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Off to Calgary Tottenham's Cool Moose owner off to national competitionPosted March 11, 2010Tottenham's Greig Perantinos, a full time student at Western - Richard Ivey School of Business, followed up his Student Entrepreneur award last month with the regional title this week and now moves on to the 2010 Advancing Canadian Entrepreneurship (ACE) National Exposition in Calgary on May 12 to compete nationally. As a regional champion, Mr. Perantinos won $1,000. The National Champion will receive a $10,000 cash prize and represent Canada at the international level of competition, the Global Student Entrepreneur Awards. Since summer 2008, Greig owned and operated the Cool Moose Creamery, first established in Tottenham, serving hard ice cream flavours and freshly mixed frozen yogurt with fruit from May through September. The following summer, a second store was added in Alliston. Its been a seasonal business. When Tottenham was darkened by a six-hour power failure in July 2009, one of the few bright spots in the former village was his Cool Moose Creamery operating on generators and lit up outdoors with patio lights selling ice cream One of the factors that set Cool Moose Creamery above the others was its fundraising efforts to local causes which after two summers, totalled more than $7,000 in proceed contributions to Big Brothers Big Sisters of South Simcoe, the Alliston and District Humane Society, the Tottenham Food Bank, and the Tottenham Lions Club. "Being a part of ACE's Exposition was an amazing experience, and to
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