24 - Sunday, August 14, 1994 - North Shore News

BUSINESS BRIEFS
Compiled by Kate Zimmerman

North Shore business groups and individ.
uals wishing to submit items to Business
Briefs can fax them to the attention of
Kate Zimmerman at 985-2104,

North Shore FCGAs named
to CGA Educational
Foundation

Harold B. Stringer, retired
Fellow Certified General
Accountant (FCGA) and Pam M.
Hansen, FCGA have been named

RETIRED FCGA Harold B.
Stringer.

as members of the 1994-95 Board
of Trustees of the Certified General
Accountants Educational
Foundation of B.C. ;

Hansen is principal of Hansen
& Co., a CGA firm in North
Vancouver.

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PAM HANSEN, of the North
Van CGA firm Hansen & Co.

The CGA Educational Foun-
dation was created in 1988 to pro-
vide financial assistance to stu-
dents enrolled in accounting and
telated programs at the secondary,
post-secondary and graduate lev-
els.

“As B.C.’s largest professional
accounting association, we recog-
nize the importance of the vision,
energy and ideals of its student
population in the future of our pro-

Read the .
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every Wednesday in
the
North Shore News

fession,” said Stringer.

BBB offers spots
in guide

The Setter Business Bureau of
Mainland B.C. Buyer’s Guide is
offering members advertisement
space. To reserve space or get rate
infozination, call Ron Janakka at
the Vancouver Sun, which publish-
es the guide, at 732-2356 or call
the BBB at 681-0312.

TMI gets new contract

The Mentoring Institute (TMI)
of West Vancouver has been
awarded the contract to re-design
and deliver the mentoring program
training for CSX, a multi-billion
dollar transportation corporation
headquartered in Jacksonville, Fla.

Dr. William A. Gray, President
of TMI, says the mentoring pro-
gram involves a diversity emphasis
for management professionals.

Vacancy rates sink

Strong demand and lack of new
supply has lowered the vacancy
rate for business space on the
North Shore.

At 4.5%, the North Shore
vacancy rate is the lowest of any of
the markets recently surveyed by
Colliers Macaulay Nicolis. Small
deals combined to absorb 7,000 sq.
ft. which was almost evenly divid-
ed between Class A and C build-
ings. Lease rates are expected to
remain stable for some time.

Savings bond interest rate
gets a big boost

Effective Aug. 1, the rate of
interest on all outstanding unma-
tured series of Canada Savings
Bonds (Series 42 to 48 inclusive
issued from 1987 to 1993) was
increased to 6.5% per annum for
the three-month period ending Oct.
31. All other terms of these series
remain unchanged.

Westel invests $3.4m
in expansion

Westel Telecommunications
Ltd. will invest $3.4 million in
modernization and expansion of its
Northern BC long-distance net-
work.

Westel will be a leader in pro-
viding, through microwave trans-
mission, digital services to commu-
nities such as Ft. St. John,
Mackenzie, Dawson Creek, and
Chetwynd. Digital transmission

will give northern residents access
to advanced services such as video
conferences and high speed data
transmission. This new network is
intended to provide northern com-
munities with a “gateway to the
information superhighway.”

Over the next three months,
existing analog facilities will be
upgraded to state-of-the-art digital
facilities. Included in the project is
the construction of three new
microwave towers and upgrading
five existing towers to fully digital
standards through some of the most
rugged terrain in B.C.

Westel’s northern digital ser-
vices are scheduled to be in service
Oci. I.

BCIT students offer
computer expertise

Computer students from the
B.C. Institute of Technology are
looking for businesses, industries
and individuats for whom they can
develop computer projects.

The client supplies the hardware
and the technical challenge; the
students provide the know-how.
Previous undertakings include a
system for Canada Customs to
track seized goods, an improved
talking keyboard for the disabled
and a graphical simulation of a
high-voltage circuit breaker for
B.C. Hydro.

Completed over four to eight
months part-time, projects typically
begin in September and January,
but are accepted any time subject
to department evaluation. Once
approved, projects are chosen by
students, who usually work in
teams of four supervised by BCIT
faculty. Clients pay a one-time
$200 fee toward administration
costs.

For more information, call the
student projects coordinator at 432-
8298.

CMA honors Smith,
elects members

Professor Michael Smith, of
Vancouver, has been selected by
the Board of Directors of the
Canadian Medical Association to
receive the CMA Medal of Honor
for 1994, He will become the 11th
recipient of the award, which wili
be presented to him at a ceremony
at the University of Montreal on
Aug. 17.

Smith is generally recognized as
the father of site-directed mutagen-
esis, and in 1993 he was named the
1993 Nobel laureate for chemistry.

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Senior Membership.

They are: David Bolton of
Burnaby; Pierre Francois
D’Estrube of Victoria; Frances
Mary Forrest-Richards of
Vancouver; Robert Morris
Heffelfinger of Port Coquitlam; J.
William Ibbott of Vancouver;
Alexander Mandeville of
Penticton; and Ronald McAdam
of Vancouver.

Government increases
student loan limits

The federal government is
reforming the federal student assis-
tance program by increasing limits
for Canada student loans.

The full-time weekly loan limit
will rise from $105 to $165, an
increase of 57%, and the ceiling on
part-time loans will rise from
$2,500 to $4,000.

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