshen Economic Development awarded the Torrington Rotary Club with a Progress Program grant in the amount of $5,000 to help offset the cost of a new Audio/Video system upgrade at the Cottonwood Country Club, where Rotary meetings are held weekly. The system currently in use is antiquated and was in need of an upgrade to better serve members and the [...]
Economic Development: What We’ve Accomplished Together
The work we get to do here at Goshen Economic Development is possible only because we have generous neighbors like you! Each year that you’ve chosen to renew the ¼ penny sales tax, which funds our Progress Program, we’ve been able to put those collected funds to work—a total of $1.2 million, to be exact—right here in our community. For example, because we have neighbors like you: Landowners without a tractor have an affordable way to complete area seeding. Both the Lingle-Fort Laramie Conservation District and North Platte Valley Conservation District used their Progress Program [...]
How Goshen Economic Development Builds on Local Community Assets
We’ve been having a great time talking with you about Goshen Economic Development’s three main goals. So far, we’ve covered encouraging business growth and creating jobs; today, we’re wrapping it up with how we build on local community assets, and what that means for you! How Goshen Economic Development builds on local community assets Through this program, we’re able to reinvest ¼ penny sales tax funds back into Goshen County businesses and municipalities. (You can see our list of “Greatest Hits” projects here.) In addition to the Progress Program, we offer grant funding for a wide variety of eligible [...]
