Episode #9
Newcomers
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Episode Guests:
Edmond Segbeaya – Founder of Ebesse Zozo Hot Sauce
Basil Fuller – Big Rig Driver
Erin Rooney – Rural and Northern Immigration Pilot Program Manager
John Dooley – Irish immigrant and former Mayor of Nelson.
Episode Overview
Their stories are as diverse as their backgrounds: A family from war-torn Syria out for an afternoon of disc golf. Jamaican truckers learning new skills on snowy mountain roads. A Kootenay hot-sauce entrepreneur who escaped tyranny in Africa. Russian immigrants lured by the Columbia River’s abundant rainbow trout. In this podcast, we hear from people making a new life in the Basin and those who are helping them.
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