Orting

Local Nestlé water plant? Not in our town, Enumclaw says

Posted by Jeff from Seattle Times

For now, Nestle has taken its show down the road to Orting. There, Mayor Cheryl Temple is keeping an open mind. In her humble opinion, Enumclaw jumped the gun. "I always believe that if someone comes to town to do business, we should at least give them the respect of letting them pitch to us, and see where we go from there," she said. Her town of 6,000 needs all the jobs it can get. As for Nestle sucking it dry, and staining its landscape, Temple is not having any of that. There are laws in place to prevent that from happening. And what's this resistance to the idea of a big corporation, as if the very word were dirty to say? "Multinational?" she said. "Starbucks is multinational."

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