Our Flaherty flattery Terrace: hockey: hero: wins ‘MVP. at AHE: Calder Cup after leading team to win. \SPORTS. ci Our first: federal candidate profiles. are here. and. ‘Benham. and’ Burton are up. to bat \NEWS 4 AS” Candidates _ Leith’ 5 Liver oar é The: Neifers: thank: Terrace. after their 16-month: old. son gets. a liver. transplant Bo - $1.00 Plus 7¢°GST 07 ($200 plus.8¢ GST. = outside of the Terrace area) i ‘ tte | Regional jobless rate goes up _ ‘per cen. The rate makes the northwest: " regian the. worst economic performer if the province. Second: on, the list-is - the Cariboo witha. stated unemploy.. a But MLA Harris, chamber president. see a. turnaround ment rate of 13 per cent. /. Mayor Jack Talstra . provides: his annual state of ‘the-city address. | ‘For’ ‘that. - Story see @ Page Al2. : ‘May 2004. a . Nationally, . the: ‘only: province. in THE PROVINCIAL economy, spurred... worse shape* than -the northwest is by housing ‘Starts and sales in -the-more ~ Newfoundland which -has: a: posted. uns populated southern’ areas and! thé-al-: .. employinent rate- of. 16: 5 per. cent. lure -of ‘the: 2010 Winter’-Olympics, Within:B.C.; Victoria has. the: low. may be growing. but that’ s not. the- case st" unemployment rite. at 4.4 per-cent © in the northwest..." ~while‘it@is.7.2, per cent ‘in ‘the lower —- Latest stats: “accumulated ‘by: Statis- ~ mainland, “The: northeast; bolstered. by ties Canada and: federal: employment “oil ‘and. gas, has: an unemployment: Tate ... officials show ‘tinémployment: grew ~ of 6.3. per cent.: a over last year. as the Population LOM May’ 's. northwest ‘Tale’ of. 143- ner’ tinues to drop. * - -eent-i is. an_ increase. from April's: 43, 9 _ The ainemployttient. rate- is now’ ‘ist-" per. cent and ‘Marcli’s 13 percent... ed at 14.5 per.cent for May, nearly...” In May 2003; the northwest's. unem- . double the provincial average of 7,9: : ployment. rate v was: A 2 per cent. * CHRIST LUTHERAN congregation member Gordon Watmough stretches to brush on the final touches as he and other church members re-painted the church’s outside trim fast week. It's being done just-in time for Christ Lutheran’s 50th. anniversary: celebration. this: Sunday. ‘Church notes 50 years. with service this Sunday. MEMBERS. ‘OF ‘Christ: ‘Lutheran Church here and: ‘guests. ‘pather June: 20° “fora morning . Service. celebrating, its 50th anniversary. Founded primarily” ‘by! ‘people : of: - German and‘ Norwegian. ‘background _ Christ Lutheran-is, located on the c cor * er of Park and. Sparks.” Food and: ‘resentallons: will the service... ra : “The church: also has a new: “pastor, “Margaret Powell,’ who: was’ ‘officially: ; - installed: June 13.. “ a VAn. ‘Anglican, Powell divides “her ime. between Christ Lutheran here and ( hrist. Chure Anglican in:Kitimal:A © ' Powell » was, _ Stewie B 1B othe federal fi igureé ‘apply to ‘foughly, A the area-from: Vanderhoof. west to the: © Queen. Charlotte. Islands and. uP. to" the. “Yukon border. °~ a ” "Phe . statistics also. ‘indigate a “cole ni tinuing decline - in: “the: ‘population . year from’ 73,300: people im May: 2003 -to’ period. ; a Across :B.C., the ‘otal | for: the. same 72, 300-in! “May: 04.’ That. compares’ to three month, ‘period was more than $2.8 van: overall rise inthe provincial -popu-*- “-Jation from '3.355- million in May 2003 .. “(9 3.404 million in May. 2004. Provincial stalistics.’ also: ‘indicat a - ‘then number: ‘af people working. overall ° Northwest reviv al repoR "sentatives, ein o Proposals and requests | for everything from t more roads “up. north to more: power’ up. ‘north to: help: with Prince Rupert’s port potential came up atthe’s that burned -and 35 firefighters | were aa Krumm Road June 10. ‘the time’ firefighters got . _ Thursday, afternoon, lucky,” said: provincial: for- - est service fire officer. Kaz week ‘slow: the | spread: of. _ the fire. “week ago,” said Kopec.: “It “died pretty quickly when it~ : * soutee for the’ blaze hasn't. “positively. determine the ". - Gause of fires like:this. one. * _ see, ‘someone: Jimatch., ta: “know. for. ‘sure,’ - said Kopec.. i “Rife Department:.was. the, first on the scene and was: “Statistics Canada - thal ‘of. last:year. : readied » 'SKEENA. LIBERAL MLA Roger Harris hopes: to havea - blueprint for’ the northwest’ s-economic revitalization. for. Premier Gordon: Campbell: by. mid summer. It'll build on. information: given’ to the: premier "at ‘the: ~ mini economic summit. ‘here: ‘in’ May, ‘Harris said: last’ week, . ““It's:a raatter ‘of ‘what 8 working and iow we. lake the : next step,” said the MLA whois also the provincial gov. ve ermment's forest’ ‘operations ministers: Those at the session - ‘included regional’ industrial crown “corporation, native, civic: and educ cA “It was. preity exciting. There. was a:lot of. sharing lot of these people fh had not talked | to each other: before,” , . said Harris. : The’ session, comes: at'.a, time: “when the northwest a -ecoflomy continues”. to lag - substantially behind activity in the-rest of the province, - 7 Haris said the: challenge: is ‘Ww: find: industries that ha ven! ‘t existed before: and which will: ‘help ‘wean th ‘area. ~ from an overdependence upon traditional. {arge scale for~ . est industry: Operators. THREE HELICOPTERS needed: to calm: a blaze in a 40 hectare cut block off About 2.5: hectares had’ ; been charred and: smoke filled the nearby’ area: by. the’ fire -under- -control _ “We were actually Kopec, explaining ‘that the ‘rain. the area’ received last “Its, _ good, it. wasn "t ‘a hit the standing. timber.” -Kopec. says. while . the “been. deterthiiied,. it was: ROCKY DOAN ol the Ki definitely, man:coused. . ~ He ‘that it's difficult: to is rising — from 2.002 million aeople in May 2003.10 2,032 million: people in: The. May: 2004 ‘unemployment. figs. : “- ures come ‘at -a-time when’ niuinerous °.. “commercial and - industrial’ sectors are "> reporting” an: increase. in’ “business: in. other-parts: of the: province. ed ‘more than’ $1 § billion i in building permits’ were. issued 4 in. the lower main: billign,-an: increase oF 28 per cent: over oi - 416 * Kopec ‘estimated: ‘the.