Sunny Day Products started as a way to share a culture while preserving relationships and has blossomed into a thriving family business with products available across Canada and Mexico. The owners Dick and Mary Anne Plett moved to Bolivia in 1978 when they felt called to make a difference as volunteers working with the Mennonite Central Committee. Here they gave themselves to working on social development projects while building lifelong relationships within the local communities. After seven years in Bolivia they moved to Mexico where they continued their role with MCC for five more years. During their time in Latin…
Author: Alejandro Penner
Janzen’s Paint and Decorating, under the leadership of Doug Janzen, has always been one of those businesses. This year they celebrate thirty years in the community. And while the person most deserving of recognition will not be present, his legacy lives on through the store and the community he has so tangibly invested in.Doug was many things. A husband, father, motorcycle enthusiast, legendary store owner and a rockstar in the paint world. He grew up working in his father’s store, the Janzens’s Variety Store in Winkler. It was a place with a little bit of everything. Hardware, paint, crafts, games,…
To borrow from the wisdom of Proverbs, without vision the people will perish. Our modern story could include, without the ambition and bold ideas of the Winkler and District Chamber of Commerce, the once promising Manitoba town could have missed out on becoming the influential and emerging city that it is today. Every community has people that desire to be a part of something significant, to rise above simply surviving and put their stamp on the world. Communities need people who will dream big, cast vision, and instill a confidence in the people so that what seems impossible can become…
Their career path however didn’t start in the hair industry. As teenagers, Heidie & Lisa worked together at Chicken Chef in Morden while in high school. They often were mistaken for each other or thought to be sisters. For the record, they are not related. After High School, Heidie & Lisa went their separate ways. Both perusing University in Brandon and when university didn’t seem like the right fit for them, hairstyling seemed like a career to carry them through till they found what they really wanted to do. Unknowingly, they both entered the world of hairstyling; Heidie in Brandon…