{"id":22658,"date":"2019-01-11T19:37:20","date_gmt":"2019-01-12T00:37:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=22658"},"modified":"2019-01-11T19:37:20","modified_gmt":"2019-01-12T00:37:20","slug":"community-recognition-foxglove-designs-honoured-for-giving-other-businesses-a-helping-hand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/community-recognition-foxglove-designs-honoured-for-giving-other-businesses-a-helping-hand\/","title":{"rendered":"Community Recognition: Foxglove Designs honoured for giving other businesses a helping hand"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Brock Weir<\/strong><\/p>\n

As an entrepreneur Michelle Major knows the importance of receiving a helping hand along the way, and has tried to pay this forward through her business Foxglove Designs Inc.
\nHer efforts have not gone unrecognized and this past year she was honoured with the 2018 Good Business Award by the Town of Aurora.
\nThe Good Business Award is presented to a business that has shown its commitment to corporate responsibility and community involvement through its ongoing support of charitable causes, events and programs \u2013 and Foxglove does all this and more through special luncheons, events and making its own space available for others.
\n\u201cFoxglove Design has been an active community member who supports local small and home-based businesses by providing them with the use of their shop in the evenings and on weekends free of charge to help others promote their business,\u201d said Brian North, emcee of the 2018 Community Recognition Awards, reading Foxglove\u2019s citation. \u201cMichelle Major, the owner, lends out her shop three to four evenings and one to two times per weekend all year long. She will only ask that you leave the space the way you found it. Foxglove Design also sponsors weekly women\u2019s luncheons every Tuesday where she provides women with a hot lunch and a rich networking opportunity and asks that the women attending make a donation to Yellow Brick House.
\n\u201cFoxglove Design is a thriving business but it also contributes to making the community thrive.\u201d
\nMs. Major accepted the Good Business Award with gratitude.
\n\u201cI am so grateful to have won the Good Business Award with the Town of Aurora and we do two things at this studio: we allow other business owners to use the studio evenings and weekends and we do not charge for this,\u201d she said. \u201cIt was important for me to allow other people to use the studio to grow their business. The other thing we do is a donation lunch every Tuesday at 12.30 with donations taken to Yellow Brick House. At this point we have donated close to $10,000 to Yellow Brick House.\u201d<\/p>\n\"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"mail\"<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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