NEWS. photo ‘Mike Wi efleld

: CITY, OF North Vancouver Mayor Jack Loucks tries his hand at excavation during a recent ceremony to
launch the reconstruction phase of Westview Shopping Centre by Adams Properties Group Ltd. Giving the
mayor a hand is Glen Makus of Vista Enterprises Lud.

Development agency means business

resources, agriculture and service
industries and the public sector.

A 20-YEAR-old Canadian interna- |
tional development agency, helping
business in the development world

_and in native communities in
Canada, is making its strongest
pitch ever to the Canadian cor-
porate community.

CESO (prounced KESSO), the
Canadian Executive Service
Organization, recently launched a
$315,000 fund-raising campaign
with companies across the country.
$20,000 of this total is to be raised
here in British Columbia.

Since 1967, CESO has supplied
more than 6,000 highly-skilled,
mainly retired Canadian men and
women as volunteer consultants to
over 14,000 businesses in develop-
ing countries dnd native com-
munities in Canada.

“The demand for our services is
far exceeding our ability to
deliver,” says Louise Ball, CESO
regional manager in B.C. ‘‘In the

coming year, we plan to do 400.

projects overseas and 1,450 here in
Canada, but we simply wil} not be
able to do that without increased
financial support.”’

CESO is presently supported by
the Canadian International
Development Agency (CIDA),

‘fessional

and Indian and Northern Affairs
Canada (INAC), provincial. and
territorial governments and over
300 Canadian corporations.

“We are ‘business talking to
business,’ ’’ said Ball. ‘‘Our con-
sultants are perhaps the best pro-
moters of Canadian goods and
services around the world.” .

CESO also helps to ease
employees of Canadian companies
into retirement. It provides them
with a rewarding and enriching
way to continue to use their exper-
tise. “We want to enlist more
companies ‘in sponsoring
‘‘customized’?’ CESO projects,
whereby CESO uses a company’s
retiring employees and the com-
pany can select the country and
type of project. That way, the
sponsoring company has a real
proprietary interest in CESO,”
said Ball.

CESO volunteer consultants
come ‘from a broad range of pro-
and technical areas.
Overseas projects average two
months in length and domestic
projects two weeks. Travel and liv-
ing expenses are covered by CESO
and other sponsors.

CESO clients cover a wide spec-
trum in manufacturing, primary

41 - Wednesday, October 28, 1987 - North Shore News

LOCAL ENTERPRISE
usiness offers
unique package

IT’S ALL in the packaging at Great Gifts Galore, a new gift
service enterprise wrapped up and ready to deliver by two

North Shore women.

Donna Morgan and Sandy
Godard developed the idea locally
after reading about a similar ser-
vice available in California.

At the heart of the concept is a
creatively arranged array of
goodies in baskets to cover all oc-
casions,

business
briefcase

by Michael
Becker

Choices include celebration
baskets, holiday baskets, baby
baskets, convalescent baskets,
corporate baskets and special oc-
casion baskets.

The gift service offers group
discount rates and free delivery on
the North Shore.

For more information contact
Donna at 985- 7928 or Sandy at
922-6471.

ekke ek

WOMEN IN Business is the focus
of a one-day workshop Saturday,
Nov. 14 at Carson Graham School
in North Vancouver.

The work «shop runs from 9 a.m,
to 4 p.m. and is being offered by
Hilary Hannigan.

The session is designed for
women considering starting a small
business and those already running
one. Topics to be covered include
business opportunities, market
research and business financing.

The fee to participate is $60. To
register call 985-8741.

Te kke

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available.

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™-Nect

The 1987/88 series, which
matures in 1997, offers investors
nine per cent interest in the first
year,

For each of the remaining nine
years to maturity, the annual in-
terest rate and amount will be set
and announced at the time the new
series is released.

Money market people are
predicting a fast sales campaign
and high demand for the bonds.

The bonds sale is officially set to
run to Nov. 6. In light of the re-
cent interest rate drops, the nine
ez cent rate is currently one of the
better investment propositions
around.

Tle individual purchase limit for
the new series bonds’ was to be
$75,000 but was lowered Friday to
$20,000 by Finance Minister
Michael Wilson. The limit applies
to combined purchases on payroll
savings plans and for cash.

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