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APRIL 26, 2023
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@qamagnews VOL. 104, NO. 17
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SPU annual business contest highlights student-led projects By Jessica Keller Queen Anne & Magnolia News editor
Seattle Pacific University students showed off their entrepreneurial chops at the Social Venture Plan Competition, which wrapped up with the final judging April 19. According to the website, the Social Venture Plan Competition encourages teams of students from different academic disciplines to develop an entrepreneurial project with a social and financial focus. Mark Oppenlander, director of the SPU Center for Applied Learning, said students are tasked with creating a viable business plan with sustainable funding while identifying ways the venture would benefit people or the planet. “This reinforces the notion that all good business plans should have a social impact,” he said, adding the concept that businesses can turn a profit and address a social need is something important to members of Generation Z. “It’s not one or the other.” Photo by Jessica Keller One of this year’s projects featured Minh Le, one of the two creators of a catalytic converter alarm, shows how when the an alarm to prevent catalytic converter alarm is tampered with, people will get an alert on their mobile phones, in addition to a loud alarm noise at the device site. SEE COMPETITION, PAGE 4
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Magnolia Chamber’s main fundraiser coming up
Organization also working on other projects for communitystudent-led projects By Jessica Keller Queen Anne & Magnolia News editor
Tickets are still available for purchase to the Magnolia Chamber of Commerce’s popular event and spring fundraiser Vino in the Village. The spring event will take place from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday starting at Modeles Home Furnishings, 3220 W. McGraw St., in Magnolia Village. This event will feature 16 local wineries that will pour wines and
spirits at different businesses in the village. Go to https://discovermagnolia.org/ and click on the Vino in the Village tickets link. Magnolia Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Jason Thibeaux said the biannual event is an important fundraiser for the Chamber of Commerce because of its popularity. “It’s, by far, our most consistent fundraiser,” he said, adding the goal is to sell out of tickets at each event. “Events like this definitely make us whole at the end of the year.” The event was especially important during COVID, when the chamber was deeply impacted, Thibeaux said. Since then, the chamber is doing well in terms of membership. “I would say our membership grew slightly during the pandemic, but not
to the tune of making up for events,” he said. That is why events like Vino in the Village is so important to the chamber, which has a number of campaigns to support businesses in the community, Thibeaux said. The chamber is slowly adding back events to its annual calendar and recently hosted its first casino night since the pandemic, as well as its first in-person annual awards dinner, and chamber board members are planning additional events. None, however, surpass Vino in the Village for the chamber. Thibeaux said the event not only benefits the chamber; it also is an important event for businesses in the
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