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Prince George: 300 Victoria Street (604) 564-1880 Vancouver: 681 5464 • Kelowna: 8611880 • Vernon: 542-4377 • White Rock: 5317525 • Victoria: 3811880 SUNDAY 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m While Stock Lasts MACLEODS MACLEODS *5.00 SAVE *5.00 YOU PICK YOUR ITEM Any Item $20 00 Of Over *1 Requler Retell Price YOU PICK YOUR ITEM Any Item $30 00 Or Over At Rrgulir Retail Price Present coupon at time ot sale tor Discount June Ut.198# Present coupon at time o< sale lor Discount June 1st,1988 *1.50 SAVE *1.50 YOU PICK YOUR ITEM *12.00 SAVE *12.00 Present coupon at time ol sale lor Discount June 1st,1988 Present coupon at time ol sale lor Discount June 1st, 1988 Business notebook Compiled by KEN BERNSOIIN and BOB ROWLANDS v Pemberton Houston Willoughby Inc., Vancouver’s oldest and largest stock brokerage house is ;^oing public to raise up to $30 mil-•flion to ensure it remains the top imoney-raiser among western Canadian firms, says its president. The company, founded in 1887, iwill be issuing a large block of n-voting shares before a planned isting on Canadian stock Exchanges, president Fred Wright •said in a news release. 2 The offering is expected to raise petween $25 million and $30 million more than doubling Pemberton’s •current capital base of $20 million, •Wright said. ! Pemberton, with most of its 600 'employees located in Western Canada, joins a number of Canadian brokerage houses seeking to go public for funds. Want to know more about running your own business? The Prince George Region Development Corporation and the British Columbia Development Corporation are co-sponsoring a conference called Making your Ideas Work from June 20-22 at the Holiday Inn. Topics include future trends in selecting a business, finance, marketing, supply and demand, and goal setting. Most of the speakers will be local entrepreneurs who know what it’s like to get a business going, says Dale McMann, manager of. the Prince George Region Development Corporation. The two keynote speakers are Frank Ogden, a futurist from Vancouver, and Ed Alfke, a former Prince George resident who founded Rent-a-Wreck, the car rental firm that grew from a single branch to an international chain. Registration fee for the conference is $50. For more information, call the corporation at 564-0282. ★ ★ ★ Average weekly earnings in March were $428.36, down fractionally from $428.50 in February but up 3.5 per cent from a year earlier, Shelley grader is champ • Parma N. Bains is the champion of champion lumber graders in the Interior this year. Bains, who works for Northwood in Shelley, won a competition among past champions at the 1986 .Ulterior Lumber Grading Championships held last week in Prince George. In the senior division, Darshan Singh Bath, who works for Weyerhaeuser in Kamloops, received top marks. ■ The rest of the top 10 graders, in descending order, were: Darshan Singh Atwall, West Fraser Mills in Williams Lake; Dave Laboucane, Lakeland Mills in Prince George; J^ck Dilworth, Balfour Forest Products in Taylor; Graham Roche of MAKING YOUR IDEAS WORK Have you ever thought about owning your own business? Sometimes the prospect of being out on your own is just a bit too frightening. This is your time to take away the “fear of flying." Come and talk to people who have done it. People like: Frank Ogden, Vancouver; Lloyd Larsen, Norplne Mfg.; Cam Short, Nordic Log Homes; Beth Leidke and Beth Flynn, International Toys; Vivian Turgeon, Northern Registry Services; Richard Ingram, Pondersa Foods Equip.; Ray Small, Cancad Micrographics; George Lesniewiz, Northern Ski & Outdoor; and many more. Find out from them what the best approach is; how to put your ideas to work and how to make your concepts into realities. You’ll get plenty of information ... and even more important, you'll get the encouragement to take the big step and make it a success. And, you’ll be able to meet and mingle with people who can be important to your future project; in financing, advice and inspiration. "Entrepreneur" isn't just a buzz-word. For you, it can mean the beginning for an exciting, profitable and independent future. Statistics Canada says. Earnings increased in foresty, the finance, insurance and real estate sectors, but earnings decreased in construction. Little change occured in other industries. Earnings decreased in Quebec but there was little or no change elsewhere. ★ ★ ★ The merger of Teachers’ Investment and Housing Co-operative and CanWest Financial Corp. can go ahead as planned following a B.C. Supreme Court decision last week, the co-op’s receiver says. The court ruled $120 million in