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Jobless rate
dips slightly

UNEMPLOYMENT in
the northwest edged down
marginally in August.

The jobless rate was 9.4
per cent, down from 9.6 per
cent in July, according to a
labour force survey released
Friday by Human Resources
Development Canada.

But it still reflects high
unemployment compared to
one year ago, when the rate
was 8,7 per cent.

Total employment is down

almost 10 per cent from a.

year ago in both the north-.
t region and northeast
region, the survey indicates.

The northeast, however,
still had the province’s
lowest unemployment rate
— 43 per cent.

The worst regions were
the Cariboo at 14.1 per cent
and the Kootenays at 19.9
per cent,

Unemployment elsewhere
in B.C. ranged from 7.2 per
cent (Thomson-Okanagan)
to 9.4 per cent (Victoria).

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Construction stays slow

CONSTRUCTION STARTS in Terrace bumped up to.
just over $1 million in August, nearly double the deathiy
slow $525,000 building pace set in July.

But most of the value of the building permits issued
came from two large City of Terrace projecis. One was
the $390,000 addition and renovation underway at the
Aquatic Cente. The other was the $357,000 construction
of a new Wilson Ave. water tank on the edge of the bench.

Aside from those projects, only seven building permits
were issued in the month, worth only $264,000,

Except for one house start, all the permits were for
renovations or sign installations,

Construction year-to-date is now at $5.5 million for
1998. That’s way down from $17.8 million to the same
point last year and barely a quarter of the $21.5 million
issued to the end of August in 1996,

Depots, pre-schools here
MUSHROOM DEPOTS led the city’s list of 16 new

"business licences issued in August.

Also popping up were a number of pre-schools and
daycares. Rainbow Castle, operated by Tracey Beler, and
Our Little School House are listed as new pre-schools,
And Doug Viguers is listed as the operator of Kermode
Kids Club daycare.

Also on the list are Cedar River Physiotherapist Inc. in
offices on Park Ave,

And CJ Dance Studio, operated by Carole Anderson,
is opening up Sept. 14 in the Greig Ave. Professional:

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. Sons as well as aerobics classes.

Even bad in Alberta

LAYOFFS and cutbacks are hitting the pulp industry in
Alberta, reports the Edmonton Journal.

Weldwood Canada chopped 30 jobs at its Hinton mill _

and warned many more layoffs are coming in response to
low prices and poor Asian markets. Other Alberta pulp
producers are described as being in ‘survival mode”’.

Weldwood officials said they need pulp prices of US
$600 a tonne to be comfortable and with prices now at
$500 or less, ‘‘we’ve been forced to reorganize.”

Lift oil ban, gov’t urged
THE B.C, CHAMBER of Commerce is urging the feder-
al and provincial governments to lift a moratorium on oil
and gas exploration off the north coast.
Chamber president John Winter said offshore exploration
in the Queen Charlotte Basin would give the northern
economy a shot at diversification,

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