A8 - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, May 18, 1994 TERRACE. STANDARD . Business REvIEwW high FOUR PARTNERS are working to turn a dream and a love of a particular kind of aircraft into a business. The four — Rod Hayword, Paul Hawkins, Dave Menzies and Don Vienneau — all worked for now defunct Trans Provincial Airlines, flying and taking care of its Bristol Freighters. Even before TPA went under in early 1993, the four planned on ways of starting their own com- pany using the huge, bulbous nose Bristols, The three Bristols at the aizport are believed to be the last of their kind in the world. One was on display at the May 3 airshow. Given the chance, the four believed they could min a suc- cessful operation by transporting equipment and supplies in and out of northern airstrips. And when TPA did fold, the four tricd unsuccessfully to pur- chase the aircraft from the com- pany’s receivers. They formed Hawkair Aviation Services Ltd. for that purpose. As events turned out, the air- craft have been bought by a Brit- ish company and a contract signed with Hawkair to make one of them serviceable for a flight overseas, That arrangement is temporarily on hold while the two companies debate financial arrangements. Promised payment to make ser- viceable one of the Bristols has yeblobe-madesae So Hawkair has now tumed to other parts of its business —. building up a maintenance and ihe wa pose below a Bristol Freighter. If all goes according ta the company’s plan, the Bristol will one day be delivering passengers and freight around the northwest. The company is tocated at the airport, in the Ford building which once housed now-defunct Trans Provincial Airlines. service end and running a flying school, **We’re doing what we can to survive. We're just four out work guys,’’ said Dave Menzies, Although Hfe in the north is very much connected to aircraft, the Hawkair principles note there hasn’t been a privately run air- craft maintenance company in the northwest. “There may be free lance engincers, but no shops,’’ says Menzies of the situation stretch. ing from Prince Rupert to Smithers and points north. Commercial operations run their own facilities and don’t ser- vice other aircraft, “In the long run strategy, a pri- Don Vienneau. Since starting earlicr this ycat, Hawkair has serviced 12 local Out & About FHERE’S A new carpet cleaning business in town. Skeena Chem-Dry opened its doors last week, using what it de- scribes as an environmentally friendly way of operating. The process involves carbon dioxide to loose dirt from carbon fibres. Skeena Chem-Dry here is run by Klaus Urbantke. The local Chem-Dry operation is the 100th franchise of its kind in Canada. kkekkk The Canadian Society of Safety Enginecring — Skeena Chapter and the City of Prince Rupert are hosting the sixth annual north- west occupational safety and health conference June 23-24 in Prince Rupert. This conference includes new legislation affecting the Workers Compensation Board, contractor safety and violence in the work- place. More information is available by calling Fred Campbell at 627- 3522 or Debble Bjomdal at 627. 0934. kkkkk Manufactured homes now com- prise 10 per cent of all single detached housing staris in B.C, says the Manufactured Homes Association of B.C. It says 1994 forecasts indicate there’ll be a 10 to 15 per cent in- crease over the 1,733 homes shipped last year. kkkkk Put up recently were 100 colourful banners purchased by the chamber of commerce. They are bright blue, magenta and white in colour bearing tulips as artwork, says chamber man- ager Bobbie Phillips. The tulips are a spring motif one of four themes available to the chamber, she said, These banners replace ones containing a kermodei bear like- ness purchased some years before bul which have now fallen victim to time and weather. kkakk Nominations for the third an- nual Canadian Woman Entrepre- meur of the Year awards are wanted. There are six nomination cate- gories and B.C. female entrepre- neurs have won the impact on the local economy one for the past two years, Women represent approximate- ly 35 per cent of the all business owners in B.C., indicate govern- ment figures, Nomination forms are available from the Bank of Montreal and there is a July 4 application dead- line. kkk kk A Prince George recycling fa- cility opening this month will be able to take large volumes of paper. Gerry Wiebe, regional manager of CPL Paperboard’s paper_ recovery division, says the: facil- ity will be able to process 3,000 tonnes of recylables each month. The company is spending $15 million on the project. “Once we open our doors, scrap paper will become a com- modity and we'll be paying top dollar to businesses, lo govern- ments, even to the general public for it,’ said Wiebe, CPL Paperboard already has a plant in Bumaby which recycles more than 180,000 tomes of paper a year. kkk A local travel agency has switched affiliations. Terrace Travel, once connected to ITP (independent Travel Professionals) is now connected to American Express. “American Express wanted a presence In ihe northwest and we wer glad to be able to work with them,’ said Terrace Travel spokesman George Clark. aircraft and knows of others in the northwest. “People are calling us up and saying they’! be bringing us their airplanes,’’ said Menzies. Hawkair runs from a large building at the airport, owned by Bill Ford. It’s the same building TPA used when it was in busi- ness. Hawkair’s dream of flying the Bristals hasn’t faded despite its troubles with the British compa- ny. The plan is still to buy one of three Bristols from the British company and lease another. The one Hawkair wants to buy was bought by TPA from the Australian airforce. ‘It was the>last' Western aircraft jo: fly- out-of ‘the Saigon-airport-~:}- before South Vietnam fell to North Vietnam in 1975. 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