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21 | O akville B eaver | T hursday,F ebruary 17,2022 insidehalton.com ON NOW AT THE BRICK!ON NOW AT THE BRICK! SAVING YOU MORESAVING YOU MORE SAVING YOU MORE SAVING YOU MORE For more details shop instore or online at thebrick.com Gary Carr Regional Chair Meetings at Halton Region Regional Council meetings are taking place through web conferencing until further notice. Videos will be posted to halton.ca. Are you a recent graduate or graduating this term? Apply for our internship program and join one of Canada's Best Employers for Recent Graduates! This one-year paid opportunitywill provide youwithmeaningful experience in your chosen field and give you the opportunity to provide programs and services to residents and businesses in our community. If you're looking to kick-start your career, discover on-the-job learning andmeet newmentors, I encourage you to apply today! To learnmore about joining our team and review the postings, check out our Careers site by visitinghalton.ca. Apply for an internship at Halton and kick-start your career! Halton Region is holding a virtual Public Information Centre for residents looking to learnmore about the Region's proposed assisted housing development at 1258 Rebecca Street in Oakville. The proposed development includes three single detached lots and a Regionally owned, older adults assisted housing development consisting of 14 bungalow semi-detached units with a shared courtyard. 1258Rebecca Street NOTICEOFVIRTUALPUBLIC INFORMATIONCENTRE SarahPhillips Manager, Housing ActionTeam Legislative & Planning Services Halton Region 905-825-6000 ext. 7668 s.phillips@halton.ca UteMaya-Giambattista Principal, UrbanDesign Fotenn Planning &Design 416-789-4530, ext. 8 maya-giambattista@fotenn.com Join us on Zoom to learnmore: Participate in a virtual Public InformationCentre onWednesday, February 23, 2022 at 7p.m. This sessionwill include a presentation about the proposed development, followed by a question and answer period. On February 23, 2022, please visit theOpportunities to Participatewebpage onhalton.ca to access themeeting Zoom link. A recording of the virtual Public Information Centrewill be posted onhalton.ca after the event. If you are unable to attend the Public Information Centre on Zoom, please contact a project team member listed below and a hardcopy of the presentationmaterial can be provided to you. Please contact us, as soon as possible, if you have any accessibility needs at Halton Region events ormeetings. 02 17 22 of them." "Thorns kind of resonated with the strug- gles we were going through at the time." Rai- na won third place for that. "I was never a biology kind of person. My dad wanted me to be a doctor," she said. I didn't have any passion for biology." After graduating with a biology degree, she answered a job ad for a designer. She was reasonably successful at this work, getting numer- ous orders from the Japa- nese market. One day, someone she knew asked her for help with preparing his portfo- lio. When he got into a good fashion school with the portfolio she helped him with, she realized that "if I can do it for somebody else, I can do it for myself too." Before long, London called. She got accepted in- to the London College of Fashion (University of the Arts) in London England. After overcoming the initial culture shock of go- ing from India to the U.K., where she says she almost had a "nervous break- down," she took to her studies like a fish to water. "After the first semester, I started getting merits and distinctions." She added: "I was learn- ing a lot, like I was like a sponge. I was absorbing a lot." Her husband, Gaurav, would follow her to Paris, where he would propose to her under the Eiffel Tower. After they got married, they stayed in India for a few years. They ran a tex- tile company. "We were so inexperience, and we had our first child, and we didn't quite handle it well, the finances part and ev- erything." They wound down the company and moved to Canada in 2004. After four years of being a stay-at- home mom, she got into Sheridan College's textiles program. She opened her busi- ness, Anu Raina Design Inc., in 2010, a year before graduating. She made a name for herself in the fashion-show circuit, even at one point getting the at- tention of Robin Kay, founder of Toronto Fash- ion Week. "Robin was very kind to wave off my run- way fees." To open her shop in Oakville, she initially tried to open on Kerr Street, but ultimately moved to her current Lakeshore Road East store for better foot traffic and exposure. NEWS Continued from page 20 The tags on one of Anu Raina's designs. Mansoor Tanweer/Metroland SIGN UP FOR OUR WEEKLY NEWSLETTER AT INSIDEHALTON.COM