A few regional students are spending the summer as young entrepreneurs.
A program called Summer Company is in full swing, with guidance from the Saugeen Shores Business Enterprise Centre.
Manager and Business Consultant Jill Roote says three thousand dollars is available in government funding to start up and run a business for the summer.
Roote says six students in total are running their own business this summer.
The jobs range from lawn care and handy work to web design, a produce and garden market and audio conversions.
One student Sarah Szabo has been lending a hand to Port Elgin residents by doing some odd jobs.
Her business is called Helping Hand and she does everything from lawn care and cleaning to babysitting.
Szabo says she came up with the idea because there are a lot of seasonal cottagers in the area who don’t have the time to do small jobs.
She says it was pretty easy getting her business started because she had constant help and guidance from the enterprise centre.
Each participant received 15 hundred dollars to cover their start-up fees.
The program wraps up on Labour Day Weekend — and if their business is successful each student will receive another 15 hundred dollars as a bursary for school.
Roote says their success is not measured by how much money each business makes – but what they have learned and how they operated their business.