40 - Wednesday, May 23,

1990 - North Shore News

New high chair device
is a safe bet for baby

WHEN IT comes to safety for in-
fants, no one really thinks about
how safe their child is when sitting
ina high chair.

That was the case with) Mac
Stevenson and it was only after his
child, and the child of his col-
league Laurie Snider, kad acci-
dents in high chairs, that the two
of them decided to do something
about it.

What Snider did was develop the
prototype to a product called Baby
Stay Put, which Stevenson is now
selling at the Lonsdale Quay Mar-
ket.

It’s a diaper-shaned device with
velcro and straps that is designed
to prevent infants from falling out
of high chairs.

“He's a two part product. The
first part is a diaper-shaped device
that is adjustable. The bottom part
is a stran-on device that straps on-
to the chair,’ said Stevenson.
“Every high chair is different in
design and the base part of the
product) becomes snug on the
chair. tt’s very quick to assemble
and the product works on all high
chairs.”*

Stevenson said the product has
even worked on baby strollers,
grocery carts and he has had en-
quires about it for use on
quadripalegics in wheelchairs, but
adds that it was designed for high
chair use only.

“The original prototype came
out two years ago and it has taken
me two years to bring it to a
finished stage. We haven’t really
marketed the product yet, except
here on the North Shore,’’ said
Stevenson, who added that he has
sold about 2,000 Baby Stay Put
products to date.

When he first made the product,
he gave about 500 of them away to
friends to get feedback on its use.
Since then, said Stevenson, the

Members up
12.1 per cent

From nage 40

benefited from a strong business
performance in 1989,

“Member deposits exceeded the
$300-million level, growing from
$254.7 million to $300.1 million, a
17.8 per cent increase and a mile-
stone for the credit union,’’ said
NSCU president and chief execu-
tive officer Phil Keller.

All types of deposits experienced
strong growth, with term deposits
and RRSPs leading the way.

Self directed RRSPs expanded
significantly by $3.7 million to
$12.2 million, a growth of 43.3 per
cent,

The NSCU’s total assets also in-
creased to $315.6 million, up 18.3
per cent in a record setting year.

At the same time the loans to
members grew by 12.1] per cent to
reach a total of $233.4 million.

Increases were recorded in all
areas of lending, personal loans up
11 per cent, commercial loans up
18.5 per cent and residential mor-
tgages up 9.6 per cent.

“As a further measure OF a suc-
cessful lending year and prudent
policies, delinquency declined to
1.9 per cent of the loans portfolio,
down from 2.6 per cent at the end
of 1988,"" said Keller.

“Properties held in setdement of
defaulted loans were virtually elim-
inated. Retained earnings grew
substaintially to provide an ever
strengthening reserve und equity
base,”’ added Keller.

He added the future ‘promises
to be very exciting’

NEWS photo Mile Wakefield

MAC STEVENSON, demonstrates how his Baby Stay Put device works,
which is designed to keep infants in high chairs. The diaper-shaped device
works with straps and velcro and is available only at Kid’s Alley in the

Lonsdale Quay Market.

product has gone through six
changes and added that there is
one more change he intends to
make on the product.

“There are no regulations con-
cerning high chairs. Certain manu-
factureres have done a good job in
making high chairs safer but no-
body has the perfect solution,”’
said Stevenson, who added that he
decided the North Shore was the

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best place to begin marketing the
product because of the number of
young married couples living here.

“ft has been a home-grown ex-
perience. The North Shore has a
good concentration of young,
married couples with one or two
children.’”

He said the product is designed
for infants between the ages of six
and 18 months.

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