A4-Sundavy News. Inne 15. 1980

A6-Sunday News, June 15, 1980

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NEWS VIEWPOINT

Adults needed

Last week thousands of Lower Mainiand
citizens suffered inconvenience and delays
when government employees walked off the
job to protest proposed new pension
legislation. More of the same is promised if
the government refuses to discuss the issue
with its unions.

Neither side should dependon support
from the gefteral public which, as usual, is
the only victim in this hamhanded dispute.

The government plans to increase its
employees’ pension contributions and to
limit the extent to which pensions are
protected against cost-of-living increases by
“indexing”. Otherwise, says the government,
its pension funds could go broke at some
future date. Victoria may be right in its
arithmetic. But it was utterly stupid to an-
nounce the changes unilaterally before
talking with the unions affected.

The unions, for their part, say the pension
funds are healthy and claim the government
is conning the public on the matter. So they
are downing tools to demand that the
Socreds be thrown out and replaced by an
NDP government.

In going to these lengths the government
employees are unlikely to arouse much
sympathy among the great majority of the
population who have no employee pensions
at all, let alone indexed ones. Closing down
government offices, liquor stores and ferries
for hours on end seems a dumb way ol trying
to win public backing for their special cause.

Both the government and its unions should
start behaving like adults and stop em-
broiling the rest of us in their squabble.

White elephant?

Vancouver Mayor Jack Volrich is elated
over the acceptance of Vancouver as host to
the 1986 world transportation exhibition by
the Bureau of International Exhibitions
Transpo °86 is expected to bring 13 million
visitors here. It's also expected, even at this
early stage, to run up a $12 million deficit
and we can’t help wondering just a litthe why
none of the other 36 member countries of the
BIE even wanted it.

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By FRANK WATTERS

Smal! businesses con-
sutute one of Canada’s most
valuable economic. re-
sources. There are 900,000
of them across the country,
employing some 2,500,000
people and accounting for 25

per cent of the Gross
National Product. Their
number is growing every
day.

The desire for in-

dependence, to have control
of one’s own working life
and income, is the prime

motivation for any small
business owner and that can
be an almost irresistible
temptation.

Unfortunately. just being
good at what a person does
often 1s not enough The
secret is notin knowing how
to make a= product or

provide a= service, but in
knowing how to make
money from that product or
service
: Most business failures in
' Canada are the result of
Management problems so

anyone starting or buying a
small

business

must

HIGH-N-DRY -

thats
1O0Q) local boat
' owners fear they may be Icft

where BO to

Woah appheation te be
' submitted (ommaorrow unc
\ lor to West Van council os

» exsentually approved imeer-

nadonal Land ( orporatdion 15
seching

refoning and op

development that
would transform the present
site ool Whart
Marine \9OK

Marine [tive aw private

permit

biushermans

Sctvies
tretes
Comdominiuin © omple x

No need te remind anyone

that waterfroat property ous
pure gold tea developer
Jivteruatacotal stead as quant
another cxample of ny

preocess Chat es stutttapg down
fiusmcdreals of independent
all

tout

toe veal
Nuoeth

Prepare  yarets over

Ametioa the

cftleet vo Chins case could be

pacttoutacly harsh oon the
booting fraternity herrea
bouts Not only do they
strap ote dose up ta 1OO
tmoormyes hard to replace
anywhere at any proce Don

Make olm biasherman s

Wharf alse has the onby left
farculety ro West Nar c apable
of thoaodling seaseds

With

over 2S
shalled

nasistoanec

fi ta deny th
shipewerog he
asoattable is on of the few

Woot yousssell

repan yards
on the North Shore where
your con still stroll dawn tn

the evening and cnypoy direct
access te the waterfront and

thre byooats
Internationals apple ation

will be sent tothe Advisory

Plnaoing  Comentsston and

the Adhvisory

Design Pane!

foo

COt mcs pnb |

the

Inter esthing tee

govetolns hearing

Along

way it wall be

recognize his or her
strengths and weaknesses, to
be able to capitalize on the
former and compensate for
the latter.

Basic to success are a
commitment to hard work

and a willingness to take
some risks.

