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Page 18 the HERALD Business Wednesday November 13 1WI Leather Showroom opens its doors It s the only store of its kind in Georgetown and it opened Oct at 130GuelphSt You only need to open the door of this quaint showroom and breath in the rich heady smell to know what the store is all about Appropriately named Georgetown Leather Showroom the store sells moderately priced leather jackets outfits and purses at prices ranging from outfits to 475 winter coats The store is owned and operated by Alberto Samian and his wife Carol who moved to Georgetown from Toronto where they operated a store called Leather Showroom on Avenue for two years and previously a leather store called Ojji in for four years The decision to leave Toronto was made not only because of rising costs in the saturated leather market of Toronto but because the couple wanted to find a place to make their home We wanted to get a neigh borhood atmosphere said Mrs Samian We have fnends who live in Georgetown and we grew to love the area because it is cleaner and the people are friendly What the couple didn want to leave was their leather business so it came along Leather has been a part of Mr Samians life since he entered high school in Florence Italy He worked part time in leather stores until he earned his degree in Interior Design from a Florence University He then met his wife moved to Canada and started Ojji which means Todays ashion in Italian He said always worked on the premise of low marking on quality goods Our customer leaves our store knowing they have made a pur chase thev will be happy with and not regret a month later Alberto Samian and his wife Carol owners of Georgetowns new leather store Georgetown Leather Showroom model some of the leather fashions available In the store Dominion Seed House active at Winter Garden Show BROBSAVGE Thomson New Sen ice TORONTO Even garden en thusiasts are getting into the organic trend Charles MacLean a coowner of the Georgetown based Domi Seed House said organic and untreated seeds are among the selection of products he of fers because of the increasing concern among garden en to protect the environ ment It growing MacLean said of the interest in seeds that are grown without the use of pesticides The organic seed and other varieties offered by the company are currently on display at the Royal Agricultural Winter Fair at Exhibition Place in Toronto Dominion Seed House is among more than exhibitors in the Winter Garden Show a revamped version of the Roval flower show that now covers about la ft This garden show is based on the Chelsea Garden Show in Britain and was designed by Canadian landscape architect Tom Spar During a recent interview at the Royal MacLean said his company is among the ones that has felt the need to show en vironmental consciousness In addition to the sales of organic seeds the company is also careful to use recycled packag ing he said We just felt as a company we should move that way However he said gardeners are warned that organic seeds to cultivate Dominion Seed House a family run business has been running since Originally founded by Bill Bradley it is cur rently run by Margaret Harding Bradley s daughter and MacLean who is Harding s son inlaw For mott of its years the com business was done through mail orders A few years ago a store was opened at the company Georgetown office location he company history in eludes a magazine article about it that was written by Pierre MacLean said Dominion Seed House gets orders from across Canada The company offers about 1 different types of flowers and vegetable seeds The company offers some ex otic seeds tjiat may not always be large volume sellers MacLean said However he said the com wants to be able to offer a very large variety of seeds Seeds are bought from areas such as Africa Europe and Japan This is the first year that Seed House has appeared at the Royal Agricultural Winter Fair an offer that came with the charges to create a larger and improved flower show this year MacLean said his company welcomed the chance to appear at the Royal which had an atten dance last year of more than 300 people We felt very honored to do it It s a new initiative for us We haven t done this type of thing in the past Dominion Seed House coordinator Charles right and Nancy who runs educational programs for the company are seen at the Georgetown based company splay at the Royal Agricultural Winter Fair The display part of the Winter Garden Show Thomson News photo P0DGERS WEDNESDAY IS SENIORS DAY SAVE Perms f SAVE 2 Cut Style 19 OO SAVE 13 00 and Set 310GUELPHST GEORGETOWN food stores OPEN 24 HRS 7 DAYS A WEEK 51 GUELPH ST GEORGETOWN HOTPOINT SCRATCH DENT UNCRATES WEDID AGAIN BUILT IN DISHWASHER From RANGER DRYERS WASHERS From FROSTFREE I REFRIGERATOR From Also Great Savings on Builtin Ovens and Range Tops GOODLETS homeland furniture appliances DOWNTOWN GEORGETOWN SINCE 4168772551