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Budding businesses blossom as children compete, sell wares BY WENDY SCHEURING
VIERA VOICE Courtesy of Lee Nessel
Ella Helton makes bracelets for Ella Bella’s Beads. Her business will compete in the second annual Brevard Children's Business Fair on March 30 at The Avenue Viera.
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Nora McFarland's mission was to create a safe, hospitable place for children to become entrepreneurs. “Inspiration,” answered the executive director of the Brevard Children’s Business Fair when asked why she started the Brevard Children’s Business Fair. McFarland laments that children could once set up a lemonade stand, but times have since changed. The fair will be held from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, March 30 at The Avenue Viera. In its second year, the fair has doubled in size. “We have 50 businesses with 67 participants,” McFarland said. The types of businesses vary: a paddle board instructor, an author who recently published her first book on Amazon, food
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vendors and crafters and artisans. Ella Bella’s Beads will be one of the featured businesses. Run by Ella Helton, 6, of Viera, she simply stated, “we make bracelets.” “Ella started making plastic bead bracelets for her dolls and stuffed animals. It transformed into a business when my boss asked Ella if she could make her a bracelet that says “Type 1” on it because she’s diabetic,” said Lee Nessel, Ella’s mother. The bracelets have evolved from plastic bead bracelets since then. Now, they are made of stones, wood and crystals. “I’m making bracelets so I can have enough money. I want to get a dog, a cat and a chinchilla,” Ella Helton said. The McMullin sisters of Suntree also will show off
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