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Business News Wales
02-05-2025
- Business
- Business News Wales
Mid Wales Commercial Property Fund Launches to Boost Business Growth
A brand-new capital investment fund to support business growth and expansion across Mid Wales has been launched. The Mid Wales Commercial Property Investment Fund, launched through the Mid Wales Growth Deal (Growing Mid Wales), aims to help businesses invest in new or expanded premises – tackling one of the key challenges facing growing enterprises in the region. It is a limited fund of £4 million at this stage. The launch event at CMD Ltd (part of the Makefast Group), Abermule Business Park, brought together businesses from across the region to learn more about the fund. During the event, businesses heard how CMD successfully expanded into their new home through the support of Powys County Council and Welsh Government. Attendees also took a tour of their site, which they moved into in 2022, to see first-hand how investment in commercial premises can support business growth in Mid Wales. Speaking at the event, Councillor Bryan Davies, Leader of Ceredigion County Council, and Councillor James Gibson-Watt, Leader of Powys County Council, Co-Chairs of the Growing Mid Wales Board, said: 'This fund is a significant step in supporting business growth across Mid Wales. By providing targeted investment in commercial premises, we are helping businesses expand, create jobs, and strengthen the regional economy. Ensuring access to suitable infrastructure is vital for sustainable development.' Jack Miller, Managing Director, CMD Ltd added: 'We were delighted to host the launch of this important initiative. The Mid Wales Commercial Property Investment Fund presents a valuable opportunity for companies in the region to expand and thrive, contributing to the overall prosperity of our community.' Welsh Government Cabinet Secretary for Economy, Energy and Planning, Rebecca Evans, said: 'The Commercial Property Investment Fund shows our commitment to creating the right conditions for businesses to flourish in Mid Wales. By addressing the critical infrastructure needs of growing enterprises, we are not just supporting individual businesses but strengthening the entire regional economy. This investment, through a £55 million Welsh Government contribution into the Mid Wales Growth Deal, will help unlock potential, create quality jobs, and build a more resilient economic future for communities across Mid Wales.' Wales Office Minister Dame Nia Griffith said: 'I'm delighted that money from the UK Government funded Mid Wales Growth Deal is being used to help businesses expand and find new premises via the Commercial Property Investment Fund. The UK Government has made economic growth the key mission of our Plan for Change, and we are driving that forward in every part of Wales, helping remove barriers to growth and supporting businesses to create new jobs.' Due to high demand, the launch event was fully booked. However, a follow-up webinar will be held on Thursday, 15th May, from 2:30 to 4:00pm. This online session will provide the same key information about the fund, including how to apply, and is open to all interested businesses. To register for the webinar, email: growingmidwales@ The fund is targeted at specific business sectors. Eligible applicants must be private businesses that are formally constituted as a Company (Limited Company or Limited by Guarantee) or a Partnership (with a Partnership Agreement), and operate in specific sectors including Construction, Electrical and Plumbing, Information and Communications, Manufacturing, Professional Services, Real Estate, and Wholesale, Retail and Motor Trade. The fund is not open to speculative property developers, public bodies, or charities. Further information about the fund is available here .
Yahoo
10-03-2025
- General
- Yahoo
Joan Dye Gussow, Piermont resident, pioneer in the local food movement, dies at 96
Joan Dye Gussow of Piermont, an early leader in the local food movement who shared her views and farming acumen with anyone who was interested, died March 7 at age 96. Gussow wrote and edited extensively on the topic. Her books include "This Organic Life: Confessions of a Suburban Homesteader," and "Growing, Older: A Chronicle of Death, Life, and Vegetables." She was the Mary Swartz-Rose professor emerita and former chair of the Columbia University Teachers College's Nutrition Education Program. Her focus on whole and organic foods and seasonal eating, rather than supplements and scaled-up agricultural production, shook up the field of nutritional education. According to Columbia University's Teachers College, Gussow's scholarly interests focused on "Social and technological factors affecting long-term sustainability of the human food chain, with special emphasis on ways of encouraging seasonal local eating." A famous quote long attributed to Gussow sums up her views: 'I prefer butter to margarine because I trust cows more than chemists.' She was, as many recounted upon news of her death, the matriarch of the 'eat locally, think globally" movement. Her backyard in Piermont was a testament to that philosophy, producing a bounty of fruits and vegetables and a living lab where she shared her gardening acumen with anyone who wanted to learn. While she was a draw at international conferences, Gussow worked within the Rockland community to connect people to the soil and its bounty. Gussow was a local leader in Rocklanders' push for land preservation — especially the farmland that once centered the county. She had served on the Rockland Farm Alliance, which for many years managed a