- December 17, 2021
- Posted by: Stratford Team
- Category: Business
ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WROC) — A week ago, the unthinkable happened for a businesswoman and single mom of two. After working for years to open her own bakery, Chanelle Kimber’s dreams were destroyed within minutes when a fire broke out at her new bakery in Rochester, destroying both the shop and her home.
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Kimber’s dream of opening her own bakery began while working at Wegmans years ago. Since then, she’s worked at many different bakeries in Rochester. After years of sacrifice and determination, she finally decided to open her own shop.
“This has been a lifetime worth of saving and everything else. Once I finally knew that I wanted to do my own business, it probably took me about seven, eight years to get that all together,” Kimber said. “I’m a single mom of two, so extra money is not something that was easy or comes by, but we made a lot of…
