Jeff Reitzel is a long-time friend of ours. He's a highly-respected real estate agent, mortgage broker, and investor in Kitchener, Waterloo, Guelph, and the surrounding area, but he says his “best investment by far” is an orphanage he purchased in Ghana, Africa, to help care for abandoned children. Giving back to our local and [...]
The last time we saw Mike Brown in Part II of our story, he was heading over to visit Nadine Doyle at The Hacienda Roasting Company to pitch his idea of Coffee4Kids: an initiative born of his desire to help support Food4KidsWR. He still needs to source the coffee and The Hacienda Roasting Company may [...]
In Part I, we learned how Food4KidsWR stepped up to feed over 600 hungry children in our region every day that the schools were shut down due to the coronavirus pandemic. This put their spending hundreds of thousands of dollars above their projected budget for the year. Coffee4Kids has a goal to sell 10,000 [...]
The Food4KidsWR Story: Kelly-Sue Oberle We’re a few minutes into our conversation when Kelly-Sue’s phone springs to life with the Sherwood Forest ringtone. It’s appropriate given her mission: to encourage members of the community who have enough, to give to those who do not. Kelly-Sue has worked with several nutrition programs in Waterloo Region, and [...]
Backpacks for Kids Sends 150 Kids to School in the Dominican Republic. Backpacks for Kids is Fibernetics' in-house charity devoted to helping families in the Dominican Republic. Each year, a number of children are denied the opportunity to attend school because their families cannot afford the necessary school supplies and uniform. Over the past [...]
After a long Canadian winter, spring has finally arrived, which means the Heffner Toyota Spring Show is just around the corner. Tomorrow, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Heffner Toyota will be celebrating their 11th Annual Spring Show, and this year, Fibernetics is pleased to be a vendor at the event. With spring in [...]
According to Traveller.com.au, experts say you should spend all your money on travel, because it’s the ‘secret to happiness.’ And with workplace happiness being at the forefront of companies’ vision due to the correlation between happiness and success, why not encourage your employees to travel? […]
Fibernetics volunteerism program donated over 100 man-hours to local organizations over the month of December. Here, head of Human Culture, Amanda Little, Executive Assistant to the president, Dawn Gamble, and VP of Sales Mike Brown are assembling shoe boxes for distribution around the world for Operation Christmas Child. In 2016, Fibernetics is continuing its commitment to [...]
We went to the site of Operation Christmas Child in Kitchener to interview with OCC's Paula Schneider. Their 50,000 "pop-up" facility that was just a few weeks ago an empty warehouse, has been transformed into a highly efficient operation designed to facilitate the delivery of 340,000 shoeboxes to children in need all over the world. [...]
Christmas spirit fills the Centre In The Square CAMBRIDGE, ONTARIO – (November 6, 2015) – Fibernetics, Waterloo region’s largest telecommunications company is proud to announce their sponsorship of the Spirit of Christmas Variety Show. Located at Kitchener’s Centre in the Square on December 1st, this beautiful Christmas-inspired performance includes six musical acts with undeniable [...]
