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Bonnie Royster has owned and operated six businesses over the past 35 years, in addition to opening Columbia Children’s Center with her daughter Lisa. Her experience in the business world has been varied and innovative. After owning a business, she went to work in 1969 in the school business, working her way up to Director of Human Resources. However, the bug for her own business bit again in 1984 and she started Par Excellence Personnel, now known as Your People Professionals. At that time the PEO business was such a new concept there were only thirty such businesses in the country. While building the human resources business, Bonnie was very active in the community, receiving the Athena Award and Santa Maria Chamber of Commerce Small Business Person Award, and serving as President of the Santa Maria Chamber of Commerce. In 1997, she sold Your People Professionals to two of her long-time managers, Sandra Dickerson and Cindy McKellar. She put together a partnership to purchase the Crystal Rose Inn and Hunt Club in Arroyo Grande and then started Summit Business Solutions in 2000, developing marketing plans and materials for small businesses. Bonnie has returned to YPP to help Sandra and Cindy take their innovative and effective hiring system SmartSource - statewide and eventually to a national level. | 