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Sponsorship opportunity available

canadacoloradoassociation — Sun, 01 May 2011 15:23:58 +0000

Canada Colorado Association

Sponsorship Opportunity Available

The Canada Colorado Association is now offering an opportunity to advertise on its website by sponsoring one of its pages. The pricing is very modest, $100.00 per year (except for the home page). A sponsorship display board at our events will also showcase your business and your support of the association.

In addition, we are seeking event sponsors. These sponsors will be prominently featured at specific events as well as recognized.

This will allow CCA to keep its membership accessible (free) and increase the relationship between the Canadian and Coloradoan community.

Visit www.canadacolorado.com to see actual adds from sponsors.

Please contact Pierre at: pboisse@canadacolorado.com

Hockey at the Colorado Eagles

canadacoloradoassociation — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 00:58:49 +0000

March
12

Hockey at the Colorado Eagles
Windsor, Colorado

To:

Canada Colorado Association Members and Friends!
***Limited number of seats as all games are SOLD OUT so it will be first come – first served! Please email me if you would like to attend pending further details. We will have apx 16 seats – number to be confirmed.

What:

Food, Hockey & Cash Bar at the Colorado Eagles

When:

Saturday, March 12, 2011

Where:
Windsor, Colorado

Price & Details:
Coming Soon

Other:

The Colorado Eagles play at the Budweiser Events Center, constructed at Crossroads Boulevard and I-25 in Loveland , Colorado (5290 Arena Circle). The arena is a major component of the 243-acre Fairgrounds and Events Complex development, host to a variety of concerts, sporting events, and nationally renowned touring acts. The Budweiser Events Center seats approximately 5,289 hockey fans for an Eagles game.

Ralph Backstrom Founder
Six Stanley Cup Championships with the Montreal Canadiens: 1959, 1960, 1965, 1966, 1968 and 1969

http://www.coloradoeagles.com

http://www.centralhockeyleague.com/teams

See You There!

Interview: Jeff O’Neill President and Chief Executive Officer Einstein Noah Restaurant Group, Inc.

canadacoloradoassociation — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 22:29:52 +0000

October 2010

Canada Colorado Association interview by Pierre G. Boissé

Jeff O’Neill

President and Chief Executive Officer

Einstein Noah Restaurant Group, Inc.

www.einsteinbros.com

I met Jeff at his office and we talked about so many things that it will be hard to resume. We talked about the fact that all of the Board members are purely on a volunteer basis but most importantly about Jeff’s career and visions, family, sports (with an emphasis on hockey) and a bit of religion and politics (not included). I hope you enjoy reading this as much as I enjoyed my time with him. Pierre

Jeff began his career in Marketing with The Quaker Oats Company and held a variety of progressive positions in both marketing and sales in Canada before moving to the U.S. with Quaker in 1994, where he led the Quaker Wholesome Snacks Division as VP Marketing.

In 1999, Jeff joined Pepsi Co as President of Pepsi Cola Canada. Under Jeff’s leadership the company underwent a period of significant innovation and market share growth expanding their Brand presence in such well known areas as Aquafina Bottled Water, Starbucks Frappuccino and popular Line extensions of Brand Pepsi.

In 2002 PepsiCo acquired the Quaker Oats Company and Jeff returned to his old Company in Chicago to help lead the integration of the Quaker Oats/Gatorade acquisition.

In 2005 Jeff joined Priszm Income Fundas the President and COO. Priszm is a publicly traded Restaurant on the Toronto Stock Exchange with a portfolio of popular brands such as Pizza Hut and Taco Bell and is also one of the largest Independent KFC Franchisees in the World. In January 2008 Jeff was appointed Chief Executive Officer of Priszm.

In December of 2008 Jeff returned to the USA as President/CEO ofEinstein-Noah Restaurant Group a National Chain of Bagel Bakeries that is publicly traded on the NASDQ stock exchange with their Headquarters in Denver Colorado.

Throughout his career Jeff has been involved in numerous industry functions, including positions as an Executive member of the Consumer Products Council of Canada, Chair of the Canadian Soft drink Association and a Director of Corporations Supporting Recycling. He is currently a Director of Rocky Vista University, an Ostepathic Medical School located in Parker, Colorado.

Jeff holds an Honors Bachelor of Commerce Degree from the University of Ottawa. Outside of work, Jeff and his family enjoy hiking, biking and skiing.

Questions:

1. Where is your place of birth?

Brockville Ontario a small Town on the St Lawrence River in the Thousand Island area… but grew up in Ottawa.

