Page 2, Tha Herald, Wednesday, September 12, 1979

Terrace trade tour a success |

BY DON SHAFFER Herald Staff Writer

The Pacific Northwest has long complained that the Lower Mainland's financial moguls have ignored the area, Now , they may no longer have any reason to complain. Monday the Terrace-Kitimat area was visited by a delegation from the Vancouver Beard of Trade, which was making a swing through the northern area of the province ex- Ploring economic and In- dustrial opportunities. The visit to Terrace-Kitimat was the first event on a five-day

_ itenerary, and according to Terrace, Kitimat, Prince _

Rod Cox, president of the Terrace and District

Chamber of Commerce , the .

affalr appeared to be a SUCCESS,

“The majority of the people who came seemed to be very impressed with the area, and especially the way the area has been developed, " Cox said. I don’t think any of them really realized how well developed the area Is, and Lf we've alerted anyone to the area’s possibilities, then we've spent our time

The visit and tour was part of “Exploration North 79,"’ a five-day sawing through

Rupert, Prince George, Fort St. John, Dawson Creek, tehorse and Fort Nelson.

¢ trip has an exhausting schedule , during which the group is liable to develop a bad case of travel numbness, “We were fortunate to be at the beginning of the tour, * said Cox. “After a while, all the places they are going are liable to run together.” The Board of Trade delegation was composed of a select group of executives, The tour membership llat included . an honorary chairman, nine company presidents, twa vice- presidents, two general sales managers, a national sales

manager, a B,C, government representative and a City of Vancouver representative, as well as consulting engineers and industrial sales people. ; The purpose of the tour is to provide the members of the Board of Trade with an increased awareness of the economic activities of the communities which they gia and the areas which ey serve. The group hopes to establish communication with the communitles and industrial centres of Norhtern B.C. and the Yukon, and to develop a better understanding of the people and their way of life.

“~The tour arrived at the

Terrace-Kitimat Airport at 6:45 am. and were then given a bus tour of the Terrace-Kitimat corridor area, stopping at Skoglund Hotsprings and the DuBose Viewpoint to get an idea of what this area had to offer. The group, which also in- cluded members of Terrace and Kitimat municipal governments, prominent area businessmen and representatives from the Kitimat -Stikine Regional districts, was split into two buses, The tour of the Corridor area and Kitimat was led by Den Stewart, Kitimat municipal planner ,

. and Kitimat administrative

assistant Adrian Jones,

From the viewpoint , the tour went te Kitimat to look at the golf course, From the golf course, the buses went through the service centre toward Alcan. While the buses were atopped at Alcan, Kitimat mayor George Thom presented the delegates with gifts from the Kitimate chamber of Commerce, and he was presented with a gift from the delegation.

The buses then toured the Eurocan dock, looked at the

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service centre industrial sites, and then cruised around the ' Riverlodge Recreation Centre. The delegatys next looked at the City Centre Expansion and Arena construction site, After a brief drive around the upper level of the city, through the Nechako neigh- borhood, the group left Kitimat and headed back toward Terrace and a lun- cheon put on jointly by the Terrace Chamber of Com- merce and Alcan.

During the luncheon in the Skeena Room at the Terrace

Hotel, the delegation was.

welcomed to Terrace, and Rod Cox was presented with a plague for the Chamber of Commerce.

The delegation left the Terrace Hotel at 1:30 p.m. and drove past Caledonia Senior Secondary School and the R.E.M. Lee Theatre. The buses on the Terrace leg of the tour were hosted b Rod Cox and Alderman Bo Cooper.

After Lee , the buses went up Lanfera Hill and up past the Northwest Community College. The group was treated to a drive around the campus, after which they backtracked past Uplands Primary School and down Halliwell to the Skeena View Ledge Intermediate ood Home. Then groups stop) there and enjoyed | the view from the corner of Kalum and Munthe and then went

‘down Kalum to the Arena and Poo] Complex.

