News TheReview Wednesday, January 17,1990 — A10 service and membership team up MARILYN LEE An added emphasis on service” — particularly to members — will guide the Saanich Peninsula Chamber of Commerce through 1990, said general manager Mari- lyn Lee. in new year for Peninsula chamber meet the challenges of a growing role the organization hopes to play. Lee wants to see more chamber- sponsored workshops on the Peninsula, such as two on home business in coming months. The Feb. 9 and 10 workshop is on starting a home-based business, the March 9 and 10 workshop on maintaining one. And the chamber tentatively plans a workshop on what printers want from businesses in their advertising copy. But the added emphasis on member service means the cham- ber’s newsletter will no longer be bulk mailed. Starting this month, only members will receive it. “If everyone gets the informa- tion, what's the advantage of belonging? We have to focus on the people who keep us in busi- ness,” Lee said. If everyone gets the information, what's the advaniage of belonging? We have to focus on ihe people who keep us in business’ “T feel very strongly that our first priority in the community is to Our membership,” said Lee. Lee said the chamber has boost- ed her position to full time, a first in the organization’s history, to The newsletter will become more informative. The chamber can, for example, explain the effect of the proposed Goods and Servic- es Tax on small business. The chamber, under new presi- dent John Fortune, starts the year with a membership of about 320 organizations. Chamber-sponsored workshops and the chamber’s new business information centre at the Pat Bay Highway office will remain open to all, Lee said. The business information centre opened last year with support from the province’s department of regional and economic develop- ment. The centre provides access fo a nation-wide computer data base, and houses pamphlets and other reference information. Keeping much of the chamber’s service open to the public will help encourage more membership, Lee said. Lee has a goal “from my per- spective, in the management and administrative area. _ lL would like to look at what we can do rather than what we can’t do,” she said. ““We need to com- municate more with the districts and with the Town of Sidney, to see what areas we can work on together for the betterment of the Peninsula.” There's one encouraging sign on that front, this year: all three councils have appointed chamber liaison representatives. The town, which didn’t have a representative last year, has appointed Mayor Norma Sealey. Ald. Don Caverley represents North Saanich, Ald. Ed Hemblad Central Saanich. Lee said: “I’m very, very optim- istic about the year ahead. I just see opportunities for a lot of accomplishments in the mutual business objectives that we and the Peninsula share.” For Week ending Jan. 6 Selkirk College in Castlegar has had to cancel a wilderness sympo- sium scheduled for this late March. The cancellation followed and earlier postponement. The conference was originally to be held last October. The college said last week it had to cancel the symposium because it was unable to generate ‘‘as impressive a speaker list” as it had for the original conference, and there was no assurance that who- ever did come would have an audience. : Why am I bothering you with this? Because I had been sched- uled as a speaker, that’s why. Now I'm still trying to decide whether or not I would have been an impressive speaker. JUST US - Dorman’s Carpet Cleaners e CARPET CLEANING ° UPHOLSTERY CLEANING Owner Wilf Dorman gives personal attention to all orders 9570 Northlawn Terrace, Sidney, B.C. 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Here are a couple that appear to be applicable to British Columbia foresters. “A public official is there to serve the public, not to run it ... it is more trouble to consult the public than to ignore it, but that is what you are hired for ... get rid of an attitude of personal arrogance, of pride of attainment or superior knowledge ... use the news media first, last and all the time if you want to reach the public.” I’m indebted for the above to Envisage, a publication by Mor- esby Consulting. 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