Lobhtbsdide bd. Dease Lake angles ” helicopters Right on _ target THE FIRE season got a very public start recently when a - debris-burning operation got away and ran up a hillside on the north end of Lakelse Lake, In addition to a ground crew, the forest service called out a * DC-6 tanker which laid down _ofire -retardant. Air. assistance continued in the form of three which dumped water on the. blaze. Each helicopter carries large buck- ets which are filled by being lowered Into lakes. for banking service THE TINY community of Dease Lake north on Hwy37 could soon have some of the mote modem banking services around. Under consideration is a plan for the mass. installation of Point of Sale (POS) cash register ma- chines at local businesses. Residents equipped with bank debit cards will be able to make purchases by direct withdrawals from their bank accounts, That kind of service is needed in Dease Lake which now has no _ financial institution of any kind, says Dease Lake and Tahltan Dis- trict Chamber of Commerce pres- " ident Jim Sontar. ' ~The closest bank is in Watson ~ ‘Lack of abank. That’s Num- ber One on everybody's mind,” he said last week. A’ mass POS system could teduce the need for cash, Soutar added. . Lake in thie Yukon, a,three-hour. _ - drive north making for a day trip - on the part of those needing bank- ing services, Soutar said, And if residents want to go "elsewhere for banking services, they face a two-day return trip down south. That’s not only inconvenient but also takes business out of town, sald Soutar, ‘We're find that if people do ’ have to go south to bank, they'll also make purchases they would normally make in Dease Lake,’ he said. Dease Lake residents did have a - Closer bank location, in Cassiar, but that ended when that town closed down in £992. The ‘problem became more acute when more government and other services moved south to Dease Lake from Cassiar, said Soutar, At the moment, Goodacre’s Su- pervalu in Dease Lake — Soutar’s the manager there — acts as an unofficial bank by cashing cheques for a fee. It’s far from ideal and it’s Dease Lake residents did have a closer bank loca- tion, in Cassiar, but that ended when that town closed down in 199). something we'd obviously like to change,’’ he said. Soutar said the chamber realizes there isn’t the business available for a financial institution to open _a branch and that installation of “an automated ~teller--machine is- too expensive to service and to maintain, Also under consideration is a plan to have a business in Dease Lake act as an agent for a finan- cial institution. 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