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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.

New Year’s resolutions are no longer just about personal fulfillment and health. People are resolving to do their part to help our beleaguered planet too.

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.

When you and your sister run a restaurant together, family is baked into the business plan. That idea extends to patrons too.

We’ll have to bake another batch.
It’s been a theme of High Tea Bakery since Belinda Bigold and her mom, Carol, opened
the bakery 16 years ago with family recipes an investment of $300 each.

Our own Claudine Gervais popped in to C2 Centre for Craft for an afternoon of creativity.