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MoveMobility CEO shares entrepreneurial insights Abridged article by Jennifer McFee, World Trade Centre Winnipeg, in Partnership with CentrePort Canada

Flogging our flag

lifelong entrepreneur continues to move forward with a mission to remove barriers to transportation and health care. Richard Jones, CEO of MoveMobility, shared insights from his entrepreneurial journey at a WTC Talks event hosted by World Trade Centre Winnipeg. MoveMobility completed its first wheelchair van conversion in 2007; however, its roots stem back much further. Jones reflected on his youth in England in the 1980s, growing up on his family’s farm. “The farm was stricken by a fire, and it went through quite a few of the buildings. It left such a mark on me,” he said. The fire destroyed a year’s worth

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Richard Jones, CEO of MoveMobility. Photo by David Lipnowski Photography provided by World Trade Centre Winnipeg. of fodder, so nearby farmers stepped up to help and brought truckloads of food for the animals. This gesture of generosity impacted young Jones, who also wanted to find a way to help his

family — and others too. When he was about 14, Jones launched his first business doing lawn care after school. He built a trailer for the back of his bike u 5 ‘MoveMobility'

You’ll never know, unless you try! Zofia Dove

hen I go to a grocery store, social gathering or to any public place, for example a concert, I often come across the same person more than once. I meet with them face to face, or in passing, again and again. It usually happens at least two or three times. Have you experienced anything like that? Has it ever happened to you? Have you noticed? Just yesterday, I spotted the same young woman three times, yet I

chose not to talk to her like I usually do. Today, afterwards, I wondered what would happen if I had. I know, from my previous experiences of this kind, that things are not as random as they seem to be. A few years ago, while grocery shopping, I kept running into the same woman throughout the store. At one point we stood side by side, in front of the dairy product coolers. It was there that I finally mustered the courage and asked her this question: “Did you notice that we have run into each other a few times already in this store? I wonder why, and what in the world

does it mean?” “Oh, you did? I noticed it, too,” she said. “And I also wondered why it is happening.” She went on to tell me that her best girlfriend just died a few days earlier. From what she said, it sounded as if the friend had suffered a lot before she passed on. Hearing the friend’s story, I reassured the young woman that I know what it means to lose a friend, since a few years earlier I had also lost a girlfriend to cancer. “She was young and beautiful,” I shared. “Her death changed my life u 11 ‘You'll never know'

vexillologist is a person who studies the history, symbolism, origins, and uses of flags and any general interest in flags. An important part of the study is what they mean to the people who live in a specific area of the world. Simply put, national pride. Although I have great admiration and respect for anyone who does that, I’m not exactly one of those people. I’m just a guy who collects flags. I’ve been doing that for more that 40 years but in a very casual way. I have acquired many of them in my travels to different countries but the majority of them have come from friends who picked them up in whichever countries they have traveled to. There are 195 countries in the world and 254 different national flags. Some countries have more than one flag. You have to consider, as an example, the United Kingdom which includes Scotland, Northern Ireland, Wales and England. I have accumulated more than 130 flags. Most are national flags from around the world but I also have provincial flags, Expo 1967, Pan Am Games 1967, NATO and others. They’re all stowed away in bins in the basement. There is one I consider my favourite. It’s a regulation size Canadian Flag but this one is different. It is signed by the man who designed it. George Stanley was born in Calgary on July 6, 1907. He was a historian, an author, a teacher and a public servant. Stanley's design was slightly modified by Jacques Saint-Cyr, a graphic artist u 6 ‘Flogging the flag'

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