Silver Linings Vintage Rentals Meet Carmen Dyar from Rapid City, South Dakota. What you'll read here is Carmen's own story right from her own lips, figuratively speaking. As owner of Travel Backroads, I met Carmen at a Dakota Resources RuralX Conference held in Mitchell SD. Carmen was just one of several entrepreneurs showcased there. Read the story of her journey, then know that "slvrlinings is not just a new chapter , but a whole new book":  MY ROOTS My passion for Airstreams developed in the mid-1990s. In 2003 my husband and I finally acquired our first, a 1966 Overlander Land Yacht. Together, Pete and I renovated “Bertie,” an homage to the original owner, into an updated space we both loved. In 2008 we found our 1962 Bambi, a treasured diamond in the rough and my heart’s desire, which we gutted for a rebuild and complete renovation. It was my dream to one day rent both out for others to have opportunity to have the Airstream experience. MY SILVER LINING In the years that followed, life shifted, our focus shifted, and the Bambi project was put on hold. In 2016 Pete passed away, and my partner in life, love, and Airstreams were gone. Since then my life has been one of transitions, trials and tribulations. I shed many possessions but kept the beloved silver trailers. After the clouds cleared a little, I made a decision; the time had come to get that Airstream dream rolling again. THIS IS A SILVER LINING STORY IN PROGRESS..."It is our greatest thrill to be working toward creating an experience to share." ~~Carmen  This new project brings onboard Tyler as project manager and builder for our renovation process. We can't wait to share our story with you--from creating inspired spaces for photo and film backdrops, to pop-up boutiques and party venues but especially camping adventures where one can come away with their own campfire tales. Contact me for more information and to share your story. www.slvrlinings.com | Slvrstories@gmail.com |605.877.5834
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 | Both Margit and Sharon bring their own talents into the operation. Floral arrangements with fresh and silks, green and blooming plants are Sharon’s specialty. Margit brings her years of collecting into the mix with unexpected “finds” as well as new ideas along with wedding planning and home interior design. |
Florals & Finds adds to the ambiance of downtown Clear Lake when most little towns are struggling to keep going and new businesses are looking to build in the higher traffic areas. Stores like this give new life to a struggling economy and help to turn it into a more flourishing community. Both spouses are also involved in their own right in the community. Margit’s husband Duke is the owner of Fritz Chevrolet who just celebrated their 90th birthday this past year.
Florals & Finds is located on Highway 15 that runs through Clear Lake in Deuel County. A backroad business in the east central part of South Dakota, supported by the local and area residents, invites others to take a side trip and stop in see what items one cannot live without.
Florals & Finds is located on Highway 15 that runs through Clear Lake in Deuel County. A backroad business in the east central part of South Dakota, supported by the local and area residents, invites others to take a side trip and stop in see what items one cannot live without.
Pat McGill, MA ED
Women Entrepreneurs and Women Energized Speaker, trainer, author, columnist and adjunct professor of Education Pat is the Founder of WE: Women Entrepreneurs and Women ENERGIZED. WE is an organization of women business owners in communities in the Midwest who gather together monthly to support, inspire, educate, listen, learn and laugh with one another. The women entrepreneurs gather to share ideas on advertising, branding, physical and digital presence, promotions within the community, supporting the community events and venues. The Women of WE work to collaborate and co-operate for their businesses and their community. "The world is blessed when WE do what WE do best!" |
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A Little Bit about Pat:
A former middle-school teacher and adjunct professor of human relations, Pat holds a master's degree in education from St. Mary's University in Minnesota. She's convinced, however, that her talents are rooted in her Midwestern upbringing, Irish heritage. As a member of the National Speakers Association, Pat presents professional development keynotes and workshops. Her "Pat-tested, Boomer-approved" material is at once entertaining and informative, and helps her to engage those of varying backgrounds, in different lifestyles, professions and industries. A certified Psycho-Geometrics trainer, Pat is further positioned to facilitate effective communication strategies that appear to a variety of learning style.
If you are interested in bringing Pat McGill to your community to work with women in
business and leadership please contact her at :
patmcgill5@gmail.com
712.330.3636
A former middle-school teacher and adjunct professor of human relations, Pat holds a master's degree in education from St. Mary's University in Minnesota. She's convinced, however, that her talents are rooted in her Midwestern upbringing, Irish heritage. As a member of the National Speakers Association, Pat presents professional development keynotes and workshops. Her "Pat-tested, Boomer-approved" material is at once entertaining and informative, and helps her to engage those of varying backgrounds, in different lifestyles, professions and industries. A certified Psycho-Geometrics trainer, Pat is further positioned to facilitate effective communication strategies that appear to a variety of learning style.
If you are interested in bringing Pat McGill to your community to work with women in
business and leadership please contact her at :
patmcgill5@gmail.com
712.330.3636
Testimony
"I just finished attending a seminar with Pat McGill, (www.patmcgill.net) who presented to a wide variety of women in positions of business and leadership. Because of my position as an Economic Development Director, I am able to attend many conferences and seminars and I’m always learning.
Pat’s style and presentation is totally different from what I have been experiencing. Her uniqueness, her enthusiasm, and zest is contagious. She comes from an angle that is ‘uniquely hers talking about uniquely you,’ as that business owner and leader. It’s a viewpoint of caring for yourself before you can care for your business or customer. It’s a viewpoint of knowing yourself and loving yourself, and your personal uniqueness and style that helps you lead, manage or deal with others. What comes across boldly as well, is her years of experience and how it is integrated in her seminar. She has KNOWN and has LIVED a multitude of experiences and her passion to promote, teach and help others just spills out of her. It was refreshing to be a part of a totally different type of seminar, a very personal one where you feel astonished that a ‘one-on-one is taking place in a room filled with women’."
