Page AG — Terace Standard, Wednesday, November a, 1980 i

There’ § snow galore

Shames opening

Bridge business

A FINE FINISH. This class ef Caledonia wood-working
students reflects on their weeks of work that ended with the
completion last week of this sturdy cedar bridge spanning
Howe Creek near the north end of Munroe St.

TERRACE — The lifts are tun-
ning, the snow is being groomed
and most of the key hiring has

been ‘done as Shames Mountain

prepares for: its” .mid-Desember
opening.

“If this was. this time ‘next:
- year, we would be open,’ said

Shames manager: Scott Siemens
last week in reviewing “the

amount of snow that had fallen. |

The amount of snow, as’ of
last week there was three feet-at
the base and 10 to 12 feet on the
upper runs, is both “good and
bad, Siemens said, because it
has to be cleared for findl“con-
struction to take place, ”-

“It’s great for skiing but it is
slowing us down a bit,"’ he said.

Current plans are for skiing

to start Dec, 13 and 14 as‘arun -

up to the official Dec, 15 start
date. A grand opening will take
place in January.

Work that still needs to be

done includes moving and in-.
stalling a lodge.

It was part of the deal
whereby the Shames Mountain
Ski Corporation bought the
assets of the now-closed Kit-

sumkdlum ski operation from

the regional district.

The lodge will be moved in
two parts to Shames Mountain
at night so as to avoid causing
traffic problems. That’s
scheduled to take place before
the end of the month.

‘As well, all but two of the key -
employee positions have been .

filled as Shames prepares its

-_- staff of $0-60 who will be work-
‘ing on the mountain,

said
Siemens.

Co-op students proving
to be valued commodity —

TERRACE — Early successes

bode well’for‘the future ofthe:

cooperative education-program
at Northwest Community Col-
lege, says its industry liaison of-
ficer.

Explaining the program at a
recent chamber of commerce
luncheon, Sandra Bullock said
the concept originated with
‘sandwich’? programs in
England where students com-
bined stretches in the classroom
with periods out in the
workplace. Because students
received academic credit for
their work period, the job had
to be related to their field of
study, she added.

Bullock said the college offers
the program in its business ad-
ministration ‘and forestry
courses. Although that
translated to only four, second-
year students at the Terrace
campus at present, she expected
the number would soon jump to
10.

For students, the program of-
fered the opportunity to get
some practical work experience

Sandra Bullock -

to supplement their classroom
studies and the earnings helped
in meeting tuition fees...

Hut employers could also,
benefit, she emphasized.
Cooperative education. enrolees
tended to be the more serious,
mature students, Given that and

the work orientation course
they first "went through, they
were often able- to ‘quickly
become productive ‘staff
members.

That “was supported by
statistics which showed five out
of six employers asked for the
same student to return when

they began their next work.

period and 80 per cent of
cooperative education students
eventually got permanent jobs
with their program employer.
Although, the work periods
were part of the students educa-
tional training, the ‘conditions
of employment were no dif-
ferent from the . norm.

Employers chose .the student —

they. wanted: to hire, set the
salary — subsidies of up to 35
per cent were available — and

" were expected to treat the stu-”
dent just. as_ they would any.

other employee.

She said’ any employer wan-
ting . more information about
cooperative education could
contact -her, at the college
(635-6511). 1

More escorts licensed

TERRACE — Another escort
service has received a business
licence.

Fantasy Escorts, based in
Kelowna for the past six years,
joins Tiara’s Finest Escorts out
of Fort St, John.. -

Prince Rupert, said;

chambeault last week..

He said the service will have:

one male.

and two female
employees, °° a

Fantasy also hes. outlets in
Penticton and-in Vernon. .,

_In the meantime, recommen- |

dations on licensing escort ser-
vices have been passed along to
council’s. finance and -ad-

- ministration committee or in--

clusion
It has also applied for. a:-

licence to begin. a service, in:
local
representative. Randy Ar.

in an updated: city
business license by-law..

The: city can charge a max-
imum. $2,000 for a licence but

:the recommendation for escort

services is $500, . .
‘Services will also be asked to

‘provide a list of employees for

criminal record checks and pay

a $10 license fee for every

’ employee,-said city licensing of-

ficial Paul: Gipps.

A ‘proposed requirement
under the new by-law jo have
escort services keep a record of
clients and services requested
has been eliminated, said Gipps,
because.a city cannot give the
appearance that it is legislating
morality. .:

The new business licensing
by-law proposal is expected to

’ be considered by council before
the end. of the year so it can
become effective Jan. 1, 1991,

’ Siemens.

. patrol person, a head mechanic,

ate

The nearly 250 resumes -
received . ‘for : “work Surprised

“There are a lot of good peo-
ple out there,’ We're extremely °

happy ‘with the quality of the.

people who’ applied,’ he said.
Now - hired is a* mountain
manager to oversee direct

Operations, ‘a lift- supervisor, a :

grooming supervisor, a head ski.

a bar manager:.and. a rental
supervisor. Still to come are a
food manager and. a ticketing-.
customer service manager.

Also underway i is assembling
a group of 30 volunteer ski’
patroliers. té watch over and
help skiers,-said Siemens.

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The Shames Mountain Ski
Corporation has expanded - its
list of. shareholders outside the
immediate area to include the
Crest Hotel in Prince Rupert, .
said the person looking after in-
vestors.

“Harry Murphy said last week
‘‘more shareholders are being
“sought in Prince Rupert and
that there are interested parlies ~

in Kitimat.
AL ‘the. same time, there are

* more investors in a separate cor-
‘poration’ established” to -pur-

chase shares in Shames, The
Shames (VCC) Ski Corporation

“offers a 30 per cent tax rebate to
. investors who put in a minimum

$5,000.

Its spokesman, Wayne Braid
who sits on the overall ski cor-

.: poration board, said 38 of the
-50 spots -on the separate cor-
poration have now been pur-.
“chased. ~

The investors include four
‘people from Kitimat, he said,
kekkkn
The ski corporation has now
received through a low-cost

‘federal-provincial ‘tourism

development loan the first reim-
bursement for construction ex-
penses, says corporation. presi-

Scott Siemens —

dent Gerry Martin.
That $100,000 is part of the
$502,000 loan and further
-payments will come as the cor-
poration submits bills for work
done, he said.

Road costs over

TERRACE — The road to the
Shames Mountain ski develop-
ment is finished but it is over
budget, says the highways
ministry official in charge of the
budget. ;

Dave St. Thomas said -he
won't know until the end of the
month what the final cost of the
project, first estimated at $2.6
million, will be.

The work involved im-
provements to 9km of a Skeena
Cellulose forestry road leading
off of Hwy16 22km west of Ter-
race and a new 4.5km spur to
the mountain. Construction

concluded ‘last week,

Not ail of what the highways
ministry wanted to do could be
done. because of time con-
straints leading to next month’s
opening of.the ski development,
said St. Thomas.

The one big change is a seven
per cent grade on a major swit-
chback on the spur road instead
of the three per cent originally
planned, he added.

“There's a tighter turning
radius so it’s a little steeper,”
said St. Thomas,

There is a posssibility of br-

inging the grade down to what
was planned but that will de-
pend on how the project fits in
with other highways construc-

tion plans in the next budget
year, he said.

St. Thomas said he was hap-
py with the pace of construction
given that the spur road involv-
ing blasting through solid rock.

“That Skm was done in eight
and half months of construc-
tion. Normally it would take
another six months. We had a
good bunch of guys and
everything we needed,’’ he said.

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