10 Quotes by Don McClellan

We know what an asset we have, now we have to protect it. That's what watershed is all about.

We hope we would get some suppliers out of it.

I think the jobs we had with Russell were always taken for granted. The entire community thought it would never happen. We'd had a relationship with Russell for about 100 years. We always thought Russell would be our support beam.

We've gotten 11 companies with a total of close to 800 jobs (since 1998). That doesn't include expansions, either. We're making progress. We've got the parks, and I think we're as prepared as a small community like ours can be.

We feel like we've had a great year.

Even though Russell was restructuring, sales taxes still increased little by little.

It's just hard. It's like they say, you've got 15,000 places looking to get industry and 1,500 industries looking to locate.

It's a little disappointing, but that's the weather. You can't do anything about it.

It shows there's an available workforce, and with a good school system and college with a technology center, it certainly speaks that we have a workforce and we have the facilities to train that workforce.