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How often do you think about the take-out paper cup that holds your coffee?

Louis Lévesque Côté was a touring musician, working at Café Postal between gigs. When the opportunity to buy in to the business arrived nearly seven years ago, he was ready to seal the envelope on life on the road.

Winnipeggers love summer farmers’ markets. Now we needn’t give them up just because it’s the middle of winter. Two popular markets have moved indoors.

Imagine moving your family to another country thousands of kilometres away, far from all things familiar including the food?

For Cheryl Zealand, inspiration arrived in a pot of cold oatmeal. At the time, her twins were 2 and her older child was 7 years old. With the children’s needs pressing, the oatmeal she’d made earlier in the day had been forgotten.

French, 64, began volunteering with the festival in his early 20s. “I wanted to give back to the community and it happened to be going on at the time,” he said.