t i qi "y 4 t f ; 1 ae TERRACE STANDARD THAT'S ( COACH Cathy Sousa, far left, with the five-member Northwest Community College business ac- - ministration team which collected top honours at a Vancouver competition. Beside Sousa is Tanya Ols- son followed by Kevin Gillanders, Reann Sousa, Patrick Levesque and Edison Bolton. Students win commerce crown NORTHWEST Community ‘College business admin- Astration students returned to a provincial competition . after a six-year absence and came away with top awards March 22-24, The five-member team ‘ “-was up against 11 other post-secondary institutions, including BCIT, in setting up and operating a simula- ted business, At the end, judges at the Vancouver competition awarded them first place for best. performing team and. another top team ‘award: for best business plan. - - The students spent the Out & About Population - : able POPULATION estimates for 2000 suggest Terrace’s numbers held steady. B.C. Stats projects the population within city 1i- mits rose’0.3 per cent from 13,832 to 13,871. ‘New Hazelton grew 3.5 per cent to 865. Kitimat, however, de- clined 1.2 per cent to an estimated 11,533 in 2000. Prince Rupert rose 0.3 per cent and is now esti- mated at 17,027. This region grew 0.6 per cent to 46,870, The region that saw the fastest growth was the Thompson-Okana- gan at 1.4 per cent. BCIT study probes oil A STUDY values B.C,’s offshore oil and gas re- serves at up to $4 billion a year if fully developed, It includes recommen- dations on how to address environmental and social concerns so the resource benefits the people of B.C. ’ The report, by the Mari- time Awards Society of Canada and BCIT’s Ocean Centre of Excellence can be downloaded from www.lransportation, beit.ca/ marine/oce.html . Feeble job gain marked THE YEAR 2000 saw em- ployment rise in the north- west region for the first time since two years of declines. “Because of the dura- tion and magnitude of the earlier job losses, overall employment levels in the region are still comparat- ively Jow," noted the Cre- dit Union Central of B.C, Its report notes the ‘northwest region felt the greatest job loss in B.C, —eight per cent - from 1996 to 2000. . The gain last year was generated by the goods sector, it said, but also noted those gains were concentrated earlier in the year when lumber prices were high, and before weeks before the compeli- tion preparing the business plan for their enterprise, GlobalTek. During the competition days themselves, they dealt with the many vari- ables facing a business such as financial, human resources and social/ethical considera- tions. Judges constantly circu- lated through the competi- tion room, asking teams questions based on what was poing on. College business ad- ministration instructor Cathy Sousa said she was pleased with the team’s wins. “We were up against some pretty intimidating competition,” she said. Team members said they received compliments on their business plan and their approach to problem solving, The provincial campeti- tion dates back to 1988 but Northwest Community College team stopped going after 1995 because of budget restrictions. All of the five team members are in their sec- ond year of the business administration program and all are Caledonia grads. They were chosen eure ee The fan stulft four-legged compatitor cin the annual al Dummy Dewnhill © based on grade point aver- ages. Reann Sousa and Pa- trick Levesque will be going on to Royal Roads University in Victoria this fall to pursue Bachelor of Commerce degrees. Edison Bolton and Kevin Gillanders wiil be doing the same at the Uni- versity of Northern British Columbia in Prince George. Tanya Olsson is taking a year off before pursuing her degree. 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