working farm and agricultural education center at the former Cropsey family farm. In 1995, she helped establish Piermont Community Garden, lobbying for a plot of land downtown that had been slated to be turned into a parking lot. In 2009, Gussow helped develop the Hands 2 Mouth Garden Initiative that brought a community garden to the Martin Luther King Jr. MultiPurpose Center in Spring Valley. "It will be a very important experience in their life because people do not know where their food comes from," Gussow said of the kids involved. Gussow also served as a village trustee in Piermont from 2002 to 2012. On Sunday, the Piermont Fire Department and Piermont Civic Association were among those sharing condolences via Facebook. On the national level, Gussow served on the Food and Nutrition Board of the National Academy of Sciences, and on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's Food Advisory Committee, and the National Organic Standards Board. Acolytes shared remembrances of Gussow as news spread of her passing. Michael Pollan, author of several books about food and health, including "Your Mind on Plants" and "The Omnivore's Dilemma," called her "one of my heroes and teachers" on X. Gussow had been active in the community based at Stone Barns Center For Food & Agriculture, which is the home of the Michelin-star-graced restaurant, Blue Hill at Stone Barns. That's where Irene Hamburger, former vice president of Blue Hill, first met Gussow. They became friends. Gussow, she said, was hardly a food snob. Hamburger recalled how Gussow would go every Saturday to Canzona's Market, a local deli in Piermont, to get her favorite breakfast sandwich, which was eggs and pepper jack cheese on an onion roll with hot sauce. Gussow, before her foray into nutritional studies, had a stint at Time magazine where she interviewed Edward Hopper. Years later, she and her spouse, artist and environmentalist Alan Gussow, joined the effort to rescue Hopper's boyhood home in Nyack and transform it into the Edward Hopper House Museum & Study Center. Gussow was among the food leaders to contribute to "Letters to a Young Farmer," a compilation of essays published in 2017 by The Stone Barns Center For Food & Agriculture. She wrote: "You were born into a world in which very few people had a farmer in their life and 'food' was a category that includes tens of thousands of items with no recognizable relationship to the soil. I doubt very much that your family raised you to be a farmer .... Maybe you'll be standing at your stall in a local farmers market and a grown woman (with) tears in her eyes will come and say she hasn't seen a sweet potato like yours since she pulled one out of the ground forty years earlier. So although you're unlikely to make a lot of money doing what you love, you're very likely to make a lot of people happy. Thank you for feeding us." Joan Dye was born in Alhambra, California in 1928. She earned an undergraduate degree from Pomona College. She later earned post-graduate degrees in nutrition education at Columbia University's Teachers College, where she went on to be a professor and department chair. Her course, nutrition ecology, was highly regarded. Her husband died in 1997. She is survived by two sons and their families. Celebration of Life services in Piermont and at Teachers College are being planned for late spring. Individuals are invited to send reminiscences on what Joan meant to you, as well as any photos. This article originally appeared on Rockland/Westchester Journal News: Joan Dye Gussow, matriarch of local food movement, dies at 96
South China Morning Post
08-02-2025
- Entertainment
- South China Morning Post
Who is Chris Fischer, the autistic author-chef husband of Amy Schumer?
Comedian Amy Schumer and her husband, chef Chris Fischer, who married in 2018. Photo: @amyschumer/Instagram Fame and celebrity In a January appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon , Amy Schumer had this to say about her husband of almost seven years: 'I love him, I'm married, Chris is his name,' the stand-up comedian told the audience, before hilariously adding, 'he's a rescue.' Schumer , 43, married Chris Fischer in 2018 and the couple have a son, Gene. Over the years, Schumer has regularly shown her love and support for her husband, who was diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder shortly after their wedding. In her 2019 Netflix special, Growing , Schumer talks about her husband's diagnosis. 'I knew from the beginning that my husband's brain was a little different than mine,' she says. 'And once he was diagnosed, it dawned on me how funny it was, because all of the characteristics that make it clear that he's on the spectrum are all of the reasons that I fell madly in love with him.' Comedian Amy Schumer with chef husband Chris Fischer. Photo: @amyschumer/Instagram Here's everything to know about the Kinda Pregnant star's husband, Chris Fischer. Chris Fischer is primarily a chef Amy Schumer's husband Chris Fischer is a chef and farmer. Photo: @amyschumer/Instagram Chris Fischer, 44, a Martha's Vineyard native, is a chef. He once ran the Beach Plum Inn and Restaurant in Menemsha, Massachusetts, frequented by the likes of former president Barack Obama and wife Michelle . Fischer also took over running his family's Beetlebung Farm when his aunt retired in 2010. 'I got into farming partly because I came back from NYC broke and I realised that it only made sense to start using what I was growing,' he said in an interview with Esquire in 2013. In 2015 Fischer co-wrote The Beetlebung Farm Cookbook: A Year of Cooking on Martha's Vineyard , which won the 2016 James Beard Award.
