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Every family comes with baggage. For U.N. Luggage owners and siblings Jon Thiessen and Jen Goreski, it’s literal.

Swimming has health benefits, it boosts a child’s confidence, and it can provide kids with future jobs, says the founder of a charity dedicated to ensuring all young Winnipeggers can learn how to swim.

The William Avenue take-what-you-need, pay-what-you-can depot is a Santa’s workshop for a community of artists, educators and anyone who loves to create.

Shea Ritchie grew up in the hospitality industry, helping with his father’s food service company. When he was 12, he was a dishwasher. And it wouldn’t be completely out of the ordinary to find him in the dish pit these days, either.

La Belle Baguette’s Alix Loiselle played the piano nearly every day from the time he was four years old. He was in university studying music when he had to change his tune.

There is one on the counter at the Acorn Café. His name is Nutz, he’s stuffed, and as the unofficial mascot of the café in Generation Green he’s a reminder of the coffee and lunch spot’s origins.