Business View Magazine l January 2023

263 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE VOLUME 9, ISSUE 12 is environmentally safer, and increase capacity to serve our customers better,” she continues. Before Covid, Walker partnered with the Oregon State University extension office faculty, Didgette McCracken, to develop an “aviation field day” where they brought students from all the 6th- grade classes in Grant County to the airport and brought in ten different presenters that GRANT COUNT Y REGIONAL AI RPORT allowed the students to rotate through learning about all kinds of different career opportunities in aviation, it included everything from drone pilots to flight attendants and proved to be an excellent opportunity to engage the students in a wide variety of information. “Because if they don’t know that it’s available…” Walker adds, “Some of these kids have never been to the airport before, and we wanted to expose