Loading...
The Rural Voice, 2002-04, Page 30H&R BLOCK It's the right thing to do.. GUARANTEED Let us prepare and a -file your - personal income tax return - farm and/or small business returns - rental statements - employment expenses We also do estate returns, GST and PST returns, payroll and bookkeeping Office Locations: Walkerton Hanover 118 Durham St 261 10th St. Tel: 519-881-2821 Tel: 519-364-4246 Fax 519-881-2821 Fax 519-364-0579 Listowel 162 Wallace Ave. N. Tel: 519-291-2087 Fax 519-291-2087 W W 0 2002 LOOK FORWARD Bring a Neighbour And meet the Staff • Product displays include: Lawnmowers, compacts, 3 ph backhoe, Knight manure spreaders • New Product film at 1:00 & evening April 8th, 11:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. Evening 7:00 - 9:00 p.m. Dave Holliday Ltd. Mount Forest (Hwy. 6 N.) 519-323-1340 JOHN DEERE 26 THE RURAL VOICE "Be careful of the people who have access to your buildings," Mader warned. "Now nobody has access to our offices upstairs unless we know them." Helping your customers get to your location through clear signage is also important, he said. "You have to understand who your customer is," he said. If you need a relatively few customers you can afford to operate on a backroad but if you need more traffic you might need to have a better location. Keynote speaker Betty Zyvatkauskas, a freelance travel writer for such publications as the Globe and Mail and Torobto Life, said tourists in Canada are catching on to the French concept of terrois meaning discovering and enjoying the unique food and culture of a region. The most outstanding Ontario example is the Niagara wine region, she said, where winery tours and the products developed from locally -grown fruits and vegetables have created an attraction drawing thousands of visitors to the taste of the region. Another regional identity is. developing around the apple orchards on the Oak Ridges Moraine north east of Toronto, Zyvatkauskas said where a cider mill, an apple winery and numerous apple , orchards clustered together are attracting urbanites looking for a food experience that goes beyond supermarket shopping. Different varieties of apples also add to the experience, she said. "I wouldn't • travel five minutes for another basket of McIntosh apples that I could get in a supermarket." Closer to home, Zyvatkauskas praised the work of Richard Fitoussi, manager of Bayfield's Little Inn who has been working with local producers and manufacturers to create unique products from the local landscape. One of these is a rich double crean) cheese. Zyvatkauskas stressed that the terrois movement is not the same as branding. The Provence region of France, for instance, never had a branding campaign to establish its famous reputation, she said. That j reputation came from respect for the agricultural products of the region and the food created from them. The