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_ YOUR HOMETOWN LOCALLY

Vol. 4, Issue No. 36.

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| TERRACE, B.C., WEDNESDAY, September 7, 1988

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Parliament Buildings,
Victoria, B.C.

TERRACE — The B.C. govern-
ment has given approval in prin-
ciple to the bid entered by Ken-
tron Construction of Kitimat to
take over maintenance of high-
ways and bridges in the Terrace
Highway District for the next
three years,

Privatization working group
coordinator Peter Clark said
yesterday that details of the
agreement will not be revealed
until the contract is finalized.
Further negotiations are ex-
“pected to go on until the end of

the month, with Kentron assum-
ing the maintenance work before
the end of October. Clark also
declined to comment on the
dollar value of the contract, the
cost-- comparison figures the
group is using, and which equip-
ment and assets will be leased or
liquidated.

_The Ministry of Highways

‘| fer’ employment to all 33
Highways workers in the district

Tina Knull goes through the paces durin;
event-at the annual Totem Saddle Club
conjunction with the Skeena Valley Fall

Fall Fair trophy winners are listed on page 3 of this issue.
For more coverage of this and other events, see next

> who are affected by the agree-
the pole bending ment, retaining them in their
ymkhana, held in current jobs with the same rate
Fair last Sunday. of pay and benefits. Kentron
also agreed to accept the B.C.
Government Employees Union

week’s edition.

as bargaining agent for the

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Thanks to a $500 donation by Canada Safeway, local 4-H members will have a 12-by-14 foot show office at the
Thornhill Community Grounds for the next year’s events and Fall Fair, The office will provide space for announc-”
‘Ing, recording and paperwork and wiil be located at the 4-H show ring. Pictured above (in real} with several 4-H
youn sters are Safeway butcher Steve Foley, 4-H Council president Kathy Tycho and Terrace Safaway manager

tic Johanson.

NED AND OPERATED NEWSPAPER

| Kentron gets nod
highways takeover

50 CENTS

for

workers.

Peter Wightman, r
manager for Terrace highways,
said between 18 and 20 employ-
ees will continue to work for the
government in the local district.
They include the ferry operator
at Usk and administrative,
clerical, engineering and
management personnel. -

Some of the remaining High-
ways staff will also have the
function of monitoring
Kentron’s performance to en-
sure maintenance standards fol-
low government issued guide-
lines. Wightman says the local
district has received the
guidelines from Victoria.

Lloyd Scott, manager for

continued on page 3

New mall

gistseesz® planned —
downtown

The Terrace Shopping
Centre, home to Safeway,
Woolworths and several
other retail stores, could be
replaced by a new $5 mil-

‘lion mall as early as next
year, according to Skeena-

Okanagan Holdings real
estate vice president Bob
Guy of Kelowna. He says
that the new mall only
needs city council’s ap-
proval to proceed and it
will add an attractive shop-

' ping area to the city, hav-.

ing a ‘‘very strong impact”’
on the downtown core.
Guy said plans are only in the
preliminary stage at this point,
but he ‘indicated that the in-
vestors’ group envisions a new

“l-§0,000 square foot mall
_ stretching from Emerson St. to
‘the edge of their property by the

Skeena Mall. He added that the

- building could involve spanning
~ Ottawa St. and that the focal

point of the new mall is going to
be a community center available
to community organizatioris on
a rental basis.

The Skeena-Okanagan group
first showed an interest in the

-tedevelopment last May when
' they began a two-year study into

the feasibility of the project. At
that time, board chairman Fred
Weber said that Skeena-
Okanagan had faith in the
economic future of the North-

_ west, but it was expected to be at
least a year before anything
would happen.

Construction is now expected

to begin next spring.

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