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ood ethics are esssential to good business.
Period.” That was the message Perrin
Beatty,
CEO
of
the
Canadian
Manufacturers and Exporters Association,
delivered at the Fourth Annual Business Intergrity
Awards, organized by the Better Business
Bureau of Mid-Western
Ontario. The Integrity
Awards recognize high
standards of behaviour in
business, community rela(Photo above) Dave Walden
tions, corporate conscience
receiving the Award from
and responsibility. In short,
Ric Borski and CKCO
Daiene Vernile. (right) Mike
the
businesses
which
Worsick and Perrin Beatty.
receive the award demonstrate “a company’s obligation to do what is right and fair,” says Ric Borski, regional
BBB President and CEO. This year the recognition went to Dave Walden, president
of Conestoga Roofing of Cambridge. Reflecting on the work his 35 employees perform, Walden said, ”You can talk about quality and service till you’re blue in the face;
if your employees don’t pick it up and run with it, you’re just one person.” Creative
Options of Waterloo was runner-up.
Prior to the event, Exchange Magazine organized a tour in which Beatty visited
the University of Waterloo R&T park and Engineering where he met UW Professor
Mike Worsick, who demonstrated the advanced virtual reality modeling lab.
In other BBB news, the BBB of Mid-Western Ontario now is responsible for providing BBB services along the 401 corridor as far east as Bowmanville.
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Kitchener/Cambridge area employers expect to hire at an active pace during the third
quarter 2004, according to the latest Manpower Employment Outlook Survey.
Data shows that 27% of companies interviewed plan to hire for the quarter (July to
September), while 5% intend to reduce their workforce, stated Yvonne Tennenbaum
of Manpower’s Kitchener office. 68% expect to maintain current staff levels.
Continuing the renaissance of Downtown Kitchener’s Corporation Square, the Setman
Group recently opened the 30 Duke Corporate Conference Facility, available to tenants
for presentations, board meetings and promotional functions. Fully equipped with teleconferencing, surround sound, multi-media and Smart Board(TM) technology, the new
facility allows tenants to communicate interactively with audiences globally. Setman
Group has also announced the first lease in the Ontario Tower of Corporation Square.
Vacated by the Waterloo Region Roman Catholic Separate School Board in 1996, the
Ontario Tower was essentially abandoned by the previous landlord. Necessary upgrades
have been made to the tower, which offers
25,000 square feet office space in downtown Kitchener’s City Centre District.
“Setman’s revitalization of Corporation
Square dovetails nicely with the City of
Kitchener’s Downtown ‘Urban Revolution’
initiative.” says Greg Dalton, President.
Theatre Cambridge has launched a second season. In their first year, the not-forprofit theatre troupe broke even and, as cofounder Ken Wright says, “even earned a
little money”. Tickets sales were close to
3000 in 2003; this year’s are projected to hit
14,000, a 466% increase. The theatre’s target budget, $100 000 in 2003, is to increase
in 2004 to $350,000. Theatre Cambridge is
holding a “Midsummer Night’s Fundraising
Dinner & Auction” Wednesday, July 7.
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Kitchener’s Centre In The Square
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2004-2005 Season.
HANDSHAKE VR Inc., a provider of
software simulating the sense of touch in
a virtual environment, secured $3 million
in equity financing from Tech Capital
Partners Inc., BDC Venture Capital
and Trellis Capital Corporation.
Cora Group of Kitchener will build the
combined business Accelerator Centre
and Multi-tenant Facility at the
University of Waterloo Research and
Technology Park. Cora’s proposal was
selected by the review committee and
approved by the park’s advisory board.
Cora’s team includes RHL Architects,
Ball Construction and Roth &
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Dspfactory Ltd. announced its singlechip BelaSigna™ 200 audio processing
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Meikle Automation’s April order bookings exceeded $11 million, making the
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John Tibbits, President of Conestoga
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school boards in a precarious position
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University. She graduated this spring.
Each spring K-W Lightning Basketball hosts the OBA Junior Juvenile
Provincial Championships in Kitchener-Waterloo. This year over 60 teams
participated. The event is a major
attraction in the community and generates significant business for the local
hospitality industry.
The major challenge for the program is facility costs, as rental fees are
now charged for the use of gyms in
both the public and separate school
boards. Costs are now 20 times what
they were a few years ago, Hooper
notes. The league also tries to hold the
$275 registration fee within the reach
of most families. Although the Toronto
Raptors have helped to raise the profile of the sport in Canada, there are
many social activities competing for
the attention of teenage girls today.
