Robert Barron
Island Savings is celebrating its 65th birthday on Vancouver Island this year and is holding a number of activities in 2016 to celebrate.
They include its Waves of Kindness campaign, in which Island Savings intends to carry out 65 kind acts on the Island this year.
Spokeswoman Melanie Tromp Hoover said Island Savings personnel were in Duncan’s Save-On-Foods on May 8 handing out gift cards to shoppers to help with their weekend grocery shopping.
“We still have 60 more waves of kindness to do before the end of the year,” she said.
Blue Grouse honoured for excellent service
The Blue Grouse Estate Winery has won the Service Excellence Award for Duncan in the 2016 Holiday and Tour Specialist Awards from the Luxury Travel Guide.
The award helps to solidify the winery as a leader in the Cowichan Valley, not only for winemaking, but also as a destination that must not be missed.
The new facility, which opened last May, continues to be a sought-after hot spot for visitors to sample wines and hold events, picnics and family adventures.
The award was initiated through the recommendations of visitors to Blue Grouse, and then a panel of judges selected the Luxury Travel Awards based on their achievements and strengths in the travel industry.
Chemainus company rebrands after 128 years
After 128 years of business on Vancouver Island, Nanaimo Foundry & Engineering Works has rebranded with a new look and a new name in Chemainus.
Since it is now operating as a manufacturing facility providing machining, fabrication and engineering-design services to a wide variety of industries, the company’s management team decided to condense the original name to NFE Manufacturing.
“The company ceased foundry work and relocated machining and fabrication operations to our current location in Chemainus in 1999,” said company president Marc Langevin.
“Although we are no longer a foundry, we are a progressive manufacturing business with a strong history beginning in Nanaimo. Changing our name from the Nanaimo Foundry to NFE allows us to acknowledge our past while moving forward with our current business model.”
The company will be hosting a “name launch” celebration and open house on May 19 at 3 p.m.
robert.barron@cowichanvalleycitizen.com
