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Soulsville rising in South Memphis

Soulsville rising in South Memphis
Backers hope $11.5 million project revitalizes neighborhood
By Daniel Connolly
Saturday, August 15, 2009
Drive down Mississippi Boulevard in South Memphis and you'll see overgrown lots with discarded tires. Turn onto a side street and you might see a liquor store with an old sign for Gordon's Gin.
But keep going and you'll pass the neatly groomed campus of LeMoyne-Owen College and the new mixed-income College Park residential community. And you may see a construction site near the college campus that could bring more jobs and commerce to the area.

"Hefty tax rebate for any franchise fees"

PEORIA — Thomas Hofer's all for a proposed measure pending in Congress that would give veterans a hefty tax rebate for any franchise fees - his company already does it.
Hofer, himself a retired Vietnam-era Naval pilot, said his company Spring-Green offers veterans $15,000 to help with fees associated with starting up a new franchise of his lawn-care company.
"We look at this as a reward for military people who would be interested in our franchise," said Spring-Green's CEO. "In the last three years or so, 30 to 40 percent have been military orientated."

Prevail Health Solutions on NPR

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Prevail HS, a company with a radical approach to mental health care which has partnered with TVC, was recently featured on NPR.

A brief synopsis below:

Military members are trained to rely on themselves, to ignore doubts and emotions. In combat, those skills might save a person’s life. But that training can make it hard to readjust to the civilian world, and to seek help when it’s needed. A group of Chicago entrepreneurs is trying a new way to get those veterans into therapy. They’re using something most vets readily understand: technology.

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