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… But after discovering the [GATE] program at Edgecombe Community College’s Small Business Center, his path turned dramatically. Today, the 31-year-old Tarboro man is a construction worker turned farmer, and he says he owes much of his success to Small Business Center Director Ed Ormsby.

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