Burgess Girl *f ,ths wsok SALES SERVICE PARTS KIGST. 1. OSHAWA 317 IlTIOIYIOITIAI1 Our Girl of the Week is pretty eighteen year old Julianne Heffering, a Whitby girl who works as a cashier at Canadian Tire. Juli is an avid sports enthusiast who has won numerous trophies for figure skating. She now spends her time, when she's fot working or 'bombing around' in ber new 'Astre', bowling, and playir The Foi Growý S tore in by Mike Burgess The fastest grewing aUte- motive compa ny ini Canada. and ne doubt tthe fa stes[t growing Conmpany in Whit hy is Canadian Tire on Brock Street North. Owner Art Desjardine, wbe took over the local operation just ttîree years ago, lias ex- perienced a phienomienal t125% growth increase. And the ori- ginal staff of six is now upto twenty-seven including five part-time. As a miatter of fact, business is so good that Mr. Desjardine lias doubled the store size -and because hie is unable to make it any larger to cope with the inecased business lie is prescntly look- ing for about five acres of land to build another store wîtb approximatcly 40,000 square féee of retail space. Mr. Desjardine attributes, ethis-. .phenomenai ,.growt4fIat-me;. nr t] p c il T t( c m il ai a L to the merchandising nmeth-C ods, voluile buying, and con-e t rot ted pricing, nel to mcii- t ion the 5% COLII)DS thiat arc p sure te bring the custonler b back. ai As president ef*tthe cn- pany, Art Desjardine gives a lot of the credit f*or the suc- cessful operation to four of' his staff who accumulatively have over 100 years experi- ence ail in Canadian Tire stores: Witf Desjardine;, Frank Bailey, General Manager; Art Wrigtît, Hardware Manager; and of course Art with 29 years in the operation. Tbis Wbîtby outtet carnies flot onîy automotive goods, but also sports e qu ip m e nt, paints, housebiotd wares and even walpaper. The comipany pot icy is ba- sicatly a nîoney back guiaran- tee wîî bont figh ts or argu- ments or as Art puts it, "ne- fund&,with asmile'~. il I Besides being a successful nerchant, Art is involved in ,e Chamiber of Commerce, 3resident of' the Wliitby Lions -'tub (whiichi is presentty work- ng on sponsoring tthe (ounty rown Singers' upenîing trip io Mianii), and was etected to ýouncit tast year for tthe West Nard. He is aiso very active i sports (hockey, basehaît, nd football), and Lised to be iscout tlfor tlie Toronto Maple e£afs for I15 years. Art Desjardine is a very )utspoken, lionest, down to îrttî persen wbo is not afraid Isay whiat he tbinks. I ex- «cted the usuat story of' the ýrdworking boss wheo works id spends I12- 14 lheurs a day P'hoto by Mîke Burgess planning strategy, checking the books etc., but was plea- santly surprised to hecar Mr. Desjardinc say It work during business hours, but after 1 close 1 go hiome and forget about it!" On eue Saturday atone over 1 500 custemners did busi- ness in tîuis popular store! Now jusi thiink, if thiat numi- ber kept up for a week, just about the total population ef Whiitby woutd be carrying around theose Canadian Tire coupons! 1t tld Art thiat if' business kecps growîng tiue way it liýas bccn. tie will bc able te do ail Ibis political carnpaîgning righit in his own store! $test ring Whitby Goreski'"s Summer Resort Ltd. CLUB AN.NRE*NE A MODERN DANCE HALL PHONE 985S-3068 Fishing -Swimming - Traiders, Camping & Marina ONLY 20 MILES FROM WHITBY -R. R. 39 PORT PERRV, ONT.- WHITBY FREE PRESS, THURSDAY, MAY 3,1973, PAGE 13 beFlRIENDLYrFLEA MARKET The We bu'y end "Il ianything" NO. HJST. WEST 725-97130OSionkt Dunlop Raldial PIy 1Ne HEADQUART, ATIERSLEY TIRE SERVICE 103 bundo s t. hs htwhI 66-356. 1 Il