Business Incubator: Yea or Nay?

Tomorrow the board members of the Clallam Business Incubator will discuss whether to restructure or dissolve the organization. They’ll meet at 3 p.m. at the offices of the Incubator.

The Incubator is located at 905 West Ninth Street, Port Angeles, and provides professional support for new businesses. Last September the board concluded it could no longer make the $49,000 annual loan payment to the county.

UPDATE:

Business Incubator off the chopping block for the time being.

Businesses Spinning Off from Camera Corner; Port Angeles Forward Forum

Two former employees of The Camera Corner (which closed when the owner retired) now have their own full-time businesses.

Pixel Perfect Imaging, owned by Jeanne Pumphrey, has just opened in Joyce. It’s in the building formerly occupied by Clallam Broadband — 50893 State Highway 112. The store will offer DVD and CD productions, photo restoration, portrait photos, poster printing and passport photos. If you don’t want to go all the way to Joyce, there will be a drop-off box at Veela Café, next door to the former location of The Camera Corner.

Will Parsinen is running Infinite Image — transferring film and videos onto DVDs — out of his home on O Street.

Jason Kauffman, owner of Sterling Impressions (First Street, downtown P.A.), had been an employee of The Camera Corner for five years.

And speaking of resources and assistance for local businesses — PA Forward will be hosting a 2-hour forum this Thursday at 6 p.m. The forum is called “Together We Can — Business Resources Support Forum” and it’ll be held at the City Council Chambers at City Hall, 321 East Fifth Street, P.A. It’s free and it’s open to the public.

PA Forward includes Don Perry and Cherie Kidd from the City Council, and representatives of the Clallam County Economic Development Council, Port Angeles Regional Chamber of Commerce, the Community and Economic Development Department, and the Port Angeles Business Association.

Other groups participating in the forum include: Peninsula College Business Training and Worker Retraining Center, Entrepreneur Institute, Clallam Business Incubator, Shorebank Enterprise Cascadia, Small Business Development Center and SCORE Business Counselors.