« EEE community roundup: MERCHANDISING STUDENTS learn how to run a store by selling items on consignment for art students at Capilano College's “Down South” boutique. The boutique is open daily from 11:30 to 1:30 and customers are more than welcome. What’s in store for you at Cap College What better way to teach merchandising students how to run a store than by having them run a store? At least, that’s the theory at Capilano College where Retail Fashion students operate the “Down South” boutique which sells items made by Art students on Signment. “It was our idea when we first started the program in 19°} to have a practising bouuque on campus,” ex- plained instructor Hilary Clark. “but if wasn’t possible fo get space until 1976 when we moved con- into the new building ” The store was put in a small room on the second floor of the “Tower”, but the ko auton was so out-of the- way for business that two years ago Wowas moved to the main floor “Sales have improved immensely,” said Clark. The “Down South” sells a vanety of items such as jewellery. candles, pottery, household of gifts and fabnc work, mostly made by art students who hke the opportunity to pick up some money by having their work sold for them. While the art students are geting a market, the merchandising students are learning how to run a store Fach year they start the business from scratch, doing the paperwork, accounting, purchasing. sales and publicity, and at the end of the term winding down and closing off the books. First year students work as sales clerks while the second year students actually the business run D KEITH GILLIS Certified General Ac Cc ountant and the Partners of PERRAULT, SMYTH & COMPANY CERTIFIED GENERAL ACCOUNTANTS take pleasure in announcing (he combining of them practices to be continued under the name of PERRAULT, SMYTH & COMPANY CERTIFIED GENERAL ACCOUNTANTS Nationally: Kvancic , Pyper, Perrault Barctay & Diloo Certahed Creneral Accs beeen ton Sask atonon Calgary Nianes Wounipe Hancy lest c Primee Crccnge mavet Y. papivlianis North Nannies Noe tone Moet Maw nly Cr on Hs amenedeon 102.1975 Lonsdale Ave North Vancouver BC V7M 2h 3 (604) 98S S101 Book sale set at NV Library Just in time for Christmas, North Vancouver District Library will be holding its Fall Book Sale on Saturday, November 29 at the main Lynn Valley branch. Hardcover books, paperbacks and magazines in good condition which have been withdrawn form Kiwanis donate nearly $50,000 The Kiwanis Club of North Vancouver donated nearly $50,000 to 28 charities and other deserving causes during its last financial year through the North Van Kiwanis Foundation created in 1976. Major beneficiaries of the $49,672 handout were Lions Gate Hospital Pediatrics Ward ($7,000); Boy Scouts of Canada ($5,000); Girl Guides of Canada ($4,170): and the Kiwassa Neighbour- hood Services Association ($3,000). The North Vancouver Youth Band received $2,500 and the North Shore Association for the Physi- cally Handicapped $2,060. Contributions of $2,000 went to the B.C. Arts and Crafts Fair (1979), the Canadian National Institute for the Blind, the Coast “Over a penod of eight months, then,” said Clark, “the merchandising students go through the whole procedure of doing business -- Starting the business. pubhcizing it. running it, and closing itoff ” Profits from the shop go towards field tnps and travel. In past years Retail Fashion students have gone to Los Angeles, Francisco. Seattle Teronto, and now San and they're You'll never wan your Cat again 975 Marine Or., N. Vancouver Do it now! Protect your Investment. Bring your ‘detariorotion the library’s collection to make space for newer materials will be available for purchase by members of the public at very reasonable prices. The sale runs from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm in the meeting room on the second floor; no dealers please. Mountain Ajr Society, the Kiwanis Foundation of Canada, Norgate Elementary School Advisory Council and the Ophthalmology Centre. Other donations, ranging from $250 to $1,500, were allocated to the Air Cadets Rescue (103 Sqn), Kiwanis Inter- national Foundation, Lions Gate Swim Club, Keith Lynn Alternative School, Navy League, North Van Christmas Bureau, North Van Fire Department, North Van High School Bursanes. Prince Charles School, Queen Mary School Drop-In Centre, Silver Harbour Centre, Ustla-Hahn Alternate School, Van- couver Oral Centre for Deaf Children, Vials of Life Program and Jim Young Foundation. hoping to raise enough money for a tnp to New York. The “Down South" boutique 1s located on the main floor of “A” building at Capuano College and is open Monday through. Friday from 11:30 to 1:30. Customers are, of course, more than welcome and, the students say, the Down South is a great place to do some early Christmas shopping. Winter weather con be horsh an your auvtomobile. Veor after yeor winter elements will take thelr toll. cor to Perma-Shine. 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