fi t ‘a oh Terrace Review — Wednesday, June 12, 1991 AB Cl contractors get payment anxiety TERRACE — At least one major logging contractor shut down oper- ations here Monday in protest at late payments by Skeena Cellulose. Don Hull and Sons spokesman Gordon Hull said yesterday the company is objecting to the length of time it has taken recently to get paid for the work they do for SCI. Hull declined to go into detail about the situation, saying he didn’t want the mill, a major employer here, to come into disre- pute. "We don’t want this blown out of proportion,” he said. "We want to get it settled." Northwest Loggers Association president Alex Houlden said repre- sentatives of the NWLA were Scheduled to meet with SCI yester- day afternoon. The outcome of that meeting was not available at press time. Houlden said contractors have been having problems with late payments from SCI since about last October. Contractors are nor- mally paid on a calendar month basis, with the payment usually coming about the 12th or 14th of the following month. Some con- . tractors are now waiting up to 30 days, he said, and SCI may want $2 millon upgrade for Uplands TERRACE — Four portable classrooms at Uplands Eicmentary ‘ School will be replaced with real Classrooms this summer. The Min- istry of Education came through with just over $2 million for the project in an announcement last week, School District 88 secretary- treasurer Barry Piersdorff said yesterday it will take about two weeks to finish the final drawings for the addition and submit them to Victoria. Subject to ministry approval the project will then go to tender. Piersdorff said the district had expected the money for Uplands this year. The planning money for a permanent addition to the over- crowded school arrived last year, and Piersdorff said ministry policy is normally to supply building money the following year. The ministry requires enrolment in a school to be 50 students above its rated capacity — in accordance with the ministry formula for stan- dard class size — before it will consider capital funding for addi- tions. The money will go for renova- tions to the existing building as well as new construction. District maintenance supervisor Harry Eberts said the work will cover a total of 744 square meters, about 75 percent of which will be new area. The new building will house a staff room, two regular class- rooms, two special needs class- rooms, a multi-purpose room, a mechanical room and a mud room. Renovations will be made to the . school offices, he said, and the entire entfance area will be rede- signed and rebuilt. Major renova- tions will be made to school wash- ‘rooms, all the windows in the school’ will be replaced with double-giazed windows, and a new boiler will be installed to heat the addition. The first portable building was added to Uplands in the early 1980's, and the complex of tem- porary structures has grown as the population of the bench area increased. Eberts said two of the structures are fairly new, but the other two require considerable work and probably will not be used at another location. OF MBAR RS ge ~Buroera summer arts school Seats are available in the following workshops: SPINNING — Alden Amos July 8-13 9am. -4 p.m. TUITION $225 GST INCLUDED WEAVING — Kathryn Wertenberger 9a.m.-4 P. m. o July 8-13 Beginners Weaving . TUITION $225 GST INCLUDED July 15 - 19 Weaving . TUITION $225 GST INCLUDED July 22 - 26 Making Four Look Like More and Designing Handwoven Clothing TUITION $225 GST INCLUDED PHOTO 1 — Al Richardson Monday, Wednesday, Thursday 7 p.m. July 8-26 _ TUITION $225 GST INCLUDED PRE-ART COLLEGE EXPERIENCE — Emily Car College of Art and Disign July 8-26 9am. -4 p.m. TUITION $465 GST INCLUDED COMPUTER/ELECTRONIC MUSIC — Brian Fairholm | July 15- 19 TUITION $100 GST INCLUDED THEATRE ARTS - SENIORS 15 - 17 YEARS — Terri Snelgrove July 8-26 9am.-4 p.m. TUITION $525 GST INCLUDED To register contact: AURORA SUMMER ARTS SCHOOL | 4920 Straume Avenue, Terrace, B.C. V8G 4V8 Telephone: 635-2101 - 10 p.m. 3 hours daily — 9 a.m. - 12 noon or 1 p.m. - 4 p.m. to push the payment date back to the 28th. “It creates problems with working capital," Houlden said. Skeena Cellulose uses about 10 major stump-to-dump logging contractors in the Terrace area, Houlden said. Those companies employ numerous smaller falling, trucking and skidding contractors and support other businesses. Houlden said he expected the issues to be resolved at the meet- ing yesterday. Skeena Cellulose representative Pat Ogawa was contacted by tele- phone but declined any comment on the situation. Casey and Finnegan may have been retiring, but Mr. Dress Up himself was the real backstage attraction at the farewell concert held last weekend in the R.E.M, Lee Theatre. Ernie Coombs, the celebrity's other identity, said he enjoyed his visit here, particularty the golf course. Highways move - —_— | ‘Continued from page Al add 20,000 square feet over the parking area in about four months. And he thinks it would be cheaper than the move BCBC is planning now. By building their own build- ing, Trigo estimates, BCBC will pay twice as much as they would by continuing to lease the current highways offices from him. Trigo bases this statement on the fact that constiuction costs for his new building are four times what they were when he built his orig- inal building. He says he built the first two floors of the older build- ing in 1973, and added another two floors, the penthouse and the parking area in 1978 at the request of the Ministry of Highways. Now, he’s waiting for official word that the ministry will be terminating their lease, a move he says will cost the taxpayer money. THANK YOU In addition to thanking those individuals who gave us their time and support this year, we would also like to recognize the following businesses and organizations who also demonstrated their support: Wightman & Smith, Century 21 Misty River Book Store Terrace Pizza Hut Valley Oxygen & Supply Terrace & District Credit Union Terrace Karate Club Terrace Go-op Association Terrace Standard Skeena Hotel Northern Motor Inn Terrace Legion Pacific Northern Gas Wightman & Smith Insurance C.F.T.K. Reality World Terrace Review Totem Petro Can Overwaitea Foods Ltd. Bavarian Inn Terrace Stock Car Club Inn of the West Terrace ‘nn international Brotherhood of Electrical Workers THANK YOU, M.S. SOCIETY OF TERRACE