Information about businesses in Murphy, North Carolina, and the people who own and manage them.
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SCORE - Confidential business counseling, mentoring and adviceFree Business Workshop -- Murphy, NC 28906 -- May 9, 2005April 24, 2005 A free business workshop, How to Get a Small Business Loan, will meet from 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm on Monday, May 9, 2005, in the Patterson Building at Tri-County Community College's main campus in the Peachtree community of Cherokee County, NC. The workshop will be facilitated by Jerry Chautin, a SCORE volunteer business counselor. He retired from a mortgage and business-lending firm he founded and is a local business writer for the Cherokee Scout. SCORE, Counselors to America's Small Business, is a nonprofit affiliate of the U.S. Small Business Administration with an office in Murphy at the Small Business Center at the college. Pre-registration is required and space is limited. Call 828-835-4318 to register. For more information, call Jerry Chautin at the SCORE office in Murphy at 828-837-4634 or email him at JKChautin@aol.com SCORE Opens New Office at Tri-County Community College -- Peachtree Community -- Murphy, NC 28906March 15, 2005 SCORE, one of the top volunteer business organizations in North Carolina has opened a new office at Tri-County Community College's Business Center. "Our chapter was named the Outstanding SCORE chapter in the state of North Carolina for 2004, which is the second such award it has received in the past three years," said James R. Ballard, administrator of SCORE Association's Western North Carolina Chapter 242. "We have seen some real growth in our chapter, such that we have branch offices in Brevard, Rutherfordton, and now this one in Murphy." The regional office is in Hendersonville, North Carolina. Since 1964, SCORE Association has provided counseling to prospective small business entrepreneurs in America. Currently known as Counselors to America's Small Business, the national organization no longer requires its volunteer counselors to be retired, as it once did, said Ballard. He said the primary purpose of any SCORE chapter is to provide advice and assistance to people who either want to start a new business or need help with an existing business. "There are several ways to accomplish this goal," Ballard said. "We hold workshops, seminars, distribute appropriate literature, and inform through newspaper columns." However, the most effective way to assist is to conduct direct counseling with the client. A fairly recent innovation in this field is email counseling. "Thanks to this growth and our heavy involvement with email counseling, the chapter was recently named one of the top 10 email counseling chapters in the national SCORE organization." Ballard said the Western North Carolina (WNC) chapter has also recently introduced a "team counseling" approach. "The more historic form of counseling involves a one-on-one conference with the client, but SCORE has recently developed a new format," Ballard said. "We form our counselors into small groups of three or four and the entire group then meets with the client." He said this method allows the client to benefit from a broader range of expertise, and also enables more counselors to become directly involved with clients without significantly increasing counselor caseload. Ballard said Judy Grove and Jerry Chautin are the local counselors, but the local group is "aggressively seeking more volunteers." SCORE operates under the auspices of the United States Small Business Administration. So Ballard said counselors not only provide information on SBA leading programs, but also "maintain close contacts with the local banking community." He said the new office is in the Jane Smith Patterson Building on the Tri-County Community College main campus in the Peachtree area of Cherokee County, NC. The following people were present at the formation of the SCORE branch office at Tri-County Community College: Michael Arriola, Senior Area Manager of the U. S. Small Business Administration; Joe Hogg, Director fo the TCCC TeleCenter/Small Business Center; Judy Grove, local SCORE counselor; Richard Adams, SCORE Chapter Director; and James Ballard, Acting Murphy Branch Director. The phone number is 828-837-4634. SBA, SCORE, and TCCC Small Business Center Workshop -- Murphy, NC 28906 -- January 14, 2005Mike Arriola, the U. S. Small Business Administration's Senior Area Manager for Western North Carolina, in cooperation with the Small Business Center at Tri-County Community College and SCORE (Service Corps of Retired Executives), will offer a free workshop on financing techniques for businesses and will provide attendees with an opportunity to ask questions about other SBA programs. SCORE and Small Business Center representatives will be available for expanded business counseling and mentoring. The workshop will be held at Tri-County Community College on January 14, 2005. If it snows, the alternative date will be January 19, 2005. You can learn more about the SBA and its programs by calling 1-800-827-5722 or by visiting their website at www.sba.gov. For more information about the upcoming workshop, call Cecilia Crawford at the Small Business Center at 828-835-4297 or email her at CCrawford@tricountycc.edu If you have corporate or small business skills, and a desire to help business owners succeed, SCORE would like to speak with you about volunteering at the Murphy branch office. Contact Jerry Chautin at PO Box 254, Murphy, NC 28906 or via email at JDChautin@aol.com Judy Grove of Brasstown, NC 28902, joins SCOREHendersonville-based SCORE Western North Carolina announced that Judy Grove has joined its new branch office in Murphy, North Carolina, as a volunteer business counselor. SCORE is a not-for-profit all volunteer resource partner with the U.S. Small Business Administration. They offer free business advice, counseling and mentoring to entrepreneurs who want to start, expand, finance or buy a business. Grove, a seasoned entrepreneur, is president and chief executive officer of Grove Enterprises, Inc. in Brasstown. She has many years of experience overcoming the challenges of starting and making small businesses profitable and will apply these skills when helping her SCORE clients. Dick Adams is the chair of SCORE Western North Carolina and met with Grove in Murphy. He told her that Washington-based SCORE was started 40 years ago and has since grown to 10,500 volunteers, in 385 chapters nationwide. Adams said that new Cherokee County branch is an outreach of the Hendersonville-based, SCORE Western North Carolina with 27 volunteers and branches in Brevard and Rutherford. It will serve small businesspersons in Cherokee, Clay and Graham counties. To learn more online, check out, www.scorewnc.org and www.score.org. Grove's Web site is: www.grove-ent.com. Domiciled at the Small Business Center of Tri-County Community College in Cherokee County, NC, the new SCORE office conducts private and confidential counseling and mentoring sessions with business owners. SCORE's local branch office is looking for a few more volunteers. This interesting opportunity is available to working and retired men and women who have small business or corporate skills. They must enjoy helping others succeed spend a few hours monthly on a flexible schedule. Resources and training are provided. For further information on volunteering or to request an application, please e-mail: JKChautin@aol.com or call (828) 837-4598 in Murphy or (828) 693-8702 in Hendersonville. Hendersonville, NC SCORE chapter is opening a regional branch office in Cherokee County, NCNovember 20, 2004 Jerry Chautin sent the following in an email, and I wanted to post it where all of you could see it:
If you need the help and advice offered by SCORE, or you want to volunteer your service to help others, you should contact Jerry.
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