Employment quotas set

Nass bridge work
Officially kicked off

HIGHWAYS MINISTER Jackie
Pement is due in the Nass Valley
this morning to officially help
kick off construction of a new
vehicle bridge to Gitwinksihlkw
.. (Canyon City),

~The community is on the north

'. side-of the Nass River and is now

connected to the Nass Road on
. the river’s southside by an aging
-- footbridge.

-Pement is accompanied by
other government officials and
will be met by Gitwinksihlkw
residcats.

A $4.3 million bridge contract

awarded to Cortez Construction
of Kamloops is for a single-lane,
172m structure and the work is
scheduled to be finished next fall.

Included in the project is a new
access route just north of the
present tum off from the Nass
‘Road to the foot bridge.

The contract stipulates that val-
ley residents fil 100 per cent of
the labourer positions, 50 per cent
of the entry Icvel and training
positions and 40 per cent of the
skilled trades and apprentice posi-
tions.

The company can earn a bonus

Few people attend
local timber meet

ONE DOZEN people,

That was the total turnout for an
Oct, 6 six-hour open house and
abortive public meeting on the
North Kalum timber supply
revicw,

And of the 12 who showed up

~~ at last Thursday’s sessions, only

one was a new face to Dave
Nicholson, the forest district staf-
fer handling the public input side
of the review: process,
- ‘Timber from the area feeds lo-
cal mills and decisions about how
“much wood can be cut into the
next century will be crucial to
” ‘Terrace and area.
| The rest of those who attended,
mainly foresters and company

“:_ representatives, had already made

‘,- submissions or met with forest
‘district staff, Nicholson added.

’ - He also emphasized such poor
wrnouts are fairly typical of
what’s being expericnced else-
where in the province.

Picker

. THREE LOCAL men ended the
search for a mushroom picker
when they landed on Swan Lake
_ last Thursday.

.-, Erich Penner, Dan Warner and

“Al Larson had just set their plane |

- down on the south end of the lake
_, when they heard a man yelling.

**We all knew exactly who it
was when we heard the scream-
. ing,’ .Wamer said. ‘He was
damn lucky to be in the kind of

; * shape he was,’’
- Gilbert Jimmy, a 31-year-old
Quesnel man in the Terrace area’

However, Nicholson added, he
expects better results when the
district repeats the exercise in
Stewart today and tonight

He said more than 30 people
had turned out to an earlicr mect-
ing there following release of the
initial timber supply report.

As for Terracites, he hoped
there would be a higher level of
interest when it came to meetings
on the South Kalum, the arca im-
mediately surrounding the com-
munity.

The district might also consider
new ways to attract comment

Nicholson noted some districts
simply advertised there would be
staff available at one of its offices
for a certain number of days and
between set hours.

Although that would involve
him setting aside more hours,
Nicholson said that could be out-
weighed by the advantage of
being able to talk one-on-one,

found

mushroom picking, was last seen
on the Van Dyke road September
26 and had been reported missing
since September 29. = ~~

Searchers spent one week look:
ing for Jimmy but had called off
the search October 4.

The Swan Lake arca bad been
searched several times by land
and air, according to Constable
Melanson of the Stewart RCMP.

“We must have just missed him
every time,’’ he said, ‘‘It was
pure luck that those men found
him,’”

Royal Canadian

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4425 Legion Ave. Terrace, BC

invites all

MEMBERS AND CITIZENS
OF TERRACE AND AREA

to the
Unveiling Ceremony of the
New Memorial Markers at the

Terrace & District Cemetery
(Veterans Section)

Sunday, October16-2pm

~

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by meeting and exceeding the
quotas but can also be penalized
for not achieving them.

This is the first contract of its
kind for Cortez containing

specific. employee targets, said.

company president Linda Bossert.

“Tt was.to be proven that you
haven't tried,’’ said Bosscrt of the
employee targets.

She said the highways ministry
has told the company there will
be some room to mancuver if it
simply can’t find qualified em-
ployces from the Nass Valley for
specific tasks.

“We feel quite confident we
can find the people we need,”’
Bossert added,

She said it does make sense to
hire locally owing to the expense
of transporting and housing
people from its Kamloops home
base.

The workers will be paid ac-
cording to the provincial govern-
ment’s fair wage policy.

That provides for wages at
about 90 per cent of standard
union contracts.

Total cast of the project is $4.6
million, a figure that was higher
than the original estimate,

Cortez has awarded a sub con-
tract for the bridge's access roads
to Rossco Ventures of Terrace.

The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, October 12, 1994 - A7

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