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Business incubator offers opportunities for new enterprises
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of incubator businesses succeed,
being in the incubator does not
guarantee success
“Most _people don't realize the
time and effort it takes to run a
business,” explained Mr. Chavous.
“This 18 never simply a 40 hour a
week job. Some weeks | may work
as much as 60 or 80 hours.”
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of Angels and a former regular on
L.A Law,told the panei that boy
cotts and protests over minority
Issues should be directed at the
source of the money that pays for
TV production
“I love the idea of a boycott, but
if you want to effect serious
change, it has to be the adver
tiser,” Underwood said.
The National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People
has researched the top 100 TV
advertisers and their products
likely to be bought by minonties
with the idea of boycotting those
manufacturers, Mfume said
Other actors said the problem
goes beyond employment pum
berstoracial stereotypes that per
sist in Hollywood '
Calvin Jung, a Chinese-Ameri
can actor whose TV credits in
clude “Cheers” and the movie “The
Day After,” said Asian actors usu
ally are asked to do accents at
casting calls
“I'm third-generation Chinese-
American. My accent, if anything,
would be a New York accent,” he
said
New Hope Center
hosts sickle cell
blood drive
The Shepeard Community
Blood Center will be setting up a
sickl# cell blood drive on Friday,
December 3, at the New Hope
Community Center, from 10 a.m
to 6 pm. Lunch and dinner will
be provided by Piccadilly Cafete
ria. Donors will also receive a free
movie pass to Regal Cinemas
If you could save a life this holi
day season, would you”? Give the
2ift of life .. give bleod
For more information, call
Shepeard Community Blood Cen
ter at 737-4551
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Even though his new company
started in '97, Mr. Chavousisnot a
novice Raght out of high school he
began selling insurance, and withun
a few vears opened his own insur
ance office, a business he now runs
along with his mortgage company
at ARCSBI. Even with their ex
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moved here because the rent is
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into the incubator two months ago.
He now uses their Internet access
to expand his web page huild::
company, sell history books, a
promote his own web site, dedi
cated to tracing family history and
genealogy
“My sales have gone up this vear,
and my business keeps growing *
commented Mr. Rigdon. “I wouldnt
even think of going to work for
someone else at thas point.”
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