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Page 8 THE WORLD, Coos Bay, Saturday. March 30, 1985 ARTHUR M. SPINELLA, Business Editor 'Doing business in Oregon'conference 4 -Tin- JL Hoping to improve on last year's conference, members of Willamette's Student Entrepreneurship Association have planned dozens of small group workshops on a variety of topics pertaining specifically to business success and failure. The sessions will be conducted by Oregon business people such as Jerry Wilson, founder of Soloflex Jay Edwards, marketing director for Nike and John Piecentini, president of Plaid Pantry Markets Inc. A number of Oregon government leaders, including Portland Mayor Bud Clark and Sen.

Bob Packwood will be teaching workshops. The day-long event will also be highlighted by the presentation of the Glenn L. Jackson Leadershp Award to a prominent Oregon entrepreneur, and by the 3 p.m. groundbreaking ceremonies for the Mark 0. Hatfield Library.

Business leaders of statewide and national prominence will sit down with hundreds of aspiring entrepreneurs to discuss the nuts and bolts of Oregon business when Willamette University holds its second annual Conference on Entre-preneurship Saturday, April 13. Open to the public, the student-planned conference is patterned after last year's event which drew more than 700 participants and was judged best of its kind in the nation by the Association of Collegiate Entrepreneurs. Like last year's conference, the event will bring three national business leaders to Salem for major keynote addresses: David Houck, founder of McDonald Steel, Youngstown, Ohio; Jeannie Mandelker, managing editor of Venture magazine, New York; and John Morris noted sports attorney, educator and author from Tempe, Ariz. Where more Americans find Margaret Mentch's Windermere gift and antique shop has expanded world photo by Charlie Kioppenburg a bigger refund Windermere's Margaret Mentch 'Not the retiring kind' BLOCK Found Tracey Daniel $513! We can't promise everyone this, but in a recent survey of customers who got refunds, 3 out of 4 believe they got bigger refunds than if they did their own taxes. 3 out of joy hearing about early American Indian life.

Personally, I think it's good for children and people to better understand those cultures." As for the new and expanded quarters, her greatest joy "is this old building. I just love it and the atmosphere. This is what I wanted. I never want to retire." What can we find for you? COOS BAY Sears NORTH BEND 756-0545 WM5 281 S. Broadway lOI-llLO Sat 4 Sun 8-5 traveled for six months," she says, "but I found I was bored and had to get back into it." "It," in this case, is display and sale of Indian artifacts and gifts.

A year ago she opened Windermere's at 700 S. Broadway, and business has been so good she just expanded the shop into what was a spinner's loft above Mo's Golden Storehouse. Her displays range from some pre-Columbian pottery to Navajo rugs; trade beads from the 15th century to driftwood and redwood sculptures. "The first native Americans came to this continent long before most people think," she says. "The Bering Strait's bridge is considered the first Indian access to North America, but cliff dwellings in Arizona point to a much earlier date of civilization." Mentch's knowledge of American Indian culture and artifacts literally gushes when she talks.

And the business almost seems secondary to her love of Indian cultures. Perhaps for that reason it has thrived. "I'm just thrilled at how well it's been going," she says, "but then, I've always had a positive attitude and outlook on the area. I think people appreciate what I display." Mentch, who has customers from "Canada to Mexico," says people "en By ART SPINELLA Business Editor An Indian arrowhead caught in the hoof of a horse led Margaret Mentch to a life of American Indian study and a growing business in Coos Bay. "When I was a child, my horse came up lame," says Mentch, recollecting her childhood.

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