Sunday, November 18 , 1990 - North Shore News - 34 get those keyboards dazzling. a Help to create a : diabetes - free y future. * : Give to the Canadian @ Association Diabetes canadienne Association du diab&te B.C. Division Cae THE NORTH VANCOUVER CHAMBER OF COMMERCE and a EVANCIC PERRAULT ROBERTSON t Certified Genera! Accounts invite you io a GST : SEMINAR Wednesday, November“: 1925 7:00 t0 9:00 pa The Chambe: Orices / 131 East 2nd Street oo, / North Vancouver | SPACE LIMITED RESERVE NCW 987-4488 Wo. $10.00 CE EM tele oa NEWS photo Mike Wakefield CAPILANO BUSINESS PEOPLE WITH oily) skin touch them. They get dust, dirt. crumbs, coffee, pop. paper clips. staples, fur balls on them. And computers break down duc to the unclean habits of their users. A North Vancouver company, starting with a good idea in June of 1988, is making a name for itself cleaning computers and other office equipment. Compu-Clean Services was founded by Mark Winder after he graduated from Sentinel school. His father came back from England with the idea and Mark can with the concept. Now a communications student at Simon Fraser University, Winder has the support of his mother Sheila Winder as a partner. Said Sheila Winder, who also teaches part-time in the marketing department at Douglas College, “It was really a question of should we let it go or have some- one take it over.”’ Had they let it go, they would have walked away fom a company built from the ground up to a point where today, the business services the computers of more 4 than 100 clients throughout the - Lower Mainland. Clients may have as few as six or as many as 2,000 computers on hand. Com- pu-Clean brings in a white-coated SHEILA WINDER of North Vancouver Compu-Clean knows how to cleaning crew on average every six months. Ru Ua Phy, Pragra®™ oe vo oy ~ “otra grew Come hear talks on THAILAND, MALAYSIA, INDONESIA, SINGAPORE, PHILIPPINES & CHINA Keep on top of developments in the ASEAN countries. Free lecture presentations will be given by the Asian participants in the 1990 CANASEAN Manager Program. Asian business, culture and social customs: Wednesday, November 21 Thursday, Novernber 22 Friday, November 23 ASEAN WEEK II at Capilano College, 2055 Purcell Way, North Vancouver, Room A-117-N Tuesday, November 27 ¢ Banking Business in Thailand « Rattan Fumiture Business in Indonesia « Garment Business in Thailand Wednesday, November 28 ¢ Export & Import Business in China » Polymer Business in Singapore * Municipal Goverment in Malaysia 2055 Purcell Way © North Vancouver, British Columbia ¢ V7J 3H5 9:00 a.in. - 12 noon 9:00 a.m. - 12 noon 9:00 a.m. - 12 noon Michael Becker HIGH TECH What makes the company tick, to the point where it is now being franchised, is the basic discovery that cleaning the outsides of com- puters is something that needed to be done in the marketplace. Those who maintain the insides of com- puters specialize in that function. The outsides, with their coffee- stained keyboards and finger- print-smudged screens, were cleaned, if at all, by janitorial staff armed with often corrosive cleaning materials. The company sub-contracts out to people irained specifically to ‘we; CANASEAN Program \ ASEAN WEEK I at SFU, Harbour Centre - 515 West Hastings Street, Vancouver, Room 1425 9:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. * Trading Business in Indonesia «Food & Beverage Business in the Philippines * Timber Industry in Malaysia 9:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. « Fish Business in Thailand + Investment Business in Malaysia ¢ Fish Business in the Philippines a For more information, call the CANASEAN Program office at 986-1911, local 2081. ¢ Malaysia, Singapore « Thailand, China ¢ Philippines, Indonesia North Van grime-busters clean up with computers clean crusty computers, printers and video display terminals. “it’s a simple precess — it’s ex- ternal cleaning only and we have a special liquid formulated for us that is anti-viral, anti-bacterial and anti-static. It also includes a plastifier to prevent cracking (of plastic),”* said Winder. All external parts are cleaned, vacuumed where necessary and compressed air is used to clean away material trapped between keyboard keys. According to Winder, clean computers experience less down- time than dirty computers, and people working with clean com- puters are happier on the whole. “If you're working in a grungy, grimy environment, you just don't have the same attitude,’’ she said. Compu-Clean franchises are al- ready operating in Victoria and in Jacksonville, Florida. The Responsibility is Yours. 1-800-663-1441 ne eo ne