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NEW AD BOSS

WEST VANCOUVER | resident
Peter Sttingkam, general manuger
of Baker Lovick Advertising’s $50
million B.C. operations, has been
appointed president and chief ex-
eculive officer of the national firm
that was recently named fnterna-
tional Advertising Agency of the
Year.

Stringham, 42, an executive
vice-president of the company, is
the first westerner in more than
two decades to head Baker
Lovick, one of Canada’s largest
advertising agencies. He succeeds
Peter Mills) who moves from
Toronto to the United States as
president and chief operating of-
ficer of BBDO North America.

President of the Association of
Advertising Agencies of B.C., Sur-
ingham takes over Baker Lovick's
top post at a high point in the
agency's history. The company es-
tablished records for both billings
and revenue in 1990 and in 1991 it
became the first Canadian agency
to receive the International Agen-
cy of the Year award from Adver-
lising Age in New York.

Under Stringhaim’s
Baker Lovick’s B.
grew by more than 20%) to
become the largest agency in
Western Canada at a@ time when

direction,
Operations

most firms were experiencing a
downturn,
Stringham, formerls president

and majority shareholder of Sir-
ingham and Grant/Tandy in his
native Winnipeg, previously

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worked as a creative director and
has an established reputation for
running het creative shops.

Last year alone his creative
teum in Vancouver won 68 awards
in Canadian and international
agency competitions. Fhey inciud-
ed 2) Lotus awards, the B.C.
Association of Broadcasters’ best
tele n and radio campaigns of
the year, Bessie’s All-Star Creative
Agency of the Year, several mar-
keting awards, Clies, and awards
from the International Film and
FV Festival of New York.

HOME SECURITY

A NORTH Vancouver company is
offering customers a wide-range
of home security services.

Ken Mowatt, general manager
of Rest Assured: Your Home Sen-
try, said the focal company
specializes in maintaining watch
over the homes ot people who are
ont of town for any period of
ume.

“We're herz to provide the cus-
tomer with complete peace of
mind while they cre away on a
business trip or vasation. Your
home will be checked regularly
and your mail. newspapers and
magazines held safely for your
return,"’ says Mowatt. ‘We aiso
offer a diversity of specialized
services ineluding pet, plant and
garden care and secured storage of
valuables or irreplaceable belong-
ings."”

Other services offered
perimeter checks, snow
and routine errands.

REUNION SERVICE

A NEW Vancouver company his
been set up with a focus on offer-
ing specialized class reunions.

Margo Jacobson and Marlene
Paggio of M&M Class Reunions
Inc., said they saw a need for a
very specol service in’ offering
class retiniens. from start to
finish they do all the organization
and lee work necessary to bring
off a successful and memorable
class reunion.

Jacobson said the company is
currently working on a Valentine's
Day reunion for 1972 gradusates of

include
removal

North Vancouver’s Carson
Graham Seconday sebual,
“Though many people would

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Entertainment starts at 1:39 p.m.
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like to have a ciuss reunion their
minds bogele at the ancunt of
work and planning necessary.
Vurther, there is the expense of
invitations, ads. deposits, decora-
tions, long distance calls for fin-
ding peopie. postage and many
other costs which must be laid oui
before mosey comes in,’ says
Jacobson, “it’s all very daunting
to the amateur.""

M&M) Class Reunions locates
class members, writes, prints and
maiis out invitations and
reminders, places ads, reserves the
location and holds it with a de-
posit, arranges catering and a disc
jockey or band.

The company also offers
nostalgia memenios such as books
and sweatshirts.

Both Jacobson and Paggio have
backgrounds in party planning,
hotel and restaurant trade, retail

and real estate and both are
teachers.
For more information, call

M&M Class Reunions at 736-3046.
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KEN ARMSTRONG of Sussex

insurance Agency ine., opened his

newest office Monday in’ the
Dollar Shopping Centre, 387
North Dollarton Highway in

North Vancouver,

The new office, which will be

managed by Evelyn Beckett, will
carry the name Sussex Insurance
Agency (Dollar Centre} inc., and
its grand opening is set For Tuly 6.
With the apening of the Deep

Cove office, Sussex Insurance now
has three North Shore offices, the
other two located on West 3rd
Street in) North Vancouver and
Marine Drive in West Vancouver.

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