While developing basketball stars is
not the primary objective of the
league, the organizers take some pride
in pointing out that several Lightning
grads have gone on to experience basketball success at the university level
in both Canada and the U.S. Aaron
Jantzi, a Lightning all-star and Waterloo-Oxford grad, went on to play varsity basketball at the University of Vermont. Amanda Kieswetter and Kate
McCrae have both recently completed
successful basketball careers at the
University of Waterloo.
While celebrating such success stories, Hooper emphasizes that developing social skills, learning teamwork,
fair play and leadership is the enduring
legacy of the program. “We don’t want
to win at all costs. In that way our philosophy is different from many sports
organizations,” he comments.
For Allan Bush, the return on his
investment as the major sponsor
exceeds that of the best bull market.
“We see the payoffs in so many ways,”
he notes. “That’s what makes it all
worthwhile.” By providing a venue for
hundreds of girls to develop not only
their basketball skills, but more importantly their life-skills, Bush, Hooper,
Dahl and their dozens of volunteer
coaches and officials are making a difference by developing well-adjusted
future leaders for our community.
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MAKING
A
DIFFERENCE
Full court press
K-W Lightning Basketball promotes the philosophy that success in life is more important
than victory on the court
BY BRIAN HUNSBERGER
ow can we raise our children to become confident,
healthy adults and productive members of society?
That’s a big question all parents, teachers, and everyone else working with youth struggles with. After decades of
experience teaching high school and coaching athletic teams,
Roy Dahl, Allan Haehn and Brian Henry became convinced
that some answers to that question were self-evident. Kids
who are involved in wholesome activities, who are physically
H
On the ball: K-W Lightning key guys (l-r), Allan Bush, Larry Hooper, and
Roy Dahl.
and mentally fit and who have a good peer group fare much
better in life than those who don’t, notes Dahl, now a retired
teacher. “Like, duh,” today’s teenager might reply.
In the early 1990s Dahl (Bluevale Collegiate), Haehn (KCI)
and Henry (Waterloo-Oxford) were fellow high school basketball coaches who had passed their love of the game on to
their daughters. But outside high school programs and a few
mixed leagues where the girls brave enough to play were
heavily outnumbered by boys, there were no opportunities
for girls to further develop their basketball skills with other
girls and also get high quality coaching. In 1993 the three
coaching Dads set out to do something about it. Starting with
15 bantam age (13 year old) girls, they founded the K-W
Lightning Girls Basketball League. The league added a
midget level and doubled in size the following year. It now
includes over 200 girls at both rep and house league levels,
ranging in age from 10 to 18. The league is incorporated as a
non-profit organization and is certified under the Ontario
Basketball Association (OBA).
In setting up the league, the founders solicited the support
of Allan Bush, then a spare-time high school and university
basketball referee. In his “real job”, Bush is an investment
advisor with CIBC Wood Gundy and Allan Bush Investment
Group. He also does daily financial commentaries on community radio station CKWR 98.5 FM. Bush became the major
financial sponsor of the league from the outset and also volunteers as a coach. He fully understands that a well-placed
investment in youth today can pay a big dividend in producing strong leaders tomorrow. Through basketball, these girls
are learning valuable life-skills such as leadership, physical
fitness, friendship and teamwork, Bush notes.
A few years after the league was founded, Larry Hooper
joined; he now serves as president of the entirely volunteerdriven, non-profit organization. He is a sales manager with
Relizon, a business communications company. Hooper estimates that between 1200 and 1500 girls have played Lightning basketball over the past decade. He takes pride in pointing out that none of the participants have ever been in trouble with the law. “Through our committed volunteers we provide excellent role models for the girls,” Hooper emphasizes.
Bush’s corporate sponsorship provides fee subsidies and
ensures that no girl is turned away based on inability to pay.
Eight girls were sponsored in the past year. Hooper also
takes pride in the quality of the volunteers, who are carefully
screened.
“The success of our program is really a testament to our
great volunteers and their commitment to the girls,” adds
Bush. “It says a ton about their character.”
Hooper points out that since many of the coaches are also
school teachers, an academics-first policy applies. “The high
school basketball season is sacred. We’re here to compliment, not compete with school basketball programs,” he
notes. The Lightning program therefore runs in the winter
and spring while the high school program runs in the fall.
Many Lightning girls are also leaders in their schools.
There is a direct correlation between involvement and success, Hooper notes. Several grads of the program now serve
as coaches. One of these is Hooper’s daughter Laurie, now
24, who has been coaching for the past two years.“Learning
fair play, teamwork, goal setting, a sense of community spirit,
and a group of very close friends are all things I gained
directly from my Lightning experience,” Laurie says. Having
coaching mentors like Roy Dahl has also been significant for
Laurie, and led her to her study Kinesiology at Wilfrid Laurier
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