Out & About TERRACE STANDARD ~Busingess REvIEw Canadian Tire eyes Prince Rupert CANADIAN TIRE officials say they’re considering operting a store in Prince Rupert. - “We're exploring a couple of different sites, to be honest,-in the market,” Canadian Tire develop- ment coordinator Trent Holfield told the Prince Rupert Daily News last week. He called the company’s inquiries pretiminary but added Canadian Tire has discussed the idea of coming to the port city with city administration there for about a year. Holficld said the city wanted a downtown site, but the corporation has decided it would require a larger peice of land out of the downtown. Offers. by a Vancouver real estate firm on var- ious Prince Rupert properties sparked the latest talk of the big box store setting up shop. Afier its successful opening in Terrace in 1997, Canadian Tire opened a new store in Smithers. How to spot a fake THE CHAMBER of Commerce will host a work- shop on counterfeit detection for local businesses next month. The Bank of Canada counterfeit workshop is to Tun the morning of May 10, Organizers promise it will be hands on and help show staff how to spot differences between real and fake currency and other items. Contact the chamber ai 635-2573 for morc info. Building pace slows NEW BUILDING permits worth $350,000 were is- sued in March by the City of Terrace. That was barely half the new construction star- ted in the same month of 2000. But construction approved to date is al $2.2 million so far for 2001. That’s more than double last year’s tally to the same point, largely on the strength of the Real Ca- nadian Wholesale Club expansion now underway. _ More people flying. AIRPORT passenger traffic is up 10 per cent for the first quarter of 2000, according to manager Rick Reed. Just over 22,550 people flew in and out of Ter- race in the first three months of the year, up from 20,488 for the same months of 2000. The numbers translates directly into revenue. The airport stopped charging airlines fees based on size and weight of planes, and now ties fees to actual numbers of passengers travelling. Rit riba Petarh ALL & LEVOLOR PRODUCTS | % LEVOLOR HAS NEVER BEEN THIS AFFORDABLE HURRY! SALE ENDS 12 3567 8 9404112191415 1017 . BAE-146s used to fly into this airport up until early 1999, Canadian Regional Airlines is bringing the jet back for at least the summer and possibly longer. Bigger jet on horizon Air B.C. brings back Bae-146 A LARGER passenger jet will be flying into the Ter- race airport starting in May. Canadian Regional Air- lines, which is phasing out its older 55-seat Fokker F- 28 jets now used here, says it will switch to the bigger British Aerospace Bae-146 jets on the Ter- tace-Vancouver Tun. The plane has 76 seats, eight of which are business class. “We're very pleased ta be offering the added ca- pacity for the summer per- iod between Vancouver and Terrace,” said Cana- dian Regional spokesman Dennis Ericson. The larger jets, which have been used in the past in Terrace, will complete- ly replace F-28s here by the third week of May, he said, and some flights may use the Bae-146s sooner. Ericson said no changes in planes are planned for Prince Rupert or Smithers. The airline had indica- ted it might switch to Dash-8 turboprop planes on this run after the Fokkers are sold. Ericsan said they'll re- examine route needs after the summer. Bae-146s overshot the runway in Terrace twice, once in January 1999, and once five years earlier. In both incidents the plane, which does not have reverse braking thrus- ters, landed with the wind rather than against it. Investigators who probed the 1999 incident ruled wind-shear increased the speed of the Air B.C. jel as it was descending, causing it to touch down faster and further down the runway than planned. Because the mountains were obscured by cloud the crew chose to land ra- ther than pull up and abort, the report said. The plane landed half- way down the runway and the lack of reverse thrus- ters meant if couldn't slow down fast enough, causing it to overshoot the runway by 400 feet. Nobody was injured. Within two months of the overshoot, Air B.C. re- placed the Bae-146s here with Dash-8 turboprop planes. ; The company said:not enough people were flying to justify the larger jets. ‘DAYS ONLY | Thurs, & Soturday® “April 12 &:14 The Terrace Standard, Wecinesclay, April 11, 2001 - A James Ww, Radelet RADELET & COMPANY aarristers & Solicitors Tax Law © Trusts * Corporate & Commercial 13253 - 1075 West Georgia Street, Vancouver, B.C. 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