Page A8 - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, September 1, 1993

RUSINESS REVIEW. [

Job search

eased

TERRACE — More students
were looking for work than could
be handled by. the Canada
Employment Centre for Students .
this year.

But more found work through
the centre than the. year -before,
student placement officer Gurmit
Grewal said last week,

The number of vacancies posted ~ ‘

at the centre was 219, an increase
of 8.4 per cent over the following
year.
“T can say that those vacancies
were filled,”’ said Grewal.
Summer, employment has be-

come a problem for young people -

because continuing education and
tougher economic times have sent
more people into the summer job
market.

‘Coupled with the restructuring
that the labour market is undergo-

Hirings —
frozen

TERRACE — The hiring of new. :
economic development: officers
by the provincial government has
besn frozen.

One of the people interviewed
but not selected for 16 positions
across the province has appealed
the hiring process.

Northwest: economic develop-
ment ministry regional director
Harold Demetzer said the appeal
affects four positions in north-

western B.C.

“We did choose some individu-
als and' we! do have preliminary ~
acceptance but now there is the
appeal,’’ he said,”

Demetzer. ‘didn’t know how. '§

long the appeal will take,
The placing oE provincial eco- |

-, nomig-~.development... coffers
«i across Heeprovie
” shift in the econoitiic ‘develap-

ment ministry’s mandate an-
nounced last year.

There are actually five positions

in the northwest — two in Prince
Rupert, one in Stewart, one in
Smithers and one in Burns Lake..

. But interviews failed to find a
person for one of the positions.

Demetzer sdid 681 people filed
4,000 applications for. , the. 16
positions. He expects, the job to
be re-advertised shortly.

The jobs. pay 8p. to 355, 619 a
year, a
In the. ‘meaatiine, two, people
have been hired as auxiliaries to
fill the development officer posi-
tions in Smithers and in Stewart.

Tracy Olsen in Smithers and
Cindy. Elsworth in Stewart will

work until: permanent employees fp

are-named,

Also 10 be filled i is the develop- |
ment ministry’ s ‘northwest
regional ‘manager job.. That per-
son will be based i in Kitimat.

Out and |
About

TERRACE — Two people

with the same first name have .

opened a you-brew store in the

city. , .
Scott Easton and - Scott

Schooner began: investigating the

possibility in February.

Their research has now resulted
in Scottle’s U-Brew on Lazelie.

The outlet has the potential to
offer: more «than 70 varities and
‘has 20°on hand -now, said Scotl

-Baston ‘ast wetk. |

Coast Traclorin Terrace, « See

tok
~ Coast Tractor, ‘which has one of |

its eight’ brenchs ‘here, has won
ihe ‘John Deere’ Mark of Ex- "’

|| 6HP JET.

cellence Award for,1992,
“This is*the-second year in a
row we've won gold and we’ re
working on -dolng it again,”
branch” manager Poter Branch ©
said last weeki 2°:

The -award .” is" “given. tot

customer’ satisfaction ‘and’ por-
formance ‘in ‘ales,

aris and SCT: |

Coast Tractor. orlalnated:o on 1 the
lower mainland . and.
couver Island.

> There ard elght employees with

ments

a bit ©

ing, finding summer ‘employment -

has become a real challenge,’”

_ Said Grewal. 2
The. federal government spent
. $82,373 to create 50 jobs throngh

the Challenge ’93 program. -
Subsidies were ‘$2.50 an. hour
for those. in the. private ‘sector,

$4.25 an hour for the public-sec- ~

tor and $6 an hour for jobs creat-

“ed through non. profil. organiza

tions.

Sixteen employers also took ad-
-- vantage of the provincial govern-
community partnership
program. it reimbursed wages up.

to a maximum of $4 an hour.

This program spent $19,994 in -

the area.

’ Grewal, who began her job in
May, started off by giving, ses-
sions in schools and at {he centre

on how. to get ready to search for

_ajob. a

‘Yet she did notice thal a goodly

number: of students coming into
the centre did not know {low to
- look for work.

‘My advice. is that students
~' should sharpen those skills,”” said
Grewal. .

"This was: ‘Grewal’s first time as

-- student. placement officer. She’s

reading -to UBC this fall for the
final year ieading toward a

New liquor store

THE PROVINCIAL government's concept of “one-stop shap-
ping”.services will expand next summer when a new liquor
store opens up in the parking lot of the access centre an. the
‘comer of Eby and Lazelle, That’s Waiter Kolar removing a |.
brick wall to make.room for construction. Provincial officials
say the new location offers more parking than at the current
one and that there'll be more room in the new store for the
display of alcoholic beverages.

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