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YOUR HOMETOWN LOCALLY OWNED AND OPERATED NEWSPAPER

Vol. 4, Issue No. 15

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TERRACE, B.C., WEDNESDAY, April 13, 1988

The provincial government
has -reconsidered its allocation
for B.C. colleges announced in
last month’s budget, but North-
west Community College presi-
dent Dr. Val George says the
local. college may still have a
problem with the 1988-89
budget.

According to George, the
government had originally an-
nounced a 0.9 percent budget in-
crease for all colleges, but after
submissions made by the B.C.
Association of Colleges late last
week that figure has risen to a
tentative 3.5 percent.

George says even 3.5 percent
will barely keep up with infla-
tion, and NWCC will operate
with a deficit of about $200,000
to $250,000 by running existing
programs plus an additional
three already approved by the
government.

George explained that because
of the ministry’s approval, they
are committed to running the
three new programs: nursing,
which received. special. funding.
last year, a community support
worker program, and an addic-
tion resource worker program.

“We're in the situation where
we would find it very difficult
not to offer those programs
now,’’ said George.

He also pointed out that 3.5
percent is a provincial average
and the actual increase for each
individual college would be
something more or less than that

j figure, making it impossible for

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NWCC to work on their own
1988-89 budget.

“And we’re already into the
fiscal year,’? explained George,
“so we're already spending
money we don’t have.”’ .

George says that a 4.5 percent
increase would be more realistic
and would bring B.C. colleges a
little closer to the extra eight per-
cent offered to B.C. schools and
five percent for universities.

He said the actual amount of
the increase for NWCC won’t be
known for about two weeks and
there is nothing they can do but
wait. .

Logging
issue ©
tabled

Bell Pole’s request for a per-
mit to remove all of their re-
maining timber in Kitselas next
winter is stuck in the Planning
and Public Works Committee.

Their recommendation to coun-.

cil to table the request, ‘‘until a
meeting with all the principals
involved with the Kitselas access
road can be arranged,’’ has been
accepted by council.

When pressed by Alderman .

Danny Sheridan to identify ‘‘all
the principals’’, Alderman
Robert Cooper said they includ-

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Inside
Business Guide “16
Church Directory 10
Classified Ads 22,23
Coming Events 14.
Comics 20
Crossword 20
Dining Directory 2
_Entertainment 2
Horoscope 16
Letters §,6
Opinions 4
Sports 8
Talk of the Town 5

Outside

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Apr. 7 7 63 4mm snow
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creasing clouds and rain by the
waekend.

Development may rise from Sternwheeler’s ashes

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Gus: Sfikas of the Terrace
Recreation Centre has big plans
for the 4500 block Greig Ave.,
and he says he could begin con-
struction tomorrow if there’s a
large enough demand.

by Tod Strachan

‘“‘As soon as there’s a
customer who would like to rent
a portion of our building — if
we get a major anchor — that’s
it,’” said Sfikas. ““We can begin
tomorrow.”

According to Sfikas, he has
the property, and his present

building can handle am addi- -

tional three stories, so he can
meet the demand for any com-
mercial, retail or office space as

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it’s needed. He says the com-
pleted project he. visualizes will
consist of 100,000 to 150,000
square feet of space and will in-
clude covered parking for
several hundred cars. ©

“Y’ve been a businessman in

' this: town since ‘1976,’ said

Sfikas, ‘‘and I have the ex-
perience to see it’s already need-
ed.”’ And the reason he says it’s
needed is because of the park-
ing.

‘Parking, as a business suc-
cess, is number one,’’ he ex-
plained. ‘‘So I think if 1 have
parking I’ll have success. And
those businesses without parking

— they’re going to have pro-.

blems. ,

‘‘The customers of today
must be respected. You must
give them convenience. Not
parking two blocks away and ex-
pect them to walk to your
business,
recreation centre is concerned,
Sfikas says that also depends on
the demand. ‘‘If the demand is
‘to close down, I'll close down.
That's no problem at aii. But if
the demand is to expand recrea-
tion, we'll expand recreation.”

One part of the project that
Sfikas isn’t happy about is the

- fact that it’s necessary to destroy

the building on the corner of
Kalum and Greig. According to
Sfikas, the structure was con-
demued by the city — but the ci-

ty has no record of ever doing
that.

The building was most recent-
ly the Sternwheeler Restaurant
but at one time housed a Chinese
restaurant and later the Terrace
branch of the Royal Bank.
Sfikas says the building went up
around 1914.

Sfikas says he discussed the
matter with one-time city alder-
man Gerry Duffus four months
ago and offered the building to
the city free of charge with a
contribution of $500 towards the
cost of having the building mov-
ed.

‘This offer was confirmed by

Duffus,who said he then passed
the information on to Mamie

Kerby of the Terrace Regional
Museum Society. However, Ker-
by said that the building wasn’t
moveable because of the number
of times it had been renovated,
nor was the style of structure
suitable for Heritage Park. Ker-
by confirmed the age of the
building and said that as far as

she knows it was originally a se- |

cond hand or hardware store.

“T was planning to save it.
This building has served the
community and I think it’s a
crime that it should go down,’’
said Sfikas. “But it’s part of
progress — we must tear: th

building down,”’ Set

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