AlQ- The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, December 29, 1999

BRIAN McCONNELL, of general contractor Progressive Ventures, assembles
aluminum modular walls that will house the gift shop in the hospital lobby.

Hospital lobby gets facelift

WORK IS well underway
on the remodelling of the
hospital's lobby.

Old carpet has been
torn up, new ceramic tiles
have been laid and the en-
tire eatry way is being re-
configured.

Part of the plan invol-
ves moving the Hospital
Auxilliary gift shop across
the lobby, says auxilliary
secretary Sandy Bullock,

VIA adds
cars to
popular
Skeena

VIA RAIL is adding anoth-
er car (to its daylight Skee-

na tail passenger service -

between Prince George
and Prince Rupert in re-
sponse to passenger de-
mand,

Passenger numbers for
the first class Totem serv-
ice increased: by ‘26: per;
cent this year from imid-
May to mid-October over
1998.

And 1998's figures were
themselves up 25 per cent.
from 1997, says Mark Pra-
dine of the federal crown
corporation.

“With this kind of de-
mand, we're putting on

one additional car to the’

two we already have for
Toiem class,” he said.
Totem class -includes
meals and access to a
dome viewing car and is
popular for the growing
number of tourists takin
the rail journey.

“With this kind of
demand, we're
putting on one ad-
ditional car to the
two we already
have for Totem
class.”

There’s also one econo-
my car and its usage has
also increased, said: Pra-.
dine.

The Skeena run was
once threatened for can-
cellation because of low
passenger counts due, in
part, to Enconvienent arri-—
val and departure times.

But a decision by VIA
Rail three years ago to
shift te an all daylight
schedule between Prince
George and Prince Rupert
has resulted in its growing
popularity, particularly
among tourists, said Pra-
dine.

“The majority of traffic
comes from Americans but
we do gel an awful lot of
Europeans,” he said.

Most of the tourists are
on package arrangements
with the rail journey mak-
ing up one part of a longer
and mote extensive holi-
day.

Fradine acknowledged
that there is still a gap
between fevenue and ex-
penses. But the gap has
narrowed

A large gap between
revenues and expenses
was one of the reasons tlie
passenger service was
threatened
place.

in. the. first ;

“The glass around the
old gift shop has been tak-
en down and il will be put
into place on the opposite
end .of the lobby,” she

said,

“That will enclose our
new shop and we'll be able
ta open failry soon after
that.”

Going into the spot va-
cated by the gift shop. will
be a new coffee shop of-

fering fresh coffee and
muffins. -

“It will be a real bonus
for the peaple that work at
the hospital. as well as
those there to ¢ visit
patients,” Bullock ‘said.

Old dark. cedar walls
are being replaced by. dry-
wall. oe :

The gift shop and coffee
shop are expected to open
in January.

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things done. Please help us make this a safer year.

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