miracles happen. Buy a Blizzard’ Treat at. DQ’ & we will donate all the proceeds | to _The Children’s Miracle - Network, supporting CRAIG Zemaitis, one of many tourists visiting the region this summer, ‘rests outside a laundromat in downtown Terrace Aug. 2. Zemaitis is bike to the Yukon. from Vancouver, and is' planning on taking about 35 days at an average of. a5km/day.. He stopped | in, Terrace to relax and wash his’ clothes. po! SARAH ARTIS PHOTO - ne we tle, ve MAKE A DIFFERENCE ON fisitors return despite ferries Pas uc yrs a “THOUGH. TERRACE | hasn’t had as. a definite improvement over June’s 43 . .ly, she said. .o MMany visitors this summercomparedto. percentdrop. =~ _. And Riverboat Days is.a big week | "normal, the impact of the sinking ofthe «= “We certainly know we’ve been ~ for tourism in Terrace, she added. ~ Queen of the North'ferry in the spring” . - impacted by the ferries,” Simons said, The'changes in visitor. numbers are seems to be wearing off, says a local _réferring to the loss in, tourism dollars in light of a one-time investment of tourism official, ~°. Terrace and other communities in the $450,000 the B.C. government dedi- . Debbie ‘Simons, manager ‘of Ter- north have suffered. a _ cated to a- marketing campaign and two : race’s Visitor Information Centre, re- But tourists are now “well aware” - tourism counsellors based in’ Prince win : ‘ ported a-12 per. cent drop in visitors of the situation and:have been booking George geared specifically to promot- | - - Le here for the month of July — 2887 visi- the Prince Rupert ferries in advance, =* ing tourism in the region. -. . a TERRACE LOCATION” ', .. tors compared:to 2,542 for the same shésaid. : The Queen of the North, which ser- ~[>~ 4643 PARK AVENUE & month last year. oe . Simons has also noticed more RV. viced the Prince Rupert to Port Hardy Proceeds from funds rai ised go to B.C. Children’s Ho spital . The numbers are down, she said, but and " . . a ae — co . — . , , : . a a ° . , | 7 sO. 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