21inc. - Day 2

Day 2 started with a very effective awareness breakfast at the NB Association for Community living. Kudos to that NGO for clearly knowing (really, many NGOS can't clearly communicate their message!!) the message they need to bring to the community, and telling their story VERY well. We heard stories of individuals touched by this NGO. Google them. Attend their next awareness breakfast. That's all I can say. This is a NGO worth discovering. I'm hooked!

We then had a session with the Dean of the faculty of business at UNB, Dan Coleman. Great presentation. We then spent time in our groups to start discussing our group project and picking our top 3 choices from a pretty good list. Although Fredericton projects were lacking - what happened there Fredericton??

Then off to Sussex to a Dairy Farm! Armadale Farm welcomed us with opened arms to show us the operations of their business. A friendly Dutch family who moved here in 1986, with a great little business. I kept thinking my father-in-law (Bert the dutch!) would appreaciate this tour at the farm with the production of Gouda and Edam cheeses, yogourt... CHEESE CURDS!! And the smell of the farm stuck on us for a bit too long... or it was my preger nose which could sniff it out for the rest of the day. The mayor stopped by briefly to chat about Sussex... great little community.

Then we were off to Saint John where we had a great supper in the NB Museum and had a workshop/discussion on organizational identity and its emergence with Stuart Baker, an expert on Branding. Very interesting analysis... too tired to think of it much more at this point....

next... day 3....

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