BOER, ed NEW EXECUTIVE: Linda Hawes is second vice-president, Skip Bates is presi- dent, and Sharalyn Palagian is first vice-president of the Chamber of Commerce. Chamber issues awards KARLENE CLARK has been voted Business Execu- tive of the Year by the local business community. Clark is operator of Im- ages By Karlene beauty salon on Lazelle Ave, It was part of the annual business awards: announced last Thursday at the Terrace District Chamber of Com- merce’s annual general Meeting. The Contributor to the Arts award went to the Northwest Academy of Per- forming Arts, The Doug Smith Cuslomer Service Ex- cellence Award was given to Northern Drugs. The Student of the Year award goes to Caledonia grad Mark Tessaro, who won the provincial speech arts competilion and was a 1996 recipient of the Premier’s Excellence Award, New board voted in New executive Chamber of Commerce members also elected a new executive and board of directors last Thursday. The new president is Skip Bates; manager of the Bank of Nova Scotia. He replaces outgoing pres- ident Barb Kerr of First Choice Travel, First vice-president is Central Gifts’ Sharalyn Palagian. Sccond vice- president is Linda Hawes of Vic Hawes Optometry. Treasurer will be Coast Inn of the West manager Doug Barrett, and secretary is Tolsec’s Leona Klein. Elected to the board of direclors are: Shaun Braid (Braid Insurance), Laura _ Cautley (Business Develop- Arena queried THE CITY’s call for private proposals to build a sec- ond sheet of ice is already altracting interest. As of Friday, recreation superintendent Steve Scott says the city had reccived at least eight or nine requests for information packages on how to file a proposal. “It remains 10 bé seen if We gel we get eight or nine | answers back,’’ Scott noted, ‘‘Some of the people who have called aren't interested themselves: but they have clients who might be.”’ ‘'There’s becn a couple from Montreal, at Ieast one from Vancouver and at least one from Toronto,” Scolt added. Compaaies have until July 12 to submit their proposals. The cily has indicated it will consider just about any- thing that involves construction of a second sheet of ice — including various combined rétail/commercial de- velopments, such as a restaurant or sports bar. The private proposal call came after repeated requests by the second sheet-of ice proponents to consider the idea in the wake of last November's referendum defeal ofa publicly built second sheet, Box 22, IMPROVING Terrace, B.C. 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They’re already working on an addition to make the 18-unit building at least 36 units, The Slumber Lodge on Lakelse Ave. bas been purchased by Norther Motor Inna owner George Munson, Munson bought the hotel from Western Dominion Investments, which had been seeking a buyer for the entire chain: for months before opting 1o sell the properties piecemeal in recent weeks. ‘Our plan is to upgrade it, make it look a little more attractive and make it into a place where people want to go,’? Munson said Thursday. ‘‘Instead of the money being shipped away, we’re going to put it back into the business." He said it’s not clear what's going to hap- pen to the chain’s central reservation sys- tem, or what affiliation the Terrace hotel might have. “For the moment we're going to keep the same name,”’ he said. “Beyond that I’m not sure what’s happening.”’ He added the hotel will be operated as an entirely separate firm, independent of the Northern Motor Inn. 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