{"id":12517,"date":"2019-10-11T10:00:04","date_gmt":"2019-10-11T13:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaker.ca\/?p=12517"},"modified":"2019-10-11T10:00:04","modified_gmt":"2019-10-11T13:00:04","slug":"sisters-organizing-social-enterprise-event-set-for-oct-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/?p=12517","title":{"rendered":"Sisters organizing social enterprise event set for Oct. 27"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>FALL RIVER:<\/strong> Two sisters from Fall River are getting their start in the social enterprise world right at home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Twins Emily and Isabel Ralph and their older sister, Maria, are the brains behind the first-ever Our Community Market that is coming to Fall River at the end of October. Nova Scotia Sea Sisters is their business.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\n market will take place Oct. 27 at St. John\u2019s United Church, running \nfrom 2-5 p.m. Admission is free. There will be artisans; hot dog; tea; \ncoffee; vendors fundraising for a cause; community groups; and youth \nentrepreneurs represented at the event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to organizers, \nthe idea of a \u201ccommunity market\u201d is to create a place where our \ncommunity members can fund raise for a cause and our youth can launch \ntheir businesses in a safe place. Youth-led initiative means that youth \nin the community are part of the planning of this event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe \nencourage social spending to boost our economy by supporting our \ncommunity members who are supporting others,\u201d organizers said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To \nfind out more about Our Community Markets you can email Roberta Hibbert \nat robertahibbert@gmail.com or join the facebook page at \nhttps:\/\/www.facebook.com\/OurCommunityMarket\/.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FALL RIVER: Two sisters from Fall River are getting their start in the social enterprise world right at home. Twins Emily and Isabel Ralph and their older sister, Maria, are the brains behind the first-ever Our Community Market that is coming to Fall River at the end of October. Nova Scotia Sea Sisters is their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[2,798,799],"class_list":["post-12517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community","tag-fall-river","tag-our-community-market","tag-social-enterprise"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12517\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}