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A2 Terrace Review — Wednesday, July 10, 1991 .

the truck was parked at a

An unhappy pair examine the cab of this belly-dump gravel
truck belonging to D&E Trucking of Terrace, destroyed by fire
at about 6 p.m. Saturday.

Thornhill fire chief Art Hoving says

Fox St. gravel pit when the driver

noticed smoke coming from the cab. His effort to axtinguish the
fire with a fire extinguisher failed and the fire department was

called to the scene. Hoving says the cause was an electrical

short.

EASY REZONING ,
EXPECTED FOR’
CORRECTIONS

TERRACE — The city has
received two rezoning applications
from the B.C. Buildings Corpor-
ation which will probably be going
| to a public hearing soon.
| The applications are to rezone
| two properties on either side of
Braun St. at Highway 16 from
Heavy Industrial to a new classsifi-
cation suitable for a minimum
security community corrections
centre. Due to the location of the
property, though, little opposition
a1 is expected at a public hearing.

| The first property is 5.17 acre
parcel owned by Paul and Antonia
Lyshaug, located south of the CNR.
tracks and east of Braun St. The
second is a 6.87 acre parcel owned
by B.C. Hydro and located south
of the CNR tracks and west of
Braun St. Once the rezoning
change has been made, BCBC will
then ask the city for the closure of.
Braun St. between the two prop-
erties in order to consolidate them
into a single parcel. ,

The new corrections centre will
consist of a 9,600 square foot,

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businessmen who sponsor

Karen: 638-0707 .

Sharp rise in jobless rate

Unemployment in northem B.C. |
has reached its highest level in
four years. Statistics Canada fig-
ures for statistical regions 98 and
99, covering all of northern B.C.
except the Prince George area,
showed unemployment at 11.0
percent for June 1991. —

That number is down slightly
from the previous month, when
unemployment for the same area
was 11.6 percent, but up sharply
from 8.5 percent a year ago. James
Gilham, a labour market analyst
for the Canada Employment Centre
in Terrace, said last week, “I
haven’t seen comparative numbers
like that for a long time."

In the first quarter of 1991 $14.5
million was paid out to claimants,
of which $12.6 million was regular
benefits. The remainder went out
in maternity leave payments and
other types of benefits. Despite
stalements from economists that
the worst of the recession is over,
in Canada as a whole the value of
unemployment insurance benefits
paid out in the first quarter was up
38 percent over 1990, a total of

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$6.8 billion.
The June 1990 figure is the
lowest unemployment rate

recorded for more than 15 years;
in June 1975, during a boom
period, the rate was 10.4 percent.
At the bottom of the recession in
the early 1980's, StaisCan recorded
arate of 19.0 in March 1983.

Gilham believes that unemploy-
ment in the immediate area of
Terrace is somewhat lower than
the average for the north. Layoffs
in the oil and gas fields of north-
eastern B.C. have probably
accounted for much of the
increase, he said. The layoffs from
Alcan’s Kemano project probably
won’t have much impact on the
local figures because a large pro-
portion of the workers will be
filing their unemployment claims
in other areas of the province, he
added.

Gilham also noted that more jobs
are required now than were
required 15 years ago in relation to
the overall population to support
the active workforce. In 1975, he
said, 60 percent of the population

single-story structure and parking
lot located east of Braun. The main
building will offer space for 30
residents as well as living, dining,
recreation and administrative

worked for wages; that proportion prices, West of Braun will be a
is up 66 percent now, probably a workshop, wood-drying sheds and
a work area.

reflection of the trend toward
families having two incomes.

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