These risks include
psychological failure, with
subsequent loss of _ self-
confidence, career in-
terruption, with disap-

pearance of job secunty and

“tcl run around $90 --
labor and parts.”

of course that donut

seniority, the straining of
family relationships since
operating a small business
demands much in tume,
energy and emotion: and
financial difficulties or even
failure because life savings
often are at stake and there

likely will be a _ lower
standard of hving unt
success 18 assured

There are rewards, too:
the satisfaction a person
derives in doing his own
thing: being an important

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\ eEPAIL

CL? Anson

include

sunday brunch

by Noel Wright

sec how the local boat owner
lobby stacks the
cnergetig the
developer w reported tohave
been conducting tn council

up against
lobby

ctrcles

ing that money
promise thereof) talks

Always remember

(an

tor the

Roy Davey of North Van
sends us a chpping from the

Pondon (bh ogland:  Daity
Telegraph caplaining why
North Van Burnaby MP
Chack Cook and wite Dale
think 8 certatn Bort ot
London Authority
potrolman “Moartle
frampton. is prrst the
Kreator Pte Telegraph
story tclis tow oon a recent
( K trips Pale had) her
handbag CoOntariing oben
cords cash and both ther
PAsaprorts stolen while
visiting the Pate Cattery
Alter some

appotntine oats
they couldn t skip Chey made
them way glumly to © onada
House to report the losses

ih)
they

thet astonishine nt

the PLA
been there before them

fround had

The

bondbag had been

already

found minus only the «ash

The hawk cycd

brampton
crulsing down the river ona

routine patrol had spotted at

to the mud on the odge of the
cmbankment and lowered a

boat to tnvestigate Broa its

contents he tracked down a

frrcod of the

Cooks near

Londen and as a resull) was

able te call Canada House

with Ube miraculous Clings

“Marne adous incidentally

being Une only accurate word
VOOM)

pransprerrta are

some Canadian

stofen te

London  cvery

vea' ane
hardly any wre ever
recovered
oes
For North Van Chambe:

of Commerces Peg Pht

Brooke the unkindest cut ol
all came when she receives
the

Insuranacc COETD PARED

claim form re damage te the
Chambers premises during
recent break in tthe thieves
incidentally, gor ons

laches

tarthe:

than the

washitcncon
and celired empty handed
The

the

claim) form

teferted t
Chambers manager a:

Pep Pat rook

Of to the

Oly arngree thas
weeks the BO teoys © been
with its Nortt Shore
founder dire. t. Don
Forbes and Ps other North
Shore members tout
theyre not breaking any
boyeott A taghhpht of thei
ssa week du Come cel
buropean teovus will be
Moging aot the Obl yerpoas

Caames for the Handicapped
in Arohemr Holland

Altention all seplua

Kenanan UBC grads in these

parts’ The UBC class of
VON) the fast to graduate
from the old Faursiew

campus ts bolding a reaunton
dinper this Biriday dune 20
atthe Faculty Club folhowed
Saturday by a penis
Inland Call Janes
Mitchel (228 8 '60) 1h youre
no 2Ser and havent

your tovildathon

on
Bowen

yet had

Tdergs oc ye hasty

nod roller

shaters are str hy verhioten

‘domework ’ is the key
to success in small business

part of the economic
Structure, making a
Significant contnbution to

the communuty by providing
employment and increasing
goods or services available,
and the financial gains that
will follow proper pianning
and execution.

Factors that must be
studied in advance include
location (market, com-
petition, growth potential,
costs, services, availability
of labor and = supplies),
marketing (objectives,
customer profile. pricing.
distribution, promotion)
and financing (forecast with
informed estimates after
analysis of income = and
expenses. identification of
both short- and long-term
needs and possible sources:

Pracucal advice and help
in these areas and many
others affecting
business can be obtainec
from the Federa! Business
Development Bank. P O
Box 1087, Station H
Montreal, Quebec H 30,
2Ni White to me personally
c o the Bank. if youd bke
further information

smal!

on West Vans Scawalk Bu:
devoted Scawalkh cr Diane
Bebbington. the 9 golden
phone Wes,
hall reports
that pretty gir!
porger who sprints along at
top speed pushing a babys
buggy fcomplete with baby
in front of her Te could only
happenin Tiddlye ove

voice of Van
muni ipas

theres stili

ROLL CALL: A

smar
salute te West Vans 24 year
old mosxer and shaker Mark
Sager YOUNES! schoo
trustee Community Tavs
Chairponan and mow namee
Soaulageae ot ihe Yeas ti the
Wes Nan Chamber or
C ommectroe weleome
hhome tee Nartl Nans Sid
Manning and Margaret
back from Rotary s huge

Sth aaniversary Convention
va C hte age

JU) UK

attended by
Rotanans and thei
guests from FOO Countries

Congratulations tc

North Van

won $250 provincial govern
nent awards tor

three
students who ve
proyects tn
Attach
drinking driving
Katarina Phomen and Karim
Damfi Cboth of Carson
Coraham) ond Sazan Badgley
Many

years to

support oof Counter

happy rcturement

West Van teachers
Smith

Johbnsond

Irene (Pauline

Smith
Rene Pugh
Anniversary
North
Vanes Riva and Doag Shichds

And many happy returns

Marry
(Sentinel) and
(lrwan Poth?

wishes lomorrow to

of Tuesday June 17 to Don
Preston
WRIGKHE Ok WRONG,

A very good Rachers Day to
ati

whose

fathers those

cape ally
families have

forgotten tes Rather s Day