Classification talk

Jackie Read introduced our two newest members, who gave their craft talks. Barb Edwards comes to us from Ontario. She grew up in Thunder Bay, the middle child with two brothers. She assures us that nothing you have heard about middle children is true. Barb began her professional career as a primary school teracher. She then had four children of her own and when she returned to the work force, she discovered that there were few positions for school teachers. She then created Barb's Custom Catering, a company which she ran for 15 years. She made everything from scratch and had two freezers in her bedroom. The catering business eventually expanded into a full bakery and then into Barb's Backyard, a restaurant located behind her building Eventually, spinning off on an experience teaching entrepreneurship in Poland in the early 1990's, she founded a training business in catering. Since then, Barb has worked for a national lobby group for small business, as a life skills coach and in the travel industry. She is currently looking fro new challenges. Whew!