Category: Business
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School lunch program helps feed young bodies and minds
KINGSVILLE — Food for thought is something Dennis Rogers fully endorses. His Green Heart Kitchen in Kingsville operates the Green Heart Lunch Club, which provides healthy, nutritious meals to elementary and nursery schools in Windsor and Essex County. The core belief behind the program is simple: if children are hungry, if their minds are distracted…
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Quarantine trailer serves as firm’s temporary headquarters
Jonathon Azzopardi, CEO and president of Laval Tool in Tecumseh, has a large, comfortable office — picture windows on two sides, a conference table, two desktop computers and a laptop on his desk. There’s a wide-screen television on one of the walls, as well as one piece of art — an early 1900s print of…
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Shifting gears: Retiree turns a passion for bikes into a business
Kurtis Dobson loves bikes — to ride and to fix, but also for the childhood memories they evoke. The Streetsville native vividly recalls using money saved from his paper route to buy his first bike, a black and red with gold trim Redline. “I still remember my dad going down with me saying, ‘You’re going…
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Kingsville Brewery eyes expansion to U.S. markets
KINGSVILLE — The Kingsville Brewery received a big shoutout last week from a guy whose job was to shutout opposing NHL teams. Former goaltender Marty Turco, a native of Sault Ste. Marie and a co-owner of the brewery with Kingsville cousin Mark Muzzin, was interviewed at length by TSN’s Leaf Lunch co-hosts Andi Petrillo and…
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Coffee roasting an art, science at Kingsville’s Red Lantern cafe
KINGSVILLE — Craig Marentette feels the best use of his chemical engineering degree is not testing for toxins in water and soil samples, but roasting coffee beans that produce the perfect espresso, latte or cappuccino. Marentette left his job as an environmental consultant with Pinchin Ltd. in 2017 after a heart-to-heart talk with his mother,…
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Tesla owners preach the gospel according to Musk
When Rick and Cathy Stephenson of Kingsville bought their Model 3 Tesla two years ago they read the online owner’s manual from start to finish. There was one issue the manual, however, did not address: How to deal with aggressive drivers who want to test how fast their high-torque Tesla can go. “I’m going to…
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Quarantine trailer serves as firm’s temporary headquarters
Jonathon Azzopardi, CEO and president of Laval Tool in Tecumseh, has a large, comfortable office — picture windows on two sides, a conference table, two desktop computers and a laptop on his desk. There’s a wide-screen television on one of the walls, as well as one piece of art — an early 1900s print of…
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Shifting gears: Retiree turns a passion for bikes into a business
Kurtis Dobson loves bikes — to ride and to fix, but also for the childhood memories they evoke. The Streetsville native vividly recalls using money saved from his paper route to buy his first bike, a black and red with gold trim Redline. “I still remember my dad going down with me saying, ‘You’re going…
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Kingsville Brewery eyes expansion to U.S. markets
KINGSVILLE — The Kingsville Brewery received a big shoutout last week from a guy whose job was to shutout opposing NHL teams. Former goaltender Marty Turco, a native of Sault Ste. Marie and a co-owner of the brewery with Kingsville cousin Mark Muzzin, was interviewed at length by TSN’s Leaf Lunch co-hosts Andi Petrillo and…
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Coffee roasting an art, science at Kingsville’s Red Lantern cafe
KINGSVILLE — Craig Marentette feels the best use of his chemical engineering degree is not testing for toxins in water and soil samples, but roasting coffee beans that produce the perfect espresso, latte or cappuccino. Marentette left his job as an environmental consultant with Pinchin Ltd. in 2017 after a heart-to-heart talk with his mother,…
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Tesla owners preach the gospel according to Musk
When Rick and Cathy Stephenson of Kingsville bought their Model 3 Tesla two years ago they read the online owner’s manual from start to finish. There was one issue the manual, however, did not address: How to deal with aggressive drivers who want to test how fast their high-torque Tesla can go. “I’m going to…