News In Brief Minister to open trade show LAST YEAR Dan Miller did the honours and this year another } provincial government cabinet minister will open the Terrace and District Chamber of Commerce’s annual trade show. The minister is Robin Blencoe who is in charge of government services. He’s also responsible for the Commonwealth Games this summer in Victoria. Blencoe flies into town Friday morning and speaks at a chamber luncheon at noon before the trade show's official opening takes place at the arena at 1:30 p.m. The luncheon takes place 11:45 a.m. at the Terrace Inn. Those in- terested in attending should contact the chamber at 635-2063. While the official opening is set for 1:30 p.m. April 29, the doors open to the public one-half hour before. Doors close at 9 p.m. Activitics resume April 30 from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m, and on May 1 from noon until 4 p.m. The entrance fee is $1, This year's trade show theme is tourism and those attending will find a full range of local business services. Party probes WCB TERRACE IS one six cities to be visited by a provincial Liberal party probe into the workings of the Workers’ Compensation Board. A panel of three Liberal MLAs wants to hear opinions on prob- lems associated with rehabilitation, injury prevention and the claims and appeals process of the WCB. The tour of the province takes place in May but no dates have been set yet. Wandering mail EVER WONDER what happens to your letter when you drop itina mailbox? [n this age of electronic computerized sophistication there could not be any cause for concern - could there? But Nancy Orr got a bit of a surprise recently to find this letter from Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, in her mailbox. It was addressed to: Mr. & Mrs, Ray Repchinski 280 Brandon Avenue Penticton, B.C. V2A 356 Since the name on the mailbox it arrived at was ‘‘Orr’’, the ad- dress an apartment in Terrace and the postal code with no common Ictler except ‘V’, it is pretty hard to find any reason for the mix-up, says Orr. There is no similarity in town names: Penticton/Terrace, no similarity in the personal names: Repchinski/Orr, and no similarity in the postal code. They’re moving out IT’S GOING TO get a lot lonelier at what the provincial govern- ment once called the Training and Enterprise Centre on Eby. Moving out this weekend to offices on Lazelle Ave. is 16-37 Com- munity Futures. : That'll leave just the Terrace and District Chamber of Commerce and the skills, training and labour ministry. The office space once also housed the native development corporation called Tricorp and Northwest Community College, Both of those are now gone, The centre was conceived as a place where organizations invalved in the training of people and promoting of businesses could work logether. But costs rose last year when the provincial government ‘ran out of money to offer subsidized lease rates. Joe Whitney, a 16-37. spokesman,..said ,the organization was |--§ ending a-lease and couldn’t afford new payments. “We now have more space at a rate less than what we would have been paying and even less than what we're paying now,”’ he said. Cost was also given as the reason by Northwest Community Col- lege when it moved out last fall. Whitney said 16-37’s new location brings it closer to the Canada Employment Centre and the Federal Business Development Bank, two organizations with which it has a lot in common. Mine builder — disturbs unions HOMESTAKE CANADA has chosen a controversial company io be the main contractor for Its Eskay Creek gold mine. The company, Ledcor In- dustries, is the target of opposi- lion by northwest unions for. {ts hiring activities to do with a con- tract it has at Methanex in Kitimat. . See henge ts Northwest unions say Ledcor isn’t hiring locally, -preferring to bring in workers from Alberta. They also aren’t happy with the — union that represents Ledcor workers — the Christian Labour — Association of Canada. “We've gol a real problem wilh companies not employing qualified B.C. workers: on projects,” B,C, and Yukon Build- ing Trades Council president Len Werden said last week, ‘'This company has a history of bringing in people from ather areas and leaving local people un- - Of-a-mine-project going to.a non- employed,’’ he said. Werden added that building trades unions normally represent workers on mine projects. He did note there hasn't been a lot of mine construction in the last few years. - ““We’re just a little bil con- cerned about that,’ said Werden The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, April 27, 1994- 441 y Mother's Day. union contractor. -“Ledecor has done other work for Homestake, primarily as the con- tractor for.a road now under con- Struction into the mine site. The -mine project itself is estimated to cost $75 million and employ 175 people through the construction period. Construction should start as soon as possible with completion for later this year. Homestake has previous mining experience in the north as the pri- mary operator of the Golden Bear mine near Dease Lake, DINNER SPECIAL Tender Breast Steak & Lobster of Chicken 6 oz Top Sitcin broled to Tender breas! of chicken stuffed with baby shrimp, topped with a whita. mushroom sauce. 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