Telepharmacies are good medicine for small Montana towns – Bear Paw Development

Keri and Justin VanCampen grew up in small Montana communities and wanted to raise their family in the same type of environment.

Thanks to programs designed to promote business in rural communities, the couple are doing just that in the Hi-Line community of Chester, population 871 according to the last Census. They’ve not only created jobs for themselves, but for five other small town Montana residents.

The VanCampens purchased Liberty Drug. Justin is a pharmacist.

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"A lot of times we can help when a business owner doesn’t have enough equity," said Paul Tuss, executive director of Bear Paw Development http://www.bearpaw.org/. "It’s called gap financing, a loan to bridge between what a bank will lend and what a business actually needs."

By JO DEE BLACK • Tribune Business Editor

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