AS - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, November 13, 2002

‘TERRACE STANDARD.

REVIEW _
Out & Feds say air security

About Charge under review

New store

A BOOTLEGGER ciothing
store is to open in the
Skeena Mall Nov. 20,

It will take over a va-
cancy next to the Ricki’s
store in the mall. ‘The two
chains are affiliated.

Debbie Helland, the
Ricki’s manager who will
manage both stores, is -hir-
ing up to 10 new employ-
ees for the Bootlegger. out-
let. “I’ve got over 200 ap-
plicants at the moment,”
she said last week.

She said she persuaded
parent firm Comark the
market and time was right.

Log summit

SMALL business loggers
get a chance to examine
the new Forest and Range
Practices Act this month.
The Small Business
Forest Summit, organized
by the North Coast’ Log
and Lumber Association,
takes place Nov. 17 in
Prince Rupert, covering
various topics of interest to
small business loggers.
Participants will ques-
tion senior forests ministry
officials on the new cade.
“The focus will be on
questions and concerns
around the new act and
how it will impact the
Small Business Program,”
said organizer Paul Alton.

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HAWKAIR and _ several
other B.C, airlines de-
nounced Ottawa’s $24 air
security charge before a
federal finance committee
last week in Vancouver.

Company owner Dave
Menzies said the fee
means fewer people are
flying,

“A jot of people who
use their discretionary in-
come to go somewhere are
just staying home,” he
said,

He and others urged the
committee to push the
government. to reduce or
eliminate the charge.

“They've got to recog-
nize that flying isn’t some-
thing people do because
it’s a luxury,” he said.

The $24 round trip fee
adds up to about $90,000
per month — or more than
$1 million per year — that
Hawkair forwards to Otta-

here later this month.

Fresident Clive Beddoe will be here
Nov, 28 to meet airport society directors
to discuss issues related to a possible
Startup here, airport manager Rick Reed
said. “They want to talk to us about
providing service to Terrace,” he said,

The Nov. 28 date coincides with offi-
cial start of an Instrument Landing Sys-

Dave Menzies

wa. Hawkair builds the
charge into ticket prices.
The money is to gener-
ate more than $1 billion a
year to bankroll increased
security and explosive de-
tection equipment at air-
ports across the country.
Finance committee
members assured the air-

line owners the security
fee is being reviewed by
the federal government,
They pledged to raise the
matter with finance mini-
ster John Manley.

Menzies said the MPs
seemed swayed by his
contention that a secure
air industry benefils every-
one — not just air travellers
— therefore the costs
shouldn't be entirely borne
by passengers.

He hopes a change to
the fee may be possible.

“They may cut it in
haif,” he said. “The com-
mittee said these are logi-
cal arguments.”

Menzies argues there's
little security threat posed
by the potential hijacking
of smaller planes, adding
risk should be a factor in
determining the level of
security needed and haw
costs are recovered.

WestJet eyes Terrace

WESTIET is looking at starting service in

tem (ILS) here. Reed said the new sys-
Terrace and is sending ils top executive

tem, which will improve the ability of

planes to land in poor weather, may have

area now.

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been a factor in Calgary-based WestJet’s
decision to take a detailed look at the

Reed said WestJet indicates its confi-
dent about the Terrace market, but has .
other technical concerns about ils ability
to operate here that it wants to discuss
with local airport officials.

We would like to thank anyone who supported our fundraising
efforts at the Gorilla Fireworks outlet this year!

Special thanks fo Coast Mountain Electric, Terrace & District Credit Union,
Rich McDaniel, Shelley Larkin, the City of Terrace Parks & Recreation
Department, Ruins Board Shop, Fabricland and the Midgets Reps.

The players, coaches, and parents of the
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