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Mobile food truck hitched INSIDE Landwash Brewery. After a successful first summer operating in Bonavista, Saucy Mouth owners Allyson Howse and Brad Gover were looking for opportunities to grow their food truck into a year-round venture. By thinking outside the box and working closely with MBO, the business partners were able to purchase a second food truck and find a permanent location within Mount Pearl’s Landwash Brewery.

The St. John’s Tool Library will soon begin hammering away at expansion plans thanks to their new partnership with Metro Business Opportunities and the financing provided by their Support loan program. The Tool Library will use the Social Enterprise development funds to expand their inventory of equipment and grow their membership base.

Raised by an entrepreneurial mother and a bodybuilding father, Leah Tracey had the seeds of Lemon and Lime Health Shoppe sown inside of her since childhood. However, it wasn’t until she was laid off from her retail job that Leah was able to seize her opportunity to become an entrepreneur.

With years of experience in the lash industry, best friends Dianna Dwyer and Kristie Lawlor decided to start a new business by pooling their resources, clients, knowledge and skills to open House of Glam, Newfoundland and Labrador’s first dedicated lash studio. They saw an opportunity to change the eyelash game in the province by teaming up to provide a higher standard of safety, training and products.