. 0 BUSINESS BRIEFS BOOK BUSINESS A NEW book store has opened its doors in the Park Royal (north) Shopping Centre. The Book Company is owned by Southam and is a business unit of Coles. The Park Royal store is the chain's first Vancouver-area location. Other locations include Calgary. Toronto, Ottawa and Halifax. Rod Roblin, a director of The Book Company, said he thinks Park Royal is a good location for the store. “We feel Park Royal and the North Shore is an upscale market on the West Coast. The numbers are right. We can provide custom- ers with a book selection that you might not find at other book stores,"’ said Roblin. POWER SMART AS A result of Power Smart Inc.’s (PSI) national promotion of energy efficienty, new products are being developed and introduc- ed into the market place, in- cluding compact fluorescent lights. The light, manufactured in the People’s Republic of China, will retail for $9.95, making it one of the cheapest products of its kind in North America. The 15 watt light has the equivalent illumination of a 60 watt incandescent bulb and will! last for about 10,000 hours. PS!, headquartered in Van- couver, has 13 > member clectric utilities in Canada and five in Czechoslovakia, using Power Smart energy programs. THE BEST RESULTS COME FROM TEAM WORK ANN ana ROBERT VAN OEVEREN We know how to get your home Cali 985-8231 or 925-9486 a move, 70 Mike; Sunday, July 21. 1991 - North Shore News - 29 BUSINESS BRIEFS TRUST FUNDS EMPLOYMENT AND Immiera- tion Canada has signed an agree- ment with Western Pulp Partner- ship Ltd. (Squamish operation) management and union officials to establish two training trust funds within the division. Through a training trust fund, EIC helps employees and their employers with the job of main- taining a skilled workforce that can move with the times. Western) Pulp’s share of the trust: fund is $992,280 while the EIC's contribution comes to $390,420 to be paid out over three years. Bracken-Horrocks, a partner in the chartered accounting firm of @ . Price Waterhouse in) Vancouver, has been a member of the institute council for three years and has been active in) various institute committees since 1969, He has also served as chairman or member of five committees of the national organization, the Ca- nadian Enstitute of Chartered Ac- The funds will be used to help Western Pulp in employee training requirements over the next three years. Total value of the joint project is $1,383,500. Western Pulp’s Howe Sound pulp mill is currently undertaking environmental and naturei gas conversion projects valued at $70 million. This includes capital ex- penditures for the construction of secondary effluent treatment and conversion from fuel oi! to natural gus us a secondary fuel for the re- covery and power boilers. As part of the Canadian Jobs Strategy Program, training trust funds provide grants to finance training in situations where mar- ket and or technical changes re- quire substantial retraining or upgrading of staff. ACCOUNTANT NAMED countants, and has been on the board of the Western Rehabilita- tion Society, the G.F. Strong Rehabilitation Centre and Pearson Hospital. Motor Vehicle WEST VANCOUVER = chartered accountant Stan Bracken-Hor- rocks has been elected president of the Institute of Chartered Ac- countants, Four other West and North Vancouver residents have also been elected to top posts on the executive council of the institute, which governs the activities of 7,000 members and students in B.C. D.W. Young of ‘West Van- couver was elected first vice-presi- dent’ while fellow West Van- couverite David Northrup and North Vancouver residents Brian Kerr and Alan Wilkinson were elected to the institute council. 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