way alain cen eee nee . rc RE MA pent ane bn Tam met me . a noe By LY NDA CUMMING “For: two hours. every Wednesday night ‘Tilly - Enriquez ‘and het 12 co-workers gather in the Queen, Mary Community School to cut.and glue and wrap a memo pad shaped in the form of British Columbia. The. pads, which are - orange, green or yellow,.are marked “Write on B.C.” At. $4.85 -per pad, the en- terprising group has made $944 in salessotar~ ~~” Enriquez, a Grade Ii student at Carson:Graham, is a Junior Achiever and she, ‘with the. other members of pad designed and produced by THE ‘WRITE ON’ the Junior Achievers. (Ellsworth Dickson photo) her group, operate a company called B.C. Scribblers. B.C. Scribblers is a chart- ered company which began last" September by the students who sell shares, pay dividends, taxes, salaries, insurance and rent for _premises. And in March, at the end of. the school year, the students will liquidate the company assets and turn over any profit to Junior Achievement. ; B.C. Scribblers is only one of five companies set up in North Van by the 51 local achievers. Each of the companies elects its own president and, under the sponsorship , of . business counsellors, the 15 to 18- year-old students do the 1978 TOYOTA | COROLLA 2DOOR ul _ BANK FINANCING 0.A.C, Ie 1973 TOYOTA COROLLA ) 2 DOOR DLR No, O2141A .company that, headed by and hard-working members game. bookkeeping, managing and selling of products. Another North _Van company is Craftwise, a President Nestor Bayrock of Carson | Graham;—has produced and sold $245 worth of wooden children’s toys. More than $200 has been made by four enthusiastic of Pyramid Promotions ‘in their manufacture and marketing of a plexiglass peg Windsor student Spencer Torpy is Pyramid’s president. Gemini Productions President Jim Fleming of Windsor heads a team of 10 . who have produced Li'l Cheaper, a wooden, 12-inch, bird puppet that struts along the grcund. The bird has brought Gemini $60 in sales. -Junior Achievement began as an idea of Horace Moses, a Massachusetts paper company executive who, in 1919, decided that urban children needed the kind of direction that 4-H farm clubs gave rural A terrarium of dried . flowers is the scheme of ~* Teamco, a. 13-member company headed by President Kathy Reid, a Grade 12 student at Carson children. Graham. Teamco has . brought in $385 with its His idea spread around the project. U.S. and in 1955 the first Canadian program started in.. Vancouyver. Today there are an estimated 10,000 students © participating in 65 Canadian JA branches. Doreen Egger, a former Delbrook student who travelled to Vancouver for her Junior Achievement program before it was in- stituted in North Van five years ago, is now program manager for the North Van JA branch. ' JA participation on the North Shore is really not up to what it should be, Egger says, adding that only 51 students are active members in this area. . _ GROUPS OF ACHIEVERS work together to learn the free enterprise system and - learn many skills of business. (Elsworth Dickson photo) Interested North Shore residents are invited to an open house at the Queen Mary . Community School = January 24 to.see exactly -: what the responsibilities and — goals of the JA clubs are: to build confidence, improve - career opportunities, public speaking, independence, -decision-making and sales - 1977 TOYOTA COROLLA BACK JANUARY CLEARANCE! USED CARS 1974 TOYOTA CORONA 2 DOOR techniques. ANNUAL SALE on imported Scandinavian furniture PAARNICPACTION The Canadian movement for personal fitness Fitness. In your heart you know it’s right. all accessories 1973 © all lamps FORD PINTO ‘“‘CHEAP’’ 1972 TOYOTA COROLLA 2DOOR 1977 PONTIAC F-BIRD TRANS-AM all items from our bathroom boutique Sale In Progress ALL AUTOMATICS NEW TOYOTA en CARS SALESOPEN = RUCK S 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. PARTS & SERVICE OPEN SATURDAYS! both upstairs & downstairs stores 1972 TOYOTA CORONA 2 DR. H.T. 1972 CHEV ESTATE WAGON 1965 FORD MUSTANG 289 COUPE 20% off Dan Interiors - PARK ROYAL SOUTH MALL 922 118) TOYOTA INC, ' 1765 MARINE DRIVE, PHONE 9865-0501 NORTH VANCOUVER ee a ae eee