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MORE AND more people are
discovering their careers are stall-
ed because they do not understand
computers, says Capilano College
Business Managemen! instructor
Stephen Ebaraki.

‘*Nowadays you have to under-
stand the technology as well as the
spreadsheet.”

Ibaraki teaches in the two year
Business Computing Co-op pro-
gram which offers training in
high-tech skills for people who
wet to move up the career lad-

ler.

Designed to be useful to people
from a variety of backgrounds,
the program offers business, ac-
counting and management training
along with computer literacy.

“Successful companies are using
the computer to model themselves
on,”’ says Ibaraki. ‘Jf you don’t
understand the basics, you won’t
get far iri the company.”

He said the program has so far
attracted office personnel, en-
trepreneurs, foresters, engineers,
psychologists and students who
have completed one or two years
of university, then realized they
wanted something more im-
mediately practical.

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BILTRITE NIGHTENGALE Lid.
of Burnaby recently won a
$114,253 contract to supply the
federal public works department
with an office screen system for
the Environment Canada office in
North Vancouver.

The project is expected to be
completed in July.

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NET EARNINGS for the B.C.
forest industry were down for the
second consecutive year, according
to a Price Waterhouse financial
and economic report released
recently.

B.C. forest industry earnings of
$1.1 billion in 1989 were down 15
per cent from the $1.3 billion
earned in 1988.

Lumber sales of $4.6 billion in
1989 generated net earnings of $37
million, a return on sales of Sess
than 1 per cent. Lumber sales of
$4.7 billion in 1988 generated net
earnings of just $ 6 million.

Poor profits in the lumber sec-

tor are directly related te increas-
ed stumpage charges paid to the
province, exchange rates and ad-
ditional costs incurred since re-
sponsibility for reforestation was
transfered from the province to
the industry in 19&7.

The Price Waterhouse report
estimates industry revenues would
have been some $400 million
higher if the Canadian dollar had
remained at 81 cents US.

In contrast to the lumber sector,
the pulp sector enjoyed record
sales and net earnings for the se-
cond year in a row.

Pulp markets remained strong
with sates of $3.6 billion and net
earnings of $694 millior.

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FOUR PROMINENT B.C forest
industry executives have been
elected chairmen of Council of
Forest Eadustries’ wood product
sector committee.

The four, who will serve two
year terms until 1992 are:

Terry Davis, vice-president of
sales and marketing with Rich-
mond Plywood Corp Ltd., Dave
Baldwin, sales coordinator with
Toiko Industries Ltd., Jim
Shields, gene.2z! manager of mar-
keting, coast wood products with
Fletcher Challenge Canada Ltd
and Ernie Thony, vice-president
of lumber sales with West Fraser
Mills Ltd.

FISHERIES AND Oceans
Minister Bernard Valcourt recently
announced the award of a $2.64
million contract over four years to
Conair Aviation Ltd of Ab-
botsford to provide fisheries air
surveillance on the Pacific Coast.

The contract will provide a total
of 2,160 hours of air surveillance
on the Pacific Coast. Conair will
provide a Beechcraft King Air 200
aircraft capable of speeds of up to
300 miles per hour with a forward
looking search radar, an_ in-
tegrated navigation system, @
computerized data management
system, a communication systein
and a photography capability for
both day and night.

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15 - Wednesday, June 27, 1990 - North Shore News

Shaw Cable gets new
fibre-optic equipment

COMLINK SYSTEMS Inc., will be supplying
fibre optic equipment for Shaw Cable's North
Vancouver system, serving approximately 60,000
subscribers.

The installation will consist of a dual fibre
system utilizing Scientific-Atlanta optoelectronic
transmitters and optoelectronic bridging amplifer.

The initial fibre system will service the eastern
portion of the long and narrow CATV system
spread along the base of the North Shore moun-
tains. Installation will be completed by the end of
August.

A second dual fibre system to serve the west
portion of the CATV system will be installed in
the latter part of the year.

Scientific-Atianta’s AM fibre optics systems is
designed especially for integration into coax or
microwave delivery sytems and allows com-
patibility with any system architecture.

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