Page A8 - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, March 19, 1993 _ BUSINES S REVIEW DAVE PETERS applies finishing touches to paintwork in new quarters for the probation service. Now focated in the court- hause, the service's new home in the former Video Station at the Skeena Mall means more room and a better layout. Oc- cupancy is expected later this month. ’ ficulty. Qui ANDABOU'T. TERRACE — A union organizer and a environmentalist from Mexico will be here this weekend to talk about the North American Free Trade Agreement. Trade unionist Isaias Garcia and English and ecology teacher Patricia Hume will tackle, the free trade issue at a meeting at 1 p.m. Saturday, March 13 at the Car penter’s Hall. The speaking engagement is sponsored by the, Trade Union. Group, ithe 4 rz Labour Ce cit; and" the “North- west Development Education As- sociation. kaekkk High school students from around the northwest will gather here March 23 for a young entre- preneurs conference, The sesssion is one of 12 taking place around the province ‘this spring sponsored by the provin- cial goverament and put on by the Federal Business Development Bank. . They are viewed as a starting point to interest students in going Gs Districts into business, Each conference features talks by young entrepreneurs. One of these travelling around is Sharalyn Palagian, the owner of Central Gifts. Last year she was named the The man behind Orenda TERRACE ~— Before Orenda Forest Products there was Fibreco and before that, Investors Syndi- cale. Each bore, and in the case of Orenda,-stili docs, the stamp of - Hugh Cooper. Bom in Manitoba and a lawyer by training, Cooper is the presi- dent and chief executive officer of Orenda Forest Products, © The Orenda plan to build a pulp and paper mill between Terrace and Kitimat is at least the third project Cooper's © undertaken _ Since he moved to Vancouver in the 1970s to retire, Cooper’s legal practice in Manitoba in the 1950s and 1960s gradually turned into a specialty of rescuing companies from bankruptcy or from financial dif- Federal Business Development Jag Bank’s young entrepreneur of the year. ; kkkkk “Expect changes soon at B.C, > fitomotive , and.Industrial Sup- we piles (formeily Nomag' ‘Auto)-on Keith. 7. An adjacent house will bé moved so the building can be en- larged and to provide mere park- ing. The business was purchased Last fall by the Munsons who own Bear. Creck Contracting and the Northern Motor Ina, . George Munson said he wants to expand into industrial supplics to add to the diversity of the busi- “mess. - The store front will also be moved to the west side of the building. Sat., March 6 Terri Lynn Bahr Yvonne Smith 9 yrs experiance I *& FREE Carnations for the Ladies % SPECIAL RATES for Seniors ; ’8 yrs experience *& SPECIAL KIDS STYLING STATION § “Wendy Schmidt 3 yrs experience TRANSFORMATIONS HAIR DESIGN 103 - A716 Lazelle Ave His next accomplishment took a young Investors Syndicate from $200 million in assets to $5.3 bil- lion in 12 years. Cooper’s retirement to Van- couver came-alter- Power -Corpo- ralion, a large eastern Canadian firm, bought out Investors Syndi- caie. But retirement ended when Premier Bill Bennett asked hire in the late 1970s to find a solution to a surplus of wood chips from in- terior sawmills. “To put it simply, there were more chips than the sawmills could use. You could cither bury (hem or burn therm and that was nol very smart,’’ said Cooper dur- ing an interview last week, The only other outlet for the chips was selling them to pulp mills at a price that favoured the 16.3 CU. FT. FRIDGE <- Rleg. $819.00 30” RANGE EASY CLEAN ~ Reg. $699.00 $519” INGLIS FROST- FREE FRIDGE 18 CU, FT. Effictent design for maximum storage. Inglis technology gives - you trouble free service year aftor Fig “year, have prop-opan deors * meat pan “.. «adjustable freazer shelf + blanket pariel kit option Reg, $999.00 1985 and Cooper began to cast » Full width gllde-out shelves « ja ‘dairy’ and butter compartments em latter and not the former. Cooper’s solution was Fibreco, a company made up of interior sawmills which found overseas customers for the chips. --He- then went: back inlo: retire- ment but that time of touring the province setting up Fibreco aroused his curiosily in value- added waod products. And that curiosity grew when foresls minister Tom. Waterland phoned in 1984 to ask if he was interested in applying for a forest licence in the Stewart area. So Cooper. founded Orenda Forest Praducts and applied for one of three licences created, The plan was to rid the area of unwanted, mostly pulplog quality trees and replant the land. Orenda’s licence was granted in = INGLIS SELF CLEAN RANGE Reg. $1099.00 INGLIS FROST- FREE FRIDGE 18 CU, FT. FRReg. $899.00 ness involvement. around for a way to use the wood. Several ideas were discarded - until Cooper came across Tampella, a Finnish finn, which - developed: a. way to. grind pulpwood under pressure aid.so create fibres for paper.” On a subsequent trip-to Europe, Cooper discovered =a paper making method ‘called MFC, short for machine finish, coated - paper. _ "T said here’s a niche-market and nobody was making it but the Finns,’’ said Cooper. It’s this concept which is now being developed inlo Orenda’s $500 million plan for a pulp and paper mill south of Lakelse Lake. Cooper was recently awarded a Canada 125 medal for his busi- “ADMIRAL WASHER. & DRYER $38 49°° Reg, $1299.00