A6 - The Terrace Standard, Wednesdav. March 29. 1995 Out & About Carpet store set to open A CARPET AND vinyl clearance warchouse is about to open in the old Liquor Store location. Craig and Stephanie Wales hope to open their End of the Roll store franchise there around mid-April. There are 17 other franchises in B.C, and Alberta, “‘All the product is carried in stock,” Craig Wales explained, adding the buying power of the franchise should help them offer competitive prices, Wales has been in Terrace three years and. has been either selling or installing Mooring for the last seven years. P.G. firm adds Terrace outlet A PRINCE GEORGE-based wholesale heating and refrigera- tion firm has decided to open a northwest branch in Terrace. MTR Controls Ltd. hopes to be open by April 17th, although the grand opening likely won’t be until May 5, says manager Dwayne Harvey. Stock has arrived at the warehouse, located at the back end of the Home Hardware build- ing owned by Dave McKeown. Local manager Craig Allen and three staff will sell wholesale heating, refrigeration, air con- ditioning and control components. “We've done quite a bit of business up there in the past,’ Harvey said. ‘We felt it was war- ranted with the amount of busi- ness we were doing there to get a little closer to the customer and service the area a little better.” Harvey also had praise for city hall staff, who he said helped rather than hindered the compa- ny’s expansion efforts. “The rest of the province could lake an example from the City of Terrace,”’ he said. Fair features home business HOME-BASED businesses will be showcased here in Terrace on Saturday, April 8th at the arena banquet room. Elreen Toovey says there’s still plenty of tables left for the annual Home-Based Business Fair. Signed up for this year’s fair are home entrepreneurs selling every- thing from books and gourmet popcorn, to floral services and , computer consulting. To book a table, call Elreen Toovey at 635-9415, Pet groomer set to open A NEW PET-GROOMING business is opening up at 4450-C Greig Ave near Chimo Delivery. Muttly Crew Pet Grooming is being slarted by Lorraine Moth, who moved here from Whitehorse a year and a half ago. She plans to groom dogs and cals and is aiming to open in ear- ly April. She'll also offer some grooming aides, gift ware and other “‘doggie-related ware,"’ Moth says the Muttly Crew name is her attempt to take the clitist image out of pet grooming, which she says brings to mind “rich eccentric little old ladies with while fluffy dogs.”’ Her philosophy is dogs that don’t smell nice often aren’t petted or treated right, and end up ostracized members of the family. The term ‘motley crew’ is an old expression for a varied group of people, she adds, **That’s really what it’s about,”’ Moth says. ‘I’m going to do all kinds of dogs — big or small, mutt or pedigreed — because everybody deserves to be clean,’’ To hard rock music fans, the name also conjures up images of bad boy rock band Motley Crue. Moth is working that angle as well. Her window features a poster of a punked up bull terrier sporting a studded black leather jacket and earring. @ Air tight BRIAN BADGE applies gasket before laying gyproc In an - R2000 energy-efficient home being built‘on Gordon Rd. by the Skeana branch of the Canadian Homebuilders Associ- ation as a fundraiser for thé organization. The alrtight drywall system includes gasketing, drywall and special in- terior paint and aids in making the home energy efficient. There will be an open house to show off the results when the house is finished. BETTY BARTON PHOTO ‘shore of the Skeena should finally - river from the highway side to the Old Kitselas to power up A DOZEN HOMES on the old Kitselas access road on the north get clectricity this year, B.C. Hydro customer service area manager Jim Husk said an “uneconomic extension” . of power to the area is approved. The special program involves subsidized extensions of power under special circumstances, and require approval of Hydro’s board of directors. A series of permits still have to be approved and residents have to come up with a share of the costs, but Husk expects the project will go ahead without a hitch and con- struction to begin this summer, **The plan Is to come across the Teserve and to serve Kitselas IR #4 and the private residences,”’ Husk explained. Highways ministry plans to im- prove the Kitselas access road to that area depend on the ministry first buying the right-of-way to the first. several kilometres of road outside city boundaries, _TERRACE STANDARD BUILDING Code quirk could quell construction BUILDING A house ia northern B.C. will cost a whole lot more if a controversial new interpretation of the B.C. Building Code isn’t blocked. The change is aimed at forcing “monster’? homes and specialty houses to be designed and ap- proved by cither an cagineer or architect. The goal is to give Lower Mainland building inspectors more teeth in dealing with prob- lem homes, Terrace senior build- ing inspector Paul Gipps said. Ii’s not intended to apply to normal houses. But because of the stricter snow load requirements in the north, the new interpretation will apply to literally anything built here, Gipps said. “Houses, garden sheds, the whole bit,’’ he said. That would jack the cost of an average home by several thou- sand doliars, Gipps said, and send a chill through the northwest house-building industry, “it’s really going to affect the building community,” Gipps predicted. “But it’s not going to affect them at least until next year —and hopefully not atall. We're going to fight it all the way.”’ TOLSEC Telecommunications 3974 Old Lakelse Lake Road f YOUR COLLEGE IN YOUR COMMUNITY If building inspectors in the north ignored the guidelines, he added, they’d be personally negligent, and the city would be exposed to liability. Gipps predicted the extra cost would be $5,000 for the simplest design, and that’s if it could be done locally. Travel costs would greatly in- flate that figure if an architect or engineer had to be brought in from. out of town. The interpretation -—- jointly reached by several professional associations — will become part of the municipal affairs ministry's next building cade guidelines. 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