Local Business Profile AAI Tucked away in the basement of a North Shore home, is the heart of a bustling business center. EliMar Creations operates at full speed making and selling women’s clothing. At the hub of all this ac- tivity sits Ninna Sherwood, a resi- dent of North Vancouver since 1974 and recent member of North Shore Credit Union. Born in Denmark, Ninna came to Canada as a young woman and involved herself in the radio in- dustry. Early in the sixties she worked for CJOC in Lethbridge, Alberta, running a European music program and handling all cultural events for the radio sta- tion. While there she met and married her husband, Larry, a marketing consultant, and together they moved to North Vancouver. For the remainder of the sixties, Ninna worked as Administrative Assistant to Tong Louie, recently BC's Entrepreneur of the Year. Louies example taught Ninna “to get the job done — hands on style” : In 1979 Ninna and a partner began creating and selling clothing, specializing in golf and tennis wear, She saw a great need for custom made leisure clothing so began EliMar Creations. Business quickly mushroomed and the fine now includes travel clothes and business and leisure wear for women. The designs, which reflect Westcoast style for comfort, are produced mostly of Ce knits in a wide variety of ‘styles and colours. . Ninna is the president of the company and the designs are her own. She has agents across BC. and Alberta selling her apparel by special appointment only and as the orders come in, she utilizes North Shore residents, who work: out of their own homes helping’ with the maufacturing. Her clientele consists mainly of middle aged women on the go: extremely active and seasoned travelers who need quality, easy to wear. clothing. Ninna and her husband enjoy traveling and have spent a lot of time vacationing overseas and across North America, using this time to help develop their October 20, 1988 International Credit Union Day Thursday, October 20, 1988 is the official International Credit Union Day recognized by the worldwide credit union movement. For the past 41 years, credit unions have celebrated the occasion by recall- ing the achievements of past pioneers, present-day workers and volunteers, and focusing attention on directions being taken by these unique cooperative financial institutions. When the first International Credit Union Day was held, there were fewer than a dozen national movements that observed the holiday. Today, there are nearly 80 involved in the variety of obser- vances that will take place on the third Thursday of October. These are all members of the World Council of Credit Unions, the in- ternational apex organization of credit unions. The 79 national credit union organizations are connected through various national and regional confederations or institu- tions. These are: the African Con- federation of Cooperative Savings and Credit Associations (AC- COSCA), the Asian Confedera- tion of Credit Unions (ACCU), the Association of British Credit Unions, Ltd. (ABCUL), the Australian Federation of Credit Unions, Ltd. (AFCUL), the Carib- bean Confederation of Credit Unions (CCCU), the Fiji Credit Union League, the Irish League of Credit Unions, the Credit Union National Association of the United States (CUNA), the Latin- American Confederation of Credit Unions (COLAC), and the New Zealand Credit Union League. Associate members of the World Council of Credit Unions include La Confederation des caisses populaires et deconomie Desjar- dins du Quebec, Canada, the Osterreichischer Raiffeisenver- band, the CUNA Mutual In- surance Group, the CUMIS Group of Canada, the Bundesverband der Deutschen Volksbanken und Raiffeisenbanken, and the Interna- tional Raiffeisen Union. Together, these institutions serve the financial needs of more than 70 million members, whose savings arnount exceed US$195 billion, deposited in 41,000 finan- cial cooperatives. Each year, Inter- national Credit Union Day has a theme, and in 1988, it is “The Uni- queness of Credit Unions?” Around the globe credit unions will demonstrate their own unique means of serving the financial needs of their millions of members. Each credit union, be- ing an autonomous, self-managed cooperative, determines through its specific member-oriented plan- ning process the kinds of services businesses, Ninna always has her eyes pen to what women are wearing and this helps her create her successful designs. The peo- ple she deals with are ‘real people’, who need appropriate clothing. We had the pleasure of meeting Ninna during our recent Person‘To- Person Her neighbor in- troduced her to North Shore Credit Union where she im- mediately became a member, transferring her personal and business accounts because she was unhappy with the institution she had been dealing with. She is happy with North Shore Credit Union and to top it off — a winner of our contest, too! To contact EliMar Creations call 985-0133. to be offered. This means that there are 41,000 singular ap- proaches to solving the individual member's financial problems. ‘The Uniqueness of Credit Unions’ is a condition that is uni- que within the greater financial community because it is derived from both historical and contem- porary bases. Credit unions were conceived by people in need to serve themselves when no one or no other ‘institution would help fairly to alleviate their depressed economic conditions. As the in- dividual credit cooperative matured, there was a gradual im- provement of members’ lives. New needs surfaced in the course of this evolution, and the credit unions kept pace. Today credit unions provide, in many cases, some sort of the most * sophisticated financial services found anywhere, At the same time, however, new people are discovering that the way to solve their particular financial problems is to join together with others, pool modest resources coopera- tively, and make arrangements to provide loans to each other — the needs do not change, only the fact that new groups find cut how they work together to improve in- dividual conditions, That is the uniqueness of credit unions. Ee 988 - North Sho winner is... Glen Fenby and Ninna Sherwood got Person-To-Person and won! Glen Fenby, a Village Branch member for the past six years, introduced Ninna Sherwood to North Shore, who is now also a member of our Village Branch. ne: Saar? RE ORR Congratulations to both. our winners, each whom: received an RCA 45” Big Screen Television.