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16 • The Columbia Valley Pioneer November 30, 2012 Christmas Gifts? It’s easy as 1•2•3 1. Write your Christmas gift basket list. (Check it twice) 2. Call Jayne with your order. SOMETHING 3. Enjoy your holidays! Just give FOR me a EVERYONE! call, www.itsawrapgiftbaskets.ca 250-342-3160 Super Sunday! 11 a.m. - 4 p.m. • Beginner Nordic Ski Packages start at $299 (in-stock product) • Sale on select products • Yes IceBreaker, Arc’teryx and more! • Come in for a treat! 250-342-2074 1045 7 Avenue, Invermere visit crazysoles.ca 10% off all items Excluding monthly specials. Offer ends December 2nd. 350 Laurier, Invermere 250-342-9933 Table Top Christmas Trees An anonymous elf in the Columbia Valley has provided small table sized trees, as a fundraiser for the Christmas Bureau. These trees are going to be available in December at Valley Foods and Home Hardware, as they have been for the past several years. Very signi cant funds raised have helped to provide groceries for hampers not sponsored. Thanks again Mr. Elf . There’s a reason they’re called “CLASSY”. Pioneer Classifieds… N E WSP A P E R Phone: (250) 341-6299 • Fax: (250) 341-6229 • Email: info@cv-pioneer.com . . . ‘Kicking Horse ’ from page 15 Of the company’s 18 different varieties of coffee now sold, many bear locally-relevant names. There’s Z-Wrangler, named for local organic rancher Chris Zehnder, who helped conceive the company’s name. Hoodoo Jo is named for Joe Lucas, a math teacher at the high school who had a noteworthy mountain bike crash in the Hoodoos near Fairmont. And there’s 454 Horsepower, a name coined by Cecilia Archer, the company’s first female coffee roaster. Other varieties are named after local geographic features, but all are bound for new points on the map – not only as whole roasted beans, but potentially as ground coffee as well. That’s an option, as long as product quality can be maintained, said Ms. Rosenfeld. “We still have tremendous opportunity in Canada, particularly Quebec – we’re going to be doing more of a push there,” she said. “We’re going to maintain and defend our sales in Canada, but we’re also going to do a push into the States.” Asked about the temptation to veer away from fair trade coffee towards a more profitable approach, Ms. Rosenfeld said the company has actually moved in the opposite direction: in 2008, company went 100 per cent By Kristian Rasmussen, Pioneer Staff A group of generous grandmothers are combining heart and art to send a very special Christmas gift to Africa at the 19th annual Big Christmas Craft Sale at the Invermere Community Hall on November 30th and December 1st. The Valley Go-Go Sisters are a group of 40 local grandmothers selling handcrafted African AIDS Angel dolls. All proceeds from the sale of the angels raise money for the Stephen Lewis Foundation’s initiative to help African grandmothers care for children orphaned by AIDS. “Many of the grandmothers in Africa are raising their own grandchildren because there is a whole generation that has been lost because of AIDS,” said Connie Watson of the Valley Go-Go Sisters. “Often times they are raising other orphan children who have nobody to look after them.” The Go-Go Sisters take their name from the Zulu word for Grandmother ‘gogo’, and are one of KICKING BACK - Kicking Horse Coffee CEO Elana Rosenfeld still holds the reins of her company. Despite selling a controlling interest to U.S. equity firm Branch Brook, the local company plans to stay firmly rooted in Invermere. Photo by Stephanie Van De Kemp / www.stephvandekemp.com fair trade and has never looked back. Despite a slightly more expensive product, retailers embraced the change. “We had a lot of naysayers — our brokers and people in the coffee industry said ‘You’re not going to be able to sustain that, you won’t be able to get supply,’” said Ms. Rosenfeld. “We source our beans from all over the world, and we’ve dealt with the same brokers, the same growers, and the same grow-ops for many, many years.” It’s that spirit that should keep Invermere’s most famous business kicking for a long time to come. Grandmas get crafty for Africa 250 different grandmother groups across Canada raising money for AIDS-based initiatives in Africa. Collectively, the grandmother groups have raised $16.5 million since 2006, Ms. Watson added. “We put an African name on each angel and we tell you what it means in English,” said Wendy Drezet of the Valley Go-Go Sisters. “Each angel gets named after a child who has died of AIDS because lots of children are born HIV positive.” The dolls cost $7 and come in dozens of creative colour combos. The African AIDS Angels began as a charity item in 2000 when a group of Canadian women travelled to South Africa to attend an International AIDS Conference. Witnessing derelict poverty and the effects of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), the women decided to lend a hand by designing dolls to sell in Canada for donations. “The first year I remember that people were so touched to look at a tag and say, ‘Oh my goodness, this is the name of an African child,’” Ms. Drezet added. “It really touches your heart strings.”
November 30, 2012 The Columbia Valley Pioneer • 17 Three Invermere businesses took home top honours at this year’s Light Up Night Window Decorating Competition in Invermere on Saturday, November 17th. Three Bears Gift shop was awarded the Decadent displays Super Sunday designation of Most Flashy, Black Star Studios was awarded Most Christmass-y and Details By JoAnne was awarded Most Awesome. Photos by Kristian Rasmussen Sunday, December 2 12 - 4 p.m. From the Gateway to Downtown Invermere Shopping Event of the Year! Shop local this Holiday season! Join Santa on Main Street as he searches for the perfect gi s to complete his naugh and nice list. Presented to you by the Invermere Business Commi ee of the Columbia Valley Chamber of Commerce
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