Job entry students focus on teamwork THE VIDEOTAPED por- tion of their presentation was destroyed, but a mock company set up to promote a healthy, low-calorie dessert recently won a business development com- petiton held in North Van- couver. By Surj Rattan News Reporter Vital Taste Sensations Lid. beat out three other teams, or ‘‘com- panies,’ to win the Lucas Centre Business Plan competition. The competition was part of a business skills course taught by instructor Ron McNutto to a group of I5 job-entry-program students at the Lucas Continuing Education Centre in North Van- couver. As part of the course, the stu- dents were organized into four teams and spent six weeks devel- oping mini business plans. . Earlier this month, the four teams gave oral presentations be- fore two other classes at the Lucas Centre. The audience was then asked to vote on which company they would invest their money with. Vital Taste Sensations Ltd. received the most votes and won a small gift package from the Fed- eral Business Development Bank as well as certificates of achieve- ment and gift coupons from the Co oe Lucas centre. NEWS photo Mike Wakefield Alll teams were to give an oral FOUR GROUPS of job-entry students recently gave mini business plan presentations in front of other students at the Lucas Continu- Presentation followed by @ ing Education Centre in North Vancouver. A mock company called Vitai Taste Sensations Lid. won the competition, even though its videotaped advertisement of their videotaped advertisement had been destroyed prior to the competition. product or concept. Each com- . pany also distributed 4 written business plan to the audience. While Vital Taste Sensation was crowned the winner by a large margin, its videotaped advertise- ment was accidentally destroyed prior to the competition. Headed by president Jim O'Toole, vice-president of mar- keting and production Leigh Croxford and vice-president of finance Carrie Bissett, Vital Taste Sensation managed to satisfy al! the major concerns of investors and convinced the audience of their credibility. “*The audience was left with a desire to purchase Vital Taste Sensations desserts as soon as they became available,’’ said McNuu. Burns Supper Sat., Jan. 25 6 pm. - 12 am. North Shore Winter Ciub | 1325 E. Keith Rd. ' North Vancouver EVERYBODY WELCOME § (Presented by St. Andrews and Caledonian Society) For tickets call 987-8870 / 985-6826 | “The students have worked very hard on their projects. Many of them have had difficult cir- cumstances surrounding their lives which has affected their level of self-confidence.’' He added that the business plan presentations would have been a major step for some of the stu- dents, The three other mock com- panies that took part in the com- petition were Ebony Products Ltd., which: presented a business plan for a scented shampoo; Nature's Way Ltd., which pro- posed the manufacture of natural “fruit Jaces’? for the children's market; and High and Mighty Co., which promoted a new type of trendy cooler drinks for young adults, NORTH SHORE HEALTH PARENTS OF ATTENTION DEFICIT HYPERACTIVITY DISORDERED CHILDREN The Child & Adolescent Program of North Shore Health is sponsoring the establishment of a Mutual Support Group for Parents of Attention-deficit Hyperactivity Disordered (ADHD) Children. If you are raising, or have raised, an ADHD child, please come and get support from, and give support to, others in a similar situation. The inaugural meeting of this group, at which a video on ADHD will be shown, will be held on Wednesday, February 5, 1992, at 7:30 om. in the Education Centre of North Shore Health, 6th Floor, 132 W. Esplanade, North Vancouver. For further information and registration, please call 983-6719. Warm Your Windows With Wood f An unheard of [] offer sugg. retail Order the Renaissance Collection today. Offer ends Feb. 29/92 (Hurry, it may never be heard of again!) a A SHADE BETTER] 5 vecialeing in Blinds and Draperies for over 7 years 4877 Marine Drive, N.Van. 984-44 041 #4-38018 Progress Way, Squamish 892-5857 Whistler 932-6617