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Aladdin Travel, the oldest and
» Suet travel agency on_ the:
* Saanich Peninsula, was estab-
lished May 5, 1967.

On November 1,. 1987, Terry
_ Pownall and Betti Lott bought the
“business from the’ previous
owners and plan to make sure it’s
around for at least. another. 21
- years.

"We decided that with our
combination, and it’s working out
well,” Lott said. Lott was born in
West Vancouver and came to

+: Vancouver Island in 1969. She

> spent the most recent 22 years
with Canadian Pacific Airlines in
public relations and left to spend

When Marie Rosko was grow-
ing up in Victoria she thought
that Sidney "was at the end of the
earth." She’s been living and
working at earth’s end for almost
30 years.

That’s when she and her hus-
band Lorne left his home town

quarter of a century the family,
-the Roskos have sevén children,
cleaned Peninsula residents’ duds

from their shop at the corner. of

Fourth and Beacon.
Sometime along the way they
bought the building, really two or

three buildings stuck together, :

and in 1976 branched out. by

« opening Christine Laurent Jewel-
v. lers. The name was formed using
-< their second. names. The jewel-

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more time relaxing and golfing.
But a ‘retired’ life wasn’t the ans-
wer; another career was.

Pownall, who helped the first
owners sct.up the business and is
now Aladdin’s manager, has been
with the agency for 12 ycars, "I
started as their bookkeeper and
later managed the Brentwood of-
fice until they sold it. Then I
switched to the Sidney office."

She moved to Sidney with her
husband George, who has since
passed away, 22 ycars ago. "I still
remember the little railroad that
uscd to run out to Deep Cove."

Pownall’s in-laws once owned a
small five- or 10-acre farm "right

an antique shop just before Style
Tone took over.

Rosko, who has been. in the ser-
vice business most of her life (she
worked in her father’s restaurant)
said she opened the jewellery
store because she felt there was a
need for another quality jewellery
store in Sidney. "But I was pretty
naive. J thought all I had to do
was buy the stuff and put it on the

_ lery store nceded‘corner.exposure |

so the cleaning business was

«bumped down Fifth to the back:

_part of the building.

Rosko said her building, before.

_it was moved into Sidncy, .was
“once a. residence.’ "A woman.
‘came in one day and said. our
~ jewellery. sales. . floor... was. her
~ living room: and ‘then’ she went

around and pointed out the other femmes

‘parts, ‘Of her house."

“Another ‘carly: tenant must haiie :

been’ a’-doctor: becausé when | :.
orn cleaned clogged sinks he'd:

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in the middle of where the airport
is now. They came to Canada
about 50 or 60 years ago, settled
in Bull River, B.C. for a while
and then moved here."

Running a ‘travel agency is for
the most part a happy situation.
“People come. to us because
they’re going on a holiday and
that makes them happy," Lott
said. "It’s a challenge too.'

Accepting that challenge along
with the owners are Shelagh de
Sousa, Lynn Nicforth, Liz Mart-
man and Bruce McKimm who to-
gether have close to 15 years ¢x-
pericnce in the travel business.

In addition to their personal cx-

walls and the money would roll
in.

"Instead I found that long, long
hours: and. days were required,
and a lot of paper work. It takes a
business about five years to get
established in Sidney.”

As a founding director of the
Sidney Association of Merchants
with. Clive Tanner and Frank
Malarby, and its president since
1983, she knows what she’s talk-

: Judy Millard, ‘Melody, DeCooman and. ‘Marie Rosko, ues al the ‘Christine Laurent
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perience, Aladdin’s staff enjoys
the. advantages of belonging to
INTRA. Travel Corporation, an
organization of 135 independent
travel agencies. This provides
Aladdin clients with, among other
adv: anlages, 24-hour emergency
service in North America and ac-
cess to special tours and vacation
packages.

"This is not a static business,
You’re always Icarning some-
thing new. Once the travel busi-
ness. gets into your blood, it’s
there for a long time," Pownall
said when asked what attracted
people to her profession. "We're
all a bit mental Loo.”

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Judy Millard, a Winnipeg resi-
dent with jewellery shop experi-
ence in that-city, joined Christine
Laurent five years ago and is now
the store manager. Both Melody
DBeCooman and Yvonne -Taylor
have worked two years in the
shop.

In her future? A continuation of
high quality service to her
customers,

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