CLASSIFIED skeena s BRtisH COLUMBIA as Midicenen MMISSION CONTRACT REPRESENTATIVE “| The Willows 3404 Kalum Street Terrace, B.C. To provide on-site property management services to include ad- ministrative, maintenance and custodial duties for 39 residential ren- al units. On Site Residency will be required. SEALED TENDERS are invited for Public Tendercall #90/77. Tender documents and bid deposit Instructions are available at: GOVERNMENT OF BRITISH COLUMBIA #101 - 3220 Eby Street, Ter- race, B.C., VAG 5K8 or by telephoning 627-7501-- - "Sealed tenders will be received at: B.C. HOUSING MANAGEMENT COMMISSION 1400 Kootenay Avenue, Prince Rupert, B.C., V8J 3X5 up to 2:00 p.m., August 24th, 1990 and will be publicly opened at that me. ; A mandatory site viewing will be held at 12 NOON on August 15th, 1990 at The Willows, 3404 Kalum Street, Terrace in the Lounge. The Commission reserves the right to reject all tenders and to accept any tender it considers advantageous. The lowest or any tender may not necessarily be accepted. Linda Movold Prince Rupert Manager BCAA a) INVITATION TO REGISTER Qualified parties who are capable of teaching one or more of the following types of Ministry standard courses are invitad to submit their lasson plans, course outlines, and instructor resumes to the Ministry for approval. 1. One and/or three day Snow Avalanche Program — snow avalanche safely course. 2. Weather observations and quality contro! training courses, Following receipt of written Ministry approval of course content, qualified parties may proceed to schedule and advertise their courses as “Ministry approved.” Applications to attend approved courses will then be made directly by participants. Those interested In obtaining Ministry.approval.for these courses _ may obtain the Request-for-Approval Terms of Reference by contac- ting; Jack Bennotte, Manager, Snow Avalanche Programs, 940 Bian- shard. Street, Victoria, 8.C., V8W 3E6. Phone. 387-6361 or Fax 387-0091. Complete Requests-for-Approval must be received at the above ad- FRcsove —— BritishColumbia A= ee Ministry of Transportation Freer TES and Highways. | Hon. Rita M. Johnston, Minister | drass by August 10, 1990, to be considered. Province of British Columbia Experienced loving mother wishes — to babysit In own home. Mid-Aug. and on, Looking for friend for four- year-old. Phone 635-5909. 8iBp Work wanted for big or small carpentry or renovation work. Phone Ed at 635-6540 after 6 p.m. 8/8p Journeyman carpenter available for work, Phone 635-3103. , 8115p Journeyman carpenter will do finishing. work, renovations, cabinet installation, patios, etc. Phone 635-6277 after 6 p.m. 8/15p WANTED TO RENT — Career woman new to Terrace needs small house or cottage Sept. 1. Call col- lect, 1-828-1220, 8/15p Physiotherapist locking for small cabin, Sept. to Nov., while working at Terrace hoapital. | have my own camper — hydro, water, etc., not necessary. Picturesque location pre- ferred, within 30 miles of Terrace.: $50 to $100 per month. Reply to J. Quinien, General Delivery, Dawson Creek, before Aug. 15, or leave message at hospital physiotherapy department. 8/8p i? upport Your Lung Association If you are a woman 40 or over, this program is a must. THE MOBILE MAMMOGRAPHY CENTRE will be coming to your com- munity. Call 1-800-663-9203 or call Kamloops 828-4916. British Columbia West Fraser, which owns the Eurocan pulp mill in Kitimat with partner Enso Forest Producis, also owns Pacific Inland Resources in Smithers. PIR was one of the companies that entered an unsuc- cessful bid for the Sustut-Takla licence and is still smarting from _ the loss of 250,000 cubic metres per year they would have gotten if ministry staff recommendations would have been followed in the Sustut decision. "It will round out our timber supply, and that may be useful (for the Terrace mill), but anything I could say would really be preli- minary," Clinton said. He thinks the deal could take another two months because the licence transfer is subject 10 government approvals. Clinton confirmed that both partics have held discussions about it with Kalum Forest District officials. He believes final approval will have to go through the Minister of Forests. | When asked if West Fraser was also looking at acquisition of Wedeene River Timber in Prince Rupert and Irwin Stege’s operation in Hazelton, Clinton replied, "We're always interested in expan- sion, There are shortages of timber in a number of locations, but I can’t really discuss that right now." Robert York came to Terrace in the early 1980’s after the North Kalum was removed from Tree Farm Licence 1. Tay-M Logging was one of three companies that got forest licences in the area. . An unlimited permit by Cabinet . decree to export logs from the North Kalum has been the founda- tion of the logging economy there. The high cost of cutting and trans- porting the timber, combined with a decadent wood profile, makes the premium price foreign log buyers pay a