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Creating an entrepreneurial community in Chelsea

Wednesday, May 27, 2009

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Entrepreneurs are starting to get a helping hand in Chelsea with business counseling and resource assistance.

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The Chelsea area has long been a place where aspiring artists, industrious farmers and small businesses prosper, but a group of somewhat unlikely partners might help improve the success rates among these groups or those thinking of starting a business.

The Chelsea District Library, The Chelsea Area Chamber of Commerce, The Food System Economic Partnership (FESP), The Michigan Small Business and Technology Development Center (SBTDC) - Region 12, and Washtenaw Community College (WCC) have all come together to offer business counseling, business research services and resource assistance - all for free at the Chelsea District Library.

"The library is already the place people go for information," says Bill Harmer, head adult services librarian. "It's such a natural fit to extend our service more directly to the small business community."

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