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Week of May 11, 2016 Vol 49 • No 15 • www.thechicagocitizen.com

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The Spirit of Entrepreneurship

BILL’S BUSINESS

Comes Alive in Englewood, Hyde Park

SBA Competition Awards $3.95 Million for Startups

By Monique Smith

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he Englewood community is often depicted as the epicenter of violence, poverty and despair in the city of Chicago. Multiple gang shootings and homicides, social economic disparities and failing schools continue to plague this South Side neighborhood, but like a Phoenix rising from the ashes Englewood, native Arnett Faulkner is proof there is still good coming out of and going back into this community. n

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Betty Price, affectionately known as Mother Price, has served the community for over two decades in Englewood through Feed, Clothe, Help the Needy (FCHN). She began her outreach after quitting her fulltime job of 23 years to begin feeding and clothing the less fortunate and she started right out of her own home. When FCHN

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ENTERTAINMENT

Arnett Faulkner’s company has become a burgeoning skin care company which will have products on the shelves this summer in two of the newest Whole Foods locations, Englewood and Hyde Park. Photo Courtesy of Arnett Faulkner

Mother Price: Feed, Clothe and Help the Needy By: Chelsea Johnson

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began to grow, Mother Price purchased an old meat packing facility, renovated it and began to run her ministry out of Englewood where she and her staff now serve the less fortunate Monday through Saturday from 9 am until 4 pm. After the recession of 2008, FCHN began to see an overflow of men, women and children and now feeds and clothes more than 1,000 people a week through

the outreach program. Unfortunately, Mother Price and her family experienced their own setback when Mother Prices’ husband, Deacon Price, suffered a stroke while visiting family in Mississippi for Thanksgiving. With Mother Price staying by her husbands’ side in Mississippi where he n

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www.thechicagocitizen.com • 51 years of serving the Black community

Disney Legend Marty Sklar to appear at MSI n

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