critical element in keeping the North Kalum oper- ations going. The right to export, however, may soon come to an end. On June 27 the B.C. legislature’s “Select Standing Committee on Forests tabled its first report, a discussion paper dealing with the Vancouver Log Market and log exports. In recommendation #4 the committee recommends that export exemptions should no longer be granted to Tree Farm Licensees and Forest Licensees, For Bob York, the writing is on the wall. "It will effectively shut down the ‘licensees in the north," he conc- luded. The sale to West Fraser, aside from ministry approval, should be signed some time this week, he said. A condition of sale is that neither party is to disclose the terms, but York said, "It will be good for Terrace." Tay-M has been a controversial operation since it began here, but Terrace Review — Wednesday, August 1, 1990 Al5 awmills — York says he and his family are here to stay. "I’ve done what nobody said could be done, and I've been cursed by everybody under the sun,” he remarked. "I’m going to take a few months off to think about things — and then I’m going to dig right back in again.” Buffalo Head Forest Products, an independent company with a 240,000 cubic meter licence in the North Kalum, have already laid off staff duc to declining prices for pulp logs. "If (the export restrict- ion) happens in the immediate future, it would be a double whammy for us," said Howard Fuchs, the company’s accounting supervisor. He added that the gov- ermmment should not move in that direction until there is a wood processing facility — a pulp mill or sawmill — established within economical hauling distance of the North Kalum licences. Orenda Forest Products is the third major company cutting in the North Kalum. In a proposal res- ponding to the Pulpwood Agree- ment 17 offer from the Ministry of Forests in the spring of this year, Orenda outlined plans for a $300 million chemi-pressurized ground- wood pulp mill in Stewart. Presi- dent Hugh Cooper says those plans are going ahead, but he doesn’t believe the government will cut off the North Kalum exports. "It would shut it down. It would shut down all of the companies up there,” he said. "Representations made to that committee told them it would shut the industry down. Licensees production accounts show that without exports every log cut would be a loss." Cooper believes that the commit- iee’s recommendations, if read closely, would allow exemptions for exports to continue. He said Orenda has heard "not a whisper" with regard to the pulp- wood agreement, but the company has enough under its current licence to feed the pulp mill when it’s built. "We do have the cut to operate it, but financers like lots of security,” he said. If Orenda does get the 100,000 cubic metre alloca- tion it requested in the pulpwood application, Cooper says, it is doubtful the company would ever cut it Preliminary studies that include drilling and soil sampling at the Stewart site are currently under way, Cooper said. Committee seeks views Cooper’s speculation about exports continuing was partly confirmed by Graham Bruce, the MLA for Cowichan-Malahat and chairman of the Select Standing Committee on Forests and Lands. Bruce said yesterday that the com- mittee’s report, which concentrates mainly on the Vancouver Log Continued from page A1 Market and open competition for timber and pulpwood in the provi- nce, is intended as a position paper for further public comment. "Tt’s not as if people are going to wake up tomorrow and find every- thing has changed,” Bruce said. "We're looking at a broad view, gradual implementation. There’s an obvious problem up there and this. would have a phenomenal impact on those operators." Bruce said there are a number of ways that further export restric- tions could be applied, adding that some licences could be grand- fathered to allow the original con- ditions of the agreement — like a standing export permit —- to remain in place until the end of the contract. In areas where domestic sales would not be economical, wood could be cut under timber sales, in smaller volumes and over shorter terms than forest licences. The committee found that exported raw logs accounted for only 3.4 percent of the Annual Allowable Cut in B.C. in 1988, the latest year for which complete figures were available. The real target of the report was the Vancouver Log Market, the trading floor where the domestic prices of timber are set. Exports come into the issue because the committee is examining the competition factor in timber pricing and availability in B.C. "The big issue is the question of tenure," Bruce said. The committee will continue to take written briefs until the end of August, and Bruce expects the final report to be ready in the fall. Afier it is filed, he said, the rest is up to the government. | SHARP CUTS 4611A Lakelse Ave. Barber Shop No Appointment Necessary Terrace, B.C. 630-2441 2S ERY ERR REE me WAT NE te oe ee mee et