Meet & Greet On Baker Street section oct 24

MEET & Greet on Baker Street Pennywise TEXT and Win Contest! 778-205-0079

Take a picture of your receipt of purchase from any of the participating Meet & Greet businesses (dated from Oct. 24 to Dec. 22, 2017) and text it to Pennywise. You could win your purchase, or up to $100 on purchases over $100. 1st draw November 24 and 2nd draw December 22.

Beautiful Historic Baker Street

has an eclectic collection of services and shopping.

We’d like to introduce you to some Baker Street businesses who want to share their stories with you. These merchants work hard to stay on top of the current trends, and even set a few of their own, while living, working and volunteering in this beautiful community. Stop in and say hi to your friends and neighbours!

Where wellness and beauty converge

Owner Melisa Beyers has been a practicing massage therapist for twelve years – ten of those at the Tea Garden. Melisa is excited about her new partnership with the Kootenay College of Massage and Spa Services. Together they are offering a program of one-year courses such as: • Massage Techniques: Swedish, Deep Tissue, Sports, Lymphatic & MyoFascial Massage

• Hand and Foot Care: Manicures and Pedicures

• Skin Care: Facials • Spray Tanning

• Hair Removal:

Waxing, Threading, Sugaring

• Lash and Brow Tinting • Lash Extensions Next intake is January.

Max 8 students For more information click on http://www.KCOMS.ca

Melisa Beyers 101-502 Baker Street, Nelson 250-354-4487 www.teagardenspa.com

Tea Garden Services Massage Therapy Acupuncture Hair Salon Aesthetics Retail Boutique

New Skin Care Treatments Derma Pen and Hydra Facial Treatments

Curious about a product?

We have a comfortable skin care testing area, where you can try a variety of products at no charge.

Step off of bustling Baker Street into our tranquil Salon Spa. We have 20 highly trained staff – all experts in their areas of practice. We invite you to come and pamper yourself a little...

Because you deserve it.

Book now for the holidays

MEET & Greet on Baker Street Nelson

The Nelson Potorium Morag, Meg, Candace, Logan

Chris Campbell 471A Baker Street, Nelson 250-352-6612 www.nelsonpotorium.ca

Your first choice for craft cannabis health options in the Kootenays We are a locally owned and family run business with more than 30 years of Kootenay residency. Our Nelson brick and mortar storefront has been open for over a year and a half on Baker Street.

The Nelson Potorium is a Medical Cannabis Dispensary. We provide exceptional products through our Nelson location, and to clients all across Canada through a reliable and secure mail order service.

Our mission is to supply our patrons with the highest quality cannabis. We do that by supporting local artisan producers and setting standards in product testing to ensure consistency and reliability.

The Kootenay region has been home to some of the world’s finest cannabis products for decades. Ideal growing conditions partnered with integral cultivation practices has resulted in a sizeable and sustainable market that is innovative and beneficial to local communities.

Nelson Potorium’s founder uncovered the benefits of cannabis, and specifically CBD, through her experience of being the primary caregiver for her son who had epilepsy. Chris’ personal experience of requiring thorough testing – and most importantly, a consistent and safe product – led her to opening Nelson Potorium.

The company is now looking to partner with a charity that is working with people coping with epilepsy.

Our dedicated team brings a wealth of personal and professional experience that allows us to help you find the dosage, strains and products that are perfect for your needs. We love answering questions and want you to feel comfortable and cared for every step of the way along your journey with medical cannabis.

Watch for our product selection to expand. We love serving Nelson and have big plans to fulfill all of our community’s cannabis needs.

Blue Sky Clothing Co. Fashion sized for real people.

511 Baker St, Nelson 250-354-0101 blueskyclothingco.com

Marilyn Cobban is on a life-mission.

Twenty-five years ago, Marilyn underwent an intense period of self-examination: she realized life is short and she needed to do something meaningful with it. She had memories of her mother struggling to find clothes, an average 50-something woman who was short, and hard to fit. Thinking of her mother also brought her to thoughts of what made her happy: her love of clothes and of travel. The result was Marilyn’s passion: Blue Sky Clothing, fashion for real people, at prices that real people can afford.

With no training in fashion, design, business, or merchandising, Marilyn started to hustle. Eighteen months later, she was in

Indonesia transporting bolts of naturally sourced fabric on the back of a scooter.

The relationships that she fostered in Bali all those years ago have been longstanding. Today, Blue Sky provides stable employment and a secure lifestyle for 20 people in Bali, enabling them to purchase homes, cars and access to better education for their children.

As Marilyn’s business grew, she realized she needed warmer fabrics for our Canadian winters. In Sichuan province, China, she was introduced to a woman named Sunny, and together they developed a line using silk, bamboo, cotton, linen and wool.

