TERRACE STANDARD.

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Out & Business phone rate
About hikes alarm council

Store plans

to rebuild
TERRACE Furniture Mart
has been given city appro-
val to rebuild its burnt-out
location on the south side
of Lakelse Ave.

The new 10,000 square
foot building, between
Totem Furniture and Kon-
dolas, will be rebuilt next
year and should reopen by
September, says owner
Kewal Bal. The oid build-
ing was destroyed in a fire
in 2001.

He says it will be the
new location for Radio
Shack, as well as sales of
mattresses, furniture and
electronic appliances.

Bal plans to keep his
store on the north side of
Lakelse to sell other new
and used furniture.

He’s gone

THE TERRACE-Kitimat
Airport Society has lost its
president.
_ Frank Hamilton has re-
signed as a director on the
society board because he
has moved to Vernon to
retire. City council will
appoint a new director to
represent the city on the
society.

New owner

JUST Kidding Adventure
Playground is under new
ownership.

The children’s indoor
playground and entertain-
ment center has been
bought by Dwayne Ciulka.

The Terrace-born man
took possession Oct. 10
and plans to install an in-
door climbing wall in the
near future.

Correction

WE incorrectly listed
Betty Barton last week as
president of the Terrace
and District Chamber of
Commerce. In fact, she’s
past president. The current
president is Sheila Love.

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UNIONIZED TELUS workers have per-
suaded Terrace city council to protest ris-
ing business phone rates and job cuts
here.

Council voted last week ta write to re-
gulators questioning whether Telus is
meeting service delivery standards in this
area.

Representatives of the Telecommuni-
cations Workers Union (TWU) appealed
to council for support, saying Telus is
seeking a 10 per cent rate hike for busi-
ness customers here.

“The part that scares me is the 10 per
cent increase to the business community
here,” said councillor Ron Vanderlee,
who led the motion.

Telus officials, however, say the latest
increase is not as high as the union
claims.

The rate for individual business lines
will rise 6.4 per cent from $47.95 per
month to $51.00, retroactive to June 1, if
the new rate increase application is ap-
proved by the CRTC, Telus communica-
tions manager Sharon Arsenault says.

A decision is expected this month, she
said,

If the business line rate hits $51, it will
mark a nearly 30 per cent rate hike in just
over two years.

Multi-line business service charges are
to rise by 1.9 per cent, she added. An in-
crease in the “business value bundic”
charge for call management services is
also planned.

Arsenault said there are no requests
presently before the CRTC to increase
charges for basic residential service in
Terrace.

Rising rates have been a reality in
rural areas since the CRTC okayed long

distance competition. That meant phone
companies couldn't tse long -distance
profits to subsidize local service in high
cost areas, and have steadily pushed up
rates in the north,

TWU business agent Lori Ruggles said
the company plans to continue secking
rate increases until rates match the higher
costs of providing service in mare remote
regions, while allowing rates to fall in
Vancouver.

Ruggles also took
4 aim at downsizing by
4 Telus.

44 She noted 12 jobs
have just been cut by
2 Telus in Terrace — a
20 per cent reduction.
At around $50,000 a
year, that amounts to
$600,000 per year in
local payroll lost, she
told councillors.

“My guess is as you
see those jobs leave
your community you'll see a degradation
in service,” she predicted.

She called it part of a disturbing trend
of lost middle income, blue-collar jobs in
Terrace that includes staff reductions here
by CN Rail and Canada Post.

Ruggles said moves to close Phone
Marts and cut local staff while driving up
rates where there’s no competition are all
measures aimed at improving company
earnings at the expense of quality of ser-
vice.

She said Telus has also sought to re-
duce service to mobile and marine custo-
mers in remote areas — people who de-
pend on the telecommunications link in
emergencies.

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Ron
Vanderlee

The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, November 6, 2002 - A7

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Contest.

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The first Directors of the newly formed non-profit society, KICKSTART
Association of Business Concerned for the Development o} ‘Education, are
pleased to announce that they are now entering | the hundraising phase for the

First Annual KICKSTART ABCDE Contest

for 5 and 6 year old children in our District.

Registration for entry will be held in
September 2003, Spring runoffs in January 2004, Semi- Finals in
May 2004 and Finals in June 2004.

The Contest will be a Spelling Bee style with subjects such as alphabet
familiarity, counting and number recognition color and shape recognition,
telling time and other basic building blocks of early education.

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Request for Proposal
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Issue date: November 1, 2002

Closing location:

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~. BO, Box 9476, Stn. Prov, Gov't.
3350 Douglas Street, Suite 102
> Victoria, B.C, VBW SW6
_ Attention: David Simon.

~ Closing November 22, 2002

: .... 2:00 PM Pacific time
Four @ compil copies of each proposal must be received Py, the above.
; : date and time

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is not mandatory

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_ David Simon, Manager, Commercial Services -
‘Phone (250) 387-7326
"Fax (260) 387-7309
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