EDITOR’S NOTES Dear Readers, Back to school and back to work. These realities are facing families across North America as summer bids farewell and the fall takes center stage. Businesses and Cities large and small across the continent are also gearing up for the fall and the fourth financial quarter of 2024. Offering bold initiatives, adapting to economic challenges, and putting resident and customer-first policies in place to meet the demands of the fall months that lie ahead. Business View continues to cover it all, bringing to our valued readers the very best sector-focus series and business success stories across the continent. We are proud to be bringing our valued readers leading coverage of leading school districts across the US and Canada as we continue with our special sector-focused series in our August issue. Education remains a major economic driver as school districts across North America prepare kids for the jobs of today as well as those jobs that will surface in the new economy. Adapting educational focus to meet the demands of today’s careers for youth remains a top priority as well as prioritizing technology training and focusing on work and co-op experiences for their students. It is clear from our deep dive series that school districts are successfully pivoting to meet the needs of jobs and careers of the future. We sat down with school officials from Ansonia Public Schools, Buffalo Public Schools, Jackson Local School District, Romeo Community Schools, and on the post-secondary end, Northern Industrial Training to discuss their work-focused education and training programs. All of those we spoke to highlighted the key role that core values, career readiness, and educational initiatives have played, in preparing our students for future success. August saw resident-focused economic projects swing into full gear for the municipalities we spoke with for this month’s issue. We sat down with city officials from Andover, Kansas, Benson, Arizona, Carmel, Indiana, Fillmore, California, Hardeeville, South Carolina, Kerrville, Texas among other fastgrowing municipalities. Commercial growth coupled with residential growth has propelled these municipalities into representing some of the fastest-growing regions across North America as they continue to implement core infrastructure initiatives for their residents. Our July issue also brings top-tier company profiles including Chroma Energy Group, Dockside Tow and Stow, Gib-San Pools, Kristian Electric, and Longs Drugs (CVS Hawaii) among others as we dove head first into some of the key attributes that make these companies leaders in their field. With a robust economy to propel them forward and the woes of the pandemic firmly behind them, all these companies are steering their economic engines towards further growth in the latter half of 2024. As we continue to bring you the very best sector and industry-focused features, we hope that you have a little extra time to get outside to read them and welcome the warm spring weather at your doorstep. Karen Surca Editor in Chief 2 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE VOLUME 11, ISSUE 08
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