Page A& — Terrace Standard, Wednesday, February 19, 1992

__ BUSINESS REVIEW

Employment to change

B.C. Tel contractor Green Valiey Construction is busy here
and in Kitimat by replacing old phone poles. This action toak
place on Hwy16 awhile ago and that's Rob Nutter working the
drill.

Non traditional

workers

to grow

In next century

TERRACE —More and more
employers will have to start
looking for workers from non-
traditional sources, says a local
official from the Federal
Business Development Bank
(FBDB).

Up to 85 per cent of new
employees by the year 2015 will
be women, visible minorities,
natives or people with
disabilities, Paul Williams told
a luncheon here last week.

That’s because a declining
birthrate and aging population
is diminishing the traditional
source of labour, he said.

“There'll have to be planning
to put that into place, to get
people prepared for it,” said
Williams,

The luncheon was held by the
FBDB as part of its Employ-
ment Equity Week designed to
highlight the availability of and
equal opportunity treatment for
women, visible minorities,
natives and disabled people as
workers.

Williams said employment
equity and equal opportunity
means acknowledging the

capabilities of the four groups
to work and to not make
assumptions.

Part of that comes from in-
creasing awareness in the

business community by putting: -

it in contact with varicus types
of groups, he said,

One of those groups, Creative

Options Inc,, was represented
by Linda Pelletier at the lun-
cheon. It places people with
disabilities in jobs in the com-
munity,

She said the program is fin-
ding more jobs for people as it
is becoming better known in the
business community,

Terrace and District Com-
munity Services representative
Lynda Bretfeld said non-
traditional workers are placed
at a disadvantage because they
are automatically written off as
being suitable for a job.

‘Items such as age and sex
should not appear on resumes,
she said.

And the phrase ‘‘salary
dependent upon qualifications”’
can result in lower pay for some
groups, Bretfeld added.

TERRACE ~People who
operate a home-based business
or those interested in starting
one are invited to an evening
session here Feb. 26.

It'll be conducted by Wendy
Kline of the provincial govern-
ment’s economic development,
small business and trade

jnistry.

he session begins at 7 p.m.

indi, the, training,and.enter prise...

céntre, located in the same com-
plex as the one that houses the
provincial access centre on the
comer of Eby and Lazelle. ~

More information can be had
by calling Elreen Toovey of the
local home-based business
group at 635-9415.

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There's a Simon Fraser
University student working in
the public relations section of
the highways ministry here.

Lisa Capitanio is on a four

month work term as part of

SFU’s co-operative education
program which provides
students with practical ex-
perience.

Capitanio is taking English as
a major and communications as
a minor at SFU.

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The B.C. Hazardous Waste
Corporation is sponsoring a
contest for: high school
StUGO@NtS vecnsjercrerce ci 4. poe
It'll give prizes for students
who come up with the best

- answer to the question: “What
are you, your family and your’

community doing..to~ reduce
hazardous. waste?”’

There’s a March 1 deadline
for submissions in any one of a
number of methods — artwork,
essay, photograph,
song, short story, poem, play,
video and so on.

Entries will be displayed at
Enviro-Expo, March 20-22 at
the Vancouver Trade and Con-

_vention Centre.

Entry forms have been sent to
schools or are available by con-
tacting the hazardous waste cor-
poration at 660-1177,

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The provincial government

Youth tackle
business life

TERRACE —Grade 11 and
Grade 12 students from around
the northwest are meeting here
Feb. 27 to learn more about
business.

The one-day effort is design-
ed to tell young people there is a
career in business, says one of
its organizers...

“Not a lot of. young people
think about starting their own
business. The conference is to
let them know it is a viable op-
portunity,” said Bob Walch of
the Federal Business Develop-
ment Bank.

The 125 .students from
Smithers, Hazelton, Kitimat,
Terrace, New Aiyansh and
Prince Rupert will take part. in

four workshops, have a chance *

to speak to young business peo-

ple and hear a guest speaker.
The four workshops are. on
sales and marketing, advertising
and promotion, identifying
business opportunities and
drawing up business plans.

. Walch said the day should:

provide information for
students to consider or give
them an idea of what they'll

study should. they pursue
business education after
graduation.

The guest speaker is Andy

"Jus; 23, who has started a bicy-

cle repair and sales business in
Vancouver.

Sponsors include federal and
provincial departments and
agencies, the Bank of Montreal,
the chamber of coramerce and
Pacific Northern Gas, |

HOW 7 TO BEA LOCAL HERO

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— 3

Wy ane

BE A BUSY BODY.

L ocal Heroes know that when the.need is there,
“even'thé busiest people have time to help:

A “They know that volunteering i is one ot life's
most rewarding, experiences, i

has set aside $500,000 for non-
profit groups wanting to do
forestry. public: awareness pro-
jects under its Green Gold

O° Srants program.’

The money, to a maximum
$15,000, is for projects such as
demonstration forests, putting
up signs, printing brochures and
pamphlets, audio visuals,
seminars, photographic ex-
hibits, posters and forestry driv-
ing tours.

There’s a Feb. 28 application
deadline. More information is
available at the provincial
government agent's office in the
access centre on the corner of
Eby and Lazelle or at the forest
district office here.

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Provincial government
employees have submitted a
record 630 suggestions on how
to save taX money.

‘Those suggestions have
already produced a $1.6 million
savings, says the province.

The Employee . Suggestion

Program in 1990 featured 77
employees sharing 64 cash
awards,

Those awards amount to 15
per cent of ihe savings from a
suggestion to a maximum
$25,000 for ideas which are
adopted,

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B.C. Tel’s consolidated earn-

ings for the last quarter of 1991
“were 54 cents a share, an in-

crease over the 49 cents a share
for the same period in 1990.
Earnings overall in 1991 were

$1.78 a share compared to $1.72°

a share the year before,

The company had 1.988.

million lines in service in 1991, a
four per cent increase over
1990.
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The Prince Rupert Port Cor-

poration isn’t increasing its:
tariff or harbour charges this.

year.
Corporation spokesman Don
Krusel said the freeze

‘demonstrates our on-going
commitment to our customers
and the need to remain sensitive
to market conditions.”

The port is owned by the
federal government and
operates several facilities in the
Prince Rupert area.

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