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The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, January 4, 1995 - A7

‘STANDARD.

European trip an eyeopener

Rina Gemeinhardt: . -

A TERRACE FORESTER has returned from a trip-‘to Germany as a kind of forestry ambassador.

Rina Gemeinhardt, operations forester for West Fraser here, was asked by the Canadian embassy in Bonn, Germany, to travel there io talk about B.C, forestry.

She spoke‘to ‘students, univer- sily professors and foresters in six citics during, the five-day tour of southwestern Germany.

During those presentations, it became clear. there were ‘sig- nificant gaps in her audicnces’ knowledge of British Columbia.

“B.C. is so much larger than Germany,’’ she said. “They had no concept of how huge it was,”’

Nor did they appreciate the sig- nificant difference in road sys- lems and the effect that had on logging methods.

In Germany, she pointed out,

there was an extensive network of roads with small distances be- tween each. That made it easier to practise --selective harvesting. ‘The infrastructure is already there.””

She therefore had to: get: ACIOSS...,

how comparatively few- and far

between the roads were in forest- .

ed areas here and just how much‘ road construction would have to take place to mimic the German network. _

Those at her presentations were also surprised by and interested in the amount of work that preceded the issuing of a cutting permit in

B.C. She pointed to the amount of..

for Germans and local forester

Other points the Germans were interested in included B,C.’s pro- cess for public participation, where native people fit in, and how the annual allowable cuts are determined.

While there were some ques-

tions about clearcutting, Gemein-

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work that. gocs into preparing a -

pre-harvest silvicultural prescrip- tion and the involvement of both the provincial environment minis- try and federal department of fisheries inthe process.

hardt said they weren’t of a tech- nical nature.

UThey, asked, whether I consider it morally wrong,” she said.

we ff ““How da you ariswer r that?”?

She said her response Was she wouldn’t be involved i d ins jhe Work she docs. if she considered it morally wrong, ;

‘However, Gemeinhardt empha-

‘sized, she didn’t hide the fact

‘mistakes had been made in the past.

“"Nobody’s perfect,”? she said. **We just have to lear from our mistakes and try to do better,”

Davis heads for Island

ministry’s’

THE NORTHWEST is losing its only ‘provincial industrial rela- tions officer.

Roger Davis, who works for the

_ provincia] Labovr ministry, is

transferring to Nanaimo to a new job with a new ministry this month. . -

-He’s going to be personnel ser- Vices: manager for the highways Vancouver Island region. “Over the years I've advised an awful lot of managers. My pur- pose was that managers do the right thing when it comes io workers,’’ said Davis."‘I wanted a chance in one environment to work within one proup of man- agers,’”’ he added.

Davis will be responsible for

personnel: m=§ervices for ~apploxie~—-

matély, 400 highways ministry employees.

He first came north in 1977 as a business’ agent for the B.C,

Government Employees Union.

He left that job after tuming down a transfer to Prince George and spent time with the Skeena Manpower Development .Com- mittee, worked for The Northern Times, a newspaper that’s now defunct, and was a cartoonist for the old Terrace Daily Herald. . Davis went south for a year of training with the labour ministry in 1982 and moved back in £983.

And as Davis prepares te leave, the labour ministry is beefing up ils northwest presence,

Kim Jolliffe, who now handles clerical duties, will be trained as

an employment standards as- -

sistant and work in that capacity for an initial six-month period. Somebody else will be brought in to-do-clerieal work. ad

And when a new nahi . tions, officer is.hired, it will nea three people on staff,

: Labour ministry official

Out & About

‘mecting..- = fund 8

New optometrist arrives

NEW TO the city is optometrist Dr. Michael Barlow from Whitehorse. He’s setling up practice right beside the new loca- tion of Benson Optical.

For the moment, Barlow will have one employee in addition to himself, He’s expected to open up for business the middle of January.

Locals go international

BLUE RIDGE Ventures has been elected to memibership i in the Screen Printing Association International.

