NICK GOSNELL
Hutch Post
HUTCHINSON, Kan. — Jackson Swearer told Hutch Post that StartUp Hutch has been working to help Spanish speaking business owners learn more lately.
"We have already hosted one workshop in Spanish," Swearer said. "We're planning to host another one coming up on July 12. That's been a really good collaboration. We're working with our Human Relations Office here at the City of Hutchinson. Dave Sotelo, our Human Relations Officer, is helping us to get the word out into our Spanish speaking community here in Reno County. We're also partnering up with the Wichita Small Business Development Center, specifically Frank Choriego, who StartUp Hutch has had down to Hutch multiple times for workshops."
Businesses locally had been reaching out regionally to get help.
"There's an organization over in Wichita called Empower that really tries to work with their Spanish speaking community there," Swearer said. "Folks here in Hutchinson got in touch with them and got excited about business workshops. It's really been a happy accident that we were able to find this connection to someone we already knew who is going to come down and do a couple workshops in Spanish for us."
The first of the two workshops took place on May 31 at Avenue A School.
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