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Listen and learn about the GATE program in Rockingham County. This program features: GATE client Jacline Carter; Debi Joyce, GATE Counselor, Rockingham Community College; and Don Miller, GATE Counselor, N.C. Rural Center

TARBORO - When George Jenkins was laid off from his job in construction management last year, he didn’t sit around feeling sorry for himself. He decided to fulfill a longtime dream of starting his own business…

HAMLET - Larry Allred is an example of what a dislocated worker can achieve through Richmond Community College’s Growing America Through Entrepreneurship (GATE) program

PRINCEVILLE — Juanita Royal is turning a hobby into a small business with the help of Project GATE.

WENTWORTH - For one year, the GATE project has been instrumental in creating and maintaining jobs in Rockingham County

EDEN - Among the businesses which participated this year, Rockingham Community College’s Small Business Center presented information on the Growing America Through Entrepreneurship (GATE) program.

LAURINBURG - These three county residents found themselves waiting in line for unemployment benefits, but with help from Richmond Community College and Project GATE, they are now opening their own shops and are even looking to hire others who are out of work.

REIDSVILLE - In 1986, the Charlotte Observer reported, "If rural and urban areas don't work together, they might not work at all."

LUMBERTON - Robeson Community College is one of the eight community colleges in the state that receives funds from the Growing America Through Entrepreneurship program

GREENSBORO - Imagine a program that not only gives participants an education, but also prepares them in such a way that upon completion they have a job where they are boss from the very first day.

NEWLAND - When the folks at the Rural Center wrote a grant last June to apply for U.S. Department of Labor funding for an entrepreneurial program, they had no idea how good their timing was.

WARRENTON - "Growing America through Entrepreneurship" will be the topic of a meeting to be held at the Warren County Memorial Library

SPINDALE - Eight different locations in North Carolina, including Rutherford County, have been chosen by the U.S. Department of Labor for a program called Project GATE

LAURINBURG - For dislocated workers in Scotland County, Debra Morman with Project GATE may be able to help you find an alternative career path as a business owner.

North Carolina Public Radio - WUNC - 91.5 FM Chapel Hill, 88.9 FM Manteo, 90.9 FM Rocky Mount

ROCKINGHAM - If you are among the many dislocated workers in the county, Kathryn McEntire with Project GATE may be able to help you

ARCHDALE - A new federal program to help laid-off workers start their own small businesses has gotten off to a fast start at Randolph Community College.

RAEFORD - A new program becomes available this week to help laid-off workers start their own small business

TABOR CITY - Laid-off rural workers interested in starting their own business are the focus of a new U.S. Department of Labor demonstration project.

WARRENTON - GATE targets dislocated workers from rural counties for a variety of assistance directly related to starting and running a business.

WFMY Channel 2 Greensboro, High Point, Winston-Salem

ASHEBORO - A new federal program to help laid-off workers start their own small businesses has gotten off to a fast start at Randolph Community College.

WENTWORTH – Project GATE (Growing America Through Entrepreneurship) has been launched in North Carolina.

REIDSVILLE -- Laid-off workers in Rockingham County now have an alternative in their search for a positive future — self-employment.

ASHEBORO — A new federal program to help laid-off workers start their own small businesses has gotten off to a fast start at Randolph Community College.

RALEIGH - A new program becomes available this week to help laid-off rural workers start their own small business.