“A8 - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, August 28, 2002 Broker sets up new yard to buy, sell logs A NEW log yard will buy logs from timber owners and market loggers and sell them to others who need wood. Creed Forest Products is setting up the dryland sort at the old Bell Pole site by the Kalum River, says owner Mike Creed. “What I’m trying to do is provide a service for market loggers and private limber owners to max- imize the value of their timber,” Creed said. Up to 35 per cent of the logs will be exported under a blanket approval Victor- ja granted to licensees in this region early this year. The rest will be sold to a local sawmill or offered to small local manufactur- ers, Creed said. By sorting out the good quality standard sawlogs for an export market, he said, he can get a higher price for the logs than if they were sold on the do- mestic market. He predicted it will help logging contractors who have operated as mar- ket loggers in recent years combat current depressed | prices. They pay a licen- | see that doesn’t need ail its timber a price to harv- est and then sell the loge on the open market. West Fraser has been Out & About Assessor elected VP A LOCAL assessor has been named vice president of the Real Estate Institute of B.C. Charles Johnstone of the B.C. Assessment! Au- thority was one of 16 people named to the insti- tute’s board for a two year term. New directors for the northwest chapter of the institute are Bradley Lane from the B.C. Assessment Authority in Terrace, Karen Waldie from GHW Appraisals Northwest Ltd. in Terrace and Tracy Wall from the B.C. Assessmen Authority in Terrace. The institute is an orga- nization of diversified pro- fessionals whose mission is to advance the highest standards of education, knowledge, professional development, and business + practice in all sectors of the real estate industry. Passenger traffic dips JULY PASSENGER traffic going through the airport was down compared to July of last year, indicate stalislics. While 8,944 passengers either took off or landed at the airport in July 2003,. 7,952 people went through this July. Still, that number was higher than statistics for July 2000 or July 1999 and was substantially higher than the June 2002 figure of 7,177 passengers. Overall, 51,070 people went through the airport from January to July. [f this keeps up, the 2002 figure should surpass the 2001 annual total of 95,814, the 2000 figure of 88,88D and the 1999 mark of 86,218. The years 1996, 1997 and 1998 recorded passenger usage in the 97,000 range. For moro iatarmntion 1-800-668- 1S07 " letting its contractors do that for a few years, and Skeena Cellulose’s new owners began this year. selling off rights to log some of its timber to gen- erate cash flow while its operations remain idle, Creed says he’s so far ~ working with Jasak Log- ging and Alm-Wood Con- tracting. “Hopefully we can at- tract some more market loggers or private timber owners,” he said. The new log yard will offer individual logs for sale to local small busi- nesses or small mill opera- tors that have had trouble acquiring timber. For some time the Skeena Timber Trust has criticized the forests mini- stry for selling timber Monuments Bronze Plaques . Terrace Crematorium ie MacKay's Funeral Service Lid. Serving Terrace, Kitimat, Smithers & Prince Rupert 4626 Davis Street Terrace, B.C. V8G 1X7 Funeral Service Phone 635-2444 © Fax 635-635-2160 Assaciqtion rights in amounts that are too large for smal! opera- tors. They’ve said a log yard — would help small value- added operators who can’t~ get wood or in some cases would rather mot do the logging anyway. Creed cautions that while he’s happy to sell logs to those small-scale processors, they’!] have to pay the going market rate. He said that means the price he could have got for a log on the Vancouver market, less the freight. “If they want the waod for free, they’re not going ta get it,” he said. “They have to pay market price.” He said he expects to have a variety of wood coming through his yard, including cedar. Concerned personal service in the Northwest: since 1946 24 hour pager MIKE CREED of Creed Forest Products is setting. up a fog yard in the old Bell Pole yard. Your Personal & Family-Counselling Centre EXPERIENCED ovRAGe,, A ay COUNSELLING “ ‘PROVIDING. One-On-One Counselling Family & Group Counselling Seminars & Tarnioa MMe Mon. to Fri. ¢ 10.a.m.- -5 p.m, Mn 4465 Lazclle Ave., Suite 202, Terrace, B.C. 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