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New Business: Mad Dash Serves Pizza in a Flash Zot’s Hot Dogs:  31 Years of Delicious Wieners Dragon Graphics Thrives with Needed Niche Promising Not to Forget Tin Roof Bakery Opens Café
 
New Business: Mad Dash Serves Pizza in a Flash

New Business: Mad Dash Serves Pizza in a Flash

Cooking a fresh, high quality pizza in two minutes seems unreal, but one business is doing just that right here in Chico. Aaron Souza has been dreaming up the idea of drive-thru pizza for the last three years. On Dec. 5, that dream became reality as he had the grand opening of his new business, Mad [...]

Zot’s Hot Dogs:  31 Years of Delicious Wieners

Zot’s Hot Dogs: 31 Years of Delicious Wieners

When pondering examples of Americana, many notions jump quickly to mind: baseball, burgers, apple pie, rock ‘n’ roll and, of course, hot dogs. Yes, there’s a reason thousands upon thousands flood to Brooklyn, New York’s Coney Island each and every year to watch grown men competitively scarf legions of hot dogs at Nathan’s—hot dogs are [...]

Dragon Graphics Thrives with Needed Niche

Dragon Graphics Thrives with Needed Niche

Many businesses are falling because the necessity for their services is dwindling down. Luckily for Dragon Graphics, printing is just not one of those industries. “You can build a house and you don’t have to landscape it,” said Jeff Baylor, owner of Dragon Graphics. “But if you own a business and your staff runs out of [...]

Promising Not to Forget

Promising Not to Forget

A hot summer evening in Chico set the backdrop for a conversation I had waited many years to have. The last time I was with Dr. Godwin Orkeh and Christian Nix, we were in a house built around an avocado tree on the hillsides of San Marco. This tree sat on the crust of Lake [...]

Tin Roof Bakery Opens Café

Tin Roof Bakery Opens Café

Whether you want breakfast, lunch or a midday treat, Tin Roof Bakery’s new café has it all. Eight years ago Brandon Seiwert and his wife, Rosie, opened the Tin Roof Bakery and started selling bread to restaurants, cafés, grocers and Saturday farmer’s market customers. Their real, artisan bread was an instant success, and by 2007 they [...]

When the History Books Are Written

When the History Books Are Written

17 December 2009

I’m just grateful we found water on the moon in 2009. If we had waited another month to find ice on the lunar surface I’m afraid the entire decade could have been deemed, ‘The Great Pause’; as in a cease in progress; a stop in forward movement; a freeze. It began with the great trepidation of [...]

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Greenies Awarded at  Sustainability Conference

Greenies Awarded at Sustainability Conference

17 December 2009

At CSU, Chico’s This Way to Sustainability Conference during the first week of November “Greenie “ Awards were presented to leaders and organizations in Chico who have advanced the cause of sustainability. Awards are presented to a nonprofit organization, a business and an individual. The nonprofit award went to River Partners, an organization dedicated to creating [...]

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The Bright Side of Our Current Economic Problems

The Bright Side of Our Current Economic Problems

17 December 2009

With all of the negative information flowing from the mainstream media, I find that it is often refreshing to take a few minutes to look at the positive side of current conditions. Anyone in business in the North Valley is struggling with how to improve the income of his/her business. Information is valuable, but you [...]

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The Smart Way to Grow Your Business: The Work Training Center

The Smart Way to Grow Your Business: The Work Training Center

17 December 2009

Whether businesses need a helping hand, extra storage space or heavy equipment, the Work Training Center is there to make life easier. The center, a nonprofit organization, is dedicated to supporting people with disabilities as they achieve increased independence in work and leisure. Businesses using the center’s services are not only keeping business local, they’re helping [...]

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Branding Your Business in Down Times

12 November 2009

You hear the term thrown around almost everywhere—the radio, TV, online media—and to many small business owners, the concept of branding might sound a bit vague. But truly understanding what the term means—and further, its implications—allows one to see the possible positive impacts branding can bring to one’s business. First, let’s set the record straight: A [...]

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Don’t Knock Taking Your Employer Stock

Don’t Knock Taking Your Employer Stock

12 November 2009

Given the growth of employee-employer savings to meet retirement goals, it is not uncommon for employees to have a significant amount of employer stock in their qualified retirement plans. When it comes time for employees to leave the nest, most are willing to directly rollover all qualified plan assets into a traditional IRA. A traditional [...]

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Nonprofit Success – Children of the Street

Nonprofit Success – Children of the Street

10 November 2009

It was a pleasant but ordinary morning in Chico. One could sense the end of summer as fall impatiently waited on the porch. A gentle coolness hung in the air. In households all around town coffee gurgled on its descent into the glass pot as children pleaded for five more minutes with their dreams. People [...]

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Ten Things You Might Not Have Known About Social Security

09 October 2009

Social Security is a lot like the ozone layer—we all know it’s there now and we count on it being there in the future. Yet most people don’t know much more about it than that. Here’s a short list of interesting facts about Social Security. 1)    Social Security benefits do not automatically start coming in the [...]

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Recycling Company Helps Children of Zambia

Recycling Company Helps Children of Zambia

09 October 2009

The owners of Northern California Recycling are already dedicated to keeping our streets clean and waste free, but this month they are devoting themselves to something even more amazing—providing children in Africa the funds to better their poverty stricken lives. During September, Northern California Recycling will be donating two cents of every pound recycled to the [...]

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Workshop Series Matures Local Businesses

Workshop Series Matures Local Businesses

09 October 2009

Golden Capital Network and NoRTEC have launched a series of business development workshops to get companies on the road to growing their entrepreneurial venture into a thriving, successful business. The Venture Island Entrepreneur Workshop series, which began in August, is currently focused on giving Venture Island-North State contestants the skills they will need to make it [...]

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