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20 acquire skills in pastries at Lyn’s City Cakes and Training Institute
•Mrs Ofori (seated, middle) with participants displaying their certificates. In
front of her is El-Zoe Van-Dyck, a sixyear- old who also aquired the skills
Lyn’s City Cakes and Training Institute has organised a Promo Pastry Training Class for 20 ladies at Teshie Tsuibleoo in Accra.
The three-day training was to equip the ladies with skills in pastries to enable them start their own businesses to gain financial freedom.
Participants who came from various backgrounds were given hands-on training in lattice bread, spring rolls, meat pie, ring doughnuts, sausage rolls, pizza, sugar and butter bread among others.
In an address the Director of the Institute Mrs Lovelyn Naa Adjeley Adjei Ofori said at Lyn City “Creativity is our Hallmark and the difference is loud and clear.”
She said the institute had trained over 80 students in pastry making, cake decorating, interior and exterior decorations, cookery, local bar, makeup, wig making and many more.
Advising the graduates Mr Alfred Nana Kwabena Ofori, a Computer Engineer and husband of the director appealed to them to build on the foundation they had acquired to enable them succeed in the field.
In a motivational speech Reverend Richard Yankah, General Overseer of the Winners Firepraise Chapel International at Teshie Anumantu urged the graduates to have a vision and a mission and to put what they have learnt into practice to enable them achieve their mission and vision.
A participant, Ms Millicent Afia Yebowaa Perbi thanked the director for the opportunity given to them to acquire these skills and urged her to extend a hand to the vulnerable, especially People Living with Disabilities (PLWDs) to also benefit from the skills training for a better future.
Another participant, Bernice Edufu Yankson from Nkwanta in the Oti Region was thrilled with the skills she had acquired within this short period and was hopeful that it would create a business opportunity for her to liberate her financially.
Certificates as well as Free Recipe Handouts were presented to participants and special awards were given to those who excelled in various
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Craze for x’mas shopping: Crowded markets, low patronage
Vendors of food and other wares associated with the Christmas celebration have expressed surprise at the low patronage despite the increased number of visitors to some of the major markets across the capital.
Four days to the celebration(Christmas), the markets are filled with various products ranging from food, clothing, livestock and many other stuff, but according to the vendors, patrons are doing more ‘window’ shopping.
The Spectator on visits to some of the markets in the capital, notably the Odawna, Makola, Accra Central Business District, New Town and others made similar observations as shoppers crowd them but did little in terms of purchases.
The paper also observed that majority of vendors, originally selling other wares have switched to product related to the festive season.
What it means is that there are a lot more clothes, food and vegetables, livestock and poultry, toys, firecrackers, drinks of different types and many others on display.
The markets have also stretched to the pedestrian pavement, leaving very narrow spaces for commuters to move about freely.
That, in addition to a few of the female vendors dressed in coloured attires to reflect the occasion, has heightened the euphoria, leaving the low sales as the only headache for the vendors.
Speaking with this paper, they sounded very optimistic, believing that sales would improve in the last few days to the yuletide.
According to them, there was the opportunity to sell beyond Christmas as the New Year celebration offers similar opportunity to trade the same wares.
They urged patrons to throng the markets to shop since prices were quite moderate and products affordable for all.
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Retirement service for Elder John Ackom-Asante,3 others
Retired Deputy Editor of The Spectator, Elder John Ackom-Asante, was last Sunday honoured by the Church of Pentecost Windy Hills District in Kasoa in the Central Region, with a retirement thanksgiving service, after serving for 26 year as an Elder of the church.
He was honoured with a citation and certificate of service along with three other elders who served in the capacity for various years.
Elder Ackom-Asante was baptised at the Darkuman Central Assembly in 1979 and ordained as an Elder in 1997.
The citation read “Your selfless service, zeal, willingness to relate wholeheartedly and your desire to effect change has gone a long way to shape the lives of many people in the church and the nation over the 26 years of your dedication to the service of the Lord.”
Elder Ackom- Asante held many positions at the Darkuman Central Assembly, Obuasi in the Ashanti Region and Tema, serving in various capacities as youth and evangelism ministry leader and marriage counsellor.
He was the founding member of the Darkuman Christian Fellowship, a member of the Greater Accra Christian Fellowship; member of Bible Society of Ghana; founding member Obuasi Chapter Full Gospel Businessmen Fellowship International and founding member of New Times Corporation Christian Fellowship and Chaplain, Methodist University Tema Campus 2009- 2010.
As a professional journalist, Elder Ackom-Asante combined effectively and efficiently his duty as a member and elder of the church and the demands of his profession, with admiration from the church, kith and kin, till his retirement on December
From Alhaji Salifu Abdul-Rahaman, Kasoa
