by Jacqui Eisen | Sep 25, 2015 | Food for Thought, Niagara & Welland
To be honest I have always found exclamations of “Thank God it’s Friday” a bit flippant. End of work week jubilation probably grates on the ears of those without the privilege of a regular job to go to. Wellanders who have experienced their...
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 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...