All the while, Marilyn was delving into garment design. She wanted to make attractive clothes for all women: the busty women with full thighs, the women who combine size 18 trousers with size 12 tops… all the women who couldn’t find clothes that fit just right…

“It’s good that I had no background in fashion,” Marilyn laughs. “I had nothing to unlearn.” To this day, each Blue Sky garment is designed to fit women from XS to 4X – the achievement of an ongoing vision.

Marilyn remembers the first day selling Blue Sky clothes. “A woman came out of the van in a long blue dress and said, ‘My husband has told me that I am fat every day for ten years… I think I look beautiful.’ Then she started to cry. We both did.”

That long blue dress was one of the first pieces manufactured. Now Marilyn has nine locations in BC, plus wholesale customers and a busy online store. The clothes she sells are natural and breathable, labour practices are fair, and do-no-harm to the Earth or to others are core values.

Marilyn now lives in North Vancouver and is happily married to her childhood sweetheart.

MEET & Greet on Baker Street Nelson

Andrew Caron • 250-352-3800 • 1 855-681-1123 www.blindman.ca The Blindman has been servicing the entire Kootenay area for the past 17 years.

We pride ourselves on providing superior service, while keeping each unique customer in mind. Our many years in business has resulted in a high level of expertise when it comes to selling and installing any type of window covering, including motorized blinds. We’re always on the lookout for leading edge products that will fill the needs of our clients. One of the latest demands includes outdoor solar shading which is why we now offer both Aristocrat Retractable Awnings and Solace Retractable Screens.

Your experience begins with a free “in home” consultation where you can choose from a wide selection of samples to match your decor and specific window covering needs. A professional measure of your selected areas is the next step.

The Blindman has a wide selection of products Andrew Caron, President & Owner; Melanie Waterfall, Business sure to be friendly to your Manager; Fraser Caron, Installer; Bridget Blue, Sales & Installation. budget. We offer such Andrew’s son Fraser has also been brands as Hunter Douglas, Shadeomatic, Altex and more. When your assisting, learning the trade and expanding custom product arrives, you can rest easy, his knowledge along the way. Bridget Blue knowing that our team of professionals will was recently hired to cover the ever growing also take care of the installation, leaving you demand in the Rossland, Trail, Fruitvale area.

She offers a wealth of experience in assisting to enjoy the finished product! you with your window covering needs. The For well over a decade, Andrew has been team is still expanding and we are in search a one-man-show. He realized that hiring of more qualified sales and installation qualified staff was essential to keeping things personnel to cover the Nelson area. If you are running smoothly. In 2016 Andrew hired looking to join a great team, call us!

Melanie Waterfall, a professional organizer We look forward to helping you choose who has managed several businesses. the right product for all your shading needs.

Melanie is the “Jackie of all trade” for the business, she does a bit of everything, from Thank you for all of the support we have receiving calls to assisting on installations, received over the years. We are so proud to be serving the Kootenays! marketing and time management.

The Royal on Baker

Food & music to live by 330 Baker St, Nelson 250-354-7014 www.royalgrillnelson.com Dale Arsenault is doing everything he can to keep the Royal alive in Nelson. If he fails (but he won’t!), his landlord has plans to convert the space on Baker Street into three retail stores.

Dale reopened The Royal 3 1/2 years ago with dreams of helping musicians fulfill their passions. The Royal would be a place for all artists to share their talents, with local art on the walls, culinary artists

in the kitchen and The Royal management team, Tiffany, Karla, Dale and Keenan musical artists on the stage.

Come to the Royal for live music almost while you relax in the funky environment. every night and a killer Happy Hour from Keep it real at the Royal with Real Food, 5 until 8 pm every day.

Real Music, Real Art, Real Prices, Real Come early for dinner to get a good People (no TVs to interrupt your convertable because the Royal now has a first sation) and always, a Really Good Time. class Red Seal chef. He has revamped the menu to ensure you enjoy your meal

MEET & Greet on Baker Street Nelson

Phoenix Computers & Technology

Stronger, Faster … Steamier!

Scott Newland 468 Baker St, Nelson 250-354-4300 www.phoenixnelson.com Our team: Jay, Shawn, Alex, Scott I’m originally from Ontario, but moved repairs – plus we’re dealers for Rogers from the BC coast to Nelson in 2006. A Cellular and Vapewest. friend of mine bought a business here Everyone here really enjoys the work and I came out to visit her. The business and we are 100% customer focused. We next door to hers happened to be for sale have a lot of stock in the store, but if you and was also in my line of interest. So I need something we don’t have, we can bought it! usually get it within 24 to 48 hours.

