44 - Wednesday, December 19. 1986 - North Share News Business SPECIAL CHEQUE BOOK OFFER nions aid Credit From page 43 the board game Balderdash has taken off with 1986 sales expected to exceed $3 million. Game players win’ points by bluffing che competition with fake definitions or choosing the correct meaning to words taken from the fringe of the English lanwuage. Toronto Inventors Paul Toyne and Laura Robinson, as well as Jocal game distributors such as The Games People at Lonsdale Ques hase a Christmas hit on their hands. “Tve got lots of peaple coming asking about it and it’s doing ceal- iy well,” said store munager Brett Johnson, ee BC CENTRAL Credit) Union memnbers have thrown their collec: five werht behind the Kick Hansen Man odin Motion “Pour fund-raising effort with a spectil cheque book offer and the establishment: of special accounts for donations at all branches. The first cheque of cach cheque boek ts made pavible to Rick Hansen. Donors aampiy fill oan their contribution and return at to their braneh or duectly to the Mien In Mouion Tour, “Tn many tespects, the credit am in HINOT TOVCINCIE shakes at Common philosophy with Ricks a belief that People can join tovether and work to their capacits to create a better quality. ot dite’ oo sitid) Wasne Negeen, BO Central Credit Uiion chief executive officer, rear) NORTH VANCOUVER based Tele BatPerts Vancouver is out to give telex wnant CNCP a run for its otio Inones in the busy telex machine and services industry. Since opening in 1980 the com- pany bas built up a 1,660 account client base. approximately 24) per cent of the present telex users in Vancouver, Fel- FN'Perts supplies telex time sharing to low volume telex users and telex machines and access to teles from) computers for com- pames with heavier message oceds. Women swell entrepreneuria _ ranks CANADIAN WOMI are miuak- ing Cheir wav into the ranks of the country’s best and brightest en- trepreneurs, Whether to abandon household tasks, augment their personal or family incomes, or find a way around career roadblocks in. cor- porate Canada, women are starting businesses in record numbers. Across Canada, female owner- managers are trying their hands at everything from retail and service businesses fo manufacturing, trucking, and even fish farming. Clearly, the number of female proprietors has grown substantially during the past two decades. Ac- cording to 1982 Revenue Canada data, more than 148,000 female business proprietors — women who own unincorporated businesses from which they derive more than half their ingome — reported income of $1.2 billion. That’s a significant leap from the more than 42,000 who reported incame of $126 million in 1966. STATISTICS CANADA Statistics Canada data tells a similar story. In 1984, federal labor force statistics indicated that women accounted for about 400,000 of ihe 1.3 million Cana- dians who said they were self- employed. Hali of those women said the bulk of their income came from self-employment, but fewer than one third said their businesses had employees. In recent years, Canadian and U.S. researchers have found that See Factors ght ’n Sound Wall Unit Lots of Storage in the bottom cabinets, recom for T.V. and stereo. Glass doors and mirror. Comes in oak finish. NEWS photo Mike Waketield ELEVEN-YEAR-old Anita Ervik and nine-year-old Chad Lanyon were the (vo models selected to represent the Capilano Mall Sears store in the n ational Sears Great Canadian Models Search. Store manager lan Mit- chell presented the pair with a $50 gift certificate and a photo session in the store's portrait studio, In 100 words or less, both had fo explain why they wanted to be a model for Sears. F CANADA LED the world with its tndustrial Development Bank innovation 42 years ago at the height of the Second World War. The idea of a public sector agency to help new, small businesses get off the ground with term loans sounds routine today. But in 1944 it was a radical departure fram existing practice. Canada’s chartered banks and foreign lenders alike watched the experiment closely. They saw that [DB's ideas worked and the bank's techniques were to be quickly emulated, Today the HDB tradition is carried on by its sue. DB unique idea to Canada cessor, the bederai Business Development Bank, formed in 1974, and widely known both as a major supplemental iender and Canada’s foremost public sector source of management counselling. informa- tion, training and planning service for small and me- dium-sized business. To date, IDB-FBDB loans have totalled almest $9 billion—to assist more than 120,000 businesses of all kinds. Some 17,000 loan customers are on the bank’s books today. 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