AS - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, January 26, 1994

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Booth business

THATS JOSEPH Laperriere working on the framework for
one of the booth’s going into the new White Spot. Located in
the Coast Inn of the West, the eating spot is scheduled for an
early spring opening.

Out & About

mer FBDB spot,
space and facilities.

"We have 16 employees now
and grow -to 30 or so in the sum-
mer,” he said,

The forestry consulting compa-
ny has been in existence for the
past nine years.

FEDERATED co- means more

OPERATIVES Lid. (FCL), the
parent organization to Terrace
Co-op, is delivering the largest
cash payment to its member retail
co-operatives in its history.

The cash injection of $76.8 mil-
lion will give a major boost to

retail co-ops and co-op members, kk kkk
says a press release. ’There’s another business
FCL sales and net savings for moving into the Terrace Co-op

the year ending Oct. 31, 1993
were the highest in its history.

Sales totatled $1.9 billion and
net,savings reached $112 million.

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That construction right beside
Sight and Sound in the Skeena
Mall is in preparation for a new
slore,

A Buck or Two is a chain soon
to number more than 100 stores
that’s part of a growing retail
trend. It'll sel! items for specific
dollar amounts.

A Buck or Two franchise direc-

building.

Sharp Cuts Barber Shop, a fix-
ture on Lakelse Ave, is going
into the second floor of the Co-op
building.

Co-op general manager Ed
Berney called the move part of an,
effort to keep increasing the level
of service in the Co-op.

“Our goal is one stop shop-
ping,’’ said Bemey.

’ Also coming to the Co-op
building is a bank machine,

Bemey said he’s negotiating
with a financial institution and

tor Loraine Waldman from hopes to have the machine in-

Ontario said the Terrace location stalled by early spring,

is one of several opening in kkkkk

northern B.C. There’s a new optical wear out-
**We have a broad selection but . letin town.

are narrow in price. We sell items
for a $1 or $2 or variations there-
of,” she said.

The company is looking for a
franchisce to operate its new store
here.

The Optical Shop is a division
of Benson Optical and is located
in the Co-op mall.

“This is a litte different
marketing, We now are a one-
hour service, but this will have a
few days delivery and the price
will be a little less,’’ said Brad
Benson last week.

He’s been wanting to open The
Optical Shop for three or four
years but waited until the retail
space he wanted camic available.

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RJA Forestry Lid. has moved
from {ts Tillicum building office
space to a location on Lazelle
Ave.
Company official Rod Arnold
said the new location, in the for-

Interest growing
in business meet

TWO SPEAKERS from Cran-
brook are to be featured Feb. 3
when a conference for women in
business takes place here.
“Women in Business — Tak-
ing the Next Step’’ is belng un-
dertaken by agencies of the feder-
al and provincial governments.
Speaking will be. Cranbrook
residenis Helen Klassen of the
The Canadian Institute of Ex-
cellence Inc, and Marjorie
Steeves Campbell, owner of CAS — of last week, he said.
Landscape Design and Consult- Also at the conference are two
ing. workshops — one on attitude and
“They both come highly one on getting more out of a busi-
recommended,’’ said Hugh Rob- ness.
bins of the Federal Business De- The conference is one of
velopment Bank which is co- several set across the province.

ordinating the event It’s
sponsored by the provincial small
business ministry.

Also on lhe agenda is a panel
discussion from five local and
Tegional businesswomen.

“There scems to be a need for
womiin in business to get together
—— to network and to share com-
mon concerms,”’ said Robbins,

More than 30 people had al-
ready regislered as of the middle

Native group tees
up on Dease Lake
hydro power plan

PLANS FOR a hydro electric
project near Dense Lake are
moving forward, says an official
from an engineering company.

To be owned by the Tahltan
Nation Development Corpora-
tion, the 3 megawalt generator
project is to begin selling power
to B.C. Hydro Jan.1, 1996.

