"You've got to seize the opportunity if it is presented to you" - Clive Davis

To: Local businesses

From: Kourtney Auger

Subject: New Local Business Opening

A new place to grab a cup o’ joe -- and meet with clients!

Just what you have been waiting for, a local place in town to meet with current and future clients, customers, other business owners, or friends. Opening next month, our new cafe will have a private office room that is free that can be reserved in up to four hour increments. We also offer 10 other tables in the coffee shop to catch up with friends or chat with other locals.

If you are interested in checking out what we have to offer, please attend our open house on Saturday, April 30th from 9am - 2pm at Fresh Baked located in the Center of Dunbarton (you won't miss it...). We will be offering some free baked goods, coffee and other treats.

All those that attend will be entered in a drawing for a $20 gift certificate to use when the store opens officially the following day!

Hope to see you there,

Kourtney

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Kourtney Auger

Owner, Fresh Baked

"The entrepreneur is essentially a visualizer and actualizer. He can visualize something, and when he visualizes it

he sees exactly how to make it happen" - Robert L. Schwartz

It has been my pipe dream for as long as I can remember, to open up my own bakery/cafe and "towny" shop. I don't really know what to classify it as but I envision it having a pastry cabinet, people placing orders for baked goods, and old timers in the town hanging out and gossiping while drinking their coffee and eating. I also see the walls lined with things the towns people have made as well as eccentric items you would only be able to find in a hole in the wall place such as this. From homemade chapstick, to knitted blankets and wooden rocking chairs, it would be a place where people could lose themselves for hours on end, either catching up with old friends, people watching or curling up with a book they have pulled off of one of the shelves.

I really hope that some day this vision becomes a reality for me. It is something I have thought about for a long time. I have even had the carrot of opportunity dangled in front of me a few times and there is always something that doesn't go as planned. I guess I could just argue that this means that it's not the right time or the right place yet. For now, I suppose it's on to focusing on school and waiting for the right opportunity to come around.

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