Pat’s style and presentation is totally different from what I have been experiencing. Her uniqueness, her enthusiasm, and zest is contagious. She comes from an angle that is ‘uniquely hers talking about uniquely you,’ as that business owner and leader. It’s a viewpoint of caring for yourself before you can care for your business or customer. It’s a viewpoint of knowing yourself and loving yourself, and your personal uniqueness and style that helps you lead, manage or deal with others. What comes across boldly as well, is her years of experience and how it is integrated in her seminar. She has KNOWN and has LIVED a multitude of experiences and her passion to promote, teach and help others just spills out of her. It was refreshing to be a part of a totally different type of seminar, a very personal one where you feel astonished that a ‘one-on-one is taking place in a room filled with women’."
Deuel Community Kitchen (Toronto, SD) - A Kitchen Incubator Story
Incubators can help a small community and food producers because they are designed to grow business!
Incubators make it financially possible for a start-up food manufacturer to take advantage of available professional kitchen space while they grow their business. This commercial kitchen facility is available to producers and packagers of specialty and gourmet food, caterers, and individual chefs that want to get their special recipe off and running. Those individuals who want to take a special recipe to market or create a food or natural resource business will want to consider the use of this kitchen. A kitchen is for start-ups and existing food processors.
Incubators can help a small community and food producers because they are designed to grow business!
Incubators make it financially possible for a start-up food manufacturer to take advantage of available professional kitchen space while they grow their business. This commercial kitchen facility is available to producers and packagers of specialty and gourmet food, caterers, and individual chefs that want to get their special recipe off and running. Those individuals who want to take a special recipe to market or create a food or natural resource business will want to consider the use of this kitchen. A kitchen is for start-ups and existing food processors.
Most start-up food enterprises begin in a home kitchen. But the home kitchen becomes a liability because of special licensing that is required and laws that prevent the home kitchen recipe when it goes to the marketplace. Legally then the start-up food enterprise must manufacture their product from a professional kitchen. This is where a kitchen incubator comes in. Chefs (user of a kitchen) will be able to offer long or short-term leases at reasonable rates on a flexible time-share basis. Food entrepreneurs become ‘legal’ by working in this certified kitchen space because it, in turn, can be inspected more easily.
Available to use are professional standard ovens, refrigerators, mixers, food processors, storage space, worktables, pots and pans, utensils and locked storage space. This professional space will have a list of requirements in using the space, but also guidelines that will need to be followed when using the kitchen. The entrepreneurs enter into an agreement with the facility, with each other and in this case with the non-profit Deuel Area Development (DADi) that began the incubator. Using a kitchen incubator is a relatively new concept and definitely in a rural setting.
Available to use are professional standard ovens, refrigerators, mixers, food processors, storage space, worktables, pots and pans, utensils and locked storage space. This professional space will have a list of requirements in using the space, but also guidelines that will need to be followed when using the kitchen. The entrepreneurs enter into an agreement with the facility, with each other and in this case with the non-profit Deuel Area Development (DADi) that began the incubator. Using a kitchen incubator is a relatively new concept and definitely in a rural setting.
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The DCK began with a USDA Rural Business Enterprise Grant. With the help of DADi and assistance of Dakota Rural Action and Deubrook School District the Deuel Community Kitchen came to fruition.
Once a product is ready for marketing, the producer can help with a business plan and making connections with the Small Business Development Centers. It is the hope of USDA Rural Development that other small communities with available licensed kitchens can use DCK as a model. Other items to consider when starting a kitchen: location to 'chefs', insurance, Serv-Safe licensing, labeling, kitchen inspections and licensing, Department of Health regulations, kitchen's availability, potential users, marketing and determination, community awareness, and marketing.
Once a product is ready for marketing, the producer can help with a business plan and making connections with the Small Business Development Centers. It is the hope of USDA Rural Development that other small communities with available licensed kitchens can use DCK as a model. Other items to consider when starting a kitchen: location to 'chefs', insurance, Serv-Safe licensing, labeling, kitchen inspections and licensing, Department of Health regulations, kitchen's availability, potential users, marketing and determination, community awareness, and marketing.
Nelson Chiropractic Making it a family affair, a young husband and wife team, newly graduated in 2015, Bjorn and Devon Nelson joined Bjorn's father John Nelson, in his practice in Spearfish, SD which he began after graduating from Northwestern Health Sciences University in Bloomington, MN in 1976.
Bjorn, graduating from Belle Fourche, SD then later Rocky Mountain College, followed in his father’s footsteps and also attended NWHSU, then graduated in 2014. Devon reigning from Bismarck, ND and a standout in their high school’s athletic program, graduated from North Dakota State University majoring in Exercise Science. All three bring their own flavor of expertise into the mix. Rounding out the business is the staff of Nelson Chiropractic. One of those staff members, and CNA, is Bjorn’s mother, Deb Carr, who comes from a long line of chiropractors on her side of the family. Once a long time music teacher in the Belle Fourche School District, she joined her own chiropractic family in Huron, SD before she relocated to Spearfish to work with this growing business.
Nelson Chiropractic has been providing chiropractic care and wellness treatments for 40 years. The Nelson’s promote health, therapeutic rehabilitation, acupuncture, cupping, physical therapy, wellness, and exercise through natural treatment and invite you to give them a call and they will get you on the path to wellness. All of them share Travel Backroads’ vision of a deep commitment to local business.
High Plains Health Centre, Suite 1, 1930 North Ave
Spearfish, SD 57783
(605) 642-5196
http://www.nelsonchiroclinic.com/
High Plains Health Centre, Suite 1, 1930 North Ave
Spearfish, SD 57783
(605) 642-5196
http://www.nelsonchiroclinic.com/
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