Économie
One Stop Shop to lend a helping hand
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launched their One Stop Shop project last year. The home-business tradeshow serves a double purpose. It gives local and regional home-business operators a chance to promote their product or service and create a wider potential clientele base and the weekend event serves as a fundraiser and public awareness boost for various charities. “I’ve always wanted to give back to the community,” said Christie Henley, who
SPÉCIALISTES EN DÉCORATION DE FENÊTRES DANNY & SANDRA DÉCOR operates the Pampered Chef Canada, “and a lot of people don’t know that we’re out there.” The May 12 weekend One Stop Shop show in Rockland at the Jean-Marc Lalonde Arena is the fourth such event the two have organized since they launched their home- business tradeshow project last fall with one in Rockland and another in Plantagenet. The third such event was this past February in Hawkesbury, and they report both tradeshow booth numbers and the walk-in viewer numbers as very good and growing each time. ”We’re going to do at least two of these in Rockland every year,” said Régimbald, a
Partylite consultant/hostess, “and one in Plantagenet, and we always try to pick a great cause.” Cancer awareness is a big cause for themboth.Thepastweekend’seventraised money for breast cancer research while the February venue in Hawkesbury focused on lung cancer. Last year’s opening events in Rockland and Plantagenet helped the Community Angel and Youth After Care programs. Future Rockland and Plantagenet One Stop Shop venues will support the Alfred-Plantagenet Food Bank while the Rockland event will focus on breast cancer research and a local children’s aid program, to be decided later.
Anyone would think getting a home- based businesses off the ground and running in good order would be enough work for anyone. But Christine Henley and Sophie Régimbald love to push themselves and the envelope just a little bit further when there is a good cause, or several good causes. That was the main reason why the two Clarence-Rockland entrepreneurs
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