Entrepreneurial businesses started up through the program:
10 03 Photography With a Bachelor of Applied Arts Visual Communications and diploma in Communication Arts, Cody Wheeler used the entrepreneurial business centre to help launch his photography business 10 03 Photography. Based out of Bow Island, Wheeler’s photography aims to all of his clients’ special moments in life.
Sugar Strings Swimwear
It started with designing and sewing swimsuits in a Medicine Hat basement — now Kirstan Votta and Angelica Bonaparte are selling their own swimsuit designs for women hitting the beach around the world. The business was one of the first launched through the entrepreneurial centre, in the summer of 2011.
Healing Hands Massage Therapy
Sybil Mahoney turned her Massage Therapy Diploma and Associate of Arts diploma from MHC into her own business with the launch of Healing Hands Massage Therapy with help from the centre. As a registered Massage Therapist, Mahoney’s business offers Hatters both in-house and mobile services — with plans to keep growing in what services can be offered to clients.
Elevation Landscaping and Irrigation
Passion and a love of landscaping helped MHC students Anthony Merkel and Larson Laing launch Medicine Hat’s newest landscaping business in the summer of 2012. The duo found great success over the summer, working on projects throughout the city, and using the grant money given through the program to help expand their business.
Shambhala Hoods
Created by Liz Sanderson, this little “hippy company” specializes in Shambhala hoods and other rave accessories. The idea started when Sanderson saw her first hood at an electronic music show in Saskatoon. Now she creates and distributes hoods, boot covers, hemp pieces, customized pieces for festival goers.
Ginger Kid Studios
From photographing weddings, families, couples, events, sports, boudoir, acting/modeling headshots and more — Hatter Gerrit Kat’s Ginger Kid Studios was one of the first businesses that the entrepreneurial centre helped to launch in the summer of 2011.
The T 96 | 2013 REPORT ON SOUTHEAST ALBERTA By ALEX MCCUAIG
he meat packing industry in North America has long been reliant on immigrant labour to work the kill floors of the production lines.
From the stockyards of turn of the 19th century Chicago employing immigrants from Eastern Europe to 21st century Brooks, Alta.’s Lakeside hiring North Africans, the business has long been the first job for newcomers to the continent.
The business has had a lasting effect on the ethnic makeup of communities
future of Lakeside
— Chicago boosts some of the largest Eastern European populations outside the continent with Brooks’ Sudanese population density likely equally as high for nationals from that country.
The packing industry in Brooks has long offered both economic migrants from within Canada as well as foreigners from outside an opportunity for a well-paying job.
But there is no doubt it's a tough job.
And in 2012 as layoff notices were handed out to the hundreds of employees that today are made up of an immigrant labour force drawn from just about every continent, the job got tougher.
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