Business ___
TIPS FOR PARENTS

Workshops spread the
word on child’s play

PAT GALLAHER,

founder of

North

through in-home, ‘un-workshops’.

According to Ciallaher, good,
plain play means more than She-ra
and He-man battling it out for
gender supremacy in the hearts and
minds of the sandbox set.

Responding to the positive
reception to talks given over past
years to professional people in-
volved in working with children,
Gallaher is now. offering his years
of gathered wisdom to the gencral
public.

Topics discussed during a typical
two-hour, informal un-workshop
include a look at the importance of
quality versus quantity, role play,
books and language development,
art and music, and individual rates
of child development.

“It’s important that kids be in-
volved in the world around them.
Kids possess a natural inquisi-
tiveness and we should be giving
them the tools to encourage this,"’
said Gallaher.

For more than toy talk at $3 per
person, $20 minimum per group,
call Gallaher at B.C. Playthings,
986-4111.

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BUSINESS FAILURES are up a
second consecutive month across
Canada with 663 failures in May
this year compared to 621 in the

same month last year for an in-
“Tease of 6.7 per cent.

business
briefcase

by Michael
Becker

In British Columbia there were
98 business failures during May
compared to 84 same time last year
according to Dun and Bradstreet
Canada Ltd.

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GRADE 12 STUDENT Jennifer
Stin of Sutherland Secondary

Vancouver-based
B.C. Playthings, is spreading the word on participating play

Sehool in North Vancouver has
received honorable mention in the
Association of Professional
Engineers of B.C.’s 1987 high
school essay contest.

Stin was presented her award,
which included a cash prize of $50,
at her school’s graduciion cere-
mony.

Dan Quiazov, chairman of the
association’s Vancouver branch,
presented the award.

The subject of the essay was the
impact of engineering on modern
civilization.

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EMPLOYMENT OPPOR-
TUNITIES look good in Van-
couver according to the Manpower
Temporary Services third quarter
employment survey.

According to the survey, 23 per
cent of local employers interviewed
in late May said they intend to hire
additional workers over the next
three months.

Six per cent foresee some form
of cutback and no change is ex-
pected by some 70 per cent of
employers.

A year ago, 21 per cent expected
hiring increases and U1 per cent
expected reductions.

Nationally, the survey indicates
an optimistic 32 per cent of
employers expecting to hire, with
seven per cent forecasting .reduc-
tions.

We dream.-a Village

We had a concept
We have a design
We are building

We are growing
Come visit cur tenants while waiting

to meet our new tenants.

Delbrook Travel, Woon Lee Restaurant,

Delbrook Superette, Delbrook-One-Hour-
Cleaning, Block Bros. Realty, Delbrook___
Texaco, Don the Barber. :

A design by Oberto Oberti, Architect

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17 - Sunday, duly 5, 1987 - North Shore News

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