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Adair County small businesses may find help from the SBA/SBDC

"Columbia/Adair County have some great assets: Lindsey Wilson College, Green River Lake, wonderful agricultural-based businesses plus a solid small business community, a great commerce park and work ready community, great media and wonderful history. We are very impressed." - M. Ashcraft/SBA

By Linda Waggener

Representatives of the Small Business Administration (SBA) and the Small Business Development Center (SBDC) stopped by the Columbia Adair County Chamber of Commerce offices Friday, December 7, 2018 to update services available to small businesses.

Michael Ashcraft, Senior Area Manager/PIO Kentucky District Office of the SBA, said he wants to help raise awareness of all the resources available to small businesses.



Chamber Executive Director Ellen Zornes will make the data provided available and said there will be follow up meetings so that all members will be able to discover everything that can help their business.

Ashcraft introduced the two southcentral Kentucky representatives who will actually bring the services to Adair County through the SBDC - Kevin Norvell, director of the SBDC UK; and Jim Reams, management Consultant for the SBDC UK.

In order to qualify for free services a business must be a for-profit entity.

For more information, contact the Columbia/Adair County Chamber of Commerce, 201 Burkesville Street, Columbia, 270-384-6020.


This story was posted on 2018-12-11 07:41:43
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Business services are available from SBA/SBDC



2018-12-11 - Columbia, KY - Photo by Linda Waggener, ColumbiaMagazine.com.
Local businesses may have help available in the areas of planning and training for growth. Columbia Adair Chamber Executive Director Ellen Zornes, at right; Chamber President Pamela Hoots, third from left; and Mark Dykes, Chairman of the Adair EDA, at left; met with SBA/SBDC representatives Michael Ashcraft, second from left, and Kevin Norvell and Jim Reams, center, about services available to local businesses through their agencies. The Chamber will make the information available so that all members have the opportunity to discover services that can help local businesses.

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Adair status noted by SBC/SBDC representatives



2018-12-13 - Columbia, KY - Photo by Linda Waggener, ColumbiaMagazine.com.
This certificate hangs in the Columbia Adair Chamber of Commerce conference room where guests from the Small Business Administration visited and noted our status last week. It would be good to learn what changes have come from reaching this goal? A number of local leaders invested time in obtaining it. I'm hoping someone can update us on what is has meant and what has been different for Adair County since the designation in 2016.

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