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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

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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

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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

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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

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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.
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No Appointment Necessary

Terrace, B.C.

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