at & About ‘Kmart chaos STAFF AT Terrace’s largest retail department store have little idea. what name they might be working under in the months ahead. The troubled Kmart Cor- poration confirmed last week its 127 Canadian stores are up for sale. The U.S. discount retailer sald its considering a num- ber of possibilities. Zellers, which is owned ’ by the Hudson Bay Co., is considered the most likely buyer of most of Kmart’s stores in Canada. Kmart has struggled in the . face of tough competition from Zellers and Wal-Mart in Canada, “T’ve heard all kinds of Tumours,"’ said Roger L'Heureux, manager of Kmart’s Terrace store. ‘'We don’t know a thing,’ Tubs, hose TERRACE will have a lo- cal hot tub dealership when Twilight Spas and Pump Supply opens Nov, 14. Ron Gowe, formerly of Acadia Plumbing, is open- ing his new store in the Keith Ave. Mini Mall and will sell and service Cal Spa equipment. ’ He and a couple of staff will also do work on other residential, water systems and he'll carry _ billiard tables and accessories, Also new to town will be Just Legs, a hosiery and lingerie franchise expected to open in the Skeena Mall. Net miners A SMALL northwest mini- ng company is among those ' surfing the "Net, Cusac Gold Mines Ltd., which has a small gold mine near the. former townsite of Cassiar, says having its own web site is one way to get its message out, The company’s address on the World Wide Web is http: /Avww.cusac.com TERRACE STANDARD @ Merlin doubles - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, November 8, 1995 - Al MERLIN SOLUTIONS is doubling the size of its computer store ein ‘the Lazelie Ave. Mini-Mall. Owner Julie Jacobs says they're knocking out a wall Nov. 19 and taking over the former location of Central Gifts, which has moved into a - larger space in the same building. The enlarged space will also handle’ service work for Pendragon Computers Inc., owned by husband Keith Jacobs (above). Based onan average root ‘On Selected Armstroig | Floors. | Logging layoffs loom Pulp mill strike effects felt here By JEFF NAGEL - SEVERAL local logging companies expect’ to lay off most of their workers in Decem- ber as a result of a year-end industry slow- down. Most expect to go down for December - and not resume full operations until some- time in the new year. It’s a combination of firms hitting their year’s quota early and the excess inventory piling up in Skeena Cellulose’s log yard due to the three-month-old pulp mill strike in Prince Rupert. “December might look pretty’ Jean and mean,” said Bill Saver of the Northwest Loggers Association..." - Don Hull and Sons‘Ltd. exp as 70 or 80 of its employees to. be ‘out of | work, according to Gordon Hull. It will also’ be felt at other large con- tractors that work with SCI. "As soon as the snow hits the hills we’re “down until January,” said Jack Smaha, “owner of Jasak Logging, ‘We haven’t had a slowdown to this exlent for quite a while”? ~ Justin Rigsby said Alm-Wood Contract- ing will continue grappleyarding, but will shut dowa hauling and high-lead operations at the end of this month. He predicted full operations wouldn't ope recomumence until February, | ; The high level of inventory is also creat- ing financial problems for Skeena Cel 7 - lulose’s Terrace sawmill. “The fonger the pulp mill is down the . more cash we have tied up in inventories, be it pulp logs or chips,” said sawmill man- ager Rand Menbinick. “It’s making us take doe a very close look at our cash flow.’’ In the weeks since the strike, SCI has . once again stretched out its schedule. of paying its contractors, in turn putting cash ° ° flow pressure on some of those firms.. “From their point of vicw it’s not going — |- to bea. positive,”” Menhinick said. “But whatever we can do to keep: running as long as we possibly can is better in the iong run for all parties.”? - ; How much: longer the Terrace sawmill can mn without a settlement of the Rupert strike is something Menhinick says he gan't predict. “T¢ depends on so many variables it isn bes ‘funny,’ he said, noting lumber.prices: are at the key.. ‘To tell you the truth, I don't. |. know. 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