May 8th 2010 - World Fair Trade Day 2010
For a 3rd straight year, Marie Olive will be serving free coffee and cookies to celebrate World Fair Trade Day. This year, Marie Olive's son, Vincent, will be playing guitar and hopefully his sister Camille will add her voice to his music. We also have great musical instruments from South America and Africa so why not join us? See you Saturday from 10 to 4.

March 7th 2010 - International Women's Day in Alexandria
On Sunday, March 7th, Marie Olive will participate in activities held in Alexandria marking International Women's Day. From 10:00 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. Marie Olive will be joining many other vendors and participants at the École Secondaire catholique Le Relais for a day-long sales and information event. Come join us at 100 McNab St. in Alexandria.

March 5th 2010 - World Day of Prayer 2010
Marie Olive will be speaking at the World Day of Prayer 2010 celebration held in Vankleek Hill. This year the World Day of Prayer is being hosted by the women of Cameroon, who have selected a prayer, 'Let everything that has breath praise God' to be the theme. The Celebration begins at 1:30 at the Trinity United Church. Marie Olive will speak briefly about fair trade and micro-credit, especially as they relate to Cameroon.

May 9th 2009 - World Fair Trade Day! World's Biggest Coffee Break.
Marie Olive organized her second World Fair Trade Day, at the store on May 9th 2009. The event, which took place all over North America broke the World Record with over 56,000 attendees. Thank you to all who took the time to come add your name to the number.

April 19th 2009 - Yes, Women Can
Marie Olive took part in the Yes, Women Can! event in Vankleek Hill Ontario. It was a great opportunity to meet interesting women and share the principles of fair trade. Marie Olive also gave a presentation on the impact of fair trade in women's lives.

March 26th to 29th 2009
Marie Olive and husband/CFO/Plant Manager Robert Pelletier travelled to beautiful Portland OR (pronounced Org'n, by the way) for the annual FTF Conference. What a treat! The Conference was great with speakers giving us advice on how to survive in these economic times and still remember that if things are hard for us... well you can just imagine... But best of all, the wonderful fair traders whom we got to meet throughout the week-end. How inspirational!
The city is spectacular, with beautiful Mount Hood (pictured). Highlights included a visit to a local brewery where a most passionate brewmaster gave us a great tour and tasting of local beers; also, what a treat to see Montreal's own Sam Roberts Band in a club! Can't wait for next year -- Boston 2010.

October 2008
Marie Olive attended the first Annual General Meeting of the Canadian Coalition for Fair Trade. It was held at St. Paul's University in Ottawa from October 31st to November 2nd. She is seen here with Carmen Iezzi, the Executive Director of the Fair Trade Federation of the United States.

July 2008
Marie Olive and family visited Peru where they met artisans as well as travelled to Macchu Picchu.

March 8th 2008
Bernadette Blais was the recipient of the Business Woman of the Year Award at the RéSAFF's annual ball, held at the National Arts Centre, on International Woman's Day, March 8th.

http://www.resaff.ca/gala/gala_2008.cfml

November 20th 2007

Marie Olive was one the invited guests of Ginette Gratton, host of the Rogers TV show, 'Pour tout l'amour du monde', taped on November 20th. The subject of the show was fair trade.