B4 - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, March 26, 2003

TERRACE STFANDARD

Business REVIEw

Out &
About

Honda set
to build

TERRACE HONDA has
the city’s akay to build a
new dealership on Hwy 16
near Kalum St.

The building will go in
on the north side of the

highway just east of
Kalum.
Council has issued a

development permit and
construction could begin
this spring. Plans call fora
6,400 square foot building.

Jobless rate

down a bit

UNEMPLOYMENT
nudged down to 11.3 per
cent in the northwest in
February from 11,7 per
cent in January.

The jobless rate is down
from about 13.6 per cent a
year ago.

But the Statistics Cana-
da labour force survey also
shows full-time employ-
ment is down while part-
timers are up over the
same period.

It also suggests people
who lost their jobs left the
region to seek work else-
where — a situation that
produces a lower unem-
ployment rate among those
who remain.

Mediator
now open

A NEW mediation service
has opened its doors on the
second floor of the Trigo
building on Katum St.

Blue Skies Mediation.is
a service for people look-
ing to resolve a wide var-
iety of conflicts outside
the court room.

“It’s a forum for resol-
ving disputes that’s non-
adversarial,” says owner
Kate Spangl. “The resolu-
tions that folks arrive at
they design themselves.”

That includes compre-
hensive family mediations
including child support,
spousal support, custody
and access issues as well
as division of assets.

Mediation is also avail-
able for everything from
neighbourhood, workplace,
organizational conflicts
and parent-leen issues.

Spangl spent 10 years
as manager for Terrace’s
Crown Victims and Wit-
ness Services program,
which was scrapped by the
province in April 2002.

Spangl holds a certifi-
cate in comprehensive fa-
mily mediation fram the
Institue of Canflict Analy-
sis and Management.

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of two former highways ministry employees now
working for McElhanney. JEFF NAGEL PHOTO

Engineer firms
merge, grow to
chase road work

By JEFF NAGEL

A TERRACE engineering
firm is hiring former high-
ways ministry employees
to handle extra work as the
provincial government
ramps up roadbuilding in
northwest B.C.

McElhanney Consulting.

Services branch manager
Colin Adam says they’re
scrambling to plan road
work for the province
that’s being paid for

through the. extra 3.5 cent.
‘per litre gas, tax’ imposed”

March 1.

“We've
people as a direct result,”
Adam said. “We're prob-
ably the first beneficidr-
ies.”

Both employees came
from the ministry of high-
ways, which either laid off
or issued voluntary buyouts
to at least 30 workers here
last year.

“We see them as hav-
ing the right skill set and
are integrating them into

our operation,” Adam
added.
McElhanney is busy

with planning and design
work for road improve-
ments on Hwy 37, on part
of the Nisga’a Highway
and on rural roads near
Burns Lake, he added,
Adam predicts consid-
erably increased road con-
struction activity in the
northwest region this year.
“It’s really going to
happen,” he said, "We're
under a lol of pressure to
crank oul these designs

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“It’s going to provide a
very neccesary alternative
to the work that's missing
in the forest industry.”

Besides increased con-
struction work, he says his
firm is also busier because
less planning and design is
being done in house by the
ministry - as it tended to
be in the past.

Adam himself is a new
arrival at McElhanney.

He took over there in
December, when he
merged his firm Adam En-
gineering with McEJhan-
ney.

“We saw benefils to a
combined operation,” he
said, “Bringing the two
companies together gave
us combined strength. It
helps us level out our
peaks and troughs in busi-
ness.”

The Terrace office now
also oversees the Smithers
and Prince Rupert bran-
ches,

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