a i a aaa aaa enna nee eee talent eatin ceed teeheenatnn enetieadien ee neatttaaatiaiiantnicatiadie tenant ated ahaa a Loggers shut down earlier than usual ALL OF REPAP’s local logging contractors are grinding to a halt — in some cases almost a month before they expected to shut down for winter. Don Huil and Sons Con- wacting Lid. issued layoff notices for most of their crew on Friday and other comractors are expected to follow suit this week, “It’s fairly sudden,’’ said Gordon Hull, of Don Hull and Sons. He said contractors had been warned not to expect to get their entire allocation of wood to cut this year. But he said Repap had indicated they should get to within 10 per cent of that figure. Now, he said, theyre being held back 20 per cent short of their allocation. “We weren't counting on getting our whole cut,” Hull said, ‘“But fora lot of us it's three weeks or so earlier than we expected.” Repap woodlands man- ager Tim Fenton said the low market value of pulp logs and chips is hurting producers like Repap right now, “The market value of a pulp tog on the coast is around $30 per cubic metre right now,’’ Fenton said. “The cosl to our operation to harvest a pulp log and deliver it to the water is just over double that price.” That means the higher priced sawlogs have to make up those losses, he says. Tim Fenton The situation is particular- ly hard on coastal mills, which have a lower propor- tion of the lucrative sawlogs in their holdings — around 65 per cent in Repap’s case — than interior mills, many of which boast licences with 95 per cent sawlogs, A combination of other factors are involved in the eaflier than usual shutdown, Fenton said, “Some contractors logged harder earlier in the year and simply finished getting their volume earlier than ex- pected,’’ he said. Repap has a full inventory of sawlogs here and it’s reached the maximum target ea Nomad Mice, Services Home & Yard For appointment please call: ail, Reliable, House Cleaning and Yard _atve work bard so you don't have to 635-4639 _| For Councillor Re-elect George Val How do you prevent potholes! Vote for it. health care for our patents, important public, services. private contractors. HE PEOPLE we elect make decisions that directly affect the quality of our daily lives - decisions on road repairs, traffic lights, education for our children, city trees, ‘drinking water, libraries, ambulances and on hundreds of other The peaple we clect also decide who provides those services - public employees or profit-making, Before you-vore.on Saturday, Nov. 16, please take time to find out where all the candidates stand. Then use your vote to support goou-value public services provided by the publics employces. Bernice Kitk, President Public employces in BC VOTEC/NOV.16 CANADIAN UNION OF PUBLIC EMPLOYEES BRITISH COLUMBIA DIVISION Fax: (604) 291-9043 Colleen Jordan, Secretary. Treasurer encourage you to vote in your community's elections. at the end of it’s five-year development plan — any more wood cut this year would come off future years’ quotas, Fenton said the restric- tions on B.C. mills’ ability to export softwood lumber to the U.S, are also having an effect. He said Repap’s quota to sell the Americans lumber is a small one, He said it deprives Repap —~ which usually markets its wood overseas in Asia — of another potential market. And similar restrictions on other B.C, firms pushes those other producers who focus on the American market into competition with Repap in Asia, “We foresee a certain amount of comptetition in- creasing in the overseas market as a result of that.’” Fenton said full logging operations will resume im- mediately in the new year, noling Repap is planning to harvest around a million cubic metres next year — up from 900,000 cubic metres in 1996, Local contractors have so far been told nothing of an expected immincnt move by Repap to sell some portion of the company to a new partner, Tho Forrace Standard, Wodnosday, Moayanitinn 1, 1406 Aq _ Park users down slightly ATTENDANCE LEVELS were down slightly at provincia] parks in the Terrace area this summer, as fo- cal outdoor enthusiasts chose to slay at home instead of braving the wet weather. During the month of July, the number of registered campers at parks near Terrace — including Furlong Bay, Kleanza Creek, Ross Lake and others, was down four per cent overall. Approximately 5,800 campers made overnight stays al those locations this July, as op- posed to just over 6,000 Last year, In August, which was even wetter, altendance was down by nearly 10 per cent overall in those areas. However, day-use attendance at several of the parks was actually higher than last year. For example, Fur- long Bay at Lakelse Lake saw an increase in visitors of some 35 per cent during July. Approximately 6,400 people visited the picnic site at Lakelse this July, as op- posed to 4,700 in 1995, To estimate the number of visitors, Parks staff count the number of cars at a location’s parking lot, then mul-- liply that figure by 3.5 — the number of peaple in an average party. That gives a good indication of at- tendance, , Provincial parks official Ken Zimmer says the dif- ferences in visitor numbers are probably due to the wet weather. ‘‘Local people are the ones making a dif- ference here,’’ be says. “‘When the weather's bad, lo- cals don’t go camping or picnicking because they have a choice — tourists don’t.” For example, while day-use numbers were up at Fur- long Bay, they were way down at Grunchy’s Beach, a favourite Jocal haunt. Visits to Grunchy’s were down by 40 per cent in July, and by nearly 60 per cent in August. On average, day-use numbers were up 15 per cent in the Lakelse area for July, while August's numbers were relatively unchanged from the previous year. Meanwhile, at the city-run Ferry Island campground, attendance levels were comparable to those of last year. s Menswear James W, Radelet RADELET & COMPANY Barnsturs & Solicitors Tax Law» Trusts + Corporate & Commercial 1930 - 1075 Wast Georgla Streel, Vancouver, 8.0. 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