2. Describe your family growing up.

A lot of sports (hockey, waterskiing, football and weekends at the Lake) I worked in my Fathers Road construction business from the age of 16 through University

3. Did you have a particular lifestyle growing up?

Very busy…with 4 siblings there was always action at our house with friends and family (travel hockey kept me busy in the winters and we were expected to keep up with our school work as a priority).

4. Tell me about your siblings?

An older brother and sister and a younger brother and sister… my older brother was CEO of Molson for 6 years at the time they sold to Coors.

5. What are/were your favorite activities/hobbies?

Love to ski and golf with my wife Joanne and our 3 children

6. What is your fondest memory?

I would say hanging out on weekends at the cottage waterskiing and playing tennis with friends and family around.

7. What are your family traditions?

With our own family it is Christmas in Beaver Creek skiing, midnight mass and a big family gathering on Christmas Day.

8. What are your favorite books?

I enjoy history books and just finished The Longest Winter about the Battle of the Bulge, as well as What the Dog Saw by a fellow Canadian Malcolm Gladwell. I always have about 4 books going at the same time…it’s a problem!

9. Where did you attend school?

I was playing hockey in Ottawa and working quite often for my Father’s company and so stayed in my home Town of Ottawa and went to the University of Ottawa (Until recently I sat on the Dean’s advisory council for the business school at UofO).

10. How did you meet your wife?

We were High school sweethearts and went to University together and got married shortly after graduating

11. How about your children?

Our oldest lives in Denver and works at a local Advertising Agency, our son has just graduated with his Masters in Journalism and is Interning with NPR in Washington and our youngest is in her final year of College at the Illinois Institute of Art getting her degree in Interior Design.

12. Describe your professional career history.

I started my career at the Quaker Oats Company in Brand Marketing, moved to the U.S. with Quaker in the early 90’s. Joined Pepsi Cola in the late 90’s as President of Pepsi in Canada…shortly after Pepsi bought Quaker and I went back to Chicago to help with the acquisition. Was also the President/CEO of KFC Canada for 3 years prior to accepting the CEO job with the Einstein Noah Restaurant Group in late 2008.

13. Tell me about your company.

We are the largest Bagel Bakery and one of the Top 200 Quick Service Restaurants chains in the United States with about 700 locations and 7500 employees. In addition to owning Einstein Bagels we also own Noah’s Bagels on the West Coast and Manhattan Bagels in the North East. We are just starting to Franchise our brand which is a very exciting time for our Company.

14. What is your proudest accomplishment?

I would say the day Diet Pepsi surpassed Diet Coke as the #1 Diet Cola in Canada (obviously a big day in the Pepsi world), and becoming CEO of such a high potential company like the Einstein Noah Restaurant Group. But I am also very proud to see my kids develop into young adults working on their own careers.

15. When did you move to the US and what motivated the move?

Around 1992 a progressive move to advance my career opportunities in the Quaker Oats Company. I became the VP Marketing of the Whole Snacks Division (think Granola Bars!)

16. What is/was your biggest adaptation to the US?

I think it was the lack of an International perspective from the news…Canada carries a more global perspective than the USA in many ways when it comes to news coverage.

17. What do you miss most about Canada?

Being close to our Lake home CBC TV and Radio (especially Hockey Night in Canada).

18. What are you looking for in the future?

Building the Einstein Noah Restaurant Group into a great place to work in a fast paced environment. Building our home in Denver and the mountains.

19. How did you hear about the Canada Colorado Association?

Through an acquaintance at Pinehurst Country Club.

20. What do you like most about the Canada Colorado Association?

While we are new members I think it is the opportunity to connect with fellow Canadians and sharing our unique experiences both from our childhood and living in the beautiful state of Colorado.

Interview: David Milstead

canadacoloradoassociation — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 20:22:48 +0000

www.canadacolorado.com

David Milstead is a freelance financial journalist whose main client is the Globe and Mail. He worked there briefly as an employee in 2009 before deciding not to move his family to Toronto.

He was finance editor of Denver’s Rocky Mountain News, where he wrote about corporate finance, executive compensation, banking, pensions and accounting until the newspaper closed in February 2009. He joined the News in April 2001 from The Wall Street Journal, where he worked for the paper’s Southeast Journal regional section. Before that, he was business editor of a small daily in his native South Carolina and worked at a business journal in Cincinnati, Ohio.

David’s mother is from Saskatchewan. He has spent a portion of nearly every summer in Saskatoon, where he’s played more holes of miniature golf at the Putt ‘n’ Bounce on 8th Street than at any other mini-golf course. He obtained his Canadian citizenship in 1998, well before he knew that the U.S. financial system would collapse while Canada’s would not.

