After heavy rains led to severe flooding in southwestern New Brunswick, small business owners are looking for as much help as they can get.
The CBC reports that many small businesses in the area have suffered significant losses and are relying on help from volunteers and the government to help them remain in operation. Among the hardest hit was entrepreneur Richard McKay, who runs Stationery Plus. In an interview with the news service, McKay said that he was sorting out the damage from the disaster.
"Basically, anything that was below the two-foot mark we lost," said McKay. "Fortunately we had quite a bit of it up, like most our computers, we lost a few of those. Any of the inventory above that level was fine, but we have one of the large dumpsters that is full and it's destroyed inventory, so that gives you sort of a way of measuring how much actually did get lost."
There was other news for New Brunswick small businesses when an economic summit was announced in recent days. The Times and Transcript reports that business leaders from the area will host the Future NB in order to help the community of entrepreneurs.
