If you have ever taken on a home improvement project in a 100-plus-year-old house, you have some idea what it’s taken to build Mill Pond Terrace. You can plan all you want, but you never know what you’re going to find behind the surfaces. Now, multiply that by about 1,000. And then add some rain, snow and heat. And then think about managing the rest of your 70,000 square foot “home” at the same time. That’s Mill Pond Terrace. And that’s Kate Salas.
Read MoreYou’re probably asking yourself: Why is a community center in a small town getting involved with helping entrepreneurs? After all, you’re over here playing bingo, making cookies, taking art classes, exercising. That’s community center stuff. What does entrepreneurship have to do with anything?
The answer: EVERYTHING.
Read MoreHow do new culinary businesses start? A person makes something out of pure passion. And he makes it again and again. Because he likes to make it. And people like to eat—or drink—it. And then people start telling him, “You could sell that.”
Read MoreJust when you have finally polished off the rest of your Halloween candy (that you MIGHT have stashed away just in case there were more trick or treaters than usual)….here comes TURKEY and mashed potatoes and stuffing…closely followed by pies, and cookies and cheese balls and sugary cocktails.
Read MoreHere it is. November in Wisconsin. The first snow is on the ground, and anyone with much sense has fled to Florida or Arizona. You would need to be crazy to stay in Green Lake all year. Right?
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