DO YOU HAVE A BUSINESS IDEA YOU’VE BEEN MULLING OVER IN YOUR HEAD FOR AGES?

WONDERING IF IT WOULD EVER WORK OR HOW MUCH WORK IT WOULD ACTUALLY BE?

Erik Blaney

Erik Blaney is ther person to call. He is heading up the Herons Nest, the Naut’sa mawt Tribal Council project aimed at individual entrepreneurs.

Now in its third year, the Herons Nest has its own Facebook page. “People should feel free to message me and ask questions or seek insight on how to plan out your business,” Erik said. He has also recently featured two projects on the page.

True Foundations

True Foundations reached out to the Herons Nest in the summer of 2015 and has received business development help over the past year.

Laurier Mathieu is the owner of the business and is from the Klahoose First Nation. His business is based in Powell River, but is designed to be mobile. He has had contracts on Vancouver Island and in Vancouver.

The services offered include crane hoisting, pile driving and mobile welding. Laurier has two Link Belt crawler cranes and a 60-ton Bacyrus Erie along with a Skagit 80-ton and other top-notch equipment. All equipment listed has been inspected and certified.

The company won a subcontract job with SureSpan on the Evergreen SkyTrain expansion in Port Coquitlam where Laurier said “I drove 400 piles inside a month and a half ”. True Foundations has also hoisted timber-frame buildings and completed a hoisting job for BC Hydro.

Contact Laurier Mathieu at [email protected]

Oyster Bay

Erik also wrote that “Stz’uminus First Nation started day one of construction yesterday on its Oyster Bay project. Things are getting very real, building the first 10,000 square feet of retail and office space. Stz’uminusis is currently looking for office, restaurant and retail tenants to join the growing roster.

Contact Chenoa Akey at Coast Salish Development at 250-924- 2444.