An incredible opportunity for high school juniors and seniors across the Sauk Valley will come knocking this fall. We urge local students to stand ready to open the door.

We speak of the Creating Entrepreneurial Opportunities program, which gives students a crash course in how businesses operate and how they might own one, or even start one, themselves.

Along the way, students will learn more about the entrepreneurial opportunities in their own communities. Students who have taken the course in Effingham say that after college, they are much more likely to return to their communities to work or start businesses of their own.