Nevada transplant returns to Simi.(Special Report: Saving Valley Businesses)(Ron Lee)
Publication Date: 24-DEC-07
Publication Title: San Fernando Valley Business Journal
Format: Online
Author: Madler, Mark R.

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Ron Lee does not clown around when stating his reasons for moving his manufacturing company to Simi Valley from Nevada.

The 60-year-old artist who boasts of making and selling millions of collectible sculptures, including the only licensed product of circus clown Emmett Kelly, Jr., cares not about the stifling business climate that has driven away other businesspeople because there is nothing more important to him than being home.

Despite finding business success in Henderson, just outside of Las Vegas, Lee said his social life was less successful.

"Money and personal success are not everything in life," Lee said by telephone from the Nevada shop he closed on Dec. 14.

In late January, Lee and his wife Jill will start a new chapter in their business life,...

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