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to traditional home improvement poods,

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Hows the heme improve.
ment aihet and for a hare
portion oot the dat tale
doven seas Chat market fis
been wide agen

And consumers responded
well thane advantage of
the tolatively lesure puace of
fandass fo jam the tetne
HOPTOvCHent args th seat
UE cvervthins from wasters
SOO Teak tapes tee pelll
Mig fot cada Pero atrns te
supplies fo keep the aarden
blooming,

The Sunday openiny: came
iN TeESpome teu aiaber ot
trends - pramaril the
growing muinber of hone
handsmen and the face thar
Sundiey was the hes that
work got done. As the home
miprovenent demand grew,
relates responded by in.
sreasing the scape of
available of products. The

MANAGER DAVE Farebrother at the North Vancouver Hometown outlet. Stock cuvers the range from garden supplies (displayed by gurden shop manager Brownie Dove)

21+ Sunday, February 24, 1985 - North Shore News

NEWS photos Terry Potars

Handyman’s
haven

THERE'S A) significwnt segment of the retail
murket for which Sundsty opening is nothing new,

old sinage of the heme in.
provement store -- a small
indoor space perched on the
cdye oof a dumberyard
dbaippeated

One of the leaders on char
singe Was Hometowu, a
chain at home tinprosvement
eenthes that hie fared wl an
Che aaithet plaice bs otfteriay
HO Onaplete nage ob poads
for the doavontselier
and oven home decorator
with opening hows thate
tetlest the shopping nabits
of those inthe haimne ine
provement market.

While Hometown is 4
chain of do-tlesouretl stores
-- there ite three an the
Greater Vaneouver ares
the emplhitsis is firmis pliced
on the community and eech

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