Volume 5 • Number 2
February 2002
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COVER STORY Some 375 young people of high school and early college age attend the Cascades Job Corps program on a tree-lined campus east of Sedro-Woolley. The federally funded school helps those at risk or financially challenged to train in a variety of vocational and business specialties and at the same time learn social and employability skills.
INDUSTRY REPORTS An agricultural-based county, Skagit is rich in growing and supplying plants to the garden marketplace and to the consumer. Janet O’Mara travels the flats to talk with owners of several nurseries that offer their plants for retail sale. Nearly half of their annual income comes during this period of the year, whether the weather cooperates or not.
SPECIAL REPORTS As the name implies, it’s hidden away, but accessible. Secret Harbor, on Cypress Island not far from Anacortes, has been the pastoral home to a school for mostly boys who have been diagnosed with severe behavioral, developmental, learning, social, emotional or chemical-dependency problems. This is a business and success story.
HOW-TO Product, price, placement and promotion — the four Ps — are the subject of this essay on marketing by Tammy Cannon, founder of i.m.c. (Innovative Marketing Concepts) of Burlington. The four Ps, each complementing the others, are the ingredients every entrepreneur should have in growing a successful business, she says.
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