The association has members in 102 nations and its objective is to promote recognition of the screen printing industry and to

_ provide members with a wide variety of technical, managerial

and educational information and services,

Blue Ridge Ventures was formed this year. from two local businesses and is under the overall ownership of Copperside Foods. The company specializes in screen graphics, signage, de-

sign and retail ware.

Creditors okay air plan

.. CREDITORS OF a northwest airline have approved a plan to - restructure its debt.

Smithers-based Central Mountain Air sought protection from creditors earlier this year after it accumulated debts of nearly $14 million to 130 businesses and government agencies,

It then spent the summer and fall trimming costs and in negoti- ations with creditors. Those creditors voted in favour of the

company plan Dec. 6 in Vancouver.

**We are extremely pleased by the responie we have received

, from our credilors,’”’ said company president Neil Blackwell.

| Angling fora compliment |

’ THE COMPANY doing road and bridge maintenance in this ‘area has made things a bit casier for winter fisherman.

Angler Stan Doil reports that a request to Nechake

- Northcoast Construction Services Ltd. to plow out the access - road to the Fisherman’s Park boat ramp was acted upon m quietly

last week. Doll adds that the winter fishing is good this season.

Co-op earnings a. record

FEDERATED Co- -operatives Ltd, owned by 300 retail co- _ operatives including the Terrace Co-op Association, has

reported record earnings of $123 inillion on sales of $1.923 bil- lion for the year ending Oct, 31, ‘Federated Co-op senior vice president Al Robinson noted thal

~ earings help retail co-operatives pay down debt. While Feder-

ated Co-op" s year end is Oct. 31, the Terrace. Co-op’ Ss year end doesn’t happen until Jan. 31 and Y Il be early spring. before the

- books are audiled and the association holds its annual’ ‘general

-But Terrace Co-op manager Ed. Bemey did say the co-op has

been steadily reducing its overall debt over the past two years;

Corinne Deshaw said the increase in staffing is a recognition of case loads in the northwest and new responsibilities because of

changes coming next year to the —

Employment Standards Act.

But the increase also retums the labour ministry office to the num- ber of staff it had until last year.

At that time there were two in- dustrial zelations officers on duty but one was transferred to Van- couver Island.

When the transfer took place, labour ministry officials said they would review the move and make changes if needed.

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~ FRASER RIVER. SOCKEYE ~ _ PUBLIC REVIEW BOARD |

PUBLIC NOTICE

The Public Review Board has been appointec!to examine man- agement of the Fraser River sockeye. The Board’s main objectives are: ‘to identify the reason(s) for the discrepancies in the expected and actual number of sockeye salmon arriving onthe spawning grounds *to evaluate the accuracy of the Pacific Salmon Commission’s methodology for estimating run sizes and sockeye escapement in the fraser River

* to make recommendations on how any deficlencies can be corrected, beginning in 1995, a

Areport must be presented to the Minister of Fisheries and Oceans by February 28, 1995. ; The Board will hold the following public meetings: . o: January 9, 1995 in Prince Rupert at the Best Western Highliner Inn from 9:00 am - 12:00 noon and from 1:30 pm to 4:30 pm; January 12, 1995 in Williams Lake at the Overlander Motor Inn from 9:00 am - 12 noon and from, 1:30 pm (04:30 pm. os Interested persons or groups are invited to make presentalions: to the Board with respect to any of the inatlers within its mandate. Written briefs are preferred but oral’ presentations: may be accepted. Please advise the Board as soon as possible of your intent to: : appear. Written briefs will be welcomed and should be received by’ January §, 1995. Your briefs should be addressed tothe: ‘Bxecutive’ Director at the address below and should be limited to 20 pages. > Further public meetings will be held from time to lime andin - various places as the Board’s work proceeds and these meetings will be advertised. To find out more about participating inthe Board’ s- review, call our toll-free information line: ”

L 800-591-9299 | or write:

Sheila-Marie Cook, Executive Director: _

Fraser River Sockeye Public Review Board 650 - 580 Hornby Street, Vancouver, B.C. V6C 3B6. Phone: (604) 666-4665 Fax (604) 666-4666

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