Out & About Mega clinic breaks ground WAYNE WATSON Construction is to begin breaking ground this week for the new Park Avenue Medical Centre, In all more than 20 doctors and specialists are expected to move into the centre from existing clinics around town, said Dr. Bill Redpath. And although work has begun, Redpath said it hasn’t been de- cided yet whether the building will be five storeys or four. They should know by late this week’ whether a physiotherapy clinic will join, he said, and that would make a fifth Moor possible. Confirmed to move into the new centre are Omineca Medical Laboratories, now located off Greig Ave, and Northem Healih Care, That outlet, owned by Northern Drugs, will add a dispensing pharmacy in the lower floor of the centre. Redpath said they’re also build- ing space into it for an X-ray de- partment, but they still meed to ar- range government approvals, About 12 general practitioners are expected to occupy the centre, when it’s finished carly next year. Specialists include two internal medicine specialists, two ab- stetrician/gynecologisis, a psychologist, an car-nose-throat specialist, and an opthamotogist who is expected to arrive here from Ottawa in September. Dr. Martin Van Lierde’s audiol- ogy clinic, Northwest Hearing Services Ltd, will also be moving in. Also planned for the centre is a gourmet coffee bar opeiated by James Sprenger. Strip mall sold THE STRIP MALL that houses Fields, Superior Video, and Fabricland has changed hands. Local businessman Mo Takhar has bought the two-acre downtown property from Okanagan-Skeena Group. The parcel also includes the CIBC building and the End of the Roll carpet store (former Liquor Store), Takhar said last week he has plans to carry out some improve- ments to the property, but said no major changes are contemplated, Record exports B.C. COMMODITY exports hit an ali-time high in March, Goods valued at a record $2.29 billion were shipped from B.C, that month — a 19,7 per cent in- crease over February, The first three months of 1995. are up nearly 25 percent from the same period in 1994, Pacific Rim exports led the way, up a dramatic 53.1 per cent over the same period a year ago. Going on-line THE YELLOW PAGES are going on-line, Dominion Directory, the com- pany that produces the B.C. Tel Yellow Pages, has waveiled plans to make its directory available on the Internet through the World Wide Web by Suly. Computer users with a direct Internet connection cam use a mouse to click from site to site on the World Wide Web. The company says its web site will give on-line users electronic access — including keyword searches — to its directories, And it will give business clients, particularly those who want to be part of the web but don’t have the know-how, an on- line presence, Regular Yellow Pages clients will automatically get a listing on the web site, and they'll have ap- tions to offer expanded informa- tion — inciuding even photog- raphs and sound — or to link to their own web home page. “The fundamental way we organize and deliver infonnation is changin,’ said Dominion’s Richard Sharman, ‘‘Although there will always be need for tele- phone directories in printed form, our CD ROM and Internet pro- ducts will be able to micet the needs.”’ oe ; oH i? : PUSHING THE student job Ay message in the guise of the pink panther last week was the Canada Employment Centre for ™ a Spee. Pot gn Students' Liza Haldane and Carolyn Livadney, CHAMBER OF COMMERCE Jobs Students SO FAR THE student job scene is looking promising, says Liza Haldane of the Canada Employe- ment Centre for Students, Forty-seven job orders came in for students during May and by the end of last week, they’d al- ready hit 30 in June. “Thal’s pretty good,’ said Haldane, noting that although June is their busiest month for mtatching students with employers, the numbers are still up substantially from last year, “I think a lot of the students are finding jobs but some of them are still wandering sround out there,”’ she said. Most of the work is casual, not full-time. Pay averages $8 or $9 ai hous, Haldane said, Most student jobs are minimum wage, she added, noting It’s just the higher paying manual labour jobs up around $10 an hour that bring up the average. Some students are willing to take anything. And the ones that aren’t are not being realistic, Businesses awarded CENTRAL GIFTS’ Sharalyn Palagian is 1995’s Business Executive of the Year in Ter- race. The Terrace and District Chamber of Commerce an- nounced the winners of its ex- panded business awards last Thursday. Palagian bought the gift store from Sheila Jackson. in 1989 and has made the store a thriv- ing business, oo Two new award ‘categories: were added this year. wee The first ever Contributor to the Aris award goes to Marilyn Kerr, president of Sight and Sound Music Inc. Kerr has been involved with the Pacific Northwest Music Festival, music clinics in areas schools, was regional coor- dinator for Music Fest Canada, and was president of Terrace Little Theatre for three years. 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