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Store plans

to rebuild TERRACE Furniture Mart has been given city appro- val to rebuild its burnt-out location on the south side of Lakelse Ave.

The new 10,000 square foot building, between Totem Furniture and Kon- dolas, will be rebuilt next year and should reopen by September, says owner Kewal Bal. The oid build- ing was destroyed in a fire in 2001.

He says it will be the new location for Radio Shack, as well as sales of mattresses, furniture and electronic appliances.

Bal plans to keep his store on the north side of Lakelse to sell other new and used furniture.

He’s gone

THE TERRACE-Kitimat Airport Society has lost its president. _ Frank Hamilton has re- signed as a director on the society board because he has moved to Vernon to retire. City council will appoint a new director to represent the city on the society.

New owner

JUST Kidding Adventure Playground is under new ownership.

The children’s indoor playground and entertain- ment center has been bought by Dwayne Ciulka.

The Terrace-born man took possession Oct. 10 and plans to install an in- door climbing wall in the near future.

Correction

WE incorrectly listed Betty Barton last week as president of the Terrace and District Chamber of Commerce. In fact, she’s past president. The current president is Sheila Love.

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UNIONIZED TELUS workers have per- suaded Terrace city council to protest ris- ing business phone rates and job cuts here.

Council voted last week ta write to re- gulators questioning whether Telus is meeting service delivery standards in this area.

Representatives of the Telecommuni- cations Workers Union (TWU) appealed to council for support, saying Telus is seeking a 10 per cent rate hike for busi- ness customers here.

“The part that scares me is the 10 per cent increase to the business community here,” said councillor Ron Vanderlee, who led the motion.

Telus officials, however, say the latest increase is not as high as the union claims.

The rate for individual business lines will rise 6.4 per cent from $47.95 per month to $51.00, retroactive to June 1, if the new rate increase application is ap- proved by the CRTC, Telus communica- tions manager Sharon Arsenault says.

A decision is expected this month, she said,

If the business line rate hits $51, it will mark a nearly 30 per cent rate hike in just over two years.

Multi-line business service charges are to rise by 1.9 per cent, she added. An in- crease in the “business value bundic” charge for call management services is also planned.

Arsenault said there are no requests presently before the CRTC to increase charges for basic residential service in Terrace.

Rising rates have been a reality in rural areas since the CRTC okayed long

distance competition. That meant phone companies couldn't tse long -distance profits to subsidize local service in high cost areas, and have steadily pushed up rates in the north,

TWU business agent Lori Ruggles said the company plans to continue secking rate increases until rates match the higher costs of providing service in mare remote regions, while allowing rates to fall in Vancouver.

Ruggles also took 4 aim at downsizing by 4 Telus.

44 She noted 12 jobs have just been cut by 2 Telus in Terrace — a 20 per cent reduction. At around $50,000 a year, that amounts to $600,000 per year in local payroll lost, she told councillors.

“My guess is as you see those jobs leave your community you'll see a degradation in service,” she predicted.

She called it part of a disturbing trend of lost middle income, blue-collar jobs in Terrace that includes staff reductions here by CN Rail and Canada Post.

Ruggles said moves to close Phone Marts and cut local staff while driving up rates where there’s no competition are all measures aimed at improving company earnings at the expense of quality of ser- vice.

She said Telus has also sought to re- duce service to mobile and marine custo- mers in remote areas — people who de- pend on the telecommunications link in emergencies.

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The first Directors of the newly formed non-profit society, KICKSTART Association of Business Concerned for the Development o} ‘Education, are pleased to announce that they are now entering | the hundraising phase for the

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for 5 and 6 year old children in our District.

Registration for entry will be held in September 2003, Spring runoffs in January 2004, Semi- Finals in May 2004 and Finals in June 2004.

The Contest will be a Spelling Bee style with subjects such as alphabet familiarity, counting and number recognition color and shape recognition, telling time and other basic building blocks of early education.

For more information, contact kickstartabcde@monarch.net or send donation to Kickstart ABCDE 3933 Old Lakelse Lake Drive, Terrace, B.C. V8G 3T9

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