Paper Scam Is Back
Jun 22, 2004 / 6:00 am
The old paper scam is back, big-time. The calls are probably coming from Montreal. Here is how it works. The phone rings the caller will ask your employee their name, then will begin to talk to him or her like they were friends. "Thank you Betty, your copy paper order is ready to be shipped so we...
Maclean Marketing Honoured
Jun 21, 2004 / 6:00 am
David Maclean and his organization join a select group of local businesses that have been honored by Profit Magazine for their success. Maclean Marketing was named 110th best, in Canada, June 6. It is quite an honor roll in the Valley with Bridges.com being honored twice by the magazine, the...
Valley's Middle Class Must Grow
Jun 20, 2004 / 6:00 am
Brad Bennett one of the co chairs, along with Gordon Fitzpatrick of the Okanagan Partnership initiative was very emotional on stage this past week at the Cleland Theatre in Penticton. It was the formal presentation to begin the next phase of the exercise across the Valley, and the next step into...
Have A Business Crisis Plan
Jun 19, 2004 / 6:00 am
Last week should have been a warning call for all businesses large or small. Every company runs the risk of a crisis. Forward thinking companies are proactive about crisis management. Last week you watched, heard, and read with interest the problem that RBC was having with their computers. It...
Post-Fire Baby Boom
Jun 18, 2004 / 6:00 am
When I visited Osoyoos in March I had the opportunity to see the drawing for the new resort complex planned by the Osoyoos Indian Band land. The developer is the very successful BellStar Hotel & Resorts Company out of Calgary. The Spirit Ridge Vineyard Resort & Spa will be a premier full...
Trethewey Has 4 Big Projects
Jun 17, 2004 / 6:00 am
Nothing surprises me anymore when it comes to the Valley and what is around the corner. I had the opportunity to talk with a developer, who is new to the area but his family have owned land here for years. I have had reason to come in to contact with Derek Trethewey over the past few years. First,...
Where Did The Fire Money Go?
Jun 16, 2004 / 6:00 am
After the fires last year we were flooded with requests to support organizations with publicity who were doing different projects to raise money. There was always the catch line “a portion of the proceeds will be donated to” and then they would name the fund that would be receiving this money. ...
Local Oil & Gas Exploration?
Jun 15, 2004 / 6:00 am
Exploration, oil and gas: There were five ministries from the B.C. government attending along with numerous staff and business presenters at the World Petroleum Show in Calgary last week. They were selling B.C. to the oil industry on the successes there have been in the Northeastern part of our...
Paragon Wood Expands - Oroville
Jun 14, 2004 / 5:30 am
The owners of the Toronto Maple Leafs knowing full well there probably will be no NHL hockey next year have decided not to raise their prices. Destinations is an organization started by Grant Thornton Accountants to service the hospitality industry in the province and the people needed to fill the...
Job Gain In B.C.
Jun 13, 2004 / 5:30 am
That has to be the best headline written in years. In the Vancouver Sun on Saturday with the line from Jim Pattison and I quote, “We haven’t seen business better in this province than we’re seeing it right now!” There was a 15,000 job gain in the B.C. economy last month. The Globe and...
Gas Price Controversy
Jun 12, 2004 / 6:00 am
Gas Price Controversy Good Morning! Gas Prices Keep hearing stories about the price of gasoline going down in California or Texas? Note on my desk this morning about gas prices in Houston down 12 cents a gallon. The note said they...
John Thomson Report
Jun 11, 2004 / 5:30 am
Jim Pattison has aways liked Sun-Rype Products as a company, it was well managed he told them when he bought his first shares. Now Sun-Rype has let its anti takeover protection lapse, May 7. Until that time the company had a shareholders rights plan in place since 1994 to prevent a takeover bid. ...
The John Thomson Report
Jun 10, 2004 / 6:00 am
Willow Inn And Westcorp I first started to write about this property about two years ago. Realtor Larry Chalmers was talking a deal on the property owned by the Willow Inn on Queensway. No one was saying how big a deal this really was, but you just knew this was a big one. The first company from...
Mission Shores Sells Out
Jun 9, 2004 / 6:00 am
Mission Shores Sells Out Another development for Jonathan Friesen, of the very successful Mission Shores property on the Lake next to the Hotel Eldorado. The Mission Shores property is a beautiful site. Well done! That property sold out very quickly with Playground Realty, a division of Intrawest...
Hot Real Estate&Mt. Baldy
Jun 8, 2004 / 6:00 am
It was about a year ago we reported on the sale of the property Caesar’s Landing, and at the time we were told the property would be used for a private home. For years we had always heard rumours about the purchase of the land. I remember talking to one of the potential owners, and the way he was...
Greg Norman Builds Fernie Course
Jun 7, 2004 / 6:00 am
A development group made up of investors from BC and Alberta have signed an agreement with Greg Norman to build an eighteen hole championship course in Fernie. Norman, a star on the PGA tour, owns Greg Norman Golf Course Design and has over the years built 47 courses all over the world. This will...
Support The Okanagan Partnership Initiative
Jun 6, 2004 / 6:00 am
It all started in January of this year when the Okanagan Partnership initiative presented their diagnosis of Valley business. Then the individual clusters were formed and the intensive work began. Now, it’s time to implement the strategy needed to create sustainable economic opportunities for...
Job Market In Good Shape
Jun 6, 2004 / 5:30 am
That has to be the best headline written in years. In the Vancouver Sun on Saturday with the line from Jim Pattison and I quote, “We haven’t seen business better in this province than we’re seeing it right now!” There was a 15,000 job gain in the B.C. economy last month. The Globe and...
100 Years For KLO Orchards
Jun 5, 2004 / 6:00 am
Good Morning! It’s the 100th anniversary of KLO Orchards owned by the Bullock family and three generations of the family are still involved with the very successful organization to this day. In May of 1904, the Kelowna Land and Orchard Company purchased 6700 acres in southeast Kelowna for a...
Major Osoyoos Development
Jun 4, 2004 / 6:00 am
There are rumours and then there are rumours. This one happens to be true and concerns a major development on the east side of Osoyoos Lake, the American side. Jim Hammond’s Legend Resorts, one of the largest and most successful builders at Big White Ski Resort, is proposing a resort that will...
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