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| Angela Otsuka - President, Founder |
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| Wes Otsuka - Treasurer, Co-Founder |
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 Wes has been a CPPF (Certified Professional Picture Framer) for
over
30
years and is the expert in framing Paper Tole. He served on the Board of
Directors for the CCHA (Canadian Craft & Hobby Association) for several years.
We all know his first love is music and he plays trumpet in 3 local concert bands. |
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| Jane McLeod - Store Manager/Scrapbook
Consultant |
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Jane
has been with Angela's Craft Centre for
over 22 years now. Coming to the
business as a qualified florist with a
wealth of knowledge in the crafts, she
too was a Paper Tole teacher for many
years prior to joining the company. Jane
also has been most helpful in creating
and developing new techniques that truly
set our work apart and has pioneered
invaluable ideas. Jane is our most
active scrapbook teacher along with managing the
store on a day to day basis, she also
heads up the internet sales department
for
www.creativepapercrafts.com and is a
favorite with our French-speaking
customers being that she is bilingual.
Enter Jane's home and you enter an
absolutely classy craft showcase in home
décor.
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| Lynne MacPherson - Customer Service Staff/Design Team |
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 Lynne has been working in the store for the past
7 years and store shoppers are always assured of a pleasant greeting
and her total attention to their needs.
She is diligent with a personal follow-up on any orders placed. She has taken over the knitting section to ensure a constant supply of the most popular yarns are on hand and special orders are serviced in a prompt manner. Lynne is also an avid stamp
artist herself
and has graduated to our Design Team bringing her own special
talents with color, papers and creative design backed by a
thorough knowledge of the products. You can instantly recognize her sample cards in the store.
They are the ones with delicate ribbons, a Victorian look and
fabulous color combinations and card design. Glitter is never overlooked when it is appropriate to the design process. Lynne is an independent lady and has three grown children who are busy making plans for their futures. Nathan
is now married to Christine and teaches Canadian History in the local area. Whitney is an avid horsewoman and
she will soon be graduating with veterinarian skills to pursue
her career working with the animals she is so fond of. Last but not least, Geoffrey is working his way towards his future as a Chef and
has certainly elevated the culinary expectations in Lynne’s kitchen.
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| Johanna Crozier - Customer Service Staff |
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 Johanna
started working with us over 12 years
ago and has seen many changes in
products and concepts in the store.
Johanna is married to Chuck and has 2
grown daughters, a son and 6
grandchildren. Johanna is very active in
the stamping and scrapbooking sections
of the store and owns a large range of
products to play with at home. We
jokingly have her open the orders
because we can count on her to sort the
stock on a one for her and the rest for
the store basis! Actually, we don't
think Chuck wants her to open any more
orders at all! She certainly is
a hands-on employee. Hailing originally
from Germany, Johanna not only offers a
friendly face and a helpful hand but can
converse with our German customers.
Johanna works Mondays and Thursdays on a
regular basis and comes in additional
hours whenever we are needy, which is
often. Thankfully she thinks she is only
semi-retired so we keep imposing on her
freedom.
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| Kyle Otsuka - Our Chef
Extraordinaire! |
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Kyle is our resident on-call chef and organizes the buffet table
for the Special Events for our Christmas Open House and
SpringFest Celebration when we entertain up to 200 customers a
day. We are most appreciative of the cooking talents and
organizational skills Kyle literally "brings to the table" for
these events when we entertain our customers. |
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| Brad Otsuka - Founding Web Master |
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 Brad is our original computer genius who was talented enough to create a web site beyond our
hopes and dreams. We have been actively selling on the web since 1996 and
we have evolved to offer more services that will serve our customers
more efficiently and offer greater product presentation. Brad enabled us to
keep pace with the web technology of today's marketplace. On a more personal
level, he was the ultimate sports achiever in the field of baseball, basketball
and football. Today, he is a full time Information Technology man and what little free time he
has, he spends it on the golf course (he still plays a great game of football and
played on two baseball teams this past summer)! Fortunately,
he was able to find a talented young assistant in Anthony
who was given the responsibility of creating this new
website. Brad married Tasha in April of 2006 so we do have to
leave him with some time to himself. His family now includes two
lovely cats, a Siamese and a Himalayan. |
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| Anthony Ouwehand - Web Master |
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 Anthony
took over our web site management from Brad when he was a
student at McMaster University here in Hamilton. He worked for
us throughout his education at McMaster and our staff and
customers greatly enjoyed his visits into the store to work on
our computer and maintain our web site. He graduated in 2007 and
after several months of traveling in Egypt, Jordan and Europe he
was "snapped up" by Dun & Bradstreet, accepting an English
speaking job in Rotterdam, where he now lives. Anthony is a very
talented man and we can only be very appreciative that he still
maintains our website from afar. He would be very difficult to
replace as his in-depth knowledge is absolutely essential to our
website success. We are very fortunate
to have such a talented and patient Web Master. His interests include knitting, beer brewing, guitar playing, and long walks on the beach (for all those ladies out there)! |
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