Snow Bear, also known as Melanie Villeneuve of Vankleek Hill, has raised $109.85 for the Odawa Native Friendship Centre in Ottawa.
Villeneuve’s Kindness Market, where she sells Indigenous crafts from her Snow Bear’s Arts and Crafts Corner at various local events, aims to provide a compassionate boost to Indigenous, Inuit, and Métis communities.
The Kindness Market is organized with the assistance of the Creating Centre, Samme Putzel, Susie Fairbrother, and the Vankleek Hill Farmer’s Market.
This spring, Villeneuve, who is Métis and makes some of the crafts, set up the Kindness Market this spring at Refuge Les Chevaux d’Espoir horse refuge, an artisan market in Vankleek Hill, and the Vankleek Hill Farmer’s Market.
