NEWS photo Mike Wakatield

MERCEDES, CADILLAC, older Jaguars, Rolls Royce, Lincoin, Buick and other GM cars are most
favored by auto-embiem snaichers.

Car alarm hoodwinks thieves

A WEST Vancouver woman
is doing alarmingly well
with a new business, thanks
to young vandals with an
appetite for car hood
emblems.

Helena Konasewich is president
of Echoes Network. She set up the
company two years ago after she
bought a new Mercedes and began
to worry about losing her hood
emblem to thieves.

. Said Konasewich, “My office is
half a block from a school. i had
a new Mercedes and my husbard

".. “had an old Mercedes: his emblem

was stolen twice.”
- While attending a conference in
_ the United States she called a
‘Mercedes dealership and asked for
an alarm’ system to protect the
coveted emblem.

She bought a kit.

“I put it on my car and
‘everybody started asking me about
it. The kids couldn’t steal it and I
started getting kits for people,”
she said.

At the car show last year, she

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set up a booth to feature the
Pro-Tek hogd emblem alarm.

‘‘People were super curious
about it. The kids all knew what it
was for. The adults all asked me,
“What is this?’ ’’

She -has since secured
Canada-wide representation for

the product, which is available
now through retail outlets.

The alarm system works simply.

‘*When the thief tries to pull tire
emblem, a circuit closes. This little
gizmo hooks up under the hood.
Any car that has at least a two-
inch clearance under the hood and
a movable emblem can be fitted.

“When the emblem is puiled,
the horn starts to honk. Once they
stop pulling on it, it stops honk-
ing. The kids do not expect this,
so it is quite a shock,’’
Konasewich said.

When moving through a car
wash, Konasewich claims the hood
ornament pops back toward the
hood without activating the alarm.

Said Konasewich, ‘‘The kids
make necklaces and belts... Those
who .are more successful make
belts — that takes an awful lot of
cars to rob. Other kids make key
chains. The police raid schools
and come up with tons of them.
The main thieves are the 13-, 14-,
15-year-olds.**

To contact Echoes Network cal}
921- 8924.

‘Course to tour British Virgin Islands

NORTH SHORE Continuing
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year, are offering a 10-day sail
training tour of the British Virgin
Islands this spring and fall.

“Our video and lecture will
capture your imagination of what
. it is like to cruise exotic tropical

_islands aboard a luxurious yacht,
while learning to sail,"’ says Mar-
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showing a video of the latest tour,
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West Vancouver, on Wednesday,
Feb. 5 from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Ad-
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To register call North Shore
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contact Kerry at 731-1023.

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