Mark and Deb Penner won't be able to celebrate their 30th anniversary Saturday but continue to be boosters for local business. (CHAT News photo).

By Alex McCuaig

'Buy local, sell local'

Premium Sausage won’t be celebrating 30th anniversary but continues to boost local businesses

May 8, 2020 | 4:43 PM

SEVEN PERSONS, AB – It’s been a hectic time for the owners of Seven Persons-based Premium Sausage as they adapted the business to deal with a pandemic. But the philosophy of “buy local, sell local” has been helping the Highway 3 landmark business manage for the past 30 years.

Mark and Deb Penner originally planned to celebrate three decades of being in business on Saturday – a celebration which usually sees the hamlet of a couple of hundred balloon to a couple of thousand.

But the couple are thankful for local restaurants such as Medicine Hat Brewing Company and Skinny’s Smoke House as well as its small-scale southern Alberta meat processing facilities which have continued to provide products as well as other local product supplies.

“When we find someone in this southern part of the province that has a product that works to blend with our product, then we try to have it on our selves,” said Mark Penner. “We’ve always had that philosophy of buy local.”

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Locals buying local is something Deb Penner says she hopes will continue after the pandemic subsides.

“We hope supporting local, supporting jobs, supporting neighbours stays,” she said. “That would be nice.”

While there won’t be a parade this year in Seven Persons to celebrate the business’s three decades in operation, Premium Sausage has been doing daily draws for customers.