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Page HERALD Wednesday April M Ministry coaching Seminar offered helpful for prospective By MARK HenltlSiaff Writer Ever dream of owning your business and being your own boss Sounds like a great you might read in the business column of your local newspaper Getting star in the world as easy as La king paper route going out Babysitting or turning your Some hobby into a money making venture But being successful Is at beat difficult even for the most Widen It Is a complicated endeavor that will make you work harder than your Job now accord ing to officials of the Ontario Ministry of industry and tour Bou Pollock the ministry small business advisory com explained this and much more about the intricate goings on of establishing self in the goods and services field than Interested local citizens at a Park seminar Thursday even Organized by the Hal ton Hills Public Library Board two and a half hour lecture dealt with a full range of related topics Including entre preneurs hip business unities management skills and legal organization Mr Pollock spoke on the services available through the library and the community colleges which he said are major aids when thinking bout setting up a commercial establishment Many businesses fall to the first year because their managers don I have the knowledge or planning to insure that It does succeed said Pollock There is an upsurge In vicerelated trades With wo men and men working this creates openings for maids babysitters lawn care snow removal and carpet cleaning This past summer boom In windsurfing allowed young en trepreneurs to set up schools for the specifics of teaching Another woman who t satisfied with the Instructions that with her new micro wave oven set out to increase her knowledge and ended up writing a cook book with her newfound se crets Mr Pollock estimated that In the year GO per cent of the homes which will be in use are here now He pointed out that with the impending change in heating sources there is a glorious opportunity to get In on the ground floor of the switchover There Is also the food industry that will be turning to the waters of the world for new supplies Fish farms could be a The technological growth in todays society is a plus to the small businessman who is more well suited to the environment because he can change and adapt faster since his operation Is smaller and less complicated to re shape Retail or single unit opera lions constitute 8 percent of the marketing sector but only take up per cent of the business Going into business Is You have to anticipate the problems Mr Pollock says the best thing is be organized The first two years are the critical ones They will if you are going to make it or break it Hair of those who try don make It to the second year- Don start with Inadequate capita and don t Invest all you own The chartered banks arc the best place to get information on how to start a business Get a years capital up front so that you arent going back to the financiers for more and thus giving them room for doubt about what you arc doing The Federal Deve lopment Corporation and On tario Development Bank offer last resort financing if chart banks turn you down Lease or rent what you need to get started Don go out and buy fixed assets like chairs light that can That ties Watch Here in can sunny Church like to first that pay holidays pension ies in be income Schools mark Education with displays open Education Week starts this Sunday and most schools in Hills plan some ties for the occasion The theme for Education Week is Together In Educa ti on The theme at ten to the vital elements of our education system the home the school and the com unity The Georgetown Family of Schools is cooperating with various local stores and businesses around town to dls play student work The GFS feels that the for mat school setting isn the only site where learning takes place the world Is also a classroom They feel that all of us in the larger community beyond the school must help by providing resources advice and experience and especially by becoming Involved with young people The common goal In ation Week will be to help young people to grow wisely and well Open house will be held at the following schools Holy Cross Separate School Hard son Public School and Pine- view Public School May from to SacreCoeur Public School and Centennial Middle School will hold open house May from to Open days for parents will be held at the Joseph Gibbons Public School and George Kennedy Public School May Glen Williams Public School will hold open mornings May 7 and a Stewart own will have open days for parents May 6 and while the Georgetown District Christian School will have theirs May St Francis of Assist and SacreCoeur will have science fairs May all day Public School will present Secrets of the Spy Glass threeact drama May I Glen Williams wJl have a display night May 13 On May 8 Ecole SacreCoeur will pre sent canima The sing for Kincourt senior Club at Church THIS ONE IS TO At only nothing In This solid brick kept In top shape good dEntremont And a short walk toa