Bus TERRACE STANDARD Chamber honours its best at Oct. 27 HAWKAIR AVIATION Services came up a double winner at the Oct. 27 Ter- race and District Chamber of Commerce business ex- cellence awards banquet - taking company of the year and customer service honours. The company, which has just celebrated its first anniversary, was a winner in 2000 when it was named newsmaker of the year. Ken Earl of the North- ern Savings Credit Union was named business exec- utive of the year and Skeena Liberal Roger Harris was named newsmaker at the year at the banquet attended by approximately 220 people. Chamber members were first given the opportunity to nominate businesses or people in 12 categories and were then asked to vote on the choices. Banquet master of cere- monies Gerry Martin noted there were 139 nomina- tions this year. “You’ve been recog- nized by your peers and you should feel proud of yourselves all the way around,” he said. George Clark was named contributor to the arts for his contributions in that area, Kermode Auto Sports (Matt Bone and John Ra- poso, owners) was named rookie business of the year. There was a tie for tour- ism excellence with the Riverboat Days Society and the Skeena Valley Golf and Country Club sharing honours. The home-based busi- ness award went to Mike’s Computer Services while business community boos- ter of the year was Terrace Sight and Sound. Ruins Board Shop was Out & About She’ll serve tourism body THERE’s a fresh Terrace face on the board of direc- tors for the Northern B.C. Tourism Association. Annalee Davis is a longtime resident of Ter- race and the Nass Valley. Along with her husband Dick she’s owned and operated Don Diega’s Restaurant in Terrace for 17 years. iT? m Ee looking for- ward to the challenge,” Davis said of the vo- lunteer po- sition. The as- sociation Creates marketing Strategies with organiza- tions such as the Terrace Tourism Council to in- Crease tourism to the Dorthern B.C. Davis said cultural tour- ism and partnerships with Fitst Nations communities is a unique strength she hopes to promote. “I think this area has huge potential for native tourism ideas,” Davis said. She alsa hopes to pro- mote more of the adven- ture tourism in the north. With increasing de- mand for outdoor adven- ture, Davis sees enormous opportunities for busines- ses here to capitalize on the growing market. “All the communities in the north are looking to- wards that,” she said. The Northern B.C. Tour- ’ ism Association meets four limes per year. Annalee Davis ’ MLA © an gala banquet zs ed HAWKAIR'S ROD Hayward, Trina Oldale, Char Toews and Paul Hawkins dis- play their company of the year and customer service honours at the Terrace and District Chamber of Commerce’s business awards banquet Oct, 27. Bot- tom left is business executive of the year Ken Ear! and on the right is Skeena INESS REVIEW __ “year. named retailer of the year and Mr. Mike’s West Coast Grill was named corporate citizen of the Student of the year was Sandi Harrison, a third- year student at the Uni- versity of Victoria. ’ Master of ceremonies Martin and other presen- Liberal MLA Roger Harris who was named newsmaker of the year. ters said the business com- munity here remains strong despite the state of the economy. Banquet pleased with the response to the banquet and the awards by the business community in light of the economic situation. organizer. Levent... Sheila Love said she .wase.2..a Wbisadgs She said the evening was sold out and thal re- quests for tickels were coming in the day of the bisidssbbe secon the chamber has: mounted a banquet and awards cer- emony to recognize the achievements of the local business community. Instrument landing still waiting for word System to cut missed flights in bad weather THE AIRPORT is still waiting for a new runway approach to be designed to improve the chances of aircraft landing in incle- ment weather. And it’s also waiting to hear if new equipment has been bought which will enable that new design ta be put into use. Airport manager Rick Reed said the new design and an instrument land system (ELS) will do away with the current step-down procedure pilots fly when approaching the runway through the Kitimat Valley from the south. That step-down proce- dure’ calls for pilots to fly al a certain height at a certain distance before descending to 2 lower alti- tude which they then fly for a certain distance. They repeat the proce- dure several times as they close in on the runway and it's necessary to keep a safe distance from sur- rounding terrain. It’s similar to a stair- case, making it a compli- cated affair, said Reed. A new approach using ILS will mean pilots can descend in a similar fash- ion to a person using an escalator by following a beam from ground-based equipment. “By using this plide path, pilots can go straight in to the runway,” said Reed. “Your attention is focussed on flying the airplane.” Pilots now can only descend to 527 feet at which time they have to see the runway. If they can’t see the runway, they perform whal’s called a missed approach. The intent of the. new design and the new equip- ment is to lower that height at which pilots must see the runway to 200 feet. Estimates are that up to 75 per cent of missed ap- proaches will now be avoi- ded. That would further do away with the reputation the airport now has of being unreliable in bad weather. An earlier approach de- sign was scrapped because tests showed the signal Strength from ground-based landing systems equipment didn’t meet aviation stan- dards. That’s because rocky terrain surrounding the air- port obscured the signal, said Reed. He described the plan- hed new approach with an ILS as creating a tunnel through which an aircraft can safely fly. Also involved in the plan is moving a piece of equipment called a locali- zer already at the airport which tells pilots where the airport is located. It's now positioned off of the runway and needs to be moved to line up on the runway to work in concert with ILS equipment, said Reed. There’s no indication on when the new: approach design will be finished, “There are only twa people in the Pacific re- gion — western Canada — who do design work and we know Kelowna is also on the list for a new design,” said Reed. In any event, the arrival of winter weather realistic- ally means installing an ILS and moving the locali- zer would have to wait for spring, he added. sccond.vear[. The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, November 7, 2001 - Al5 Due lo the Rememberance Day Holiday on November 11, 1999 The will have early deadlines to STAND ARD meet their press deadlines All Display, Classified Display and Word Classifieds for the OFFICE HOURS: MONDAY - FRIDAY 9:00 A.M, - 5:00 PM. NOVEMBER 11” PHONE 638-7283 Terrace Standard is FAX 638-8432 THURSDAY, NOV. 8 at ———=o===—— | 4:00 p.m. STANDARD 3210 CLINTON STREET, TERRACE, B.C. V8G 582 working in YOUR community, © Northwest Community College will be accepting applications for the Licensed Practical Nursing Program Beginning January 21, 2002 YOUR college’. Application packages will be available at cach Northwest Community College campus between November 13 and November 30, 2001. 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