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The federal-government has announced funding of $155,199 in .
contributions and $250,000 in assistance money for 16-37
Community Futures, the business and employment assistance
centre for the northwest headquartered in Terrace. Community
Futures operates the Business Development Centre on Eby St. and
offers a number of job training programs and scveral forms of
assistance to help new businesses through the Canadian Jobs

Strategy.

Dr. Douglas C. Nord, a board member of two Canadian studies
groups in the United States, has been appointed director of
international studies for the University of Northern B.C. Nord is
described by UNBC president Geoffrey Weller as being an expert
in three areas the university will stress in its curriculum: the
circumpolar north, the Pacific tim and Canada-US, relations. He
will be responsible for offering courses and conducting research on
intemational relations.

Two promotional campaigns run over the past year by the
Terrace and District Chamber of Commerce have won the
organization the North by Northwest Tourism Association’s
Community Promotion Award for 1991. The two campaigns were
"Terrace, a Whole Lot in Store for You" and “Terrace... Show
Your Pride”.

A Port Edward author has succeeded in having her historic
profile of the coastal fish canning industry published. Ooolichan
Books announced the publication of Gladys Young Blyth’s Salmon
Canneries — British Columbia North Coast in September. Blyth,
winner of the 1989 B.C. Senior Citizen of the Year award,
examines with text and photographs the lifestyle and industry in
the coastal canning villages, many of which are now abandoned,
that flourished in this area during the early 1900's.

The local branch of the B.C. Lung Association has set $6,200 as
its goal for raising funds in the Terrace area through this year’s
Christmas Seal campaign. The association supporis research into
treating and alleviating chronic lung disease and eliminating threats
to respiratory health. Terrace area chairperson Elaine Johnston said
she hopes local residents will be generous despite the difficult
economic times.

The sprawling Elsworth Brothers logging camp near Meziadin
Junction was weaned off diesel-generated electricity Oct. 9. The
community of 150 was hooked into the main B.C. Hydro electric
grid through a 2,000 kilowatt-hour substation put on line by Twin
River Power of Terrace. It may be the first good night’s sleep in
several years for about 50 of the Elsworth residents who live in
bunkhouses adjacent to the noisy diesel generating plant, in
operation since 1986. 4

GOOD-BYE, GRAHAM. The highlight of 49H banquets in Terrace for more than a decade
has been positive comment accompanied by the presentation of achievement awards by
district agriculturalist Graeme Johnston. Those days have ended, though, at least in
Johnston's official capacity. He retires next summer, and in appreciation of his many years
of dedicated assistance Trudy Rafuse presented him with a Kermode Bear picture on behalf
df all 4-H members in the greater Terrace area at the group's banquet earlier this month.
Johnston says his his days of involvement with the 4-H aren't over, however. He will be

taking on the job of secretary for the Bulkley Valley 4-H club.

CORRECTION

A photograph on page 16 of the Nov. 6 Terrace Review that
appeared with a story about the Eskay Creek mining camp bore a
caption indicating that the scene contained a bridge crossing the
Iskut River, In fact the bridge spans the Ningunsaw River where it
flows into the Iskut.

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