A12- The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, June 26, 2002.

TERRACE STANDARD

Business REVIEW

Gitxsan recoil at price for SCI Carnaby mill

GITXSAN leaders say they remain inter- ested in buying Skeena Cellulose’s Car- naby sawmill and its connected forest li- cences near the Hazeltons.

But they say they're not prepared to pay an outlandish price to buy the mill from new owners NWBC Timber and Pulp.

“We're nat crazy, not desperate,” said Gitxsan chief negotiator Elmer Derrick.

He said NWBC Timber and Pulp pre- sident Daniel Veniez has indicated he wants more than $6 million to sell Carna- by and its forest licences alone.

“That’s more than what he paid for the whole set of assets,” Derrick noted, add- ing Veniez has indicated he wants $30 million for the entire operations.

Derrick said most of Carnaby’s value is in its forest licences, which have a total current allowable annual cut of around 600,000 cubic metres.

He said the Gitxsan are willing to pay “fair market value” for SC¥’s mill,

That means some fraction of the $6 million purchase price NWBC paid for the operations, he indicated.

“It might be $1 million,” he said. “It certainly can’t be more than $2 million with the volume that they have there,”

“Our position has been that we want to buy all the forestry assets in our area,” he added, “We would still like to have a say in what happens in the forest economy and we'd like to have a hand in stabiliz- ing it.”

Derrick also said the Gitxsan are inter- ested in potentially taking over some of the forests ministry’s work in the Hazel- tons area now that the ministry has deci- ded to close down its district office there.

He said the Gitxsan could be the con- tractor in a private-public partnership to manage forests in the region if Victoria was interested,

That would also fit the long-term Gitx- san goal of achieving co-management of resources within their traditional territory.

TERRACE'S FINEST first aiders showed they can keep their cool in a crisis al the recent provincial first aid championships in Surrey. The Terrace team, called the Exterminators, nabbed first i in the field scenario and second overall.

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TERRACE’S FINEST first aiders broke out their bandages and splints and came out with top honours at the recent June 15 provincial first aid championships in Van- couver

The Terrace Exterminators first aid team, sponsored by Northern Hearing and Safety Training, was the only team in B.C. to place in more than one category.

Captain Jill Lawrence, Carey Bogart, Jingles Dauphinee, Mary Murphy and Coach Wendy Schmidt nabbed first place in the field scenario and came out second overall.

The competition, sponsored by the Workers’ Compensation Board (WCB), tested emergency response skills through

a variety of dramatic scenarios.

Accident simulations appeared almost eerily real, with the “injured” covered in blood stains and bits of protruding bone.

One of the more complicated scenarios the Exterminators faced was an accident that occurred while an emergency vehicle lost control while transporting a pregnant woman to a hospital.

The Exterminators whipped into ac- tion, racing against the clock to correctly treat the driver’s bloody head injury, an- other passenger’s fractured wrist and the pregnant woman’s abdominal pain.

This year marked the 45th Annual WCB First Aid Competition and saw top teams from seven different zones attend.

Chamber selects exec

REALTOR SHEILA Love has been elec- ted president of the Terrace and District Chamber of Commerce.

Love, elected by acclamation June 20 at the chamber’s annual general meeting, takes over for Betty Barton, who is just about to complete her one-year term as president.

The chamber's outgoing president said she hoped to remain an active presence in the business organization.

Barton wants to continue lobbying in

favour of the Kemess road proposal — and better signage in Terrace 10 make it eas- ier for tourists to find their way around town,

Chamber of commerce directors elec- ted to two year terms are: treasurer Terri McPhee, Dave Martin, Doug Johnson, Diana Wood, Wil Sigurdson, Ron Storey, Kevin Jeffery and Charlie Graydon,

Three new directors were elected, too: Bert Husband, Clarence Nyce and Julie Seigel.

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