Al0 - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, December 25, 2002

TERRACE STANDARD

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Out @ Mixed review for ferry plan |

Northern riders could pay a2 P per cent more after five years

About

New chair

at airport

FRASER Mackie is the
new president of the Ter-

race-Kitimat Airport Soc- .

igly.
There are also some

new members on the board |

that controls the airport.

Ernie Dusdal has been
named as the City of Ter-
Tace’s representative.

Dusdal is a partner in
Carlyle Shepherd and Co.
accounting firm. He re-
places former city de-
signate Frank Hamiltan -
who has moved to Vernon.

And outgoing director
Gerry Martin has been re-
placed by Charlie Graydon
of Graydon Security Sys-
tems.

COFI to be
industry rep

SEVERAL organizations
that represent the major
forest licensees are mer-
ging into one.

The Northern Forest
Products Association, Car-
iboo Lumber Manufactur-
ers’ Association, Interior
Lumber Manufacturers’
Associalion and the Caun-
cil of Forest [ndustries are
banding together.

The new organization is
expected to run in 2003
under the banner of the
Council of Forest Indu-
stries, with a head office
in Vancouver and sub of-
fices in Prince George and
Kelowna.

The merger is intended
to give the interior a sin-
gle, stronger voice on for-
est policy and focus on
‘major issues like competi-
tiveness and marketing,”
NFPA chairman Blair
Mayes said. me,

Daycare
seeks OK

THE CITY is rezoning
property on Kramer St. to
allow a planned daycare
centre to open up there.

A family that has
operated a daycare out of
their home further north on
Kramer says they want to
open a new larger location.

City council gave first
and second readings Dec.
9 ta bylaws to rezone the
land to public and institu-
tional.

Because it involves a
change to the Official
Community Plan, a public
hearing will take place
Jan, 13.

Family back

in alarm biz

THE GRAYDON family
are back in the alarm and
security business after a fi-
ve-year hiatus.

Ed and Charlie Graydon
launched Graydon Security
Systems Dec, 1.

It marks a re-entry to
the market they left in
1997 when they sold their
alarm division off to
Chubb Security.

The family cites a gap
in the market for their re-
turn.

“The
area Was
under-ser-
viced,
with only
a handful
of cem-§
ployees 5
serving an
afte a
where we

Charlie
Graydon

once provided over 65

jobs,”
said,
He said they'll provide

Charlie Graydon

service across the north- ©

west from offices in Ter-
race and Smithers,

The Graydon family
first started in the security
business in 1972 with Tol-
sec Securities.

REFORM of the B.C. Ferries system
will mean higher fares for northern
passengers.

The province has unveiled plans
lo rename the company B.C. Ferry
Services and place it under manage-
ment of an authority similar to the
Vancouver Airport Authority.

It will be allowed to increase
fares by up to 4.4 per cent per year
for the next five years for routes such
as the Inside Passage and Queen

" Charlotte [stands runs.

Major southern routes will have
fare hikes capped at no more than
2.8 per cent per year.

After five years that adds up to
fares up to eighi per cent higher for
riders on remote and smaller routes
versus the main runs between Van-
couver Island and the Lower Main-
land.

“Once again we’re paying more,”
noted Prince Rupert ferry watcher
Stephen Smith, who owns the Crest
Hotel there.

While he said there’s much in the
new policy to applaud, he’s con-
cerned that Victoria doesn’t plan to
treat the ferries as highways and in-

ject equivalent dollars into them as

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Rupert and the Queen Charlotte Islands aid Port Hardy.

the road system.

“These are highways to us,”
Smith said. “This isn’t someone’s
summer cottage we’re going to. This
is where we do business, generating
the wealth of the province.”

’ Smith said the new system does
open up the possibility of private
operators running their own ships on
B.C. Ferries routes.

He’s long been an advocate of

SORT

daily sailings on the Inside Passage
route in the summer — something he
said would pour thousands more
tourists a year into northern B.C.

Smith also said setting schedules
and fares a cuple yhears in advance
will help tourism operators attract
customers and plan.

He also said the changes set up a
process by which abandoning a route
will take at least two years.

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