8 — Sunday, October 31, 1999 — North Shore News

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FOR Best Employer

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Wayne Failis of Global

Enterprises International, his 50 staff are like family.

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FILM magician Betty
Thomas clearly cast a
spell on the judges of
the Business Excellence
Awards at the North
Shore Conference

The former stunt actor.

-walked away from the North
‘Vancouver Chamber — of
Commerce-sponsored event
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“Award” Best Business

th. the Innovation .

Award for her company,
Thomas Special Effects.

Based at Lions Gate
Studios, Thomas Special
Effects is the biggest special
effects facility in North America
and has been overseen com-
pletely by Betty Thomas since
her husband passed away in
1994, -

The company won the
Innovation Award for its
expansion into sew markets,
such as the manufacture of new
film props sold on an interna-
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BETTY Thomas of Thomas Special Effects won the
Sest Business and Innovation Awards.

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Effects has also just added a
sound stage to its 20,000-
square-foot property.

The fact that Wayne Fallis of
Global Enterprises
Internationa! refers to his 50
employces as family may well
have contributed to his win-
ning the Best Employer Award.
Fallis’ company is involved in
international trading and mer-
chandise distribution. They are

“an ocean vessel agency and
distribution terminal for a
major forest product.

Fallis was praised by staff for

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his “positive attitude.”
Business Person of the Year
— presented to a “local busi-
ness owner who has made a
notable contribution to the
quality of fife in North
Vancouver” — was awarded to
Naomi Yamamoto of
Lasercolor Graphics & Props.
Lasercolor specializes in
business graphics and film
props. Yamamoto is also Chair
of the Board of Governors at
Capilano College, Vice Chair
of the North Shore Credit
Union and past Chair of the

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LASERCOLOR Graphics and Photo's Naomi
Yamamoto took home Business Person of the Year.

B.C. Chamber of Commerce.

Last year, Lower Mainland
Ceramic Tile Owner Vivian
Kranenburg was bumed out of
her 10-year-old location.

But on Wednesday night,
she was presented with the Fiall
of Fame Award, in recognition
of her business longevity, what-
ever the location.

Kranenburg has been pur-
suing the goal of beautifying
North Vancouver with her
campaign against graffiti an
involvement in both the North
Shore Gardens Contest and the

Communities in Bloom pro-
ject.

The Young Entrepreneur
Award went to comouter:-
boffins Dan Sacks and Johan
Arnet of ICS (Imaginative
Computer Systems) NET, . At
the tender ages of 22 and 24, -
the pair already empioy 12 staff
members and are busy develon-
ing multipie workstations, net-"
work design, installation ‘and '”
on-site services, Look for’ an
interview with Dan and Johan
in the business section of next
Wednesday’s News.)

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