That over 315 businesses are included in the Vicksburg Main Street district? These businesses, many of which are locally owned and operated, have created 4,096 jobs.
Katrina Williams
TRUE HEART CANDLES
Vicksburg resident Katrina Williams is the owner of operator of True Heart Candles, where she hand-crafts and sells a wide variety of scented candles.
This year, Williams won the business plan competition as part of this year ' s Entrepreneur Bootcamp program put on by the Vicksburg-Warren Chamber of Commerce. She won, taking home a $ 1,500 seed grant donated by seven local banks to go toward business expenses.
“ Each of us had the opportunity to stand before them and pitch our business,” Williams said.“( The camp) walks entrepreneurs through the steps week by week. They are available for your questions. You can ask anything. It ' s not just standing there teaching and taking notes.”
Williams has been making candles for almost eight years, three of those right here in Vicksburg. She left Missouri three years ago, where she was an operations manager for Procter & Gamble. She came back to Vicksburg to be
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