The buses were separated, at which time one bus went

the Pohle Lumber Sawmill, and the other went

to the top of Kalum Lake |

Road Hill and viewed the Price-Skeena Forest Products sawmill. The buses. then met at the Terrace Municipal Office, where they were shown the

the pass by REM.

Borrie, Honorary Chairman of Pemberton Securities Limited, said he was im- pressed with the prosperous atmosphere in the Terrace- Kitimat area, and the “range of development throughout.”

“I'm amazed at the amount of land still left in

. timber between Terrace and

Kitimat, and at how wide open the area is."

Thetour arrangers tried to get the group exposed to as

’ great a range of industries

and development as they could be, and they were successful in dolng that,However, this strategy proved frustrating at some points in the tour for certain members of the delegation

Kas Tazawa, industrial director of Nican Trading Company, was frustrated at one point by not being able to get.a cloge look at the. Price. Skeena mill.

“It would have been nice to get in there and have a look at the mill," he said.

Rod Cox acknowledged that this was a hit of a problem, but to get everyone in and out of the buses several times In the course of the afternoon would have delayed proceedings con- siderably. “It is a shame that they couldn’t have taken

~’ a bit more time at the places

we saw, or gotten cut a few

more times, buthadwe done {YPe

that they wouldn't have been able to see half the things that they did.”

All in all , the local businessmen and public officials were quite satisfied with the results of the tour . . Judy Jephson, from Park Avenue Realty in Terrace, said, “This type of thing can do nothing but good for the community,”

“If we make an Impression on only one of these people then the whole effort has been a success, When these

Beer taken seriously

By TOM HENEGHAN

FREISTADT, Austria (Reuler) — The people of Freistadt decided more than two centuries ago that thelr beer was far too Important to be left to the brewers.

The 149 houseowners within the medieval walls of° this northern Austrian town founded a communal brewery in 1777, forbidding all other beer brewing in the area and making themselves the directors of the town's most prominent industry.

Now, 202 years and gener: ations of small town feuds later, the firm survives as Europe’s only communally owned brewery, a tunlque enterprise that sells just to it ome ee but regularly wins m or excellence in international competitions. .

Communal ownership has helped Freistadt, a town of 6,-£00 hidden in the rolling hills between Linz and the Czechoslovak border, keep its own brewery while other amali firms gave way to the few beer giants that now dominate the Austrian market. . ;

Even the criginal building, complete with apprentices quarters and lofts storing hope, ja still in use.

Strong local Interest

ensured that the non-profit

commune shick to the recipe for |ts tart brew, a pilaner close to the famous beers of Bohe'ntees jobs

The townspeople all appre- clate these advantages, he adds, although they are often divided over other issues,

_ “When there are 140- owners, there are inevitably |

of small al that effect the ae

all sorts disputes commune,” says Schneide brewmaster since 1952, In one of the longest of recent feuds, one resident with a personal grudge against several brewery board members began

delivery system, but chaos remained In other areas, The ayerage annual ton af about 40,000 hectolltres dropped to 33,000 hectolitres in 1977 while the normal profitable enterprise 1 into debt.

When restaurant owner Wolfgang Deim became chairman that year, he ataged a bicentennial colebration and then in- troduced an austerity program, He also gave u $4,300 annual salary to ire the brewery's first business manager.

Most townspeople welcomed the more efficient management but had to be

ersuaded that thelr Fvidends should be atopped for several years to help the commune over its financial difficulties.

admits that managing it would be easler lf he could make important’ decisions without censulting his neigh-

bors.

“But this brewery is unique in and wa want to ati to our traditions," he says, adding that those traditions did not stand in the way of the brew- ery's gradual return to eco- nomic health.

Although small changes’ have been made in the commune's constitution over the last two centuries, almost all the original statutes still apply.

Only the owners of the 149 narrow houses in Freistadt's baroque ald tawn belong to

the commune. They elect a

board and tts chairman every . and can approve or reject all policy decisions ‘at monthly meetings,

ou, ban thabrewery pays out

dividends, the commune members receive sums figured in relation to the number of buckets of beer

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