Preparing for the future: Workforce education, innovation start locally, Commerce director says

MOSES LAKE — Mike Fong, director of the Washington Department of Commerce, said workforce training and economic innovation start locally. “We want to strengthen communities and help communities build their own capacity and potential,” Fong said while he was in Moses Lake Oct. 16. “And we don’t want to dictate that. We really want to help that vision become reality. And that’s a local vision.” Fong was in Moses Lake to learn about economic and business development in Grant County, talking to Port of Moses Lake and Big Bend Community College officials, touring businesses and BBCC’s Workforce Education Services facility.