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The Oakville Beaver, W ednesday M arch 5, 2003 - C3 M&M Meats founder at Big Sister lunch The Excel Leadership Group in support of Oakville Big Sisters presents a conversation Thursday with top entrepreneur Mac Voisin, CEO and founder of M&M Meats. In an interview type format, radio personality Sunni Genesco, will discuss with Voisin his busi ness strategies and success story as well as his philosophy on corporate philanthropy. Challenged by his inability to find restaurant-quality meats to throw on the barbecue at home, Voisin and his associate Mark Nowak set out to create a unique retail venue where people could find choice cuts of meats at super market prices. The challenge was not in find ing the choice cuts of meat, but in being able to sell them at their peak of freshness and flavour. The answer turned out to be relatively simple - flash-freezing, a method of freezing food at extremely low temperatures in a matter of min utes. This method preserves the natural texture and flavour of the food at the moment of freezing. When cooked, all the taste comes through. In 1980, Voisin and Novak plugged in their first freezers and opened M&M Meats. Two years later M&M's first franchise opened in Cambridge. The luncheon runs from 11:30 a.m. - 2 p.m. at the Ramada Inn, 360 Oakville Place Rd. Tickets, including lunch, cost S75. Call Oakville Big Sisters, 905-338-0238 or visit www.geocities.com/oakvillebigsisters. Skating party fundraiser for EvenStart Skate with Spiderman and Barbie at the May Court Club of O akville's Next Generation Group's Family Ice Skating Party on Sunday March 9 at the River Oaks Recreation Centre. The event will be taking place from 11:00 a.m. - 2 p.m., with skating from 11 a.m. - 12:50 p.m at River Oaks, 2400 Sixth Line north o f Upper Middle Road. Adm ission is $10 per family or S3 per person. Tickets will be sold at the door on Sunday. This is a fundraiser to benefit the EvenStart pro gram for children in Oakville. EvenStart is a summer program offered through community partnerships. The focus o f this program is to provide children with no previous experience in pre school programs an opportu nity to enhance their social skills and language develop ment, while becoming famil iar with the routines and structure o f a Kindergarten classroom. This summer, the pro gram will run from Monday to Friday, either from 9:00 11:30 a.m., or 1:00 - 3:30 p.m. for a four-week period beginning July 21 in six locations in Halton. The Family Ice Skating Party is the Next Generation G roup's first fundraising event, in hopes of providing partial funding for EvenStart. The May Court Club of Oakville has launched the Next Generation Group as a new incentive this year to encourage additional women volunteers to join our ranks. May C ourt's Next Generation Group is a pilot group whose purpose is to provide young women the opportunity to volunteer to the best o f their abilities based on the time available to them. The group's mis sion is to become an organi zation promoting friendship among its members and be recognized as a positive leader in the community, not only contributing financially to those in need, but to the human spirit as well. World Day of Prayer at St. Dominic's on Friday Oakville will join 2,000 communities across Canada by holding an ecumenical World Day o f Prayer service on Friday March 7. This year's service. Holy Spirit: Fill Us, was written by the women of Lebanon. Between 15 and 20 local churches are participating at this year's service to be held at St. Dominic's Church at 2415 Rebecca St., at 1:30 p.m. World Day of Prayer has been observed annually in Canada and the United States since 1920. 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