26 • The Columbia Valley Pioneer
July 23, 2010
Shoe store wins national competition By Kate Irwin Pioneer Staff Summit Footwear in Invermere has won first prize in a national window display competition. Store owner Jocelyn Brunner and manager Jacinda Foulkes have won a trip for two to Spain, courtesy of contest runners El Naturalista Shoes. Their winning display was chosen from 20 entries across Canada. “We had our window display up around April,” Ms. Brunner said. “It got tons of good comments from customers and questions about why we had such an elaborate display.” The store staff were helped in creating their competition entry by Kim Ostere, owner of Olive Branch Designs, who helps put together the store’s displays. The three women took inspiration from the corporate mission of the shoe brand. El Naturalista uses mostly natural or recycled materials so the trio decided to create their display entirely from the natural materi-
AWARD WINNING — The window display at Summit Footwear in Invermere which won first prize in a national contest. Photo submitted als on offer in the valley. “We went into my backyard and got moss, old tree stumps, pine cones and other forest-y stuff,” Ms. Foulkes explained. “Then we draped material and used El Naturalista’s symbol, which is a frog.”
The competition piece was put together in one day, after a week spent gathering the materials. Mixed in with the display were a variety of shoes from the manufacturer’s summer range. During the 21 days in which it was up, Jocelyn and Jacinda put together a box with photographs of the window and an essay on why they love the brand. “We put together a decorative wooden box filled with some of the stuff from the display,” Ms. Foulkes said. “We really took care over it, put in our pictures, the essay and a little frog . . . we were pretty confident once we’d put it together.” And their confidence was not misplaced. After waiting for nearly two months they received the phone call on Friday, July 16th to let them know theirs was the winning display. The two ladies have won a custom made trip to Spain, the home of the shoe manufacturer. They are hoping to visit Barcelona and Pamplona, home the El Naturalista company.
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