He is a graduate of Oberlin College in Ohio with majors in economics and political science. Milstead has individually or jointly won nine national awards from SABEW, the Society of American Business Editors and Writers, since 2002. He’s a frequent speaker on financial topics at SABEW conferences. He passed the Level I exam in the Chartered Financial Analyst program in December 2007.

David is married to Jennifer, a middle school teacher. They have a son, Elliott, who is two years old.

David is a lifelong Dodgers fan but claims the Blue Jays are his favorite American League team. He has more than 30,000 songs on his iPod and sees Ian Tyson every time he comes to Colorado.

Where is your place of birth?

Rock Hill, South Carolina, to a Saskatchewan mother and an American father.

Describe your family growing up.

I’m an only child and the only grandchild for both sets of grandparents. I was spoiled, but only with attention, since everybody in the family was a teacher or a farmer.

Did you have a particular lifestyle growing up?

My parents are PhD sociologists who settled in a small South Carolina town where the state teachers’ college (later a university) was located. I went to the poorer of the two high schools and was one of only a couple of kids out of 400 graduating to go to an out-of-state college.

What are/were your favorite activities/hobbies?

When I was eight years old, I discovered rock and roll and baseball. I haven’t developed any competing interests since. I ran out of room on my iPod at about 34,000 songs, and I run my own fantasy baseball league, made up mostly of journalists.

What are your family traditions?

My parents and I always hit the road in the summers and visited my grandparents, one set in New Jersey, the other in Saskatchewan. I gave up a lot of activities – band, playing baseball – because it was more important to me to see my grandparents. I didn’t realize then how strange and wonderful it was to have so much precious family time.

What is your fondest memory?

My grandfather lived in Tadmore, a town of about 40 in southeastern Saskatchewan. He worked for CN there before becoming a farmer. When we used to visit him, we could hear the trains coming from miles away. It gave me time to run out of the yard, through the intersection where no one was ever driving, and run down to the tracks to see the train and wave at the engineers.

What are your favorite foods?

My grandmother’s pyrohy (pierogies). The pyrohy skill seems to be diminishing each generation in our family. I’m a good cook, but I’m hopeless with dough. I like almost everything else, particularly sausages, red meat, pasta and cheese. That’s a problem.

Where did you attend school?

High school in Rock Hill, S.C.; college at Oberlin College outside Cleveland. Oberlin was the first American college to accept blacks and the first to accept women.

How did you meet your wife?

We worked at the same newspaper in South Carolina. She’s since left journalism and become a teacher.

Describe your professional career history.

Nothing but journalism since graduation in 1994, almost all of it financial journalism. I’ve worked in Cincinnati (love the chili) my hometown in South Carolina and in Denver. And Toronto, briefly.

Tell me about your company.

Hopefully, you all know the Globe and Mail. I was hired last year as a full-time employee, but realized I didn’t want to move my family to Toronto because of the cost of living and because my wife would have to give up a job she loves. So I returned to Denver, and I write for the Globe on a freelance basis. I can be found most often in the Globe Investor section of the Report On Business.

What is your proudest accomplishment?

When I passed the first level of the chartered financial analysts’ exam in December 2007, I told my boss, “This is the hardest thing I’ve eve done.” Then I had a child! Another proud accomplishment is serving as treasurer of the Denver Press Club and turning it around from insolvency in 2006 to the stable organization it is today. Most business journalists don’t get a chance to run a business – and succeed.

What is/was your biggest adaptation to the U.S.?

I’ll turn it around – my biggest adaptation to Canada was getting used to how civil the society was. Christie Blatchford’s columns about the couple suing the Ontario Provincial Police for their abandonment in the face of aggression by the local natives were just stunning to me. As we know, American police, for better or worse, don’t just stand by and do nothing when confronted by aggression.

What do you miss most about Canada?

I am quite fond of Saskatoon, where my grandmother still lives and where I’ve spent more than a year of my life, in sum. I love those prairie skies.

What are you looking for in the future?

A clearer picture of my professional future. I’ve taken steps to exit journalism and enter the finance sector, but I haven’t found a good match for me yet. I’m very skeptical of the future of professional journalism in this world of self-publishing and tweeting amateurs.

How did you hear about the Canada Colorado Association?

I attended an event a year or two before the Rocky Mountain News closed. My boss assigned me any Canada-related story because of my background.

What do you like most about the CCA?

