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BUSINESS.

Program promotes tourism

Academics ey
part of course ©

UPDATING tourism information for the area at the Kitimat-Stikine
regional district office is the job of Lynn Bolton and Ella Quock.
They're two of 17 students in the middle an extensive tourism train-
ne program. The regional district work is a one-month practicum.

TERRACE — A video rental

- company with nearly 60 outlets

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in B.C.,. Alberta and
Washington state has opened a
store here.

Crazy Mike's, based in Vic-
toria, opened two weeks ago in
the United Buy and Sell
building on Hwy16.

Spokesman Bill Page said the
store .is . starting with five
employees. .

This is the only Crazy Mike's
outlet in the northwest. There
are three in Prince George.

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Three heavy duty mechanic
co-workers at Alcan have open-
ed’a Minute Muffigr and Brake '
franchise on Greig ‘Ave. oo"

Casey Tam, Malcolm Scaife
and Moe Naquib began looking

_for a business opportunity «
several years ago and settled on

this enterprise after examining a
number of opportunities.

“This was the one we liked
and it fit what we wanted to
do,”’ said Naquib last week.

There are approximately 130
Minute Muffler and Brake fran-
chises in this hemisphere and
more than 100 in Canada, The
first one was in Lethbridge.

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_From the November 1990
issue of the Globe and Mail's
Report on Business comes the
definition of a bean counter:

“An initiative thwarter who

. wields tyrannical power over the

paper-clip budget, but who is
not permitted into the executive
suite, where the billion-dollar
bungles are conceived.’’
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Manitoba telephone users
aren’t happy about Manitoba
Telephone’s attempt at in-

_ troducing a new three-figure

prefix.

Only 159 took up that com-
pany’s offer of the 666 ex-
change, reports Frank
magazine, an Ottawa publica-

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TERRACE — Seventeen.
students are halfway through an
intensive tourism ‘training pro-
gram...

The native ‘tourism -super-
‘visory development program

-Tun through the Kitsumkalum

band offers a blend of first-year
college academics with em-
phasis on the hospitality in-
dustry, says co-ordinator Mary
Swift. a ;
_ “There is:.no -real. formal
training in the hospitality in-
dustry. This raises the profes-
sionalism,’’. said Swift of the
1120-hour long program.

Students’ began last:
September and finish this July.
They have now been placed in
month-long practicums.at local
businesses and government
agencies,

“We cover everything from
marketing, to - business - com-
munication, to operational con.
trols to accounting,”’ said Swift. ;

She added the program will.
‘Tesuit in people trained to begin
their own enterprises: and to’:
“find. employment: in existing ;

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tion devoted to political and
other scandal.
For those who follow the Bi-
ble, 666 is the sign of the Anti-
christ.. Ironically, 666 is the

prefix for the majority of

federal government phone
numbers in Vancouver.
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B.C. Hydro says it kept costs
virtually the same over the six

month, period. ending..Sept, 130,,

despite adding new customers, °
The 35,310 new ‘customers is

a record rate of connection,

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JAMIE iar ane °
ERRACE STANDAR

Says’ the provincial crown cor-.
poration.

And although its net income:
of $50 million for the six mon-
ths ending Sept. 30 ig $16
million. more than-the same
period in 1989, it does say there
could be tosses if there. is an

~ economic downturn. .

High: -interest.. rates, a high
US. dollar exchange rate and a-
decline jn housing starts could,
also : affect~‘its: nrevenues fro
eee industries, “says the!

corporation. poe

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businesses,

Three of the students from |
Kitsumkalum. are guides and .
will take what they learn from}. |)
the program to start their, own: ae

business.
“There's a: tremendous
potential in tourism in the nor-

thwest and there is a need for a
‘more formal approach,’ ” said

Swift.

“We have to remember. we
are competing world-wide, with
Japan and with Australia. .Ef-

forts have to be madeto become.
aggressive and go after those .

tourists,'’ she added.
Sponsored here by the Kit-
sumkalum band with the.
Vancouver-based Native Educa- .
tion Centre, the program was
developed by Vancouver Com-

munity College, the advanced ©
education and job training |
ministry, the Pacific Rim In-
stitute of Training and. the

tourism ministry.

-The 17 students come from ;

Kitsumkalum, Kitselas and Git-

wangak, Instructors come. from _ .

local agencies and businesses.
There is only one other pro-

» gram of this kind in B.C. and ©

it’s located in Vancouver.

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15th Annual

BIG BAND DANCE

February 16, 1991

Caledonia School Gym
Cocktails
7:00 ‘p.m,

Dinner”
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