Geoff Baker
Geoff Baker
Geoff Bakeris an award-winning, Canadian-born journalist and media personality currently working as an investigative sports reporter and sports business columnist for The Seattle Times...
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There's a demand for car washing in North Vancouver that's undersupplied at this point, ... There's not a lot of carwashes when you look at the population base.
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Both Dan and Jimmy have all the tools to do very well this year. They're actually complete opposites. Dan practices hard, but he's a racer. Jimmy practices great, but he hasn't been able to pop a big race yet. That's something we're set on helping him achieve.
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I was very pleased with how everyone ran at the time trial last week,
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From a business perspective, if you look at dollar for dollar, there's a lot of savings to be had by going eco-friendly as far as expenses and energy consumption, ... But most people don't look at business from that point of view - they only look at the bottom line and the upfront costs, but there's a long term benefit to being eco-friendly.
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My goal is to make it back to the state meet again. I also want to finish high in the conference, but the Western Lakes is very strong this year. Livonia Churchill will be good again and Walled Lake Central didn't graduate anyone and they were sixth in the state last year. I expect Northville and Livonia Stevenson to be strong, too.
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There are two distinct parts that make us different from every other car wash out there,
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If I'm going to do this, I want to do it in Liverpool first.
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With the car wash business it's all about the location, ... We were able to secure a phenomenal piece of property for our first site, it's perfectly suited for a carwash, so it just made sense to do it here.
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We also have six promising freshmen out this year, which is the most we've had in a while.
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Everybody has the dream of owning their own business. It was one of those things that fell into our lap.
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It's being built as what they call a franchise model,
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With today's hectic lifestyles we were looking for products to make people's lives easy,
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Our goal is by 2010 we want to have a presence in every major city in the country,
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It was a fabulous event, really fantastic. Everything went according to plan and everyone had a superb time.