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Friday, November 23, 2012

Green Door Day Spa Friendly Haven

Spa owner gets by with a little help from her friends.

  “It takes a village” is a term which originated with child-raising, but for Kasia Smulska, owner of Green Door Day Spa in Barrington, the saying took on new meaning when it seemed like a door was closing. “I was a manager in a spa that closed,” she said. “We decided we didn't want to part because we love this community, we love the area.  We met a lot of wonderful people here so we thought that maybe we try to open a small business and stay in town.” Smulska, who immigrated to the United States from Poland ten years ago, found that her friends and clients were willing to step up to make her dream come true.  “We opened the spa with great friends that are clients who helped us out get a loan; they were wonderful,” Smulska said. “They …

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