Paul Clark This is Me

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1. 1. CTE - Faculty & Staff

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   Published on: 7/19/2008   Last Visited: 7/19/2008

   Paul Clark Business/Education Coordinator pclark@ccsuvt.org 802-879-5563

2. 2. The Lake Champlain Region | New Program Created at Center for Technology, Essex

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   Published on: 7/20/2001   Last Visited: 4/1/2002

   stated Paul Clark, Director of CTE's Co-op Office.
   
   Through SkillTech, students of any age or background will be able to enter a program at a level appropriate to his or her ability and exit when their education and training goals have been met.Students will include incumbent workers seeking to upgrade their skills, adults looking for career changes or advancements, and youth.
   
   As well as daytime offerings, SkillTech will coordinate evening training programs collaborating with area businesses.Business partners play key roles in developing curriculum and promoting programs.Current partners include: Vermont Automobile Dealers Association; Vermont Construction Careers Council; Expanded Functions Dental Assisting; Avionics; Computer Systems Technology; and Registered Apprenticeship Training.
   
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   For more information about SkillTech, please contact Paul Clark at 879-5563 or mailto:pclark@cte.k.12.vt.us".
   
   The Lake Champlain Regional Chamber of Commerce60 Main StreetSuite 100

3. 3. Business People-Vermont: Northland Boat Shop

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   Published on: 4/3/2006   Last Visited: 4/3/2006

   With roots deep in the Champlain Islands, Paul and Anne Clark stay connected to their community
   
   Twenty-eight years ago, Paul and Anne Clark bought his father,s old barn and launched Northland Boat Shop in North Hero.
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   Paul Clark is a sixth-generation North Heroite.For 28 years, he and his wife, Anne, have been growing the Northland Boat Shop, a business, Clark says, that ,has a soul.,
   
   How much can a boat shop give back to its community and still remain not only viable but profitable and growing?That has been the Clarks, mission since they opened for business in Paul,s father,s 1860 homestead barn.
   
   The couple was able to buy the barn and some of the land with the help of Paul,s parents, Charles and Doris, who still live in the house where Charles was born, a blue house fronting U.S. 2, just past the North Hero House.
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   Even before opening the shop, Paul and Anne built an addition to the barn so there would be enough space to bring boats inside for repairs.
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   We gave good service and slowly built our clientele,, Paul says.
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   ,After July 4,, says Paul,, business evens out, and stays busy, but not crazy, until the end of the summer.,
   
   It,s no surprise that half their business is generated from dual residents: people who own houses and camps in the Islands but who live all over the country. ,Some of our boats are in the water for less than a week.Their owners stay at the North Hero House or Shore Acres,, Paul says.
   
   ,They call us a week before they come, and we have their boats in the water at the dock, and pick them up again when they leave.We cater to servicing those customers, just as we extend ourselves to service every customer.
   
   Extending themselves for their customers, employees and community is what the Clarks do all the time.
   
   For example, it,s not just because Michael Murdock, Northland,s certified stern-drive and inboard mechanic, is the North Hero fire chief, that Paul supplies the fire and rescue departments, boats with wintering and servicing.
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   It,s because, Paul says, ,we feel that our business has a soul and we have an obligation to operate within the community, and to give back as much as we can.,
   
   In addition to fire and rescue, the Clarks are involved with the Pelots Bay Restoration Association, which is dedicated to removing the choking milfoil weeds from the bay.As Larry Pratt, a member of the Pelots Bay Restoration Association says, ,I,ve known the Clarks for 18 years, and Paul has been more than generous, helping us with maintenance of the association,s equipment.
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   Paul and Anne now live only three or four houses down the bay from us, and they are good neighbors in every sense of the word.,
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   That,s because both Anne and Paul are full-time teachers.Paul is business education coordinator at the Center for Technology in Essex, where he works with area businesses to bring training inside and outside the classroom for the school,s 350 students.
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   They started the business as a way to ,expand our summers,, says Paul, who had occasionally worked for other marinas. ,Everybody,s an entrepreneur in Vermont It,s a kind of gene people have here,, he quips.
   
   Without the owners present, ,the boys, run a well-oiled shop, knowing just what they need to do and when to do it.As Clark explains, ,We,ve developed systems over the years so that everybody knows what they have to do.
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   Paul has been involved with boats since he was 11 years old.During high school and college, he worked for local marinas, learning a lot and receiving good business training, as well, he says.
   
   ,We went into business because every teacher works in the summer to make ends meet.Plus, working at something different recharges your batteries.Besides,, he adds, ,I was tired of working for other people.This way we would have control over what we did.,
   
   The Clarks divide the labors of running their business.Anne keeps the books and does the paperwork, and Paul handles the day-to-day operations.
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   What Anne and Paul like best about their business is the variety. ,We like the challenge,, Paul says.
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   ,Sometimes, after a day in the boat shop, I,m really not interested in going boating,, admits Paul.Then he laughs. ,I guess it,s not good for business to say that., ,