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Page 89 April Books on the move Coming a way would be an understatement when talking about the Georgetown Terminal Warehouse located on Arm strong Avenue The warehouse is wellknown for supplying paperback books from several publishing companies to bookstores all across Canada A few of the publishers they repre sent include Berkley Warner Bar- and The two managers Lois and Branda Sisnett work for the owner who is also their mother Norma Elliott Georgetown has been an ex cellent location for this business because all of the management live in Georgetown This helps many of the workers who dont have to commute out of Georgetown for another job in the Toronto area Georgetown has all of the ad vantages being so close to Toronto including a good labor market in the immediate area and a small town atmosphere which Ms says is good for the Ter minal Warehouse and other businesses in the area There are several reasons why Ms believes Georgetown is turning into such an industrial town The first is that there is always very good cooperation from other businesses in Halton Hills The Terminal Warehouse is not able to sell the books in their possession to the public The warehouse does not own the books they handle because it is an order business in the book in dustry which helps the publisher supply their product across Canada Georgetown Terminal Warehouse has been in the business for years but 1988 was their biggest year yet There was extremely significant growth and change within the company which included an expansion of employees which grew from 90 to 130 in the past year alone and orders are now being pro cessed per month That equals a tractortrailer load of books every day During 1988 three new publishers were added to the clientele which was responsible for the majority of last years growth The warehouse area hasnt ex panded and Ms Fraser said that it is unlikely that any new expansion will be added A new work shift is likely to come into effect to meet the demand One Million people take in silver screen stars every year and lois look after Hie operations of Elliott Custom Brokers and Storage at Georgetown Terminal Warehouse The business about a tractortrailer loud of books out of the warehouse day Ileralt plmto Shane Murphy has been manag ing the Georgetown Cinemas for the past three years He started in the theatre business back in 1976 North Bay where he was living at the time A native of Orillia Shane is the son of an Armed Forces family and has lived all around Ontario Shane was drawn into the cinemas by the glamor of the North Bay theatre Built in it had a 1400 seat auditorium an or chestra pit and three floors of dressing rooms It is now the local art centre Shane worked there as a teenager and was attracted by the prestige of the managers job However managing Georgetowns cinemas isnt quite the same thing That was a real theatre I like a movie screen to be 20x35 ft You couldnt see Lawrence of Arabia on these screens they wouldnt do it justice However Shane loves Georgetown and likes meeting peo ple He has nearly one million customers passing through the theatres every year he meets a lot of people He is proud that he has maintained a family atmosphere in his cinema Families come from Milton and Brampton to see our movies they dont want their kids in the local cinemas in those towns Ill never let druggies and skinheads take over in here Originally a Cineplex the Georgetown Cinema is now part of the Ontario Cinemas chain a series of nine movie houses with the head office in Toronto The chain is owned by Norman Stern While Shane may suggest movies to play in Georgetown he has no real control over what comes here There are various distributing con tracts that regulate what we see He knows what will and wont sell in town restricted films are always a bad bet for Georgetown the main audience is in the 1322 year old group There is a staff of 20 for the seat theatre Mr Murphy hires mostly teenagers and tries to make the cinema a fun place to work The pay is about minimum wage so I want to do my best to keep the staff happy The theatre is years old and Shane would like to see a lot of renovations made So far he has had the seats reupholstered but there has been some problems with vandalism Due to the commissions paid to movie distributors the bulk of the profits come from the confection stand Candy is our bread and butter Drinks are our biggest seller Popcorn is a real impulse item People come in and smell it and want to have some But we find a lot of nearly full bags at the end of the show people just buy it on impulse because it smells so good However the popcorn doesnt just smell good it tastes good They use only real butter and Shane has a special way of using his expensive popper to create lighter airier popcorn I have always tried to sell the best pop corn of any cinema in town I think I sell the best popcorn in the area The popcorn is always fresh and there will never be any prebagged popcorn sold here Ironically Shane rarely sees any of the movies in his own theatre He finds he is too busy and cant rely on seeing a movie through its entirety even on a slow day Yet he loves movies Going to other theatres always seems to be a busmans holiday for me Im too aware of whats going on The solution Three VCRs of course And a personal collection of nearly movies His favorites Lawrence of Arabia and The Right Stuff He rents videos from one of the local stores twice a week and settles down to watch them un disturbed The were a musical family his father played guitar professionally and his mother was a mezzosoprano at the Chicago Metropolitan Opera Shane himself loves movies and aviation He wants to get back into gliding a hobby he practised as a teenager This is the big drawback to his pro fession You have little time for family or social life youre always busy on the weekends Friday and Saturday are the busiest nights here and this is where I have to be Hed like to move into another business eventually 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