BERNIE Geiss a financial planner with Deep Cove's
Berkshire Investment Group doesn't miss downtown.

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KUDDEL Muddel Kids
left the heart of Deep Cove
less than a year ago. But
the popular destination
store didn’t get very far,
relocating merely a block
away.

Specializing in consignment and
new clothes, toys and books, the
store is now bigger and better.

“We're trving to get
miore things in and
keep it fresh,” said co-
owner Maureen
Houston.

Manning the store
when the owners are
away is 17-vear-okd for-
mer Seyeove student
Miaki Hara who had an
inside track to the posi-
tion.

“Tlove it — the talking to peo-
ple, the experience and the kids,”
said Hara.

There was a downside to hiring
their babysitter,

“We all lost a babysitter when we
hired Miaki,” said Houston with a
laugh.

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Cove finance

It was about a year ago. that
Bernie Geiss made what he calls a
“litestyle decision.” Geiss, a financial
planner with a downtown-based

> firm, decided to leave the fast pace
~ behind.

“The whole thing we wy to get
across is that we've brought down-
town experience to Deep
Cove,” said Geiss.
He may have left the
financial epicentre of
Vancouver, but his
approach to investing
has not changed.
Following a formula
established by US.
investment guru Warren Buffett,
Geiss keeps things simple.
Geiss points out the average
person doesn't spend nearly
enough time considering their
investments.
“They spend more time buying a
car than they do mutual funds or
stocks,” said Geiss,

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Market Mormon

Panorama = Market changed
hands about a year and a half age,
but little has changed ar the store
everyone in Deep Cove visits from
time to time. Tr was bought: by
Kenny Oh, who discovered running
a corner store is no easy task.

“Every day in the morning |
wake up at six ane at night 1} or 12
o'clock to bed,” said Oh.

Oh lett his native Korea, where
he was a bishop in the Mormon
Church, five vears ago. Two of
Oh’s kids are enrolled at Brigham
Young University and he doesn’t
see how he could take a holiday
until thev come back and take over
tor Oh. fa the meantime, he draws
strength from his clientele.

“Gur acighbours, our customers
are very close te my family. [ tove
them (the customers),” said Oh.

Riders’ choice
The Deep Cove Bike Shop has
been the store of choice for moun-

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SHANE Isbister is the head mechanic at the Deep Cove Bike Shop where he’s worked for a year. He's been
into bikes since his early teens, before mountain bikes were even in existence.

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ing the store

MIAKI Hara (Jett) used to be Kuddel Mucidel Kids co-owner
Maureen Houston’s babysitter before taking a job at the store.

tain bikers across the Lower
Mainland for years.

Shane Isbister has been the
store’s head mechanic for only the
last year, but his interest in bikes
stretches back much further.

“I started riding BMX bikes
when J was 12, 13 vears old.” said

Isbister who has watched the small-

er bikes develop into the much
more popular mountain bikes that
rule today’s marketplace. “1 think
thev're (mountain bikes) the best
thing that’s come along. The tech-
nology is just amazing and I see it
progressing for another few years.”

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