TERRACE STANDARD

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Student job
centre open

THE PLACE that connects students with
sumuncr fobs is open again.

Summer employment officer Ann Silsbe
last week opened the doors of the Human
Reource Centre for Student? fderal pro-
gram that helps students find summer work
and employers find qualified staff,

' She’s alrcady beating the bushes for
employers, which are in short supply.

But plenty of students have come in to
see her in the the first week.

Silsbe hopes to beat the number of place-
ments made last summer, but said part- and
full-time jobs will be hardest to come by.

“Most of the jobs that will be posted will
probably be casual work (less then five
days), because the economy isn’t that
great.”

Even with an ecomony that isn’t booming
Silsbe said there is work out there,

“Students just have to get out there and
be persistent,” she said,

The centre offers workshops on resumee
writing and interviewing skills, but with
Silsbe covering both Kitimat and Terrace
she reeds feedback from the community.

“T would like to go into schools and find
out what people want so I can organize
workshops,’’ she said,

Out &
About

Tourist

queries up

INDICATORS predict a
strong tourism season.

The Northen B.C,
Tourism Association says
requests for its Northern
B.C. Travel Guide in the
first three months of the
year surpassed inquiries
during all of 1998,

Increased interest is at-
tributed to a partnership
with Alaska and the Yukon —
kiown as the Tourism North’
Program. Advertising in the
North to Alaska magazine
largetted visitors intending
to travel north through B.C.

Most of the nearly 10,000
inquiries received in the
Smithers office have been
from the U.S., but the Cana-
dian market remains strong
and interest from Germany
continues to grow.

Sales rise

REAL ESTATE activity is
heating up this year.

The Northern B.C. Real
Estate Board reported 544
residential MLS sales in the
first three months of the
year, worth a total $63.7
million. The numbers are up
about six per cent from sales
figures for the same months
in 1998,

Less strikes

THERE has been a drop in
work days lost due to labour
disputes in B.C. over the
past ten years.

Statistics released by B.C.
Stats found that during the
1980s B.C. had the second
highest absentee rate from
work due to labour disputes.

As of 1998, however, B.C.
has tumed that trend around.
B.C. now has one of the
lowest rates of days lost duc
to labour disputes while
Quebec, Newfoundland and
Ontario have all bad in-
creases in the number of
days lost to labour disputes.

Flame back

THE Golden Flame
Restaurant will be back
soon,

Owner George Darvoudis
is busy renovating and
redesigning his restaurant,
which he had leased for
three years to the operators
of Dante's,

Darvoudis hasn’t yet set
an opening date for the
Greek restaurant.

Elected

TERRACE economic de-
velopment officer Ken
Veldman has been elected
president of the Economic '
Development Association of
B.C. He was vice-president
of the organization last year,

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SUMMER EMPLOYMENT officer Ann
Silsbe opened the Human Resource
Centre for Students last week.

Silsbe is aiming at grade 9 and 10 stu-
dents with her program because many are
likely to be first time job hunters.

“If 1 can help them out then it will be a
great start to the program,’’ she said,

“YOUR ONE STOP

‘SUPPLIES.

THE UNEMPLOYMENT
rate in the northwest region
dropped another notch in
March to 9,3 per cent.

That’s the latest in a series
of decreases since Decem-
ber when the percentage of
people out of work stood at
10.0 per cent, according ta
Human Resources Develop-
ment Canada’s labour farce
survey,

It’s also down more than a
full percentage point from a
year ago when the unem-
ployment rate here was 10,5
per cent.

The number of people
who have either voluntarily
withdrawn from the labour
force or who are unempioy-
ed and have given up sear-
ching for work has con-
tinued to rise over the past
year,

That’s sometimes an in-
dication that an casing of

We Now Have The Full

Line of Wilton

Cake Pans, toppers,
Wedding Supplies,

etc.

LOWEST PRICES!

Unemployment
still dropping

Some may have given up

the unemployment rate is
really the result of a drop
out from the labour force of
so-called discouraged unem-
ployed workers,

‘Although there are fewer
people counted as participa-
ting in the labour force,
those that are in it are find-
ing work,’* —_conciuded
labour market analyst Karen
Wienberg.

The national unemploy-
ment rate shot up sharply
from 7.8 per cent in March
to 8.3 per cent in April.

Province-wide, uncmploy-
inent jumped 0.4 per cent to
8.8 per cent,

Unemployment remained

highest in the interior
regions, although the rate
eased somewhat.

The region with the lowest
jobless rate continues to be
the northeast, with 7.9 per
cent out of work.

\lways!

The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, May 19, 1999 - Al]

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