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DAY TRIPS Tours give parents

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From Page 44 West Coast KidsTours Ltd., operated by North Shore residents Anne Harbord and John

Donaldson, offers children age six to 12, day-long guided trips around town including a barbecue

picnic, and an evening movie at the

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ALEXANDRA Obach displays the new line of Merle Norman vitamin supplements now available at the company’s Lynn Valley Centre store. The vitamins are packaged in easy-to-swaliow gelatin capsules.

HIRING. “ACTIVITY: can’ be ex- pected in the Vancouver area over the next three months, according to employers responding to the Quarterly Employment’ Outlook Survey, conducted | by Manpower Temporary Services.

- Interviewed in late May as to their employment plans for the 1986 third quarter, 21 per cent of employers indicate intentions to hire additional staff while 11 per

cent. predict layoffs during the |

same period. . . Sixty-six* per cent contacted foresee no change in current levels and two per cent are unsure of plans ‘for the short term. A year ago, 35 per cent planned to in- crease staff and nine per cent predicted layoffs. . “The major hiring activity is expected to be ‘in non-durable manufacturing and the wholesale and retail sector with some addi- tional activity. in -services and public administration,” said Man- "power general manager Don Cor- mack,

’ On a national basis, 28 per cent of cmployers interviewed foresee a need for additional workers as op- Posed to seven per cent an- ticipating cutbacks. These figures parallel exactly those of the 1985 third quarter survey.

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The North Shore Executive Association is looking for new members.

We meet every Wednesday for lunch to discuss and promote local business.

KidsTours home base, a licensed daycare located on the North Shore.

“We'll be starting our first tour June 30. So far we've had good response to our idea,”’ said Har- bord.

The KidsTour service targets tourists in town, with brochures disiituced at hotels, car rental agencies and public markets. The operators hope to make the service a year-round proposition. ‘‘We’ve had irterest from local parents as well,’’ suid Harbord.

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