{"id":22511,"date":"2013-11-21T08:57:55","date_gmt":"2013-11-21T14:57:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/?p=22511"},"modified":"2013-11-21T08:57:55","modified_gmt":"2013-11-21T14:57:55","slug":"minitonas-community-store-celebrates-50-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/2013\/11\/21\/minitonas-community-store-celebrates-50-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Minitonas Community Store Celebrates 50 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Submitted by
\nCarolyn Gordon |<\/p>\n

The Minitonas Lions teamed up with local residents, business owners and put on a supper to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the Minitonas Community Store. <\/p>\n

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\nClick any picture for a larger version.<\/em><\/p>\n

Although the current owners, Barry & Connie Waito, have only owned the business for the past 2 years, they thought it was important to acknowledge and celebrate this important milestone! Barry also thought this would be a great opportunity to add in a local community fundraising component and raise money for the future enhancement of the Minitonas Town Hall.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The Supper & Auction were held on November 16th \u2013 hosted by the Minitonas Lions Club with Robert Gordon as MC for the evening. Steve Windsor said grace and a delicious supper was served at 6:30 p.m. During supper, those in attendance were able to take part in the \u2018Silent Auction\u2019 which raised approximately $300 for the hall project.<\/p>\n

After Supper there was time for recognition of the 50th Anniversary of the Minitonas Community Store. Harold & Sharon Holland spoke about how proud they were to be celebrating their 50th Wedding Anniversary and the 50th Anniversary of the Store. Harold said that he & Sharon had many great memories and he thanked her for staying by his side through good times and hard times. <\/p>\n

Sharon expressed how grateful she was that the Barry & Connie Waito took over the store because they are so dedicated to the community and she knows it\u2019s in good hands going into the future. Barry & Connie thanked everyone for attending & there was a show of hands indicating that approximately 1\/3 of those in attendance either worked for the Minitonas Community Store at one time or had a family member who worked there! <\/p>\n

The anniversary cake was then cut & served it, along with ice-cream, to those in attendance. <\/p>\n

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Then the Main Auction began under the direction of Dennis Kalynuk, a very entertaining auctioneer!! There was approximately $5500 raised as a result of the generous buyers and the donations from businesses & local area residents. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Submitted by Carolyn Gordon | The Minitonas Lions teamed up with local residents, business owners and put on a supper to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the Minitonas Community Store. Click any picture for a larger version. Although the current owners, Barry & Connie Waito, have only owned the business for the past 2 years, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[13],"class_list":["post-22511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local","tag-coverage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22511\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}