ode det Aids potential business peor Got some qusstione on ‘The Trail area business has given the the of setting upa pusinoss in the Trail area? According to Janice Turner, the Trail District Chamber of Commerce bust- ness information centre at 1000 Rossland Ave. can ans- wer or refer your questions on subjects ranging from management training to gov- ernment grants, Turner, the chamber's business officer, office,,a receptive response Since, its opening, she said. “I wish people. would even use it more, as we are offering this service and it is free,” the business informa- tion officer said. “Rather ‘than you calling your lawyer or something, if possible we will find the. retainer for you.” Meanwhile, the ‘iCaatle- gar Chamber of Commerse is to said last week the service — funded under the provincial small business program min- istry by arrangement with the B.C. Chamber — can provide counselling as well as -Teferral service needed by ial business business information services with its regular, office, spera- tion at No. 1.- Mt, Columbia Ave. Office manager ‘Gloria Thomson said’ gar chamber is setting uP a booth ON TO OFFER the business ied in the area. “People can come here “and tell us basically what they're looking for and if they're looking to start out a business and have never been in business we can give ‘ them all sorts of books and pamphlets to read on how to * set up a corporation and that kind of thing,” Turner said. “We can give them mail- ing lists where they can pick © out the kinds of information they want and order it themselves free from the government, or if they have specific questions they need some: guidance or we can refer a counsellor from the small business ministry to them and they will come ant talk with them. “If they're’ looking ‘f some kind of financial assist- ance we'll go througl the books and see whether they’ might qualify under any programs, them toa counsellor to make ; sure.” Most inquiries —~° of which 500 were made to the office last year — are from the Trail area, Turner said, although some are from the Castlegar area and others are from other cities where indiv- iduals or setting up busines- ses in the community...) )) ; ‘bert Gladdish in a 400- area Parasia during evén- jafornaation service and: is awaiting notification . from the B.C, chamber on: its starting date under, the same’ government program. . manager Gloria Thomson, p' 365-6313.) if Inf provincial small busin a a ae Castlegar Chamber of Commerce, i It be combined with a eer office. at No. 1, 1444 Columbia "Aye il artis s.Cash and Save Appliances. * wars ais and Save ee more convenient facil- Foieerar! Ltd, started asa ities. - hobby june; 1977, atythe =: Althou; % resid igh its floor space Fruitvale, lence: of: Wil. is only 1,100 square feet, Nuyens and Garnett say the, store bedi bee the ie. ion of ings and ra he a vpllnnees in the After growing fipldly to * major ome 8 PP re customers in the’ Nel- Kootenays. stlegar and Trail ° © strictly square-foot garage to serve able in the States or -Van-. | couver”. such: as. Wasteking Steam Machine dishwashers, , Chambres’ retained heat’ ovens, Caloric electric-micro-, “ wave combination ranges and Dacor barbecue ranges. : The store's repair ser- vice is handled by two ap- pliance repair shops been ‘ i: by the manu- jywas sold to Ken on the appliance business MEBi Garnett who rather than trying to diver- Hei fatore to the sify in such things as fur; a OunE. 2, {allowed the company to keep iz rig about” tabs on any new products three months atthat location, being made available to the Will's moved to its resent consumer. location at 1694 Second Ave., Stock consists of “such East Trail across from Safe- nationally :known . brand names as Moffat, Inglis, may include another move Maytag snd sonnei back to the Columbia Valley Along with these brands Greenhouse location, across the store ‘also ‘stocks many :from .;,Waneta: .Plaza,' :into:- ‘specialty; items ‘only.’ avail- facturers to look after their products and our customers. A big strength in the service at Will's Cash & Save lies in the fact that the business is owned and operated by two young, aggressive business- men. All sales,- delivery, and checkup after sales, is handled by these two people looking out for. customers’ interests from the time they walk through the decor, dur- ing the sale, along with the delivery,. and .the time-after 1) they make,use of the product. seas) anand “Sousbaimsine UNITS tee ge children’s" Bley area : ‘child care available facili &,. ‘wi Haug " pinsivorth tof ‘Motel. tol. 2 } ~ RDKB aims at orderly iy Promotion tempered ‘by, i ‘careful planning is ‘the role’ Stephan Lauer, predicts ‘for the Regional District of Koot- enay Boundary's provincial government-assisted econ- omic development function in, ‘the early 1980: In its second yoar of operation the function. — budgeted for $50,000 in 1980 > and directed by an economic comniission made up of vari- , ous business and public sect. ‘or, representatives: — faces the ‘task of | preparing the region for the. development: expected in the near future, Lauer, the RDKB ‘economic development officer, said last week “I think a very primiry pert of its role will be just “in: ‘ture sectors. asd making and parcel .¢ é arent officer point in bringing in economie Kootenays wo're » activity which is going to lot of ‘smaller communities flop," the economic develop-. and I think it’s going to, be : important, in’ the: next: 36 de- development , “think the: are.a single area} it's something that should be complemented “rather. than having the commissions com- peting against one another,” rg trying to kind (of pe ba ft ie — for the arca rat- ae it’s really essential area,” he cont Sea diaper riicular- ly the Kootenays, id been |, ther than Just gung-ho selling that there’ be some kind of ze economle base developed.” Another major ‘now, ‘but. I think in ‘certain areas it would be a lot easier ’ if you could look at some kind of in left out of the mainstream.of.—ation will be the sensitivity of suitable bases is’ ‘the ‘econom- ‘B.C.’s_ economy. in’ terms -of just trying to’ ge! | the region’ ‘a e. ‘ie deyelop- ts more interested in-this area, - It's starting to slowly now, but before devel opers weren't really interest: ed and didn't see any value in fenhin such areas as touriam willbe happen:very'- Lauer said. iypes 0! Pantin their communjties, communities in which hey reside ‘and det ‘the “Rather than just trying types ‘of industry’: which ; to_ promote everything or would be most ’ suitable, (anything in the area, it’s ies , Lauer said, ting, down and ; pene ways of making it might be agricultural proces- ying the iterms of some proper 'plan- ning} procedures,” Lauer said. aod ‘agricul- In'1952 H, “Fritz” Far ebholtz and Alex McDonald Ventured on their own and started a small shop in the Present Gas Works bi on Railway Street in Nelson. { They sold a few indust- rial items and chainsaws as well as the John Deere line of farm and lustrial equip: nient.