It’s nice to have a local group that allows personal connections among people with the common tie of Canada. Canada is special and it’s nice to be able to celebrate it from here.

http://www.canadacolorado.com/canadacolorado.html

Interviewer: Pierre G. Boissé

Date: September 8, 2010

An interview with Jim Wiste Owner: The Campus Lounge, Wiste Enter Inc. & Ex- professional ice hockey player.

canadacoloradoassociation — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 18:04:03 +0000

Interviewer: Pierre G. Boissé

Date: June, 2010

Interviewee:

Where is your place of birth?

Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, Canada

Describe your family growing up.
My father worked for the railroad as a conductor in Moose Jaw. My mother was a housewife. We had a normal, modest, but happy family unity. I had one brother.

What are/were your favorite activities/hobbies?
I enjoyed hockey and golf.
What are your fondest memories?
My fondest memories are celebrating holidays, especially Christmas.

What are your favorite foods?
Everything! Turkey, Chinese, Steaks…
Where did you attend school?
I attended Central High M.J. and the University of Denver.

How did you meet your wife?
Playing hockey.

Do you have children?
I have one daughter, Courtney, who is an interior designer and housewife.
Describe your professional career history.
I played professional hockey for approximately ten years.

Tell me about your company.
Wiste Enter Inc. is involved in rental properties, investments and owns and operates a sports bar.

What is your proudest accomplishment?
NCAA Champion College, College All American Pro Career.

What do you miss most about Canada?
The people.
What are you looking for in the future?
Good health and happiness… and growing up with my grand daughter!

How long have you been with the CCA?

Too many years to count.

What do you like most about the CCA?
I like to be a part of the Canadian heritage, meet fellow Canadians and keep in touch with old friends from Canada.

Short Bio: James Andrew Wiste (born February 18, 1946) is a retired professional ice hockey player who spent many seasons in the National Hockey League. He was an original member of the Vancouver Canucks upon their entry into the NHL in 1970.

Wiste was a college hockey star at the University of Denver, where he was named a Western Collegiate Hockey Association First-Team All-Star and NCAA First-Team All-American in both 1966–67 and 1967–68. He would also lead Denver to a memorable triumph over the University of North Dakota in the 1968 NCAA Championship game.

Following his graduation, Wiste was signed by the NHL Chicago Black Hawks in 1968, one of three University of Denver teammates to join Chicago along with Keith Magnuson and Cliff Koroll. He would establish himself as a quality scorer in minor-pro. Unfortunately, in his starting year in Chicago, he broke an arm. So Wiste’s beginning with the NHL was difficult because of his injury. He found it hard to get ice time on a deep Black Hawk team.

Then came the 1970 NHL Expansion Draft and Wiste was claimed by the Vancouver Canucks. He was a member of the inaugural Vancouver Canuck squad in 1970–71, but again unfortunately… he literally broke a leg.

Wiste was one of many NHL players to jump to the rival upstart World Hockey Association for the 1972–73 campaign, signing with the Cleveland Crusaders. In Cleveland, he would experience the most successful portion of his career, recording totals of 71 and 58 points in his two years there.

Wiste moved to the Indianapolis Racers for the 1974–75 season with a total of 13 goals and 41 points.

Even with multiple injuries, Wiste recorded 1 goal and 10 assists for 11 points in 52 NHL games and added 64 goals and 108 assists for 172 points in 228 WHA contests.

It’s all in the stories that go around in the Campus Lounge (which he now owns), a great hanging place for all Denverites, hockey players and DU students. Stop by and say hi! He will also be playing in the Third Annual (Almost On) Canada Day Golf Classic… Good Luck!

Beef & Lobster Fest Family Party

canadacoloradoassociation — Mon, 03 May 2010 15:10:37 +0000

Canada Colorado Association www.canadacolorado.com

You are cordially invited to our:

15^th Annual

Beef & Lobster Fest Family Party

MAY 22, 2010 Starting at 4:00 PM

Canada-Colorado Members and Guests…

Invite someone! Invite many! Same price for all!

Adult Menu:

Steamship Beef & Atlantic Lobster $33

Kids under 12 menu:

Hot dogs & Drinks $5

Where

Coventry Neighborhood Clubhouse

6000 South Coventry Lane East

Littleton, CO 80123 Map: Click HERE

For additional information, guests should call:

Ian Barclay 303-548-5376 or Bob Thomas 303-901-1573

Several great items will be available for draws.

Please reserve prior to May 15^th Here

BYOB – Beer included

Hosted by The Canada Colorado Association

Rain or Shine – See You There!

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