The location has been operating as a The team at Phoenix are also a group of computer shop for about 25 years, but Audio/Visual entertainment and gaming with me, and as Phoenix, since 2006. enthusiasts who can create the ultimate We do PC and Mac repairs, we sell new set up for your home or business. Anand refurbished computers and other other aspect to Phoenix is we sell vaping electronics, do onsite networking and devices and supplies. I got into selling

vaping products over 4 years ago due to a very personal reason – I lost my mother to lung cancer. We’re happy to answer any questions you may have about vaping.

At Phoenix we’re committed to competing in an increasingly online-centric world, but we understand that shopping for technology via the internet can be tricky. There’s no substitute for personal interaction and reliable local service and support.

If it’s a beautiful day and I’m not in the store, I’m likely on the links with my Dad.

Pharmasave

Nelson’s Local Community Pharmacy 385 Baker Street, Nelson 250-352-2316 Ed Li, Manager

I was born in Nelson in 1980 and lived here through high school. I returned to the Kootenays with my family in 2013 after working my initial years as a pharmacist in the Okanagan.

I saw this as an opportunity to contribute and give back to Nelson as a licensed pharmacist; I have always been impressed by the longstanding relationship that Pharmasave has with the Nelson community – over 35 years in operation here – and also by how our

team contributes to the health and wellness of the area. And we are local; our wonderful staff serving a vibrant community … who can ask for more?

We offer specialty compounding, free local delivery on prescriptions, travel medicine, flu shots and vaccinations, a full range of ostomy care products, Ideal Protein weight loss management (for more information see: www.ipnelsonpharmasave.com ), a full line of natural supplements and alternative remedies, home health care sales and rentals. At Pharmasave

Nelson, it is all about personalized service, because we care about your health and wellness.

We are always reaching out to our patients and customers, either through one on one counselling and medication reviews or with our monthly in-house seminars/clinics on such topics as weight management, blood pressure and hypertension, and bone density. At Pharmasave, we are always looking for ways to help you optimize your health and wellness; we will soon be introducing prescription delivery service to the north shore of Nelson.

So come in and be part of our community as we are part of yours!

MEET & Greet on Baker Street Nelson

Kootenay Co-op 777 Baker St, Nelson 250-354-4077

The Kootenay Co-op has seen a lot of faces pass through our doors since our founders placed their first bulk order in 1972. From the very first day of the Co-op’s history to today, volunteers and community have been at the core of the Co-op’s mission.

What keeps volunteers, staff, member-owners, and customers coming back to the Co-op? Let’s ask some of them: “I value the positive work environment, and co-workers who inspire me to work hard and laugh.”

– Shannon McAllister, Staff Member

“I love working where I can stand behind the organization, and where the organization will stand with me.”

– Alyssa Nebel, Staff Member

“I want to help in taking the next step and initiate change and healthy growth in our community.”

– Alexandra Forsythe, Board Member

Kootenay Co-op’s Outreach Staff present a donation to Kootenay Organic Growers’ Society of 3% of daily sales.

Donations are an important part of how Kootenay Co-op supports community initiatives.

Our mission is to serve our members and community and strengthen our local food system by providing the highest quality, local, sustainable, and organic products at reasonable prices, in a welcoming environment, with exemplary customer service.

We’re very proud to see people come in our store every day to socialize, have some really tasty food, and take home groceries that reflect their appreciation for community. We try to make a welcoming environment for everyone, whether you’re interested in exploration, education, or just eating good food!

Pennywise

Rick Wiltse, Advertising Strategist Serving Nelson Cell: 250-551-1754 rick@pennywiseads.com I moved to Kaslo in 2007 to work as the operating partner of Kaslo Front Street Market. Work had moved my family around the province for the previous nine years so we were excited to settle into Kaslo and root ourselves. My wife and I met in Nelson while attending Kootenay School of the Arts and always dreamed of moving back to this beautiful area.

After ten years of running the Kaslo grocery store I was ready for a new challenge. The best part of my job was the people – my staff was fantastic and so were my customers. When Karma mentioned that this position with

Pennywise was available, I was very interested. I knew I wanted to make use of my years of retail and customer service experience, and also to continue working with the public. This was a great opportunity for me to help our local businesses flourish. I look forward to meeting more people, working closely with them, and seeing their businesses thrive.

When I am not working I can often be found in the arena or on the baseball field. Some of my other hobbies and interests include art, music, cooking, and being Dad.

Pennywise TEXT and Win Contest!

778-205-0079

Take a picture of your receipt from any of these participating Meet & Greet merchants and you could win your purchase, or up to $100 on purchases over $100. 2 draws, Read Pennywise for details.