A12- The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, February 23, 2000

Business REVIEW

Out & About

Calling all former Graduates of Caledonia Senior Secondary School, Terrace, B.C. The 30th Edition of the Caledonia Yearbook, Kermode Year 2000,

will feature “Former Caledonia Graduates “Scene ata Glance”

We need the following information from former Caledonia Graduates: Year of Graduation fram Caledonia:

(Name of College, Institution or University) = ~ Year Granted: located and living in?

Name of Graduate: lurther education received from: __

Name of degree or diploma:

Now employed as:

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Cox at A&W

FORMER school district director of instruction Harold Cox will run Ter- race’s A&W restaurants for the next three years.

He'll be an associate partner and will take over while A&W owner Camp- bell Stewart takes a few years off from the business to travel.

Stewart said Cax’s management style is genu- ine and caring and that he is a perfect fit for the busi- ness. ,

The two have’ .known each other for 22 years since Cox, as Thornhill Jr. Secondary, gave Stewart his first teaching job.

Tina Robinson will continue aS manager of restaurant operations.

Tourism to be the focus

TOURISM opportunities will be the focus of a workshop here Thursday.

It’s aimed at exploring the real world potential to improve existing tourism businesses or develop new ones that meet demand in the marketplace.

The session is hosted by Smithers-based firm Mer- edith and Associates, which is conducting a stu- dy of tourim opportunities in the region financed by the ministry of small busi- ness, tourism and culture.

The workshop is 7:00 to 9:30 p.m. Feb. 24 at the Coast Inn of the West's east banquet room. Regis- tration-is being handled by the Terrace Tourism Coun- cil.

Workshops are also to be held in Kitamaat Vil- lage and the Nass Valley.

FACING TAX HIKE: TK Air Charters’ Trev Bowker is among the airport-based operators trying to figure out how to avoid a huge proparty tax increase.

Aviators pleading for property tax leniency

BUSINESSES at the air- pert are pinning their hopes to dodge a massive tax increase on a combi- nation of gentle treatment from city council and an appeal of the airport’s as- sessed value.

Council had initially agreed to give the society that runs the airport a grant in aid to ease the property tax increase that takes ef- fect this year.

Because the city ex- panded its boundaries to take in the -airport- last year, businesses there now © pay the city’s higher busi- ness tax rate instead of the one.charged by the region- al district.

For some businesses it means paying double to triple what they paid last year.

The city grant of $96,000 would mean a

. More modest increase this

year before the full hit takes effect next year. Terrace Kitimat Airport

Society member Gerry

Martin reminded council the tax dollars it’s collect- ing amounts to new money for the city that comes at no cost in terms of provi- sion of services there.

“They are dollars that are unincumbered for the city,” he noted.

Lloyd Hull, the operator of a large private hangar at the airport, said he won't accept such a major tax increase. ,

“You will see our build- ings torn down and we will be leaving the airport if they stay in place,” he said. “That’s not a threat, that’s a fact.”

“We should not be taxed the same as the downtown,” he added.

Other businesses there, particularly helicopter companies, could .also re- locate if taxes became too high.

“It’s always an option,”

said Canadian Helicopters .

base manager Dave New- man. “We don’t have to be located at an airport to do business.”

Hawkair Aviation oper- ations. manager Dave Menzies warned erosion of businesses at the airport would ptit further. pressure on. the viability of the air- port. , “A lot of the businesses up there could topple like dominoes if things get too much tougher,” he said.

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“The airport is in danger of going into a subsiding spiral.”

Menzies said aviators are slruggling primarily as a result of air navigation fees that skyrocketed after Ottawa privatized flight services through the crea- tion of Nav Canada.

In addition to that they've faced increasing regulatory and service costs from Transport Cana- da, and rising fuel costs.

“Everything you can imagine has gotten more expensive,” he said, ad- ding a big property tax hike could be the final straw.

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