What could Karl Grimmelmann, general manager of KBFS-AM “Hit Kickin’ Country” in Belle Fourche, S.D., and Christine Hilty, co-owner of Violettes Boutique on St. Croix in the U.S. Virgin Islands, possibly have in common?

They tapped the gov’t’s “$5 billion effort to help small businesses recover from the Sept. 11 attacks” and they’re not the only ones.