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Vol. 2 » Issue No. 31 _

Local business:

given brief on |

foreign

“TERRACE— Two rep-
resentatives of the

federal government stop- .

ped in Terrace this week
and spoke to a small
gathering of local
businessmen about pro-
moting products from
the northwest in foreign
markets.

Ed Bobinski is the
Trade and Tourism
director for the federal

Department of Regional.

Industrial Expansion
(DRIE), and he told ‘the
audience to think of his
agency. as the ‘‘business
-department’’of the
Canadian government.
Bobinski said that he
specializes in Pacific Rim
trade, having..resided: in

Asian.countries for seven .
a federal ~¥
His -amp
department, he said, has~ vi
ot a Jute’ | ‘4 nandate- sto in

years as
representative...

trade

developing exportable,
products and finding

markets for those pro-

ducts,
Bob Inkpen, DRIE’s _
northern B.C... represen-

tative, outlined the con-
ditions under which his
department provides
financial assistance to
business. He said that

_they are looking for pro-
jects which are viable, .
have export potential,

and do not compete with
existing enterprises.
Tourism, he. said,

viewed as an export pro.
duct, and he added that
products which can be

sold. ‘domestically - to .

replace imports also

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C., WEDNESDAY, July 30, 1986

” Flapjack export

the chefs at the Riverboat Days. pancake breakfast held In the Skeena Mall on Saturday -.
morning. See e story page ie _ Daniele Berquist photo

‘Outside mal
Date a Pree. .
July 21 a) aay 0.0-mm:
July 22. 22-15 OOmm: [
July 23 23 12 - 0.0mm
July 24 “20°13. 0.0mm
July25 22 19° 2mm
July 26. -. 20 B- OOmm
Juy2?7° 19-1, _ tr.

Sunny. with cloudy
periods. Chance of
afternoon showers. on
the weekend. After-
noon highs of 21, with
‘overnight lows of 12.

inside

Business Guide 16

Pancakes, bacon and eggs, and coffee were served to guests by Boots Reynolds, one of -

Church Directory 14
Classified Ads 22
Coming Events 10

Comics 21

Crossword 21

Dining Directory 19

se 2S ae ne Entertainment 20

Horoscope 8

P P Letters 4

10-day celebration begins Opinions 4

It was anything-goes as Terrace residents of allt ages In Sports 6

avery sort of costume filled city streats.for the Riverboat Stork Report 20 Miss Terrace for 1986

Days parade to mark the beginning of Terrace's annual Talk of the Town 5 Laura Tupper, sponsored by McDonald’s, was crowned

10-day midsummer celebration. See story and more

Miss Terrace at the fourth annual pageant Saturday even-
photes pages 12 and 13. Danlole Berquist photo

ing In the R.£.M. Lea Theatre. See story page 3.

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‘union |
rejects
complete -
shutdown
TERRACE — As inter-

mittent negotiations con-._
tinue between the Inter-

national Woodworkers. .
of America (IWA) and
the Forest Industrial ..
Relations (FIR), work:

stoppages remain - a. _

possibility at ‘Terrace’ s
two major sawmills. ‘The ©
IWA. recently stated, .
however, ‘that province: _
wide. strike action. will:
‘not be taken.

In an interview hily.

28, IWA spokesman Ben
Thompson said that the.

trend toward use of non-
union contractors by
FIR employers i is still the
crucial issue in negotia- -
tions. The.union reached .

‘. a tentative agreement

~ fate last week with an.

association of north cen- -
tral forest companies,” -
» but the Terrace mills are.
members, : sof. the. ‘coastal.

unit, © and’ .rémain® ine
“negotiation.
Thompson: said: ‘that
‘the interior. agreement —
was easier to achieve
“because the mills. there »
have a long history of us--
_ing independent contrac-

“tors. Coastal employers, -

__-by contrast, have ‘shown
an ‘accelerating : trend”.

over: the past few years

toward contracting out |
jobs which have tradi-~
“tionally ‘been done by
IWA members; and
- Thompson said that the
union finds that sort of
job loss for its members
unacceptable. Thomp-_
son would not comment
- on the IWA’s deadline
for job action, but he did
_ Say, ‘“We, the union, will
--not be responsible for a

|-. complete shutdown of

.the forest industry in the
province. There are
enough problems as it is,
considering the tariff
‘situation in the U.S. If
the companies decide to
do it, let it be on
their heads.’”” The last
statement was &
reference to the possibil-
ity of a lock-out by
employers.

At the beginning of
this week, Wayne Haw,
acting mill manager at
Skeena Cellulose in Ter-
race, said that the mill
remained unaffected by
any job action. ‘“‘It’s
business as usual, so
far,”’ he stated on July
28. Haw said that the

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