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WINDOWS WERE cut and a sandblaster smoothed out the work last week as work continues on the training and enter- prise centre. It’s going in beside the access centre on Eby and work should be finished this spring.

TERRACE — Another home- based business has started in the area.

Terrace Bronzing Service — it bronzes smaller items for momentos — opened several weeks ago.

It’s run by Jilland Dan Wiley and is thought to be the only one of its kind operating in the northwest.

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Company officials say the levels came at a time of high spring runoff and that $360,000 was spent in remedial measures.

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Two B.C. trade officials speak at a chamber of com- merce luncheon tomorrow on trade opportunities Alaska.

The luncheon begins at 11:45 a.m. More information is available by contacting the chamber office at 635-2063.

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Ironworks is moving from the Terrace Hotel to the former Jezebels Cabaret in Manuel Da Silva’s building on Lazelle.

Owner Dick Ladouceur says. he’ll have more room to install a .

juice bar and more security through a longer lease,

Ironworks has been in business for four. and half years — the first year of which was on Lazelle where the B.C. Govern- ment Employees’ Union now has its offices. ' ’ The gym has six part time employees.

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Blaine Gaffney has been named the news director for Skeena Broadcasters.

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Skeena Broadcasters for nearly

four years. He takes over from Rick Webber who is now in Kamloops.

Skeena Broadcasters operates the northwest’s CBC TV af- filiate, has AM _ stations in Prince Rupert, Terrace and Kitimat, operates an FM station covering the region and operates the regional cable television service.

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TERRACE — [t’ll cost more to watch American TV channels but how much probably won't be known until this summer, says the manager of the nor- thwest’s cable TV operation. Sharon Tayitr of Skeena Broadcasters said the extension of copyright provisions between

’ Canada and the United States as

a result of the free trade:agree- ment now means cable ‘operators must pay for the American channels they pro- vide.

Up until now, those channels have been considered in the public domain and not subject to copyright protection.

A free trade tribunal now underway in Toronto is hearing a request for 25 cents per chan- nel per cable TV subscriber per month from American broad- casters while Canadian cable Operators are responding with a figure of six cents, Taylor said.

“In ‘the worst case scenario, that would mean $80,000 a year in the Terrace cable area,’’ said

. Taylor, adding the figure rises

to $300,000 for her company’s northwest operations,

Broken down to each subscriber, the cost is $1 a month for the American ABC, NBC, CBS and PBS signals.

The overall figures include BCTV because a provision in the copyright regulations allow for Canadian broadcasters to charge for signals sent outside of their normal area of braad-

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cast. The addition of the BCTV | figure would increase the mon- © _ thly subscriber cost to $1.25,. “Canadian cable operators will then go to the CRTC

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And as the tribunal hears the case for added cable costs, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Comunis- sion last week began looking in: to cable television profits."

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