SATSOP - Work will resume early next month on a partially built gas-fired power plant near Elma, with a temporary work force starting at 30 or 40 and expanding to about 350, officials from Chicago-based Invenergy said Friday.

Evergreen Pulp Inc.s joint offer with Grays Harbor (Washington) Public Utilities District to buy a Washington pulp mill has not been accepted.

Spend an estimated $30 million or scour the Internet for spare parts. Certainly one option is cheaper, but the low-cost approach might not be prudent when it comes to dispatching firefighters to a burning house or police officers to an armed robbery in progress.

Everything isnt coming up roses, or out of the woods, but the outlook for Grays Harbors economy is generally brighter. That was the thrust of the Economic Development Councils annual State of Grays Harbor event Wednesday.

Jim Coates, 63, is the executive director of the Grays Harbor and Pacific County Food Bank Distribution Center.

DAILY WORLD KATHY QUIGG Food distribution center volunteers, from left, Megan Paxton, Kip Mitchell, and Pat Whitlock package frozen corn. The Grays Harbor and Pacific County Food Bank Distribution Center cant keep up with demand and is in dire straits, says its executive director.

Daily World Terry Loney A set of insulators on a circuit breaker sit in front of a transformer that increases the 18,000 volt output of a gas fired turbine to 230,000 volts at the Grays Harbor Energy plant on Fuller Hill. In the background is the air intake for the turbine.