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AM: Startup Funds Help Student Biz

A retired lawyer and a professional poker player made a pitch to a Newport High School marketing class: Come up with a viable business plan, and we’ll finance it. The result is a full-service kayak rental business called Bear Naked Adventures, which opened July 18 at Rotary Park in Oldtown, Idaho next to a Pend Oreille River boat launch. The business was created and financed through the Pend Oreille Microenterprise Development Organization, a new nonprofit group. Jody Lawrence-Turner SR story here. (SR photo: Kathy Plonka)

* This story was originally published as a post from the blog "Huckleberries Online." Read all stories from this blog