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Coast closes

COAST TRACTOR’s Ter- race outlet will shut down Nov. 29, the latest local casualty of a hard-hit log- ging industry.

New Regina-based ow- ners Brandt Tractor have

decided to serve customers -

here from its Smithers

branch, said local branch-

manager Dan Anderson.

He said the closure eli- minates four jobs. The Keith Ave. branch had downsized from a peak of more than 10 employees in. years when the logging in- dustry was strong.

Anderson said there's been little demand for the logging equipment Coast Tractor sold here, particu- larly in the last year.

Skeena Cellulose shut

down its logging in the.

summer of 2001. There’s only been limited market logging since then by some contractors.

House sales

firm up a bit THE AVERAGE selling price for Terrace homes nudged up a bit in recent months.

Northern real estate

. stats for 2002 to the end of September showed an average selling price in Terrace of $123,902.

That was up slightly from the average sale price of $122,468 for 2001,

According to the North- ern Real Estate Board, 123 properties worth just over $14 million have sold in Terrace.:so far. this year.

.That’s down a bit from 142 sold by this time east year,

up for. sale, - 10 per “cent more than a year ago...

The 69 Homes that have sold in Terrace so far this year have taken on aver- age 117 days to sell.

More moving

trucks here

TOTEM Auto Repair is getting into the moving truck rental business. _ Owner Norm Holmes has teamed up with Prime Truck Rentals out of Prince George to begin | renting a variety of moving - trucks and vans at his* Keith Ave. location. . Holmes says the first trucks arrived Oct. he's been surprised by the demand for vehicles for local moves.

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TECHNICIAN Tom Beshr

checks the de-icing boot

along the wing edges of Hawkair's original Dash-8.

Hawkair’s first

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ABOUT a dozen techni- cians are in the midst of a three-week complete sys- tems checkup on Haw- kair’s original Dash-8.

The work involves dis- assembling much of the plane, cleaning, checking and repairing components, and then reassembling everything. |

Hawkair started ils pas- senger service with the turboprop plane just over..

two years ago and after

carrying 40,000 passen- gers, it’s time for the major maintenance work.

‘Several engineers and specialists have been

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of the plane is being taken apart, prodded, probed and reassembled — from the seals in the cabin to the de-icing devices in the leading edges of the wings and tail.

Much of it involves pre- ventative maintenance — checking for corrosion and worn bearings.

“It catches a problem before it gets serious,” ex- plains Hawkair's Paul Hawkins.

The specialists say the plane is in very good can- dition, Hayward said.

The work alsa involves a cabin renovation, a new

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bullet-proof: cockpit door required under post-Sept. 11 air security rules.

No Safeway reno yet

SAFEWAY OFFICIALS say a gas bar and an ex- pansion and renovation of its Lakelse Ave, store are still in the works although no start dates have been announced.

“It’s going through the development process. It hasn’t been shelved,” said

Safeway representative Sabrina Delmonte. The company = an-

nounced earlier this year it wanted to build a gas bar as part of a general pro-

gram throughout Western ‘Canada to add the service to its store locations.

A plan to expand and renovate ils existing store was also announced at the same time.

Terrace city planned David Trawin said Safe- way does have a develop- ment permit and has been issued a building permit for the gas bar project.

But he has yet to see any plans for the expan- sion and renovation.

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