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BUSINESS REVIEW

Hilltop Grocery closes

AFTER 10 years in operation in Thornheights, the
Hilltop Grocery closed its doors last week.
Owner Ron Dallyn said he and his wife couldn't

hang on any longer,

He pinpoints the pulp mill strike in Prince Rupert and
ils trickle-down effect to loggers here as the start of a
sales slump over last fall and Christmas that forced
them to look for ways to refinance.

But installing gasoline tanks and pumps in 1988

proved to be their downfall,

_.. Banks wanted guarantees that there was no risk of the
tanks leaking and exposing them to liability.

B.C, Environment wasn’t prepared to make that state-
ment, Dallyn said, and he would have had to spend
36,000 drilling and testing to satisfy creditors that the
land wasn’t contaminated by gasoline.

He'd already been running without insurance for two

years for the same reason.

“We just couldn’t see it staying open any longer,’’
he said. “‘Copperside could undercut us. And people
would drive down the hill to save a nickle.”

“We took ail the left over groceries and gave it all to
the Salvation Army. No sense leaving it there for the

government,”

The property reverts to the Business Development
Bank of Canada, which held Dallyn’s business loan.
He's not sure what he’s going to do now.

High-tech ‘test city’ planned
ISTAR, OSG team up
to bring cable Internet

ONE OF THE country’s
largest Internet providers is
the new partner of
Okanagan Skeena Group
{OSG) in its plan to offer
high speed cable Internet
service in the northwest.
ISTAR Interact will pro-
vide the Internet know-how
and = = =marketing, while
Okanagan Skeena —
owners of local Skeena
Cablevision and Skeena
Broadcasters —- will pro-
Vide the cable network.
iSTAR is billing the ar
rangement as one that will
tum Terrace into its ‘‘test
city’? for high-tech services.
The third jocal Internet
service provider could’ be
in carly
March, OSG vice-president
Tim Maclean told the Stan-
dard Thursday,

But initially it will be only
a telephone dial-up service

— no different from the In.
teret access offered by °

other local providers like
Skeena Net Corp. and RGS
Internet Services.

That means the maximum
28,800 bits per second ac-
cess ss speeds ~— available

through phone lines.
However, MacLean said
Okanagan Skecna hopes to

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be able to offer cable Inter-
net in a test area of Terrace
as early as April that will be
capable of speeds of
300,000 bits per second and
up.

The test area will be
limited to most of the horse-
shoe — from Kalum St, to
Munroe St. and south as far
as Lazelle Ave.

It eventually may be ex-
panded to all of Okanagan
Skeena’s cable markets in
the northwest and the
Okanagan.

Besides speed, cable ac-
cess has an added advantage
in that it doesn’t require
users to compele for avail-
able lines from the provider.

“You boot up your com-
puter and. you're on-line,”
Maci-ean said. a

The cable Internet offering
depends on the company in-
Stalling further equipment
that allows two-way flow of
data through cable lines, he
said,

Okanagan Skeena will be
using the fibre-optic ting it
installed around the city last

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directed by Norah Ferguson

February 8, 9, 10 & 15, 16, 17
at 8 p.m.
McColl Playhouse
3625 Kalum Street

Tickets $12 at

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THE HILLTOP GHOCERY closed last week after
years of serving residents in the Thornheights area,

year in carrying out the
plan.

Getting cable Internet will
be pricey at first.

Cable RF modems will
cost $500 to $600.

Cost of the dial-up phone
service is expected to be
$30 a month for 90 hours of
access, MacLean said.

That will go up somewhat
when cable service is avail-
able.

The changes

are also

spawning a new division of
the company — OSG Inter-
active, MacLean said.

iSTAR = Internet has
recently bought out three
Vancouver-area Internet
providers, and continues to
grow rapidly.

Company president Rainer
Paduch said last week its
new strategic alliance with
OSG could mean the devel-
opment of a series of new
high tech services and joint
ventures.

MacLean said the arrange-
ment could lead towards
things like home banking.

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where terminally ill children and their. families can live and get
individualized programs oF care for pain, symptom management,
gricf support'and family therapy,

There’s no other place like it in British Columbia — or,

anywhere else in North America. It provides needed support for
children suffering from life-threatening ilIness such as cancer, cystic. fibrosis,
muscular dystrophy, neuro-degenerative conditions, AIDS and other illnesses.

And it has been created for the benefit of all British Columbians. .

A free-standing facility designed to accommodate tp to ten children with two
family suites large enough for groups of four, it houses outreach, consultation,
educational and support services, oo |

The focus will be on the child and family as a unit, providing for their physical,
emotional and spiritual needs. This is a cause White Spot believes in, and supports.
In addition to providing. financial aid, it is our privilege to offer our hospitality and to
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Please give generously. re

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