Brisk business for computer c CO. DON SCHICK could call hin selfa veteran of the great Cola Wars of the 1980s, By Kate Zimmerman Contributing Writer He could, but he doesn't. The 37-year-old Deep Cove resident who was recently named one of the “Top 40 Under 40" by Baxiness in Vancouver magazine, is diplomatic about his experience on the front lines of Pepsi Cola Canada before parachuting into a company of his own. Schick instead said “running Western Canida” as a niarket man- ager shirpened his negotiation MODEL: Beltone Standard Trio. skills and taught hina lot about dealiage With at fast-paced. market ing-oriented compiasyy, “You fyed by the sword ha highly political environment.” fle maintains he learned from the job haw to make a decision, iukapt ito make a werk and then live with it. Combined with the basic skills andl work ethie Schick tad absorbed while working as a regional manag: erin Winnipeg with Procter & Gamble berore his stint with Pepsi, his decision-making stood him in good stead when he and partners Derek and Clark Johuonson bit on the idea of founding their awn com. pany. In 1988, they established Carty le NEWS photo Mike Wakefield . Don’ Schick, a partner in Carlyle Computer Products, holds one 2 Of the Eco Tone 100% recycled laser printer toner cartridges “his company produces. The provincial government is one of Carlyle’ s biggest c customers. . Regular Value-$775 ~ Save $ Hundreds $ up until February 11th. Call 988-4477 for an appointment - COMPLIMENTARY HEARING TEST FOR SENIORS We do provide you with our exclusive Certified Hearing Service Plan. Beltone is-the only company with over 3,000 locations across North America that honour this plan. No charge for follow-up visits. Retubing and cleaning of aids free. Battery discounts! 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Business has mushroomed trom $200,000 the tirst year toca project: ed SO.) miltion in 1993-04, “Ouritverage prowth ob OGG a year suggests we must be doing something tight.” said Schick, “We're now ‘the a largest distributor of consamabi¢ computer supplies in Western Canada.” He divides his business inta four iireast magnetic media, front die simplest Toppy diskette to bigh- tech optical CDs: print media, from Copy puper to transparencies; print- er supplies, dneluding ribbons and laser cartridges; and ergonomic attice supplies, mei ming everything fromm wrist rests lo spine-Tricndly scuting. Among the compiiny’s most popular products are recychible laser prnter toner cartridges, which are in such demand: hat the provin- ch government has awarded Carlyle a $1.2 milfion contract ta Keep it supplied for two years, The Eeo- Tone Recycling Program allows compinies to return their used cartridjtes to Carlyle, which sends thenr to its remanulacturing plant to be divin. setnbled, cleaned and jispeeted. The worn parts are repliced, the dreys of toner are collected will a water-filtered: vacuo and used ina rartely af products, The original non-recyclable drum is repliced with an organic photo-conductive drun, which can be tilled with fresh toner and recycled. “Phe car. tridges are then retorned to Carlyle Tor re-sale. Sehick says the process Keeps about 12,000 plastic cartridges out of landfills each year. Find out how to decide which fund is right for you before you make your RRSP investment decision this year. Call for this free report, and we'll also send Rick Peterson Financial Advisor an updated quarteriy report on our Recornmended List of Investment Fund Managers. Call Rick Petersan Sr. Vice President Financial Advisor Tel. 640-6510 BRUL CHIP THINKING™ ™ BLUE CHIP THINKING is a trademark of Midland Walwyn Capital Inc. ‘Ted White, M.P. Suite 302 1200 Lynn Valley Rd. North Vancouver V7J 2A2 Telephone: 666-0585 Fax: 666-0509 THE WEEK iM REVIEW Several items combined to make last week unique in Canadian parlia- mentary history. The Bloc Quebecois was recognised as the Official Opposition while the Reform Party claimed to be “Her Majesty's Constructive Alternative’. A few other less well publicised things happened too and | would like to share those with you in today's column. ELECTING A SPEAKER A cipple of laughter ran through the Commins last Monday morning when Audrey McLaughlin's name appeared an the list of 12 candidates for Speaker. Party leaders are not eligible to be Speaker but the NDP no longer has party status and Audrey should have notified the Clerk that she did not want to run. Unfortunately she was on vacation and ended up on the fist by default. By the time we got to the fifth bal- lot only Jean-Robert Gauthier and Gilbert Parent remained on the fist. Herb Grubel, MP for Cap-Howe Sound, was retuming from a Bank of Canada meeting and heard the final call for votes. He ran into the Chamber and managed to get his vote in the box just before #t closed. Thanks to Herb, there was a TIE vote and a sixth ballot became necessary. Ray Speaker, the MP for Lethbridge, had gone downtown for a haircut after the fifth vote and was watching the results on television from the barber's chair. When the sixth bai- lot was announced he had to rush back to the house halfway through his haircut. However, a number of Government MPs had left for the day and in the sixth ballot Mr. Parent was elected as Speaker. QUESTIONS AND SPEECHES On Wednesday during question period, Preston Manning, Leader of the Reform Party, set a new precedent. Instead of asking the Prime Minister a traditional type of question he asked one which had been sent in by a mari- ber of the public, Mr. Dean Eyre, Mr. Eyre enquired how many jobs might be created by $6 billion in tax cuts as opposed to the $6 billion Red Book infrastructure program. Prime Minister Chretien replied that the Mayors of Alberta, BC and Quebec love the infrastructure program although he did not directly answer Mr. Eyre’s quas- tion. Hopefully the Government will begin giving detailed answers to ques- tions once the media catch on to our new “public” strategy for question peri- od. THE THRONE SPEECH The shortest throne speech in recent times took place on Tuesday with debate beginning on Wednesday afternoon. The debate traditionally attacks the Government on a wide front and proposes amendments that are wildly off topic. In our efforts to encourage a mean- ingful debate Reform MPs congratulat- ed tiie Government on a number of their proposals and suggested a practi- cal amendment that would cut the bud- get from $161 billion to $153 billion for this year. Ve also urged the govern- ment to allow a free vote on the amend- ment. Unfortunately Liberal MPs are still not permitted free votes so the amend- ment failed to pass. 't looks like there will be increased spending and a widened tax base in the February bud- get as a result. ~ the Capilano College Experience France The illustrated lecrure, Between Two Worlds: A Canadian Family and thee Art Centre in France, focuses on the Summer School for the Arts in che medieval village of Montaigut-le-Blane. The school teaches drawing and painting, French language and, for Elderhostelers, creative writing. This free lecture cakes place Sunday, Feb. 6, at 2 pm in room 216 of "Br Building. 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