At the July meeting, Eric McLean (owner of McLean’s Specialty Foods in Nanaimo) entertained members with a lively presentation on three French cheeses. His talk was sprinkled with interesting facts about cheese and gourmet foods and he gave some useful cheese tips such as: Best way to store cheese – not in plastic wrap! Take…
Twenty-two years ago you had to hop on the ferry to Vancouver to buy high quality gourmet foods, especially cheeses. In 1991, Eric McLean identified the market niche and he and his wife, Sandy, quit their jobs and moved to Nanaimo from Maple Ridge. Drawing upon a lifetime of experience in sales and marketing, Eric…
Michelle Stilwell is the only female Paralympic athlete to have ever won gold in two separate summer sport events spoke from experience at our monthly meeting on June 6th. Her topic? Be the Best You Can Be In Sydney, during the 2000 Paralympic games, she and her team won Gold in wheelchair basketball. At the time,…
When local resident, Scott Rowswell, took early retirement in 2003 after a career in telecommunications, he didn’t stop working. Now, with over 10 years experience working with and through established charitable organizations and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) based out of Canada, the U.S. and the U.K., Scott has some great experience to share. On Friday May…
If a disaster on the scale of the recent landslide in Washington happened in our area, would you be prepared? Would you know what to do if an earthquake shook Oceanside? Where would you go? What supplies would you have? There are numerous resources available but few of us take the time to investigate them,…
“For people who like to travel, it’s like putting a child in a candy shop” is how Judy Miller describes she and Randy Borger’s 15 years owning and managing ExpediaCruiseShipCentres in Nanaimo. Now, having travelled to almost 100 countries (many for “product research”), they say that their favourite trip was to see the mountain gorillas…