Rise Grand Opening

It's official!
Rise Nite Club (800 Wellington Ave) will be opening on October 18th, 2008 featuring Canada's top male and female flair bartenders performing live, GoGo dancers and other "surprises". Rise is expected to be a fun and exciting dance club with a large U-shaped bar, pool room with lounge, large main dance floor with an elevated lounge area, stand-up tables, lower lounge and much more.


Their entertainment director is busy planning new contests with quality prizes. Their DJ seeks out new and fresh music to get you dancing. Their head bartender will be testing new and fun drinks as well, and according to their website, " RISE is the most exciting club to ever come to Windsor" with "the largest light and sound system in southern Ontario pumping out the best Top 40 tunes along with the best of the retro "high-hair" days of yesterday. Dance, house, retro, rock & R/B is what to expect. All the great club anthems of today AND the great sing-alongs you love."

I can't wait to mingle among the movers and shakers, celebrities, media .... I'll be taking pictures at the grand opening and adding them to this post. Be sure to arrive early to get the best booths or call to make reservations, at 258-7473

See you there
:)

Spotlight: Sweet Pea's

Spotlight on local merchants:
Sweet Pea's
Children & Maternity

4112 Walker Road
Windsor, Ontario
( 519 ) 969.4040

Fantastic high end products, accessories and fashions for maternity and baby.

I went to the grand opening the weekend of April 5th and left with an armful of maternity fashions, baby clothes and a bathtub.

The store was dressed-up with pastel balloons and delicious looking cupcakes arranged creatively on a tiered rack on the counter next to a beautiful cake adorned with "icing" peas, greeted me. Although I arrived only ten minutes after the store opened for the day, it was already packed with shoppers and a line had already formed for the cash register with women carrying arm loads of children and maternity fashions, toys, baby and child furniture and accessories. I was pleased there was such a great turnout but could feel my heart sink as it beat faster and louder, fearful that items I had seen previously would be gone. I reached the racks and found only two of the Thyme Maternity and Old Navy Maternity shirts I had come to purchase. I was happy and shopped around a bit more and found several more items.

Pleased with my selections, I made my way to the cash register where I filled out ballots as the clerk entered my purchases on the cash register. Speaking briefly with the owner Mackenzie Murphy as she helped show me how to operate the bathtub gadgets. They are not the simple blue molded plastic vessels they used to be when I was a new mom and find Mackenzie extremely helpful in explaining how to properly use the products she sells, even when the store is full of people and activity.

I highly recommend Sweet Pea's for your purchase or sale of maternity fashions of baby clothes and accessories.