Zita Cobb

And sometimes they're never even in your business.

I'll use the example of Zita Cobb in the Fogo Island Inn.

I mean, I heard that she was working with quilters.

second generation, third generation quilters in her island, in her hometown.

And it's kind of now world famous.

And it's run by this woman named Zita Cobb.

And Zita Cobb made all her money in tech and kind of got out.

But she grew up on this very small fisherman's island.

And it feels very much of this feel.

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Well, is he the next Zita Cobb? The last time we spoke with Spencer Lake Jr.

was the summer of 2025.

He's the son of late Burgeo fish processor Spencer Lake.

Lake sees a lot of tourism potential on Newfoundland's south coast, and he's now the founder and chair of the Saltwind Foundation.

This week he's involved in the Business and Investment Summit happening in Corner Brook, and this morning he spoke with the CBC's Bernice Hillier.

Yeah, you should think of us as an equivalent to Shorefast, which was set up 20-odd years ago in Fogo Island by Zita Cobb.

Uh, and we're there to protect the four towns of Burgeo, Ramia, Grey River, and Francois, uh, and to bring investment dollars in to create an economically based development plan, uh, with conservation at the heart of it.