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Page 8, Whltby Free Press, Wednesciay, June 7, 1995 Pebblestone, Power earn busi ness awards Pebblestone Multi-Services Inc. and, Lafontaine -irading Postes Barb Power were the big winners at the rocent Chamber of Commerce awards hmncheon. On May 31, the chamber held its annual awards ceremony recognizing the town's best in business. Power was truly surprised that she won. Duing a short acceptance speech, she was ver5y emotional and said briefly, '"Itsà really a team effort and inm deeplyihon'oured." Power has been in business at Lafontaine for six years. She has been heavily involved in various groupe such as the Downtown Business Improve- ment Association, Local Architectural Conservation Advisory Committee and Wlhitby Courthouse Theatre. "As a volunteer, she has devoted countless hours in orî *izng promotions and addressing the conoerns of the membership " said chamber presidentAllan Faux during the presentation, paigo e work with theaknofhe Pebblestone president Don Welch was silarly honoured and commended hie staff during his acceptance speech. "I couldn't have done this without them," he said. . Since its inception in, 1984, the company has been involved in processing more than 50 000 tons of waste per year. hey handie ail types including concrets, grass, pet plastics, nesrnt,. cardboard, wood, ryaland metals. GM milestone Monday On Monday morning, June 12, the six-millionth truck te be built by GM of Canada will be driven off the production lime at the Oshawa truck assembly plant. At the wheel of the fuIl-size, extended-cab, black Chevrolet pikup w;7Il be its future owner, Ron Pice, of Broken Bow, Nebraska.' Accompanied by a small con- voy of GM -Motorsport pace cars and pac. trucks, the truck will b. driven up the entranceway te Gate 8 on Park Road. There, the firat of three barbe- cues for "truckers" will be held te mark the occasion. Among the GM personnel flip-R pig burgers at the barbecue wull b. tuck asmbyplant manager Mike Quinton. Investoirs zig when they should zag BARB POWER of Lafontaine Trading Post is this year's Whitby Chamber of Commerce business person of the year; Don Welch is the corporate citizen of the year. 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My mom used te tell me 'good .things are worth waiting for' and «patience i. a virtu, today's. investment many investors, mairi who try te 'wing it', own, have no patienci The question we havet how long is long-term? a month, a year? Man3 have proven that the L invester remains comn a sound investmenti the lower the likelil losing money and the the overall returns. Case in point -- u 1994 RSP carnpaign, i: flocked into mutual expecting that the boggling yields from 19 the norm but in most ca were the exception.. downturn in the bond m 1994, many armchair ii cashed in their mutus markets resulting in a loss and flocked investors back to GICs. Ironically, the of their major banks had *enjoyed shifting enormnous growth in mutual fund assets in 1994 ..and experienced a crushing wave Of redemptions in 1995. Clearly these investors were lacking drection but the banks stili came out the winners. 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