A& - The Terrace Slandard, Wednesday, September 18, 1996 BUSINESS REVIEW Air B.C. changes plane Chamber of commerce protests temporary switch to Dash-8’s AIR B.C.-passengers here may find themselves riding smaller propeller- driven airplanes instead of the regular BAe 146 jets this fall and winter. Company officials say maintenance checks are forcing them to put a De Havilland Dash-8 turbo-prop aircraft on the evening run in and out of Ter- race for the next few mouths. They’ll keep the British Aerospace (BAe) 146 jet service in the morning. Air B.C. marketing manager Angela Mah said the plane change takes ef- fect at the end of September and will likely last until mid-February. All the company’s B.C. jets will un- dergo maintenance and inspections during that time. Mah said the change in service doesn’t mean Air B.C, is thinking about ending jet service here. “We are very much committed to all our routes,”’ she said, ‘“Terrace is a big part of our plans. We hate to do this but it’s something we have to un- dergo.’’ Mah said Air B.C. is planning a fare discount of 20 per cent off full fare prices for passengers taking the Dash- 8, and says they'll be providing com- plimentary bar service on some of those flights. ‘We're going to be upgrading our in flight service on the routes to thank our passengers for their patience in the longer flying time,’’ she said. Bul the plane change has the Ter- race and District Chamber of Com- Merce concerned. — Past president Barb Kerr has written a letter io Air B.C. asking them to reconsider the plan. She says discounts and improved service don’t change the fact that there will be fewer seats available. Ker says pulting on a smaller plane in the winter, when missed flights are most common, is a recipe for mayhem. The Dash-8 carries 48 people com- pared to 76 on the larger jet. If the moming jet Night misses due to weather, gelling those passengers to Vancouver Will be a major beadache, Kerr said. ‘*Why choose Terrace in the middle of winter to do this,’ Kerr demands. “How many people are going to miss their connections or miss their trips altogether?” Mab says the airline will deal with any problems that develop, and said a second Dash-8 might be dispatched north in such a situation. Another problem, says Kerr, is that the evening flight won't arrive in Vancouver until 10:30 p.m. — five minutes too late lo connect. with Air Canada’s flight heading cast across the country, She said that means passengers who want to fly back east will have to overnight in Vancouver. Kerr says she’s hopeful something can be done to ensure those flights connect. Also affected is the cargo capacity of the airline. The Dash-8 means there won’t be as much space for cargo as Wilh the BAe 146, AROUND TOWN Store gets permit @ Fast frame TIM HORTON's new drive-through doughnut shop at Keith Ave, and Kalum St. should be sub- stantially up in less than three weeks. The founda- tion is poured and framing will be underway soon. Once the exterior is finished, local contractors will do interior finishing, plumbing and electrical. That's Glen Mountain Developments’ Glenn Fry and Scott Iverson checking over the plans. THE CITY has issued a development permit to allow con- struction of a Real Canadian Warehouse Club outlet on Keith Ave, ; The permit is going out to property owner Peninsular Estates Ltd. and gives Westfair Foods’ project a variance from maximum total sign area rules set aut in the city sig- nage bylaw. The permit sels out a series of landscaping and other conditions. Construction of the store will go out to tender, according to Westfair spokesman Dave Ryzebol, “It will be next year,”’ he said. ‘‘We’re too late to get it started this fall.’ Tourist numbers up AUGUST was a good monthfor tourism in Terrace. The number of groups of people that visited town that month is up 25 per cent from last year. Chamber of com- merce officials said 1,563 parties visited here in August compared to 1,248 for the same month in 1995, Westmin gets bigger THE COMPANY that owns the Premier gold mine in Stewart Wants to add a company with a Cariboo property to its holdings. Westmin Resources has made an offer to buy all of the shares of Gibraltar Mines Ltd., which operates a copper and molybdenum mine near Williams Lake, for $307 mil- lion in cash and share issues. . Already, Placer Dome Canada has agreed to put its ap- proximately 31 per cent of Gibraltar into Westmin’s hands. “Overall, Westmin will be a much larger base metals company with exciting growth prospects,”’ said Company president Walter Segsworth ina press release. Telkwa Gold Corp. explores pass A CALGARY-BASED company hopes to strike it rich in the Telkwa Pass. The Telkwa Gold Corp. is carrying out a drill program this month on the Bear Min- ing Claims in the Limonite Creek-Many Bar Creek area of the pass, west of Telkwa. Spending somewhere in the neighborhood of $500,000, the junior compa- ny hopes to hit mineable reserves of gold, silver and copper, says president Ken Tompson. The property is in a similar geologic setting to the now-closed Equity Sil- ver Mine, he said. It was first staked in the late BOs by Smithers geolo- gist Willard Tompson, fa- ther of Ken, A couple of years later the property was optioned to a major mining conipany, Cyprus, which then decided to pull out of B.C. and in. vest in Russia. The focus for developing the properly then shifted to Calgary. In 1994 the first drilling was carried out along with with MRC Technologies Inc., a shell chpital pool company trading on the Al- detailed mapping. ___ berta Stock Exchange. “The program this yearis Trading is expected to targetting very specific start under Telkwa’s name things that were developed as a result of the drilling in 1994,’? Tompson said. Work is expected to wrap up in the third week of Sep- tember with assay results to follow. Telkwa Gold Corp. recent- ly merged with a numbered company in Alberta and shortly. 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