Fairly Traded Energy

My sister Kate and I needed just a bit more energy to stop and have coffee after a long day. First going out to breakfast, then a walk to and around Granville Island, lunch with niece Daisy, riding an Aquabus to Dock 7 and finally a walk through Vancouver’s midst to Gastown. We were greeted at Warboy Salon in Gastown by co-owner Jeff Ward. (Did I mention that he is my eldest son?) We visited about many family happenings, as well as a well known Saskatchewan artist, Bob Boyer and his works. (Did I mention that his son, Jonah, is the other owner of WarBoy Salon?) 

At the end of our visit, it was time for coffee. Son Jeff suggested that we go to East Van Roasters where, not only was there good coffee, but really, really good chocolate.  What follows really clinched the deal.

East Van Roasters is a “non-profit social enterprise of the PHS Community Services Society. We provide support and training to the women residents of the Rainier Hotel and other downtown Eastside housing initiatives.” A fully registered charity, they ask only for community's support for those women seeking to return to the working world and to better not only themselves but the hand that their lives have dealt them. Those companies, like East Van Roasters, and the women who are being assisted need a lot more energy on a daily basis than one day of vacationing that Kate, Daisy and I enjoyed.

Supporting this business was a very fair trade.

East Van Roasters is located at 319 Carrall Street Vancouver, British Columbia  Canada

and can be contacted at 604-629-7562 or INFO@EASTVANROASTERS.COM   

Their website is http://eastvanroasters.com/

WarBoy Hair Salon is located in Gastown at

22 E Cordova

Suite 107

Vancouver, BC V6A 1A4

“We cannot seek achievement for ourselves and forget about progress and 

prosperity of our community.... Our ambitions must be broad enough to 

include the aspirations and needs of others, for their sakes and for our own.”

~ Cesar Chavez