The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

in si de ha lto n. co m O ak vi lle B ea ve r | T hu rs da y, Ja nu ar y 27 ,2 02 2 | 26 PENTECOSTAL Tel: 416-892-8123 Fax: 1-866-281-5983 Bishop M. Brissett (Pastor) Email: mjbrisse@yahoo.ca Jesus is lOrd Oakville PenTecOsTal aPOsTOlic cenTre 454 Rebecca St (St. Paul's United Church) Oakville, ON Sunday Service 12:30 - 3PMWorship Service Sunday Evening: 7:30-9PM (Via Zoom Virtual Platform) *Covid-19 Safety Protocols Strictly followed.* NON-DENOMINATION SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST Oakville Seventh-day adventiSt ChurCh tel: 289-830-6717 Mark ewen (Senior Pastor) Carl Cunningham (associate Pastor) dean lashington (lead elder) Twitter: @Oakvillesda Email: oakvillechurchsda@gmail.com Saturday (Sabbath) Worship Service: 10am-1pm Wednesday Evening Service: 6:30pm-7:30pm Thursday Evening Service: 6:30pm-7:30pm Zoom id 867 6764 2331 Password: worship Theme: in Jesus nameWe Press On Website Promotion: www.oakvillesdachurch.org UNITED 1469 Nottinghill Gate, Oakville 905-825-5292 www.glenabbeyunitedchurch.com GLEN ABBEY UNITED CHURCH REV. TED VANCE January 30th - ON LINE ONLY February 6th- IN PERSON SERVICEWITH LIVE-STREAM IS BACK!!! ONLINE CHURCH SERVICE AVAILABLE ANY TIME GO TO YOUTUBE.COM and search Glen Abbey United Church OR Click on www.glenabbeyunitedchurch.com This Sunday, Jan 30th: This Week's Message: UPS AND DOWNS AND UPS To help your Church survive the pandemic, please send e-transfers to: donations@glenabbeyunitedchurch.com Thank you and God Bless you! DIRECTORY If you'd like to advertise your place of worship in this feature please email Fiona frudder@starmetrolandmedia.com or call 289-293-0691 Worship Are you looking for a place to worship the Lord Jesus Christ? We meet at the Meadowvale Community Center every Sunday at 10:00 am. Master's Grace Church, Auditorium 1 & 2 6655 Glen Erin Drive Mississauga, ON All COVID-19 safety protocols followed. mastersgracechurch.com Edilka Anderson was at- tending an interior design and staging course in 2017 when she met Carla Guz- man. What neither knew at the time was that they would quickly become in- separable and that their friendship would change their lives forever. (Guzman) sat at the front of the class and she asked a lot of questions," Anderson said. "And I thought, 'she asks a lot of questions. She's really into this.' That was my first impression of her." "There is no one in the program I stayed in touch with except for her," Ander- son added. From there, the pair hit it off. At the time, both had interior design and staging businesses and they would help each other out when- ever needed. Eventually, the two would become business partners and open a Kare (pronounced car-ray) fran- chise location in downtown Oakville. The company, which sells furniture, light- ing and accessories, origi- nally began in Munich, Germany. At the time of publica- tion, Guzman was on vaca- tion and unable to provide her side of the story. But Anderson says that she wanted to explore interior design after she got tired of working in corporate and government jobs. "After I had my children, I just knew that I wanted more. I knew that that just wasn't going to suffice," An- derson said. "I've always had a love and passion for design and interior design. I've always had that same drive and wanted the same thing. So back in 2017, I made the decision to pursue things that I love, and I started a staging and deco- rating business." To add to the whirlwind year, December of 2017 was also when Anderson got a job with Kare's Toronto lo- cation. By the following spring, the franchise owner was offering to sell Ander- son the store. "It didn't take much thinking about it. I saw the opportunity. I saw that in the market here in Canada, we were missing the fun, vi- brant sort of brand, some- thing a little bit different and unique." Guzman came on board as creative direc- tor not long after. Eventually, both began feeling a pull west. Both wanted to leave Toronto and set up shop outside the city. They noticed a change in clientele behaviour dur- ing the pandemic. People were interested more and more in "wanting to be happy in their spaces, sending people moving out of the city to come to the suburbs and moving to big- ger homes or having more space or wanting to kind of expand their home offices." They also noticed their clientele were coming from the 905 cities like Mississau- ga, Oakville and Burlington and decided to open a Kare franchise in Oakville. "We knew that we want- ed to be in a place where there's a lot of walking traf- fic. It's beautiful, communi- ty-based, supported by the locals, that kind of thing." Downtown Oakville fit them like a glove. The customer, when en- tering Kare's, is greeted with an eclectic and playful catalogue of furniture and accessories. Some of the more interesting designs currently in the store in- clude a table that looks like a motorcycle, a bust of Mex- ican artist Frida Kahlo and a framed photo of a dog that looks like Andy Warhol. Kare also provides an augmented reality app called the Kare Room De- signer. It uses a smart- phone or tablet to superim- pose the shop's products in- to the camera's field of view, taking out the guesswork when deciding if the prod- uct compliments an interi- or. Each section of the shop is themed along the lines of colour scheme, feel and general design theme. FRIENDSHIP LEADS TO OPENING OF FURNISHINGS BUSINESS Edilka Anderson shows a cabinet on sale at Oakville's Kare location. Mansoor Tanweer/Metroland MANSOOR TANWEER mtanweer@metroland.com BUSINESS KARE'S Location: 225 Lakeshore Rd E, Hours of Operation: Tuesday to Saturday: 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday: 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday: Closed Contact: 905-842-6273 or kare-toronto.com