Jack and Ila Crowe, the late founders of Kawartha Dairy, are among the many 11 inductees of the inaugural Enterprise Corridor of Fame for the Metropolis of Kawartha Lakes.

Junior Achievement of Northern and Jap Ontario (JA-NEO) introduced the inductees at Launch Kawartha in Lindsay on Wednesday (January 25).

Jack and Ila Crowe based their household enterprise after they bought a small dairy in Bobcaygeon in 1937. They expanded in 1942 by buying one other Bobcaygeon dairy, however didn’t begin producing ice cream — now Kawartha Dairy’s flagship product — till the mid-Nineteen Fifties. They expanded to Minden within the early Nineteen Sixties and at present Kawartha Dairy operates 10 retail shops and companies and provides ice cream, butter, and milk to retailers, eating places, and enormous giant grocery chains together with Loblaws, Sobeys, and Wal-Mart, in addition to offering customized manufacturing companies to different meals corporations.

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The opposite 9 inductees are Tania-Pleasure Bartlett of New Beginnings Contracting Companies, the late Jim Bogar of Cameron Metal, Nicki and Dedes Costas of Olympia Restaurant, Liz Grimes of Cathy Allan Ladieswear, Ted Smith of TS Manufacturing, Jeff Strybosch of Kawartha Wholesale Bakery, and Jason and Karissa Ward of Ward Attorneys.

“JA-NEO is happy to unveil the inaugural class of inductees to the primary ever JA Enterprise Corridor of Fame for the Metropolis of Kawartha Lakes,” saiad JA-NEO president and CEO John McNutt. “These distinctive enterprise leaders are serving to to encourage and present native youth that beginning your personal enterprise will be rewarding and final a number of generations very like the enterprise leaders being honored at present.”

A proper induction ceremony will probably be held on Could 11 at Mackey Celebrations in downtown Lindsay.