North is Ripe for Entrepreneurs - Legislative Assembly of The

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DEH CHO DRUM, Thursday, May 7, 2015 5
North is ripe for
ei1trepreneurs
Northern News Services
Dene people of the North can
We live in a world of incredbring into the business world
ible opportunity. Pioneers have
offers two advantages: they
explored every corner of the earth, can cater to their own people's
but man has yet to come
demands better, and
any closer in satiating his THE ISSUE·
that traditional NorthJOB
•
ern authenticity is
fellow's demands. Each
OPPORTUNITIES
much sought-after in
step on that path to discovery only spreads the
the south.
WE SAY:
Entrepreneurship
horizon further.
CREATE YOUR
aligns with the values
A career fair in Fort
Liard's Echo Dene School
OWN
of freedom, resourcegave students in the
fulness and using the
Deh Cho an idea of what
land that are chamkinds of opportunities they could
pioned in the North.
pursue after high school.
It's with entrepreneurship that
Principal William Gowans said
freedom of lifestyle is achievable
there are few job opporand in 2015 we can
tunities in Liard, which
still dream of being
doesn't even have a hairadventurers.
dresser.
Schools need to
focus more on stimuBut there's a job
lating children's minds
opportunity. And anyone
in a way that can
with a pair of scissors
and a bit of initiative can '
teach them how they
corner the hairdressing
can best serve others
market there in one fell
STEWART
and create _something
.
out of nothmg.
swoop.
BURNETT
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Not everyone needs
Where there is need,
there is opportunity.
to go to college, not
everyone
needs to
Public school needs to
place a higher priority on financial excel in school. All that matters is
and entrepreneurial education.
your ability to improve the lives of
others.
We are taught to get good
Everyone needs to find a way to
grades, get into college, get good
grades there and then find a
serve each other.
In the North, we have the abun"career" working for somebody
dance of resources.
else.
Rarely are we taught to grow up
We have the need for services.
We have bright, creative, eager
to be the employer or learn how to
young people.
manage expense sheets.
Now where are the entrepreNothing is wrong with working
neurs?
for someone else, but to create
new jobs, we need leaders. And
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that goes for the Deh Cho, too.
Small communities in this
DO YOU SUPPORT FRACKING IN THE
region show incredible entrepreNORTHWEST
TERRITORIES?
neurial potential. Anything that
you want but can't find locally is a Yes, we need economic growth and the
jobs It could bring.
future business opportunity.
The unique perspective that
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Do youth in the Deb Cho have a wide variety
of job opportunities? Go online to www.nnsl.
com/dehcho to vote in this week's poll.
COPS AND ROBBERS
Keirah Simon, right, arrests Grayson Klein with a snap-on bracelet during
recess at Bompas Elementary School.
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