Silver anniversary for Log Cabin
The Log Cabin gift store, a Fonthill landmark on Regional Road 20, celebrates its 25th anniversary with a sale and party this holiday weekend.
It will also mark a change of ownership that began April 1 when in-laws Scott and Ursula Penner and Les and Eva Ross bought the building.
Former owners Lois and Harry Schonewille continue to operate The Log Cabin Art Gallery in the building as a semiretirement project.
“It was a wonderful opportunity,” said Scott Penner, who owns Fonthill Pharmacy in a neighbouring health services plaza.
“The Log Cabin is still going strong,” he said, to ease concerns around town about the future of the popular gift shop.
It has kept its staff and has the benefit of guidance in the gift store business from the Schonewilles, who will lease the art gallery, he said.
“Eva has sunk her teeth into the business and the staff’s input has been invaluable,” he said about the way The Log Cabin gift store is developing.
The Lazy Loon restaurant and ice-cream parlor as well as the Quilting Bee quilt store enhance the building’s operation, said Penner.
After watching the development of the gift shop business over the past six weeks, Penner said he will step back from his original plan to move his pharmacy into The Log Cabin.
