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Who is Debbie Zimmerman?

ClubWest(To view our November/December 2014 issue of ClubWEST online, click here.)

Debbie Zimmerman was a politician before she even realized it – bold, confident, opinionated, and mentally tough.

After a handful of incidents proved these points to her, and an equally small number of mentors guided her in the direction of politics, her life course was established.

ZimmermanThe daughter of Pearl and the late Murray Roy was born in British Columbia. Her family moved to Beamsville when she was five years old and relocated to the home she grew up in on Central Avenue in Grimsby a short time later.

She attended Park School and Grimsby Secondary School before studying journalism at Niagara College. She recalls Mrs. Harris at Park and Mr. Muir, her high school history teacher as early influences, but nobody had a greater affect on her than her father.

“I was the first female to wear jeans at GSS. It was the 60s and girls just weren’t allowed to wear them,” Zimmerman recalls.

“I was a real pain in high school: always leading a charge in some direction. One day, I decided to wear jeans because I saw all the boys wearing them.”

“My Dad came with me. Dad went with me and said to the principal, pointing at one of the boys, ‘What’s he wearing?’ The principal said, ‘Jeans.’ My dad said, ‘Why can’t she?’ And that was it.”

Her interest in politics came from a household which always had an interesting mix of polticial stripes.

Her father was a staunch Liberal, and her mother, a New Democratic Party supporter.

“My father was quite happy to tell my mom, ‘I get to cancel you out’ (with his vote),” noted Zimmerman.

If you were a Liberal fan or, perhaps, not even, chances are you might have tried to get to Place Polonaise in 1970 for a chance to see Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau at the height of his Trudeaumania.

“I was a teenage girl. I thought he was handsome and had a lot of style. My dad told my mom he was taking the kids for ice cream and he snuck us to see Trudeau,” Zimmerman said.

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Cooking with Frank Romano

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Frank Romano Executive Chef CAVE SPRING CELLARS INN ON THE TWENTY
Frank Romano
Executive Chef
CAVE SPRING CELLARS
INN ON THE TWENTY

What is it about creating beautiful dishes that appeals to you?

Creating a beautiful dish is our form of art, it stimulates the mind, if something looks good on the plate, we will obsess over it, we will naturally want it. We are social beings and social media has evolved immensely, we love taking pictures, showing people what we are about to eat. Chefs take pride in their creations, nothing pleases us more than someone enjoying our foods.We are fortunate to receive instant gratification unlike painters who often remain unappreciated until after their death. By that token though we are also criticized heavily, art is a form of expression, we love food and we want to make it look beautiful.

What is the most satisfying part of being a chef?

Knowing that people around you are happy, not only the guests, but the cooks that work with you, the owners, the managers, the servers, being part of a great team; a lot of work goes into running an operation. Without the proper people and an amazing team, without sous chefs, cooks, dishwashers, servers, managers, hosts, bartenders, head office and great owners, establishments don’t survive. Having this day in and day out is gratifying.

Who in the field do you admire?

My crew, I try to thank them everyday. To be honest, I don’t say it enough. I always tell our guests that I have the best crew that I have ever worked with, be it front of the house, back of the house, and all the people behind the scenes who sometimes don’t get credit. It takes a large group of people to make Inn on the Twenty what it is today, we have a long-standing history and I am blessed to part of it, now and moving forward.

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For Frank Romano’s recipe for Shrimp Ceviche, we have published it on the newsnow website.

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Margaret Andrewes

(To view our September/October 2014 issue of ClubWEST online, click here.)

On opening doors and opportunities

Among Margaret Andrewes favourite quotes is one by Canadian poet, artist and historian Jon Whyte, “The ripples begin where I begin: they wash up on that larger circle, the world.”

It may well be that these words resonate with her because she herself has been known to cause and sustain a few ripples of her own. Through her leadership, she has helped others start ripples as well; each concentric circle marking another success achieved, another opportunity explored.

Andrewes served on Town of Lincoln Council for seven years from 2003-2010 but it is for her roles with the Lincoln libraries and her vast volunteer work for which she is better known – at least locally.

Her resume is extensive and impressive; her list of volunteer work and awards no less so.

Andrewes is the mother of two daughters and a son, and grandmother to twin boys, now age 3. She is married to Philip who served as an MPP from 1981-87.

Each of these roles has brought her much joy.

But if ever there was a watershed moment in her life it was when she became involved with libraries as a volunteer member of the Lincoln Library Board in 1980.

“I was blown away,” said Andrewes. “All of a sudden I was in a community of people passionate about libraries. These were some of the most dynamic and interesting people I would ever meet.”

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