co-op retirement plans are not secured. This means plan holders are in the same position as other unsecured creditors waiting for money. Martin Linsley, senior vice-president of receiver Coopers and Lybrand, said this allows an application to be made to B.C. Supreme Court for approval of the merger. At a co-op general meeting May 11, 98 per cent of the 1,500 members in attendance approved the merger after being promised up to 74 cents on the dollar. About $200 million of the co-op’s assets will be transferred to Can-West subsidiary Discovery Trust and associated companies if the merger is completed. ★ ★ ★ An Inland Natural Gas Co. Ltd. subsidiary says it has completed the first direct natural gas sale between a B.C. gas producer and a B.C. gas user. Untjl now, gas sales between producers and users in the province were arranged through the government-owned B.C. Petroleum Corp. The sale was made under the new provincial Natural Gas Marketing Policy. The announcement from Inland Natural Gas Marketing Ltd. said the sale will save the user, Cariboo Pulp and Paper Co. of Ques- nei, $250,000 between this month and October. The producer is Czar Resources Ltd. which is selling Cariboo about 750 million cubic feet of gas. ★ ★ ★ Despite the falling dollar, rollercoaster interest rates and plunging oil prices, two of Canada's Big Five banks have reported healthy income increases in the first two quarters of the year. The Bank of Montreal says its net income for the first half of the year was $183.4 million, up 17 per cent or $26.5 million from a year earlier. The Bank of Nova Scotia reported first-half net income of $153.8 million, an increase of 8.6 per cent or $12.2 million. Its net income for the second quarter increased $6.1 million or 8.3 per cent to $80.0 million. Both banks attributed the improved results to a growth in assets plus increased non-interest revenue, including such things as foreign exchange operations. Tahsis; Vic Collier, Lignum Ltd. in Williams Lake; Don Smillie, British Columbia Forest Products in Mackenzie (tied for seventh); Dil-jit Singh Parmor, Northwood in Houston (tied for seventh); Ron Chappell, Fraser Lake Mills in Fraser Lake; Ed Krawantka, Northwood in Houston and Jaswant Singh Gidda, Gorman Brothers in Westbank. Top marks in the junior division went to Hung Chung Trinh of Northwood in Houston. Second place went to Mohinder Bahia of Northwood in Upper Fraser and third to Gordon Dunwell of Crest-brook Forest Products in Canal Flats. CAREER OPPORTUNITY Northern Computer Concepts is currently offering the opportunity of two career positions, both with attractive benefit packages. Resumes should clearly reference either Direct Sales Person or Retail Sales Person. Successfull applicants must have some previous sales experience and general knowledge of the microcomputer environment; technical experience an asset but not a prerequisite. Please mail all resumes to: Northern Computer Concepts 1556 6th Avenue Prince George, B.C. V2L 5B5 • PIE & I25 COFFEE $i Noon till | 5:00 p.m................ 1 • BACON & EGGS *4 I47 Toast & Coffee ^ I 10 a.m. till noon........... L • ENTIRE STOCK OF FISHING njkA/ RODS QflO/ & REELS . UU /O OFF ::::: Any Item $60.00 Or Over At Reguler Retail Price * :::: AnV SIOOO Of Over At Regular Retail Price 111 I MACLEODS || MACLEODS BROADCAST BOXED TABLE TOP CHAISE SPREADER FAN ELECTRIC BBQ COT Reg. $39.99 Reg. $44.99 Reg. $119.99 Reg. $19.99 *3297 J3297 S6997 PO CD -J I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I L A CONFERENCE FOR ENTREPRENEURS PRINCE GEORGE, HOLIDAY INN, JUNE 20, 21, 22 I __I To registe’r, enclose your cheque or money order for $50.00 with this ^ coupon and deliver or send to: I Prince George Region Development Corporation 1102 - Sixth Avenue Prince George, B.C. V2L 3M4 ATTENTION: Conference Director - 564-0282 Name: Address. STREET CITYTOWN POSTAL CODE Telephone: BUSINESS HOME LIMITED ENROLLMENT REGISTRATION DEADLINE, June 6, 1986 British Columbia Development Corporation PRINCE GEORGE REGION DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION BC%Z Partners in Bitwise RRQ GRILL BRUSH Reg.$1.89 $127 TURTLE MINUTE WAX Reg. S7.99 $547 MEN’S 18 SPEED MOUNTAIN BIKE Reg. $203.98 $18997 WEB LAWN CHAIRS Reg. $9.88 $097 ea. * RMX BIKES Reg. $133.98 $9497 CHARBR0IL GAS BBQ With dual burner Reg. $199.99 $1499 7 ROTATING LAWN DAISYS Reg. $199 $“|47 JET-X SPRAY & WASH KIT Reg. $17.99 $8« THE CITIZEN, Prince George — Saturday, May 31,1986 — 9 Business for VALUES Mere/ for (fretf SPRUCELAND SHOPPING CENTRE VALUES HOURS: 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday to Saturday, Open til 9 p.m. Friday 563-0188 kMcrel _Sundays 10 a.m. lo 5 p.m.