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Above: Dragonfly Delights Tea Room. Below: Three-tier afternoon tea tray. (Photos submitted)
ittle black beetle-y bugs and the Gilmore Girls seem like an unlikely pairing for inspira- tion in naming a restaurant. “When my children were younger and we were purchasing a cabin, the gentleman we were purchasing from cautioned us not to hurt the little beetle bugs that would come from the water. He was adamant that you had to leave the beetle bugs alone,” says Joanne Pankiw. “And one day my eldest daugh- ter and I were standing in line at BY WENDY KING L
the grocery store bantering back and forth the way that we do and someone said: Oh my gosh, you’re just like Lorelai and Rory.” It turns out that the ugly looking beetles were actually naiads - immature drag- onflies. And Lorelai and Rory, from the Gilmore Girls - which became their fa- vourite TV show - featured the fictional Dragonfly Inn. So ... ‘Dragonfly Delights Tea Room’ is indeed a fitting name for the sweet little restaurant snug- gled into The Stowaway Inn at 106 Buffalo Drive in Wasagaming, Manitoba. » Continued on Page 8
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