{"id":49736,"date":"2025-12-08T18:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T23:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/?p=49736"},"modified":"2025-12-08T12:26:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T17:26:15","slug":"paulding-county-economics-youth-business-showcase-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/paulding-county-economics-youth-business-showcase-event\/","title":{"rendered":"Paulding County Economics\u2019 Youth Business Showcase Event\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1016\" height=\"642\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Judges-and-PCED-.jpg?fit=1016%2C642&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-49737\" style=\"width:555px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Judges-and-PCED-.jpg?w=1016&amp;ssl=1 1016w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Judges-and-PCED-.jpg?resize=768%2C485&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><strong>Pictured above are the judges for PCED\u2019s Youth Business Showcase held on November 22<sup>nd<\/sup> (l-r) are Nicole Swaney, Isabella Carwile, Heather Sherburn, Jessica Stechschulte, Mark Holtsberry, and Greg Goebel.<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">The Paulding County Economic Development (PCED) office recently hosted another successful Youth Business Showcase, highlighting the creativity and entrepreneurial spirit of all the local student\u2011run businesses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">The event drew a strong turnout from the community and celebrated the hard work of young entrepreneurs. Top honors were awarded to Haven Kipfer with Thrift to Gift for Judges\u2019 Choice, Symon Manz with Dog Treats &amp; Grooming for People\u2019s Choice, and Beauden Strahley with Good Sips for Most Creative. \u201cWatching our young entrepreneurs show their creativity and determination is truly inspiring. The Youth Business Showcase isn\u2019t just about presenting ideas, it\u2019s about building confidence, sparking innovation, and showing our community the incredible potential of the next generation. I couldn\u2019t be prouder of the effort and passion these students put into their businesses.\u201d Jessica Stechschulte, Paulding County Economic Development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">PCED extends its gratitude to judges Mark Holtsberry of the Paulding County Commissioners, Greg Goebel of First Financial Bank, Nicole Swaney of Cherry Road, and Heather Sherburn of Hid\u2019n Treasures for lending their time and expertise. Special thanks also go to the Paulding VFW, Chamber of Commerce, Paulding Putnam Electric, and Norfolk Southern for their continued support in making this event possible. The Youth Business Showcase remains a meaningful opportunity to encourage and recognize the next generation of business leaders in Paulding County.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Paulding County Economic Development (PCED) office recently hosted another successful Youth Business Showcase, highlighting the creativity and entrepreneurial spirit<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":49737,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Judges-and-PCED-.jpg?fit=1016%2C642&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2YQd9-cWc","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-29 13:33:12","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49736"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49738,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49736\/revisions\/49738"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}