A6 - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, May 11, 1994 TERRACE STANDARD Business Review x Have a seat CHANNING CEY feels there is great business potential In erecting benches araund the area. and selling advertising to support the effort. He feels 100 benches could be put up, some at bus stops and others in places where a rest would be appreciated by pedestrians. That's Cey on the right with helper Jason Chelsberg. Cey makes the cement benches himself and spent last week testing a mold. DANA HUBLER PHOTO Skills centre could THE PROVINCE is consider- ing locating one of its new Community Skills Centres in the northwest. But labour minister Dan Mil- ler wouldn’t go so far as to promise the region will get . one. Miller’s comments followed the announcement of a two- year, $200 million program called Skills Now. As part of thal program, 10 centres, linked by computer, will be established this year. Noting the government wanted to distribute these across the province, Miller confirmed, ‘‘There are com- munities in the northwest that are on the list.’’ He declined to name any of those communities until he had taken that list to cabinet. Miller pointed out there was. a set of criteria based on need. Alcan fuels fishery worries. A LOCAL man says he’s more convinced than ever that Alcan’s plan to take more water from the Nechako River for its Kemano hydro-electric generators will hurt fish. Alois Schillinger, who appeared before B.C. Utilities Commission hearings examining the $1.3 bil- lion Kemano Completion Project, sald Alcan is making too many assumptions. , , “The food chain is all impor- tant to the fish. Any change will be a disaster,’ said Schillinger who appeared on behalf of the Lake and Stream Biological En- hancement Society. He’s particularly worried that changes in river levels and in _ water temperatures will harm tiny organisms that fish eat. Some of those changes will come about under an Alcan plan to build a cold water release tun- nel in the Kenney Dam south of Vanderhoof. That’s the dam built by Alcan in the early 1950s as part of its original Kemano project. The _dam halted the eastward flow of. the ‘Nechako Reservoir which now the Nechako, creating feeds into the Kemano genera- tors. Cutling the fow will warm up the river and cause problems for fish, But Alcan says cold water from the release tunnel will be sufficient to lower the river Out & About | THE CITY of Terrace is getting $30,000 from the provincial government to spending on tourism and economic develop- ment, It'll go to the city’s economic development office to help pay the salary of the economic devel- opment officer and for specific programs. The money comes from the government’s small business, tourism and culture ministry. kkhkkk And the provincial government is giving $8,500 each to the Ter- race and Kitimal chambers of commerce, The money is for the chambers’ efforts in providing business in- formation. kkk kk Computer crime and its effects on the business community is on the list of topics for discussion here May 18. Sponsored by the Pacific North- west Chapter of the Society of Management Accountants, the seminar will lead by Cpl. Randy Beck of the area’s RCMP com- mercial crime section. More information is available from Ann Mann at 635-4363 or Al Sande at 635-7864, . kk kkk Now open is the Subway restaurant on Lakelse. I’s owned by Dianne Ramage who recently moved here from the Kootenays. , The restaurant offers sand- wiches, muffins and soups. And it’s the third eating estab- lishment to ban smoking from ils premises. McDonald’s and A and W in the smoking earller this year, kk kkk Skeena Mall went non- A. former provincial bureaucrat now has a new job with the Forest Alliance of B,C. Eric Denhoff, who visited the northwest extensively when he was with Ihe aboriginal affairs ministry, is to help spend a lot of time In Europe on public relations campaigns. Denhoff was most recently the chairman of B.C, Transit. kkkkhk temperature once again. That causes Schillinger prob- lems because he says the How from the release tunnel will carry sediment over organisms now eaten by fish. And he says cooler water will stunt fish growth. Although Alcan has a variety of plans to stabilize Nechako fish populations, Schillinger says they are vapuc. *There’s too many ifs, buts and maybes,”’ he said. Schillinger is also worried about the prospect of fish hatcheries, Alcan’s last resort should other remedies not work. “Nobody can stop a disease or virus at a hatchery. If that hap- Pens, it'll be a disaster. An entire cycle of salmon can be lost,’’ he . said. : Schillinger appeared at hearings in Prince George. They have since moved to Vancouver but are scheduled to returii to Prince , George. The utilities commission doesn’t have the power to stop the Alcan project but can recom- mend changes. an Alcan started work on the com- pletion project in 1988, spending more than $500 million before a court decision questioning a fed- erat environmental approval pro- cess caused the company lo stop. That decision was overturned by Alcan says it won’t resume work until after the current hear- ings are concluded, which would be used in decid- ing the centres’ locations. And he agreed resource de- pendent communities could . have an edge when it came to > assessing need. Other planks in the Skills Now program include: * adding another 5,400 new student places in universities and colleges; * giving degree-granting status to six colleges and in- stitutes, including BCIT; * students getting work ex- perience and earning college course credits while still at high school; * mandatory career planning be located up here for secondary students; * tying school curricula more closely to areas of economic growth; and * introducing five new ap- prenticeship programs; While optimistic as to the © potential benefits of the pro- gram, Miller conceded, “There’s not perfection in, this”. He maintained Skills Now should not be looked at in iso- lation but in terms of how it would mesh with other government programs, such as the Forest Renewal Plan. “None on its own is a panacea,’’ he emphasized. — | ~ PS Q ee es SEE, ~ In The Market For Parts & Service? 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