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Residents of Terraceview Lodge like Patty Doran appreciate the sort of
a friend like “Arc”, the Lodge’s live-in cat, can provide. To learn about the role that animal
control officer Frank Bowsher plays in bringing people and animals together, turn to

page B15.

Jazzmen get pleasant surprise

The Hugh Fraser Quintet,
one of Canada’s premiere jazz
groups, got a pleasant surprise

_ just prior to their performance

- in Terrace Monday night. Ina
message from Fraser’s mother
in Victoria delivered through
Terrace Review reporter Betty
Barton, the quintet’s leader dis-
covered he and another quintet
member had won two presti-
gious awards.

Fraser received the BBC.
London radic 1990 award for
best composition with ‘‘Agnus
Dei’’. The mellow modern jazz

piece, opening with a piano
solo by Hugh Fraser, was one
of many of Hugh’s composi-
tions played Monday night.
The quintet’s tenor sax player
Phil Dwyer won the BBC
award for best musician, for
his work on the same piece of
music. The quintet also in-
cludes alto saxist Cam Ryga,
drummer Blaine Wikjord and
bassist Chris Nelson. The
group recorded this composi-
tion and others with a group of
British musicians in London in
May and entered the tape in

the competition,

The group’s credits also in-
clude a Juno Award for Best
Canadian Jazz Album, the
prestigious Concours de Jazz
from Alcan’s Montreal Jazz
Festival in 1987, and they were
voted the Most Outstanding
Young Canadian Jazz Artists.
They are on the final leg of a
15-cily, European and Cana-
dian tour. The tour started in
Belfast, Ireland in November
and will end in Victoria
(Hugh’s home town) tonight.

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Vol. 6, Issue No. 2

Phone 635-7840
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TERRACE — The Okana-
gan Skeena Group is total-
ly reappraising their $5
million Lakelse Ave, shop-
ping center project. The in-
formation comes from
Okanagan Skeena presi-
dent and board chairman
John Weatherall. ‘There
‘may be changes for the bet-
ter,” he told the Terrace
Review in a phone inter-
view from Toronto, ‘‘but
it’s unlikely that work will
go ahead this year unless
it’s some sort of prepara-
tion work in the autumn.”

by Tod Strachan

Weatherall said the decision
was made recently at the com-
pany’s annual general meeting
and he cited a number of reasons
for the delay: the purchase of a
number of broadcasting assets in
southern B.C., refurbishing the
Skeena Broadcasters’ building,
enlarging the Nash building
(location of Terrace’s Canada
Employment Centre), leasing
commitments at the site of the
proposed shopping center, the
size and shape of their property
at the site and the cost of con-
struction in the Terrace area.
But he made it clear that the pro-
ject hasn’t been scrapped. ‘‘We
want to be a part of the down-
town core,’’ he said.

In reviewing 1989, Weatherall
describes refurbishing the
Skeena Broadcasters’ building
as an exciting project that pro-
vided the community with a first
class facility and the expansion
of the Nash building, while not
as exciting, the fulfillment of a
commitment to the growing
needs of tenants in that block.
The shopping center, however,
was far more complicated than
they had anticipated, he said —
the primary difficulties centered
on leasing arrangements and
construction costs, according to
Weatherall, but there were other
considerations too.

smaill,”’

One, the piece of property on
which they have to build will be
difficult to change. Weatherall
explains that the property was
originally purchased by Okana-
gan Holdings, the predecessor of
the Okanagan Skeena Group, in
the early 1960's. ‘‘It was a time
when Terrace was incredibly
explains Weatherall.
And, ‘‘It was inconceivable then
that Terrace would become what
it is today, so they sold parts of
it to cut the cost of buying.”

The end result, however, was
that Petro-Canada and ‘‘a
bank’? now own a part of the
property and Okanagan Skeena
is left with something that is
much smaller than it once was
and nothing close to a nice,
square lot. ‘‘The project in-
volved much more care and
detail than we had anticipated,”
says Weatherall, but he also de-
scribes it as a much more ex-
citing project than other work
completed in Terrace in. 1989
and there is no reason that it
shouldn’t proceed at some
point,

Weatherall holds no secrets
when it comes to the economic
future of Terrace. ‘‘More and
more Terrace is becoming the
center of the entire region,’’ he
says, ‘‘and the region is enor-
mously rich in natural resources.
The people in the city need to
realize how economically sound
the city is. It has a great future.”

The Okanagan Skeena $5
million shopping center project
was first delayed for a year last
June. At that time the
company’s real estate manager
Bob Guy said that they were not
“walking away” from the pro-
ject. He explained that the com-
pany had already spent about
$400,000 on design and other
costs and they remained con-
fident in the economic future of
the Northwest. One problem
Guy noted at the time was that
the economy was possibly too
good. He said last June that all
construction trades had more
than enough work, creating
problems in hiring contractors.

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