Daytripping May-June 2021 Issue
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Welcome to The French Fry Capital of Canada!<br />
Get To The Point!<br />
The Starlight Casino<br />
Point Edward is just a start!<br />
• World Famous French Fries<br />
Under The Bridges<br />
• Excellent Hotels/Motels<br />
• Fine Dining<br />
• Annual Mackinac Race<br />
• Gift Shops<br />
• Large Marina<br />
• Downtown Shopping Area<br />
• Scuba Diving<br />
• Sports Fishing<br />
• Two Golf Courses<br />
• Walkway along St. Clair River<br />
& through Village<br />
TOWN NAME, TOWN NAME and another awesome TOWN NAME<br />
Welcome to The Village of<br />
Bluewater Bridges join Point Edward,<br />
Canada to Port Huron, USA.<br />
Shop at the award winning<br />
International Duty Free Shop!<br />
Bayview<br />
Mackinac Race<br />
Saturday ay July 24th<br />
Visit the Village<br />
Facebook Page<br />
for details on other events<br />
National<br />
French Fry Day<br />
Tuesday, July 13th<br />
VillageOfPointEdward.com<br />
519-337-3021<br />
Casual<br />
Elegance<br />
BUTTONS<br />
&<br />
Bows<br />
Ladies Clothing<br />
& Accessories!<br />
- From size4to 4 18 -<br />
Monday to Friday 10 to 5<br />
Saturday 10 to 2<br />
at its finest!<br />
www.buttons-and-bows.ca<br />
s.ca<br />
131 Michigan Ave., Point Edward • 519-491-1412<br />
Have You Been Wondering What These Things Are?<br />
Little Free Library is a<br />
Wisconsin based non-profit<br />
organization with a vision to<br />
give everyone the chance to<br />
find a book personal to them.<br />
KINGSVILLE<br />
Book sharing boxes are set up<br />
around the globe to offer 24/7<br />
access to free reads. Little Free<br />
Library puts a focus on getting<br />
books out to high need areas, as<br />
well as offering a diverse selection.<br />
These are a<br />
few of the ones<br />
we’ve found in<br />
Southwestern<br />
Ontario<br />
BRIGHTS<br />
GROVE<br />
As reported by<br />
In 2005, Patti Prowse opened Buttons<br />
& Bows, an 800-square-foot women’s<br />
clothing store, in Forest. “I’ve had a<br />
passion for clothes my whole life. Many<br />
years ago, my parents were having a<br />
party to celebrate their 50th wedding<br />
anniversary. I spent $300 on a dress<br />
for that party, instead of buying myself<br />
a washer and dryer. My sister thought I<br />
was nuts, but that’s just how important<br />
clothes are to me!” Prowse had some<br />
experience in the<br />
fashion industry,<br />
but running a<br />
retail store was a<br />
new and exciting<br />
adventure. Over<br />
the years, she<br />
worked hard to<br />
grow her loyal<br />
clientele and offer<br />
them high-end fashion collections.<br />
In the spring of 2018, Prowse and<br />
her husband, Gary, were encouraged by<br />
a client’s husband to check out a new<br />
retail space in Point Edward. “We had<br />
no intention of moving from Forest, but<br />
when we opened the back door and<br />
stepped into the space, we both said,<br />
‘This is it.’” The Prowses completed<br />
most of the renovations themselves and<br />
the doors opened on <strong>June</strong> 2, 2018. Four<br />
months later, Prowse leased the other<br />
half of the building to expand the retail<br />
space and add a kitchen and accessible<br />
bathroom. Buttons &<br />
Bows, located at 131<br />
Michigan Avenue, in<br />
Point Edward is open<br />
Monday to Saturday.<br />
Prowse looks for<br />
designers that use<br />
high quality materials<br />
and whose collections<br />
are casually elegant and easy to care<br />
for. Joseph Ribkoff, Sympli, and Oh My<br />
Gauze! are some of Prowse’s current<br />
favourite brands, but she is always on<br />
the lookout for new designers and ideas.<br />
Buttons & Bows<br />
www.hashtaglocal.com<br />
“Shortly after opening in Point Edward,<br />
we had so many women asking about<br />
plus sizes, we decided to give it a try.<br />
Now, one third of our business is plussize<br />
clothing.”<br />
Every March, Buttons & Bows<br />
organizes a huge luggage drive for the<br />
Women’s Interval Home of Sarnia-<br />
Lambton. Prowse is passionate about<br />
helping women who have experienced<br />
abuse. “When women leave the interval<br />
home, they often<br />
don’t have any<br />
luggage, so they<br />
end up using a<br />
green garbage<br />
bag for their<br />
belongings. We<br />
collect gently<br />
used luggage and<br />
clothing here<br />
at the store and then deliver it to the<br />
interval home.”<br />
Prowse’s daughter, Leigh Anne James<br />
manages the store, and Prowse is slowly<br />
stepping back. “I probably won’t ever<br />
completely let go. I want to do the fun<br />
things with Leigh Anne like buying trips<br />
and choosing the collections. I still love<br />
seeing customers in the store humming<br />
or singing to the music and trying on<br />
clothes. Working with customers is the<br />
best part of my day.”<br />
Buttons & Bows has five part-time<br />
employees, two of whom have been<br />
with Prowse since<br />
she opened in Forest.<br />
“Our personal service<br />
makes us unique.<br />
Everyone who walks<br />
through the door is<br />
greeted. We are always<br />
smiling and friendly<br />
but we don’t push. We<br />
want all our customers to leave feeling<br />
good and looking their best.”<br />
Read more stories like this at<br />
www.hashtaglocal.com<br />
Photos by Kaoss Studios<br />
BAYFIELD<br />
LONDON<br />
There are over 100,000<br />
Little Free Libraries across<br />
over 100 countries, with<br />
an estimated 42,000,000<br />
books shared annually.<br />
Visit LFL: www.littlefreelibrary.org<br />
WINGHAM<br />
Sign, Sign, Everywhere a Sign<br />
In a<br />
Public<br />
Restroom...<br />
"Toilet out of order.<br />
Please use<br />
floor below."<br />
<strong>May</strong>-<strong>June</strong> <strong>2021</strong> A mother can say everything you wish to hear with a smile.<br />
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