USINESS REVIEW_ It’s that time | CRISP MORNINGS mean revived wood stoves and fireplaces and the correctional centre is getting orders for wood. Income from the sale of wood goes toward supporting the centre. Logs are taken from old logging sites to the centre where it's bucked, split and ioaded for delivery. TERRACE — A nation-wide home decorating store is open- ing here next month in the shop- ping centre that now contains the Fields store. The Colour Your World outlet will be one of three in northern B.C. and one of more than 240 across the country, says operator Claude Chepil. It'll have two full time staff and one part time employee and be 1,800 square feet in size, he said. Chepil is from northern Manitoba, has a metallurgy technologist’s certificate and has spent 25 years in the mining industry. ages It’s located in the shopping centre owned by Okanagan- Skeena Holdings. . kkkkik Also going in early in October at the same shopping centre is Superior Video, achain that has 20 outlets in .B.C., Saskat- chewan and Alberta. The outlet will be 4,200 square feet in size and have eight or nine full and part time employees, says Byron Hill of Kamloops, one of three owners of the chain. "We like to ) deal i in | medium 31 fe CUARANTEED MINIMUM OF 500 ON YOUR TAADE-IN Smoking banned | by gov't on Oct. 1 TERRACE — What has been a gradual effort to ban smoking in provincial government of- fices becomes complete Oct. 1. That's the day a no-smoking edict takes hold in all provincial government buildings. Smoking has: already been banned in public areas in pro- vincial buildings and in work areas, leaving staff rooms — until Oct. 1 — as the only designated smoking spots, The province has distributed literature containing tips on * quitting smoking and has available more detailed kits on kicking the habit. “It’s understood and has been accepted.. There’s no animosity,’* said local provin- cial government agent Randy Trombley of the policy. “T’m sure there will be some frayed nerves ... but the pro- vince does have booklets available on stopping smoking,’* he said. Approximately 10 of the 30 employees in the provincial ac- cess centre on Eby St. now smoke but that number is down by four since the province gradually began eliminating areas in which they could light Or AND aot sized places because the people are friendlier and they are a bet- ter place to do business,’* he said. Hill also added the chain likes to go into places where there are younger people. Superior Video was formed 10 years ago and its two closest outlets are located in Prince George. Cogs OI tek ie returned as president of the local representing unionized Skeena Broadcasters workers, Joining her on the executive of Local 827 of the National Association of Broadcast Employees and Technicians is Heather Logan as treasurer. She replaces Blaine Gaffney who left the company to work for a television station in Kelowna. The: other two executive members of the local are vice president Todd Bentley and secretary Kathy Brookes. _ PUSH, PULL or - DRAG AND WE'LL GIVE. YOU mtg ae | cs a \~ Subaru, If you think about it, you'll drive one - THORNHILL SUBARU 3026 Hwy. 16 Terrace GET YOUR 1990 SUBARU IN STOCK Offer ‘expires Sept. 29/90 Local 827 represents Skeena Broadcasters workers in Ter- race, Prince Rupert, Kitimat and Smithers. ~ khkkkk There’s a new outerwear clothing store going in in the Skeena Mail, Northsky Trading should be open early next month, The company has locations i in “B.C, arid in‘Alberta; 1 5 hese ee Sandy Glendenning has been - The store is being located in the space which most recently housed the Radio Shack outlet. kKkkeikn Skyline Gold. Corporation chairman Ron Shon says he’s encouraged by findings from work on property in the Iskut Valley. The results are from a joint venture agreement with Placer Dome Inc. and ore reserves resulting from exploration could lead to a re-opening of Skyline’s now-closed Johnny Mountain mine in the Iskut. TRADE-IN * HERE... 3 ANY WAY YOU CAN, 1 ANY NEW up, Trombley, added. Moving into a new building. : Alo also helped as employees :who. do smoke became used to not lighting up during work, he # said, oF The same attitude was evident when forest service employees moved into their new quarters in the B.C, Hydro building, says forest service finance and administration manager Orest Wakaruk. mae “"We’ve been abiding by-the. | |: ° city (smoking) by-law. There’s no smoking except for the cof- fee room, We decided that when we moved,’* he'said. : ; Wakaruk estimated that a lit- tle less than half of the 50 full and part time employees of the forest service here smoke. The federal government fora year and half now has banned all smoking in its offices, in- cluding staff rooms, and the situation is working out, says’ local Canada Employment Cen- tre manager Shirley Kimery. Again, a move to new offices helped establish a new attitude [4 toward smoking, she said. “At the start, when smoking was restricted to staff rooms, we said it was fine for smokers _ to go into the room for acouple © of puffs if they had to. Then we reduced it to smoking only dur- ing coffee and lunch,’’ said Kimery. Those who smoke now go outside and have grouped together to convert a length of cermic pipe into an ashtray to reduce litter from cigarette butts, she said, Kimery estimated that half of the 40 employees in the employ- ment centre smoked before the . ban went in but that the number : 3227 Kalum Street: has now been cut to 10. a 635-6361 “I's OK now. People are do- | quired for most Autoplan your insurance needs most. when you come to see us. Thanks! biact = Rae, — Wis Wightman & Smith Ltd. baa ce Bs proof of - identity is Tes _ transactions? 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