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the national competition.
CVCC Small Business Center Director Jeff Neuville and Dean for the School of Business, Industry and
Technology Gary Muller have been the team’s advisers the past year and worked with the group through the college’s Shark Tank competition, the SkillsUSA program and the Edison Project.
“Our advice to the FarmToHome team has been to understand who their target market is and what will motivate them to buy from FarmtoHome instead of their competition,” Muller said via email. “The experi- ence will be invaluable to them no matter what career path they decide to follow. I believe their con dence will grow dramatically by being a part of this challenging competition.”
The team’s Marketing Vice President Chanler Watts grew up on a farm, and his grandfather was a suc- cessful farmer in the community.
“The idea just clicked. Someone said what if we just delivered fresh produce because there are a lot of farmers in the area,” Watts said. “Plus, I think we wanted to embody the heritage of where we came from.” They all liked the idea of creating something that would help support community outreach among local
businesses.
After the group had their idea, the real work started. The team began thinking about how the logistics
would work, what the marketing would look like and what the nancials would need to be just to take their idea from pages of text in a proposal to the doors of actual customers.
Valerie Stiltner, vice president of operations for the group, said the experience opened her eyes to what her parents go through owning their own business.
“I’ve heard from my parents how businesses can struggle and this helped me realize some of this stuff is really hard,” Stiltner said. “It made me want to commend my parents more and also gave me more self-awareness of all the things that go into having a business.”
Karlina Ho is the group’s vice president of nance. Her mother works as an accountant, and Ho had a similar reaction to seeing what her mom does compared to what she learned to do for her role with the team.
“Being able to apply my mother’s knowledge of nance and mine together was great,” Ho said.
Pooling their talents and backgrounds, the group created a 35-page business plan to present during the SkillsUSA competition and to the Edison Project board.
It contains information on ownership, products and services, market analysis, marketing plan, manage- ment and operations, and nancial.
“Each one of those things have more speci cs like sample marketing and advertising materials,” Clyburn said.
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Kansas to auction off 40 surplus bison from Maxwell Refuge
CANTON, Kan. (AP) — The state of Kansas will auction off 40 surplus bison at Maxwell Wildlife Refuge in mid-November.
The Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism says the auction will be held Nov. 15 at the 2,500- acre (1000-hectare) refuge about 6 miles (10 kilometers) north of Canton.
The department says the bison will be more than a year old and tested for brucellosis and tuberculosis.
The auction will involve 10 2-year-old bulls, four cows, eight yearling heifers, eight yearling bulls, ve heifer calves and ve bull calves.
License revoked for driver who killed 3, injured 5
ALCESTER, S.D. (AP) — The woman behind the wheel of a car that struck a group of people, killing three outside an Alcester nursing home, has pleaded guilty to a reckless driving charge.
Eighty-one-year-old Patricia Berg appeared in Union County court Thursday where a judge revoked her license for a year and ned her $120. KSFY-TV reports that when the judge asked Berg if she had anything