“I grew up in Chilliwack in the Fraser Valley never moving far away from my home town. Always fascinated by how things worked I spent many hours of my youth dismantling things and not quite figuring out how to put them back together. Sorry Mom! I found construction in high school and followed that path for the rest of my career on some level or another. As I got older and my body began to protest I happened quite by chance and circumstance upon a small family run company to which I quickly settled in. That company was VistaShades. In my mid 50’s I made the bold decision to move away from my home town to a small town in south central BC, 100 Mile House to be precise and start a completely different path as a retail business owner to which my partner and I purchased a U Brew business called UpTown Brewing Co. Having never lost that connection with that small family run company, which has grown quite fruitfully, I find myself once again working together with them embarking on another chapter in life here in the Cariboo. I look forward to what the future holds with Vistashades, Uptown Brewing Company and myself.”