A10- The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, February 7, 1996 ' TERRACE STANDARD Business REVIEW Mill slows log hauling TRUCK LOGGERS face a lean spring in the wake of Skeena Cel- julose's decision to begin decking pulp logs in the bush once more, The company halted all local log- ging in mid-November due to the strike at its Prince Rupert pulp mill. But all operations resumed in early January in anticipation the pulp mill would quickly chew up the piles of pulp chips that had built up during the strike. Skeena Cellulose woodlands man- ager Tim Fenton says the very slow startup of the pulp mill in December has forced the company to curtail pulp log deliveries once more. “The pulp mill just has not con- sumed the forecast volume of material it was supposed to and that affects our operations,’’ Fenton said. But he said the Terrace sawmill isn’t cutting off pulp log deliveries altogether. Fenton said about 45 per cent of pulp logs will be decked in the bush. He described it as a stop-gap measure to avert a complete logging shutdown. *‘We had to do something about it before it forced us to take more drastic measures,”’ He predicted the pattern will con- tinue into early summer. Saw logs are still being delivered to the mill at about the rate of consump- tion, he said. The change means extra handling expenses for logging contraciors and a drop in business for haulers, Fenton said so far there’s been enough other business to keep local log haulers working. ‘All the truckers have been able to find work,’’ he said. ‘‘Some have gone outside of the area towards Smithers, but f understand they're all working.”’ Firm struggles to sell donut shop EVERYTHING’S in place at the fu- ture Robin’s Donuts outlet beside the new SAAN store on Greig Ave. But parent company Robin’s ‘Foods still hasn’t managed to sell the fran- chise for the location, Franchise sales manager Ken Ranta said the company is negotiating with a couple of possible franchisees, but says that even if a deal is struck quickly, the outlet likely wouldn’t open until April. That's because of a month-long train- ing course the franchisee would have to undergo prior to opening, he said. Ranta said the franchise for the Robin's outlet built at the same time in Kitimat has been sold. Although Robin’s is a widely recog- nized name on the prairies, it’s not yet as well known in B.C., he said, Local studio gets on track A FLEDGLING local recording studio operator thinks 1996 could be her year. Jazz = musician = Jean Raymond tumed her home- based Polywog Recording Studio from a bobby into her full-time business about a year ago, And now = she thinks there’s enough work tuming up to transform Polywog from a borderline proposi- tion into a stable enterprise. Much of her carly work had been cutting audio tracks for Jocal music bands that were producing music videos with Skeena Broad- casters. She stil] does that — the number of videos planned for this year is expected to increase from last year’s seven — but now Raymond’s workload is diversifying. “It seems to be getting busier all the time,’’ she says. She’s recorded and pro- diiced a few albums for lo- cal musicians like Gord Stevens, Gypsy Moth, The Zimbabwe Singers, and the Nomadics. 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