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RESPECT FOR NATURE - Auburn wildlife artist Paul Martellacci, shown in front of his
painting of a fox, recently graduated from a course in small business. He hopes to open a
gallery in his Auburn -area home.
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NEW ENTREPRENEURS - The graduating class of the Introduction to Small Business class,
shown here at Seaforth Legion Branch 156, is (front row) John Brown, Larry Brideaux,
Metansy Prevett, Jean Peesker, Paul Martellacci, Brenda Semenyk, (back row) Jim Hayter,
John Curran, Al Fisher, Max Appleman, Jim Brown, Steve Elliott, Larry Niles and Tracey
Kirk. The class completed a course in developing a business.
Huron sees new group of entrepreneurs
BY TIM CUMMING
Expositor Editor
A group of 14 people from
Huron County and area has
decided that instead of looking
for jobs they want to create
jobs.
For 10 weeks, the group has
been studying business plans
and how to turn their goals of
self-employment into reality.
The Introduction to Self-
employment course held its
graduation at the Seaforth
Legion on Wednesday, May 3.
Senior Training Consultant
John Anderson told the ,grad-
uating class it had a positive
outlook.
"I'm really impressed with
the attitudes of the people in
Huron County," he said. "I
really feel privileged to work
with these groups."
The participants in the course
take their responsibilities seri-
ously, said Anderson in an
interview.
"We're finding the, people
who do come into the course
are a lot more educated and
focused about their responsibil-
ities and the opportunities they
want to enter into."
Program coordinator David
Barth told the graduating class
that they were in control of
their own destinies. The course,
he said, helps them make an
informed decision about their
future plans.
One of the prospective entre-
preneurs is Al Fisher, of
Goderich. The employee of
Champion Road Machinery
currently sells darts and accom-
panying equipment. He hopes
to create a pool hall in
Goderich sometime in the
future.
"I've had this in the back of
my mind for five or six years,"
he said. "Through this course
it's opened my eyes to all you
have to do and have ready
before you can open up."
A Huron County wildlife
artist is planning to start a
gallery out of his home south
of Auburn.
Paul Martellacci says he
learned a lot about starting a
business from the course.
"Before I took this course I
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BOOKS, BOOKS AND MORE BOOKS! - Here are some of the avid readers of Walton
Public School, along with Robert McCall of the World Book reading incentive program. The
students are Chris Regele, Shauna DeWit, Kayla Bishop, Jimmy Raithby, Nicholas Lubbers,
Chris Holmes and Lisa Smith. The school, with the additional assistance of World Books,
was able to raise $1,400 for the purchase of books for the library.
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PHONY PHYSICIANS - These four students of St. James School in Seaforth placed first
overall in the intermediate comedy skit section of the Kiwanis Music Festival Speech Arts
competition. The school entrants won the Beta Sigma Phi Golden Anniversary Award for
overall merit in speech arts. The students are Melissa Van Bakel (portraying the patient),
Crista Vanden Hoven, as the pretend doctor; Tricia Jansen as the head doctor and Bronwyn
Phillips as the nurse.
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A DOG'S LIFE - 'Star,' a dog belonging to John and Dianne McFadzean of RR 2 Seaforth,
meets five-year-old Michael Vanderlaan, of RR 2 Seaforth, and four-year-old Kyle deVries,
of Seaforth, during the Wellness Fair in Seaforth on Thursday, May 4. John is holding the
dog. The Wellness Fair exhibited various health services.
thought you open up shop and
hope for the best...I know now
there's more to it than that."
Martellacci worked as a
commercial artist for 25 years
but now paints full-time. Some
of his paintings have been
reproduced in limited edition
prints. He says wildlife paint-
ing is more interesting than
doing commercial art.
"It's nice to be able to get up
in the moming and do some-
thing you feel like doing."
He says the public's interest
in wildlife art arises, in part,
because of pollution and other
damage which is hurting natu-
ral habitats.
"We're making the public
aware and are hopefully giving
people more respect for these
creatures," he said. "These
animals and birds have just as
much right to be out there as
we have."
Martellacci said the graduates
of the business course benefit
from good instruction.
One of the small business
course graduates is Larry Niles.
The Grand Bend man serves a
niche market by constructing
carpeted 'cat climbers' to keep
cats from clawing hum hold
furniture.
KNECHTEL
Food Markets
The small 5usiness course is
conducted by Conestoga Col-
lege. It is funded by Human
Resources Development
Canada through Huron's indus-
trial training committee. The
program also receives support
from Community Futures and
the Small Business Resource
Centre in Seaforth.
Brenda McIntosh said the
graduating class was the last to
be conducted under the
umbrella of HITAC (Huron
Industrial Training Advisory
Committee). The course will be
assumed by Local Board Area
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