Home-based business owners networking in Vancouver

BUSINESS BRIEFS

~ Compiled by Kate Zimmerman

‘North Shore business groups and individu-
‘als wishing to submit items to Business

Briefs can fax them to the attention of
Kate Zimmerman at 985-2104,

Get out of the house

The Vancouver Home Based

’ :Business Association holds ‘its
.. monthly meeting Tuesday, April 19
-at'7.p.m. in the Ramada Vancouver
Centre Oak Room, 898 Broadway
West (at-Laurél):-There will be a

’ no-host supper networking session

Country Trade Fair, which takes |
“place May. 27-29. The fair attracted‘

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‘inthe ‘restaurant before the formal

meeting. The topic of the meeting
will be VBHBA’s promotional and

‘ purchasing programs.

‘> Members, : guests, out- of-town

itors ‘and ‘first-time prospective |
“members are free. A: $4 donation is

requested from returning visitors.
Parking costs $3. For further infor-

* mation, call 224-7243,

Kits help raise funds.

A West Vancouver company is
offering earthquake. preparedness

“kits as fundraisers for charities.’

..Tai-Pan Enterprises Inc. is a
shopping service which offers the
items ‘necessary for earthquake sur-
vival at regular. retail prices ‘and
will: deliver: the kits to’ whichever

organization wants to use them for. -
‘raising funds.-- % | ‘

‘Tai-Pan offers two kits — one
r the household ($120) and a less
expensive one for the individual
($50) —‘with optional add-ons.
‘With‘an agreed-upon minimum
order, an organization receives 5-

10% of the total sales (excluding |

tax),. te be puts toward its particular

There are’ ‘only 2 booths still
available - at’. the’: Sea-to-Sky

over 8,000 people last year.

This time,’ the: theme is the
Roaring Twenties. Prizes will be
awarded to the best exhibitor based

on.service, booth design and_prod- .

local branch of the Canada
Employment Centre, the Canada
Employment Centre for Students,
the Royal Bank, the National
Bank of Canada or the Federal

- Business Development Bank. The

FBDB decides on the viability of
projects based on a concise busi-
ness plan that students must submit
with their application.

Applications must be received at
the local FBDB branch no later
than June 14. Call Susan
McDougall at 954-6511 for further
information.

Celebrating Smith

A celebration dinner in honor of

UBC’s Nobel | Prize-winning
Professor Michael Smith will take
place at the Westin Bayshore on
Wednesday, April 20. The event is
meant to be a community-wide cel-
ebration of Smith’s achievement in

‘receiving the 1993 Nobel Prize for

Chemistry, as well as an opportuni-

‘ty to promote science awareness.
The occasion is being presented -

by ‘Science World British
Columbia; the UBC Research
Office and the Science Council of
B.C., and co-sponsored by the B.C.
Chamber of Commerce, Business
Council of B.C., the Canadian
Club. of Vancouver, The
Vancouver Institute and The
Vancouver Board of Trade.

For more information, contact.

Jennifer Wolfe at the Science
Council of B.C., 438-2752.

Call 1-900...for doilars

‘Two ‘students ‘from the

University of Victoria are selling a _

limited number of 1- 900 numbers
to the general public. °°

ct:presentation and best costume...’

Squamish’ and . Howe Sound

District. Chamber of Commerce .

Members pay’ $215 for an 8’ x 10’

‘booth’ which includes one 1,000
“watt electrical outlet; non- members a
“pay: ‘$255 For more ‘information,
‘contact the’ Chamber at 892- 9244,

: ‘Yo oung, entrepreneurs unite

LAS. part: of. Chatienge 94, the
federal ‘government’ s ‘summer
employment: program for students,
“young: people with a flair for busi-
“ness, are being invited to apply for
“business loans to Human Resources
‘Development Canada and the
: Secretary of State for Training and
Youth. :

. Eligible. students age 15 and
Older can borrow up to $3,000 in an
-intérest-free loan to help with the
1 Start-up costs of their business. _

Applicants must be legally enti-
ied to work in Canada and must
attend a Canadian high school,
community. college or university
- and intend to return to school this.

- "year in B.C,
‘Business Loans were authorized for
.a total of $445,368, helping stu-
. denis to create 357 jobs.
Application forms and a guide
for applicants are available at any

172 Student :

Warren Young and Charles
Miller believe they have got in on
the ground flaor of an industry
which will prove to be as lucrative
in Canada as it has been in the U.S.,
where it generates a billion dollars
a year,

The numbers provide various
information and entertainment ser-
vices for a common, nation-wide
fee. For more information, call toll-
free: 1-800-454-6362,

Marketing in the 1990s

The B.C. Chapter of the
American Marketing Association
will present the chairman of one of
the leading marketing companies in

the U.S. discussing his strategies —

for marketing in the ’90s, on

_ Tuesday, April 19.

’ Alf Nucifora, chairman of
Atlanta’s Nucifora Consulting

Group, will speak on the subject of

“Guerrilla Marketing.”

Tickets for the presentation,
which will be preceded by an hors
d’oeuvre reception beginning at
5:30 p.m., are available through the
BCMA office at 986-5050. The

cost for members is $17; non-mem- -

bers pay $29.

Antiques valuation

Shaughnessy Antiques Gallery
Inc., at 3025 Granville St., offers
free antiques valuation on the last
Sunday of each month between

“noon and 4 p.m. A maximum of

three items per person will be
inspected by the dealers operating
within the gallery, the largest estab-

lishment of its kind in the Lower

Mainland.
For more information, call 739-

8413.

_ North Vancouver

diM PERKINS

VICE PRESIDENT

Mackenzie |

The Industrial Group of Funds _

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