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Circle – A Great Place to be Around

June 29, 2012 By admin

Circle – A Great Place to be Around “Keeping our community connected remains our priority here in Circle,” comments a local resident. Such priorities resound through a flurry of local revitalization projects strengthened by the community’s participation in Horizons, a community leadership development program sponsored by the Northwest Area Foundation. One such project stemmed from […]

Filed Under: Children, Families and Learning, Community Development and Design, Entrepreneurship and Small Business, Exchanging Labor for Learning, Internet and High-tech, Mentoring Programs, Montana, Northwest Area Foundation Horizons Project, Program - community, Youth, Youth Workers

Pointe of Joy Performing Arts Studio

June 29, 2012 By admin

At the age of seven, Lora Jane Hyden knew she wanted to be a dancer. That’s when she got to take her first and only year of dance classes as a child, growing up in Eastern Kentucky. The single year of classes (singular thanks to the unpredictable coal mining industry from which her parents drew […]

Filed Under: Appalachia, Arts and Culture, Business - small (<20 employees), Business Development and Marketing, Community Development and Design, Dance, Entrepreneurship and Small Business, Financing, Performing Arts, Small Business, Starting a Business, Tennessee, Women-owned Enterprises

RBJ Spreadable Fruit

June 29, 2012 By admin

Grandma’s Recipe Goes Global Kim Samuelson, owner and operator of RBJ Family Restaurant in Crookston, Minnesota, has worked in the restaurant industry since she was 9 years old. Kim has run the restaurant, named after her father, Roger Bernard Johnson, since 1987. In the early 1990’s, Kim created a single batch of her grandmother’s recipe […]

Filed Under: Branding, Business - family, Business - small (<20 employees), Community Development and Design, Developing new products, Direct to customer/user, Entrepreneurship and Small Business, Food related, Minnesota, New products or Services (ag and non-ag- based), Packaging, Processing, Value added

Big Sky Business Runs On eBay Energy

June 29, 2012 By admin

Brockway Mercantile Brockway, Montana When most folks buy something off eBay, it arrives through the mail in a box. Not for Brigitte and Doug Dubin – e-Bay connected them with a new home and lifestyle. When they purchased the Brockway Mercantile building off eBay, they traded an urban smog-filled Los Angeles lifestyle for starry skies, […]

Filed Under: Business - family, Business Development and Marketing, Business Planning, Business Retention and Development, Community Development and Design, Entrepreneurship and Small Business, Farming, Ranching and Landscaping, Internet and High-tech, Internet/Website, Marketing - Ag specific, Montana, Small Business, Starting a Business

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