Member Statement (23 April 2024)

From Hansard (23 April 2024)

 

Catering Business Owner Wins Best Wedding Caterer Award

Mr. B. McLeod: — Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Connie Wiebe, along with her husband, Steve, and son Ryan farm just north of Herbert. Steve and Ryan grain farm, have a cow-calf operation and winter season feedlot. Connie has worked in the food service industry all her life. She started her career at the Pilgrim restaurant in Caronport, then a cook at the Herbert nursing home, and now runs her own business, Country Hills Catering.

Eight years ago they obtained an empty building that was moved on to their farmyard. They set it up as a commercial kitchen, and Country Hills Catering was born. She runs a very busy catering business, travelling all over southwest Saskatchewan, providing food for various sizes of events.

She has also developed a frozen line of home-cooked meals, and these provide many seniors the opportunity to remain in their homes longer and keeps busy families fed as they are on the go with their kids. Farmers also take advantage of these meals during seeding and harvest seasons. As farms have grown in size, the need for meals for large crews has become a new arm of her business.

On April 14th, Country Hills Catering attended the 2024 Saskatchewan Wedding Industry Awards. And congratulations to Connie, who won the Best Wedding Caterer. She proudly represents the South doing what she loves to do — providing good home-cooked food to anyone who calls. And I can attest to that as the many occasions she’s catered for us. Connie and her family are proud to be Saskatchewan small-business owners.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker.