; a Be ars verreaersrrrrniti “TERRACE STANDARD - Out & About :', Building a bust =-.CONSTRUCTION in 1999 is now Le aes fhe Wee Mow certain io end even lower than 1998. November saw City of Terrace » Staff issue building permits worth =: $548,500, bringing the year’s total to see $6.45 million. fe = = a mi = = de ee That's well off the $7.74 million ‘tecorded to the same point in 1998, -and just a fraction of 19975 |1- ~ month total of $20.8 million. The city hasn’t seen growth this ~Slow since the mid-1980s, says sen- ior building inspector Paul Gipps. =. The mid-i990s construction boom =. o-.. Pali =: =. babe = ina as, ee ye FELTET SSE ee *PeCSPERESPERTTSEOR PESTER ETE oom “ oe tom haar rm im bain nen ere Bes Mint: peaked around 1996. Two solid years of low new con- struction — which council relies on to - provide fresh tax dollars without hik- ing property taxes -— means cily = budgeting will get increasingly diffi- cult. Gipps says numerous projects were discussed this year that didn’t come together, adding there’s now plenty of discussion about possible projects for 2000. That has city staff optimistic 2000 will bring some improvement. November did see three new house starts — two on Eagle Place and once on Dairy Ave. That brought the year’s total to 16. More jeans soon A NEW clothing store will open downtown early in the new year. Warehouse One: The Jean Store will open a Terrace lacaltion selling low-cost jeans and casual clothes Feb. 10 next to Mr. Mike’s in the former Hollywood Video loca- tion. “Ill be the first store to open west of Prince George and the Winnipeg- based chain’s 42nd location in west- ern Canada. Almost all the clothes are made in Canada and the company’ s man- ira is--that no pair of jeans in the world is worth more than $40. The 2,900 square foot store will be run by about three full-time and imcight part-time employees, said reecompany marketing director Julie Eccles. “We're looking at adding 22 "stores next year,” Eccles said. “We do fairly well in areas with a 25,000- plus trading base. We looked at the m=-demographics, the size of the city mzand the trading patterns, and the dart k=shot at Terrace.” | md Hietey She said the company is also smlooking at the possibility of opening wa store in Prince Rupert, but hasn’t = made a firm decision or found the mideal location yet. THREAT EEL PEELE TATE ERD CES TERETEOIEER CANADIAN WASTE employee Domenic Toovey feeds a cardboard compactor at the company’s Terrace location on Hwy 16. The compa- ny’s cardboard collection here has far exceeded expectations. Cardboard pickup | soars for recyclers CARDBOARD recycling by local businesses and industry has far ex- ceeded the expectations of Canadian Waste. The company started accepting cardboard free of charge in separate receptacles here Terrace in October, 1998. “We anticipated between 12 and 14 tonnes per month,” said Rolf: Thomsen, the: company’s districl manager. The company hit the 14 tonne tar- get on the second month ‘6f'the: recy- cling program, and it’s ndwidivérting ‘ 36 tonnes of cardboard’ per month that would normally go to the land- fill. “It's definitely been much more than we. anticipated,” Thomsen said. It’s been a profitable sideline for Canadian Waste, whose primary business is providing commercial garbage collectian and residential pickup to rural subscribers. Cardboard is a valuable recycling commodity, although ils down some- what in price from recent years. Canadian Waste . doesn’t” offer businesses anything for their card- board. But Thomsen says customers save money by separating the cardboard because they don’t need their gar- bage dumpsters emptied as often. Thomsen says Canadian Waste may eventually expand its recycling to some form of “blue bag” program similar to what it operates in Fernie and Vernon. Plastics and computer paper, which both fetch higher prices than cardboard, are both accepted there. ‘An expansions'wvould: probably be ‘dt léust'a Yeat® or two’offzand would Jikély require the participation of the city, he added. | Cardboard collected here goes to Crown Packaging’s recycling plant in Burnaby. It can. be repulped or used in the production of newsprint, either there or at a paper mill in Port Alberni. Canadian Waste started with a single worker here, but now employs a staff of five. It set-up here and eventually took over. commercial garbage pickup here from the former local operator, Riverside Disposal. 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