A10 - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, January 8, 1997

Business Review

TERRACE STANDARD

Donair shop opens

TIRED OF burgers? Want
to ‘spice’ up your lunch or.
dinner? That's what the
owners of Terrace’s newest
restaurant are hoping for.

The Pit Stop Donair Shop
opened iis doors on the
4600 block of Lakelse on
Dec. 17.

If you're unfamiliar with
them, donairs are slices of
specially spiced roasted beef
on a pita, wrapped up with
home-made tzatziki, or an-
other sauce, and tomatoes,
onions and cheese.

The Pil Stop also offers
sub sandwiches, soup and
salads. There’s not much
sealing in the bright black
and white checked shop, so
it caters mostly to take out
orders.

It’s the brainchild of three
local men — Gary Trem-
blay, Darren Arsenault and
Andy Boehm.

Arsenault wanted fo open
the shop partially because
he missed eating donairs,
which he claims he lived off
of while in Edmonton.

Now Edmonton is where
they get their specially
prepared beef, and donair
machine.

None of the three men
have owned a business be-
fore, and only Tremblay has
worked in restaurants be-
fore.

Arsenault is a drywaller
by trade, and Boehm is
more of a sitent partner who
works at Sight and Sound.

‘Tm a rookie at this

Out &
About

No thanks

ALTHOUGH the giant
Burnaby-based Loewen
Group of Funeral Homes
has bought up Smithers’
only funeral home, they
won't be coming into Ter-
race.

Loewen has approached
MacKay’s Funeral Service
in the past, says Maggie
MacKay, but the Terrace
company bas always turned
them down.

‘We have no intention of
selling out,’’ said MacKay.

Loewen is one of the
largest funeral home com-~-
panies in North America,
and they bought Schrader
RA Funeral Homes in
Smithers recently, the firm’s
first purchase in northwest.

Chain grows

THE COMMUNITY news-
paper chain that owns the
Terrace Standard has
bonght a major group of
community newspapers in
B.C.’s Lower Mainland.

Black Press Ltd. bought
the Canadian newspaper and
printing divisions of British
firm Trinity International
Holdings PLC.

Owned by Victoria
businessman David Black,
Black Press Lid. is the hold-
ing company for three com-
munity newspaper groups
— Island + Publishers on
Vancouver Island, Sound
Publishing in Washington
State, and Cariboo Press in
the interior and northwest,

The move adds Trinity's
16-newspaper Metro Valley
Newspaper Group in ithe
Fraser Valley and the Red
Deer Advocate daily news-
paper in Red Deer, Alberta.
The papers have combined
circulation of 500,000.

With the purchase, Black
Press grows to 80 com-
munity newspapers in B.C,
Alberta and Washington,
and ten press plants.

David Black got his start
with his parents’ weekly

town of Williams Lake,
tuming the Tribune into a
success afid- eventually
buying other papers.

He is not related lo or
otherwise affiliated with
Conrad Black, whose firm
Hollinger Inc. bas extensive
daily newspaper interests in
Canada and overseas.

newspaper in their home.

secede

DONAIR ANYONE? A new restaurant — The Pit
Stop Donair Shop — is specializing in the spicy meat
wrapped in a pita. Co-owner Darren Arsenault slices
off a piece of the trademark beef.

stuff,’ says = Arsenault.
‘‘Hopefully people will for-
give us if we’re a little
slow."

But so far Tremblay says
business has been great.
And this week they’re hiring
their first employee.

The partners credit the
16/37 Business Develop-
tment Centre for providing a
lot of information and most

importantly a foan at just.

three points above prime. ~

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Even though the business
has just started the trio al-
ready have plans for expan-
sion. They'd like to open a
branch in Thornhill, saying
the area is underserved.

Thornhill was actually
where they'd first planned
to open up, but then a lease
opportunity came up
downtown on Lakelse,

‘We're paying: high rent
but it will pay off ‘in - the
long run,’’ says Arsenaull.

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