SENIOR SERVICE

TWO WEST Vancouver women,
Susan Macintosh and Lesley
Feansvaag, have started up a new
service culled Belle Amie, which is
geared towards senior citizens liv-
ing on the North Shore.

Personal experience with their
own families have taught Macin-
tosh and Fransvaag how impor-
tant mobility and independence
are to senior citizens.

However, not every senior on
the North Shore has family avail-
able io them when they need
assistance and not every senior en-
joys the thought of going out
alone.

Belle Amie has been designed to
assist seniors in getting various
Projects and chores done in a

manner which maintains their
mobility and independence.
Some common requests for

assistance have included:

@ travel to and from medical and
dental appointments;

® grocery shopping;

® running general errands.

Macintosh said that one client
even asked for a Mah-jong part-
ner twice a week.

She added that decause
everyone has individual needs,
Belle Amie has a flexibility that
caters to those requests and con-
sequentiy customizes the service to
fit the needs of the client.

Macintosh said the service of-
fers reasonable hourly rates and
Belle Amie extends those same
fates if two or three seniors wish
to share the cost.

Gift certificates are also avail-
able to anyone who would like to
give someone access (to Belle
Aumie. .

For more- information, call
Macintosh or Fransvaag at 984-
2718 or 925-0015.

" COMPUTER SHOW

SOUTHEX EXHIBITIONS,
Canada’s largest producer of trade
and consumer shows, is gearing
up for another exciting year.

Well known for entertaining
and informative shows, the 1993
season gets off to a great start
with the 9th annual Pacific Rim
Computer Communication and
Business Show (PacRim).

From Jan. 12-14, 1993, the
Vancouver Trade and Convention
Centre will host western Canada’s
largest and most comprehensive
showing of business technologies.

The broad-base appeal of
PacRim is achieved with more
than 200 exhibitors who come to
the show armed with their latest
solutions to business productivity
challenges such as hardware,
software, networking comrunica-
tions, multi-media and open
. Spaces.

Highlights at PacRim ‘93 in-
clude expanded seminar programs,

BUSINESS SRIEFS

sponsored by the Canadiaa In-
formation Processing Society and
the Federal Business Development
Bank. A second attraction is the
second annual Window on
Business show.

WGODWARD'S
FOUNDATION

WOODWARD’S LTD. is laun-
ching the Woodward’s Stores
Foundation for Families to mark
the milestone of its 100th anniver-
sary.

The foundation’s primary ob-
jective will be to raise and provide
funds to organizations that keep
families together and assist them
through difficult times.

The three areas of focus are ts
assist:

@ families that are coping with
life-threatening and chronic ill-
ness;

@ families that are in crisis due to
unforeseen circumstances such as
fires, floods, death or injury and;
® organizations that proactively
assist children in crisis and foster
a return to a norma! family en-
vironment.

In keeping with its mandate, the
foundation has selected charities it
will support in B.C. and Alberta,
the two provinces where Woad-
ward's stores are located.

Those in 3.C. inciude the B.C,
Children’s Hospital Foundatiou,
the Canadian Fed Cross Society
and the Big Brothers ane Big
Sisters organization.

“Woodward's has been a part
of many communities in B.C. and
Alberta for 100 years now and we
would iike to contribute in this
way to the well-being of western
families,’’ said Patricia St.
Laurent, Woodward's acting
chairman of the foundation. ..

“We are pleased to be able to
establish this foundation and pro-
vide assistance
areas. This foundation will ensure
that some of the Organizations do-
ing such valuable work in the
communities have an additional
source of funding.”" °

Aboriginal chefs win medals

THE HONORABLE Tom
Hockin, Minister of State
(Small Business and
‘Tourism) welcomed the re-
sounding success of a
five-person team of
aboriginal Canadian chefs
who finished their first-ever
World Culinary Olympics in
Frankfurt, Germany, with a
total of seven gold, two
silver and two bronze
medals.

The Canadian aboriginal team,
representing a cross-section of
First Nations across Canada,
competed for gold from Oct. 1i
to 15 against seme 14,000 chefs

from 40 countries.
“This has been the most ex-

citing experience of our lives,’’
said team member Bertha Skye, of
Six .Jations Reserve, Ohsweken,

Ont. ‘‘We are proud to have rep-
resented ahoriginal people at the
Culinary Olympics and we are
honored to bring so many goid
medals back home to Canada.”

The Canadian Native Culinary
‘Team served up 4 menu of Native
haute cuisine, inspired by and
Prepared using the traditional
foods of Canada's aboriginal
people Undians, Inuit and Metis).
Aboriginal food products for the
chefs were provided by Canadian
native suppliers.

The team entered the competi-
tion under the guidance of George
Chauvet, seven-time gold
medallist at the Olympics.

In addition to Skye, members
are team captain David Wolfman,
Toronto; Andrew George, Vai-
couver; Arnold Olson, Kinoosao,
Saskatchewan; and Brian Sappier,
Tobique, New Brunswick.

The five-person team returned
to Canada Oct. 16,

in much-needed .

Funds for the foundation will
be raised through a variety of ac-

tivities, This Christmas, Wood-
ward's stores will be selling
Woody T. Bear, a stuffed teddy
bear for $9.99, SI of which will
go towards the foundation.

In addition, donation boxes will
be placed in all Woodward's
stores.

BUSINESS WARNING

THE BETTER Business Bureau
(BBB) of Mainland B.C. is warn-
ing businesses to watch out for the
recent mailing from Classified Di-
rectory of Downsview, Ontario.

This is not an invoice and does
not have anything to do with the
Yellow Pages.

The BBB advises that this is a
solicitation to advertise in a smail
directory with limited distribution
across Canada, mostly to adver-
tisers in the directory and some
libraries. :

Businesses are not required to
sign up or pay for this service
unless they wish to participate in
this offer.

The BBB urges business owners
and accounts payable staff to be
alert when. unsolicitated !ook-alike
invoices cross their desks.

BUSINESS WINNER

NORTH. .SHORE resident and
Vancouver businesswoman Emmie
Wong Leung was honored Friday
for being a winner in this year’s
Canadisa Entrepreneur of the
Year Awards.

She was the national winner in
the Impact On Local Economy
category.

Drew Hock In hes been appointed
Assistant Vice-President and Manager at

Hongkong Bank of Canadas Bank of §

British Columbia Division branch at

1457 Lonsdale Avenue, North Vancouver.
Drew has held various senior management
positions in both Eastern and Western
Canada during his 30 xears in the Canadian
banking industry and is a member of the
Hong Kong-Canada Business Association,
Hongkong Bank of Canada, a member

of the HSBC Group, has 109 offices across
Canada, With some 3,300 offices wortd-
wide, includisig mare than 600 in Asze,
the HSBC Group ranks among the largest
banking organizations in the world,

Hongkong Bank of Canada

A TRADE SHOW WITH GREAT NETWO
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