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“Supt. Jamie Graham of the local RCMP
detachment is found in the crowd

By Kirsty Robertson
Bemie Kyle started his business
after going ona dive: a miscommuni-
cation caused half of the divers going
the wrong way. Kyle researched
resource materials and found a tack of
detailed maps available. fle tumed
this mistake a husiness that
riul scuba guide mups to
safer and more pleasur-

are dane for boats, not for divers, and
thu: the are is generally on a
1:40,000 scale, while his maps are
three dimensional views of the sites on
4 1:306 scale, He took his heck-
ground in surveying and drafting and
has so far designed maps for
Whitecliff. off West Vancouver, the
HMCS MacKenzie, which has been
tumed into an artificial reef, and is a
popular dive location, and for Gabriela

By Kirsty Robertson

Alan Donald has plenty of
experience with international trade
as head of a company that
specializes in global marketing
strategy advice for Latin American
countries, Applied International
Marketing also does translations for
companies from this urea. Thus,
Donald decided to put his
experience to work, and is involved
in setting up the Internationa! Trade
Committee with the North Vancouver
Chamber of Commerce. Donald felt
that international trade could: only
benefit the business community of
North Vancouver, and a committee
could be used to do networking,
interact with the local government,
and to foster international trade
within the community as well as
organizing exchanges and alliances
with other communities. Donald

Scuba Guide
. Mapping

Pass, The charts also include infor-
mation on emergencies, water visibili-
ty and temperature us well as the his-
tory of the location. Kyle ean be
teached at his office at 980-5203 or
check out his website at wwwsea-
waves.convscuha/scubamaps.htm

points out that there are many sectors
of the business community that could
benefit. He encourages travel
agents, couriers, —_ international
trading houses, banks, language
schools, and anyone else interested
in intemational trade to contact him
at 929-0940,

Me a ~

Ben Nickkel, Scott Swan, Jim Eliott and Dan Sawatsky
came in first place and took home the trophy at the 8th
Annual Chamber Classic Golf tournament September

11th at Seymour Golf and Country Club.

Communications and

Everts Msnager Paul
Clausen ‘sas awar ‘ed
1998 Staff Member of
the Year for Canada by

the Chamber of

NB. September 1 Ith

hatting with fellow Chamber Members.

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