Welcome to our newest member: Best Buy Propane Ltd.
Our speakers for November were:
Chamber President Charlene Harrison and Mayor Walt Cobb with a year in review and more.
Did you know that Chamber members have access to numerous special benefits? Pride of involvement through an annual bursary for a graduating son/daughter of a Chamber member, sponsorship for our Chamber’s Annual Business Excellence awards, invitation to our monthly luncheon meetings giving you access to great guest speakers on hot topics, networking opportunities with other member businesses, just to name a few.
Join us for lunch or another event and see for yourself how the Chamber works for you. Call 250-392-5025 with your questions or check out the Williams Lake and District Chamber of Commerce website at www.williamslakechamber.com.
Our Chamber board has assisted many organizations and businesses with concerns in the community and needing help by writing letters of support, information gathering and face-to-face contact to help them resolve their issues. On occasion, these concerns are handled through advocacy by the board.
Issues sometimes end up on the floor at the BC Chamber AGM in the form of a policy resolution and eventually a formal policy.
Chamber Profile
Winners
Congratulations to Alicia Fenn, owner and sole proprietor of Kintec by Cariboo Orthotics, who was the winner of the October, 2018 Business Card Profile.
Alicia worked with Kintec Foot Labs before she moved to the Cariboo and opened up Cariboo Orthotics.
Her business involves health care including: custom foot orthotics, compression stockings and sports medicine bracing. Her license partnership with Kintec, who have been around for nearly 30 years, is one of only two in B.C.
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At only 28, Alicia has a bachelor’s degree in kinesiology from UBC and a diploma in Pedorthics from Western University. She feels privileged to help individuals get back to doing the activities that they love and miss.
When clients send her pictures of them running, months after they were limping into her clinic, she feels a sense of pride and fulfillment.
She loves solving biomechanical problems and feels that she is doing exactly what she was meant to do, exactly where she was meant to do it. The Cariboo folk are kind, grateful people and a pleasure to work with, she said.
Alicia attends Chamber lunches but hasn’t been to any events outside the monthly meetings. She looks forward to participating in more events in the next year.
As well as absolutely loving what she does, Alicia has just started mountain biking this year, loves to cross country ski, snowboard, hike, fish and camp. Her spirit challenges her to compete in sprint triathlon races, having just run her first half-marathon in September.
This would not have been possible four years ago, before she began working with Kintec. She learned a lot about her own biomechanical needs there and look where it has taken her.
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