COMMUNITY
Community, Not Competition In the Four Corners area of Sneads Ferry, a collective of powerhouse women supports each other while growing their individual businesses. BY PAT FONTANA | PHOTOGRAPHY BY DANIELLE NICOLE
Left to right: Jennifer Vanek, Jeanette Georgitis, Katie Rochelle, Marilyn Didomenico, and Beth Jones
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Among the many women-owned businesses in the Sneads Ferry community, there are five women who have launched and are successfully operating businesses in the Four Corners area. These women support and mentor each other, and generally focus on community instead of competition. Jennifer Vanek, owner of Harper Rose Boutique, says the business owners “celebrate the fact that we survived” the pandemic. Vanek launched her business in September 2018
on a whim, she says. She began, with her sister, by selling children’s clothing from her home. She branched out to promote her offerings on Facebook live and then with events from a mobile trailer. Vanek found that she was shipping items non-stop and “couldn’t house all the inventory we had on hand.” About ten months after she opened the business, she started selling what she calls “mom clothing” in response to customers’
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