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Delivering medical supplies is a family affair

Emi Endo

Reporter Emi Endo

Endo is a business reporter

In her first business venture, Alicia Lam recalls recruiting several workers and putting up fliers around the Great River neighborhood for a baby-sitting service.

She was 12 at the time.

"My mother refused," she said of Shirley Lam, the founder of the family business, Connetquot West Inc., a wholesale medical supplier to hospitals and group homes.

Lam's mother did support her when...

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