| BUSINESS REVIEW CYBERLAB: Northwest Community College has installed a new IBM PC computer lab servicing its business department. Using the new network are instructors Phil Blalobzyski and Lyle Widdifield, College adds new computers STUDENTS attending Northwest Community College this fall will have a chance to use the Terrace campus’ new IBM PC computer lab. It features 24 Pentium 133 Mhz computers networked together using the Windows NT operating system — $60,000 worth of hardware in all. . The machines replace the older 386 machines in the old computer lab. So far this year, NWCC has spent $150,000 upgrading its computer hardware. The new lab will be used mainly by business admin- istration and office administration students — and people enrolled in a new applicd computer technology program. That one-year certificate program will train students in a range of operating systems, networks and applica- tions, including Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Computer Assisted Design (CAD) and common business software. “Computers are tools which are now standard to every business and using them is an expected part of any job,” said program coordinator Phil Bialobzyski. management skills, communication skills, and com- puter skills, Computer skills and Internet users are still on an exponential rise. Let’s face it — computers are heré to stay.” ~ He said even students unsure what carcer path to take won’t go wrong upgrading their computer skills, Bialobzyski said they hope to offer the courses on evenings and weekends so people who already have jobs but who want to upgrade could participate in the program, The new lab is to rn Windows 95 and Microsoft OF fice, which the provincial government has set as its new standard. College technicians are working towards giving every computer on the campus access to the Internet. Buildings and offices there are now connected to serv- ers with fibre optic cable. “Employers are looking: for“thrée“primary.‘skills:—==):~ Daily ferry idea mulled the ship would be outfitted for a Canadian crew or whether a forcign crew would be used, B.C, FERRIES officials expect to know by Christ- mas whether north- westerners will get their wish for daily ferry service in the summer, , The Inside Passage run has been the focus of a con- certed lobby effort aimed at gelting the every-other-day Service switched to daily service, Locals think the change would pour more tourists into the northwest like turning on a tap. B.C. Ferries vice-president Capt, Tom Whelan con- firmed last week the corpo- ration is now looking seriously at the idea. “{t’s a logical request in that hotels are full one night and empty the next,’ he sald. But the only two vessels in the fleet capable of doing the run — the Queen of the North and the Queen of Prince Rupert — are fully engaged in the summer doing the Inside Passage and the Charlottes runs respeclively. Putting two boats on the Inside Passage run would require leasing another ves- sel from somewhere else. Whelan sald they have to first look at the potential traffic the extra sailings would bring and then determine the cost of cither leasing another ship or doing some kind of joint venture with an offshore company. “We are working up a business case to look at all those things,’’ Whelan said. “If it is viable we would probably go ahead with it. If it’s not viable we probably wouldn’t do it,”’ “The Queen of the North makes money in the sum- mer”? “he” added. ‘We wouldn’t want to expand to the degree that we lose money.’” Bringing in a foreign ves- sel to work under B.C. Fer- ries is a complicated matter, he added. The vessel would have to meet Canadian standards and regulations. There’s also questions of whether Out & About Stores shuffle around A FLURRY of aclivity is underway at the Lazelle Ave. Mini Mall as four new stores get set to move in. The strip mall right beside Northern Savings Credit Union will soon be home to Misty River Books, the “McBicycle Shop, Nyce Lady Dress and Bridal Shop, and the offices of the B.C. Government Employees Union. ; Misty River Books’ owner Anna Beddie says she's in the process of trying to sub-lease the bookstore’s Lakelse Ave. space. She said they'll move as soon as that happens, or else in January. - The new location will be slightly smaller, but Beddie says the retait portion will be the same. - Nyce Lady Dress and Bridal Shop is being started by Colleen Nyce. . She plans to carry a wide selection of designs fom around the world, and hopes to be open there by mid- September, ; , She also plans io offer bridal consulting services. She'll keep an inventory of people who offer wedding services in town — such as bands, choral singers, caterers and photog- raphers — and even help organize the special day. The B.C.G.E.U office is just moving down from the other end of the block, and strip mall owner Willy Wandl says he doesn’t yet have another tenant to fill that vacancy. GIVE SOMEONE A SECOND CHANCE. Discuss organ donation with your family and sign - a donor card today. "THE KIDNEY FOUNDATION OFCANADA ~ BURN SMART TO MINIMIZE AIR POLLUTION FROM YOUR WODDSTOVE: Don't burn on poor air-quality days, Your i woodsmoke wi ‘Gauss add significantly eee) to the problem, aca) particularly on Sao) days of caiat almosoheric GaGe inversions and still winds. A message from the BRITISH COLUMBIA LUNG ASSOCIATION tewer ramifications,”’ said. “It’s not as easy as Tunning a taxi service and bringing in an additional taxi on Saturday.” build an entire new ship for a mun that’s only needed five months of the year, he said. have to get our act together quickly,” Whelan added. Personally’ I think *97 might be a bit too ambitious. But I would think that by the end of this year we would have a good handle on whether it would be vi- able or not.”’ ready looking at, he said, is extending the operating sea- soo of the Queen of the North on the Inside Passage run by about two weeks at either end of the season, city councillors plan to go to the * Municipalities convention in mid-September and drive the message home that the daily service would be a tremendous boost for the northwest. over the top is political pres- sure,’? says Terrace eco- nomic developmeat officer Ken Veldman. 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