“There is a provision to expand
to 6 megawatts,’’ said Bill Har-
land of Vancouver-based Stothert
Group which is providing
engineering, financing, construct-
ing and then operating assistance,

The first 3 megawatts should be

of Dease Lake, the project will
tap water [rom the Hluey Lakes,

It involves two earthen dams,
an underground pipeline, “two
canals, a head pond, penstock,
power house, and 16 kilomtres of
transmission line to Dease Lake,
Lines to Iskut and Telegraph
Creck will be added later,

Water piped to the power house
will be discharged by canal into
the Tanzilla River, which drains
inlo the Stikine.

When completed the project
will provide jobs and economic
development for Dease Lake and

Located in the high coun-
try just north of the Grand
Canyon of the Stikine and
16 kilometers south of
Dease Lake, the project
will tap water from the
Hluey Lakes.

in other parts of the province,
“We've done quite a few

feasibility studies for small hydro

projects around the province,”’

sufficient to serve Dease Lake Harland added. area, say officials from the
and additional power should The Dease Lake project comes Tahlian Nation Development
serve Telegraph Creek and Iskul. under the Independent Power Corporation.

This power will replace that Project plan of B.C. Hydro which

Expansion from 3 to 6 mega-

_ and contributes to the corporation's

Skeena Cellulos Tr c-

Mr. RT. (fom) Boughner

Mr. Harry Papushka, executive
vice-president, Skeena Cellulose
inc, is pleased co annaunce the
appointment of Mr. Tom Boughner
to the position of vice-president
and general manager, Pulp
Operations al the Skeena Cellulose.
pulp mill in Prince Rupert.
“. Mr:Boughner has been wich”: -
Skeena Cellulose’ Ine. since early :
1992 in the capacity of general -
manager Pulp Operations and hag.
heen: instrumental-in providing” ”
the leadership: to-move the pulps:
mill towards its rated capacity.
and competitive goals, °-

Mr. Boughnicr. will continue to. *
report to Reg Lightfoot, senfar oo" 3 |:
vice-president; Operations, Repap

B.C. The company looks forward =)

ta Mr Boughner continuing ta 6 a :
make a “strong contribucan: to its
progress iii British Columbia.
-Skeena Cellulose Inc, is 4.
subsidiary of Repap F iterprises, Ine

annual manufacturing capacity

of 650,000 metric tans of northern Po

softwood bleached kraft pulp; =”...
940,000 tons of coated paper,

160, ‘000 tons of kraft: paper, 500
millia board feet of lumber, and :
scientific innovations such as the:
environmentilly-friendly ALCELL®.

now. produced by - expensive
diesel generators owned by B.C.
Hydro.

Dease Lake residents pay what
anybody. else would for power
and the difference is made up by
B.C. Hydro.

The new power will still be ex-
pensive but not nearly as much as
that produced by the diesel gener-
ators, said Harland,

Now underway is filling out
permit applications and undertak-
ing various studies, said Harland.

That process even, involves the
federal government because
water from two creeks eventually
flaws down into the Stikine and
inte the United States.

“We hope the pennitting pro-
cess will be completed by June of
this year,”’ said Harland.

He described the project, as an

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encourages the development of
small generating operations.
In total the Dease Lake project

will cost $12 million, $3 million .. -
of which is being raiscd by the -
Tahitan. |

The remainder is to be bor-

rowed and that’s being arranged |

by Stothert,

“IPI be long term debt similar
to a house mortgage,”’ said Har- —

land who added there are already
a number of interested investors.
Tahitan Nation Development

Corporation (TNDC) is a con- |

struction contractor owned by the
Iskut and Tahltan bands and the
Tahltan Tribal Council.

B.C. Hydro has agreed to buy
power from the station for 20
years.

Located in the high country just

north.of the Grand Canyon of the
example of what could take: places “Stikine and 16 kilometers south -

watis is contingent upon two
years of successful provision of
electricity.

solvent pulp technology,

Ae 3 Scott Welch

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