The L&A Guy Blog

For someone who hates reading and watching the news for all of the negative things that happen daily it was hard to stay away from the recent disaster in Japan. The image of a town being there one minute and the next minute a...

Lennox and Addington County is home to many satisfied entrepreneurs, including Andrew Isbester  Andrew runs North Key Construction and Orkney Residential Excavation and Homebuilding. He also develops and owns automatic car washes around Ontario.

One of the great things about owning your own business in Lennox and Addington is the location. It's central to Ottawa and Toronto, next door to Kingston and just across the water from the States. This makes it a great tourist destination and a profitable business location. There are so many hidden treasures scattered throughout the region, just waiting to be stumbled upon. That's what Melissa and her husband Chris loved about the area.

After a relaxing holiday season the last thing you want to do is come back to reality and stress yourself out because you aren’t properly organized. The internet is a wonderful place to find new tools and apps to make your life easier. Everything from virtual sticky notes to virtual check lists that can’t be lost or thrown out are available online for free.

When looking at the range of businesses highlighted at the recent Lennox & Addington Economic Development Awards, you can really see the diversity of our economic base. Each award category offered a glimpse of vastly different types of activity that makes up a successful L&A economy. 

Lennox & Addington County and the surrounding region is becoming a leader in Ontario's emerging green industry and can offer companies a strong connection to local research and training partnerships, an abundant supply chain and access to markets.

Robert Carter knows a good opportunity when he sees one. And that’s exactly what he saw when he looked around L&A County in 2003.

Although Robert had been living in Napanee for almost 20 years by then, he had spent the last 15 years commuting to Kingston every day to work at the Alcan plant. But what he saw when he looked at the economy inspired him to quit his job and start his own business closer...

Like lots of small businesses these days I've had a website for a few years. It really hasn't done much more than act like an online business card and pamphlet

For someone who was so diehard on leaving a small town the second it was humanly possible, I couldn’t be happier being back in my small town.

Growing up in a rural community is difficult, everyone knows everyone, it’s a pain to try and get anywhere by yourself before you’re old enough to drive, plus, a lot of the time it smells like manure. 

Lennox and Addington entrepreneurs will soon have another resource to help them succeed. Thanks to Federal stimulus funding from the Industrial Research Assistance Program, the Economic Development Office will be introducing Enterprise Facilitation to Lennox and Addington.

Lennox & Addington is home to many great communities. Bustling downtowns brimming with successful shops, restaurants and boutiques are found throughout L&A, each offering unique business opportunities for ambitious entrepreneurs.

Moving...The word itself sends me into a state of panic, conjuring up images of boxes, moving vans, bribing friends, and heavy lifting. Why would anyone subject themselves to such pains? The answer to this question, of course, is pretty obvious: your present circumstance is such that moving to a new location just makes sense.

After years on the road, Tim Sheffield realized that when it comes to starting a business, there’s no place like home.

Home for Tim was L&A County. He grew up in Napanee, graduating from NDSS in 1987. After graduation, he headed to Toronto and then Kingston, studying music at both York and Queen’s Universities.

Growing up, much to my parent’s dismay, I realized that my career aspirations did not involve becoming a doctor or a rocket scientist but rather a business strategist.  Particularly of interest to me was how for-profit practices could be used to solve the poverty issue.   Like all of you entrepreneurs, I am looking for ways to add value to the existing framework rather than disappear in the status quo.