by Jacqui Eisen | Aug 15, 2015 | Niagara & Welland
If you are visiting Welland for the first time, you might note the rich cultural heritage of the city…particularly evident on Saturday mornings at the local farmers’ market at Market Square. A memorial just down from the market beside the canal pays...
by Jacqui Eisen | May 7, 2015 | Food for Thought
Do we want Toronto to shop in Welland more? People want life to be better in Welland. Better implies change. Change is what I was alluding to when I spoke about “Redefinition” in the first part of this series on revitalization. To want better without...
by Jacqui Eisen | Apr 28, 2015 | Food for Thought
Are you Welland proud? Recently, I saw a Facebook post trashing Welland by a Wellander. It felt like a personal kick in the gut. No one can dispute that Welland has suffered from economic down turns and shifts to cheaper labour pools. Nowhere is that more evident...
by Jacqui Eisen | Apr 22, 2015 | Events
Bernice Thibeault of the Niagara Handweavers and Spinners came by to check out our new tea towel designs. The weavers meet every Thursday at the Welland Historical Museum. Join them at 9 am to see what they are up to. A $40 membership provides lessons in weaving and...
by Jacqui Eisen | Apr 11, 2015 | Food for Thought
Yesterday, a customer came in confessing that he was twenty minutes down the road home to Toronto when he realized he had forgotten to stop by our store before leaving. He turned around. Last weekend we had a group of Torontonians come by. Immigrants from Russia, they...
