BUSINESS REVIEW_ ~~ Open again : SHARON MCCAMON was busy last week getting things in ‘order as the chamber of commerce’s tourist information cen- + tre on the highway opened up ‘for a new.season. She already #. they're planning or for information to pass on to people com- s-dng here: The centre's open Monday to Friday from 1-3 p.m. , this month. It’s hours will be expanded in May. . reports: people ‘dropping by to pick up information for trips Miners in Stewart — Jo.) TERRACE — All available. + hotel and motel beds are becom- , ing booked as nearly 150 people , have ‘registered: ‘for. a mining =f conference in Stewart beginning “ today. a Minerals North ot, the third » such event on mining in the north in the past three years, - features Presentations _ on the, state of the industry j in: this: ‘part i. says, its of the province, . organizer." a Paul - Bagordo said ‘govern ment’: and” industry . represen-- _ tatives will also go.on a tour: of. - mining properties near Stewart. Minerals North 91 lasts until Friday afternoon. «: “*The advice -1. ‘have: for: anybady intending to come is to bring a sleeping bag. We've ~ literally filled up every hotel bed : here and in Hyder,”’ he said. Two ‘planes,. one bringing meet. people from Vancouver and another bringing people from Smithers, have been chartered for the occasion, Bagordo add- ed. i "Scheduled are presentations “on producing and potential nor- ~-thwestern mineral - properties and a review of provincial mineral policy. Of. particular importance will ‘be ‘the Eskay Creek area,’ con- -, sidered, one of. the richest -eprecious mineral regions on the - “continent. 2": “We're ‘happy to ‘have. ‘the conference: ‘in Stewart because this :town has been associated with: the’mining industry for almost a “century,” said Bagor- do.’ ny The “Minerals North con- ference concept first took place in Terrace in 1989 and in Smithers last year. There'll also be a trade show. Trades fair nears - TERRACE. — Half of the floor ‘Tl: space available for this -year’s . Jaycees. Pacific Northwest . Trades Fair has already: been - ' booked, says an organizer.’ ‘Glenn Tobin said 28 - businesses and organizations have ‘ themselves to booths and ‘ displays for the May 3-5 trades so far committed This is the 2st annual fair and the 22nd time the Jaycees " have sponsored the event, “Approximately 80 per cent of the bookings are local and we have a good number of small businesses attending,’’ said Tobin. — ; TERRACE — Kentucky Fried Chicken ends 18 years of being located on the corner of Lakelse and Ottawa when it opens at its new premises this Friday. -The: new location, still on Ot AND ABOU Lakelse_ and belween Mohawk and McDonald's, features a drive-througti ‘and’ computeriz- ed communications. : “Two managers ° will look’ ‘after the restaurant and -25-30, part. - than 5200, 000 is expected... ee te 2 oe time people will be. employed, | depending upon seasonal needs, '. An annual payroll of more * : premises won't. be empty for _ long. Terrace Taco Co, is expan- ding into the fast food business. “It’s been in operation for j just _ sentucky, Fried Chicken’ s old