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MN: Veterans taking care of their own with new business center Founded by former soldiers, center will help vets start ? and sustain ? businesses

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Rubén Rosario: Veterans taking care of their own with new business center Founded by former soldiers, center will help vets start ? and sustain ? businesses By Rubén Rosario, Pioneer Press Article Launched: 11/16/2008 12:01:00 AM CST Jimmie Lee Coulthard remembers them still. One was a former Twin Cities firefighter. The other was another Vietnam War veteran from the South. Both were homeless. Both were dealing with substance abuse and other ills. As a licensed chemical-dependency counselor and advocate for homeless military veterans, Coulthard had seen potential and talent and aspirations in many a troubled soul. He saw it in bundles in both men, excellent cooks, particularly in Southern cuisine. "I know if they had a restaurant, you couldn't have gotten inside their place, that successful it could be," Coulthard said last week...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on November 16, 2008 (boomark / email).