Business REVIEW Dealers enraged by city plan

TRUCK DEALERS around town have blown their gaskets over the city’s decision to slandardize its ficet to strictly GM trucks and cars,

The change will be phased in as city vehicles need to be replaced.

Public works committee chairman Gordon Hull said dealing with the same type of vehicle saves money in maintaining them, and noted GM bad generally come in as low bidder in past tenders.

The decision has incensed other dealerships around town.

“It’s not fair to the dealers who are trying io slay in business in this town and it’s not fair to the taxpayers who aren't getting the biggest bang for their buck,’? said Terrace Chrysler

general manager Rob Onstein.

Terrace Totem Ford’s Jake De Jong echoed thase sentiments.

“Its bloody well wrong," he said, “‘All the dealers of the Terrace area should have an opportunity to bid on the Terrace vehicles,”’

To decide to switch to all one make of vehicle without tendering widely would be a reckless and irresponsible use of public money, he said,

And De Jong suggested the city could extend that philosophy to other areas of business.

‘Pretty soon it could be a construc- tion company that they favaur,’’ he said, ‘'They could say they're not going to put them out to tender be- cause they like the work this one com-

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division spokesman Paul Jhooty.

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Downtown land dickering

7-ELEVEN and Copperside Foods are both bidding to purchase the old Petro-Canada service station property

A deal to turn the site into a 7-Eleven store could be finalized this week, according to 7-Eleven real estate

‘We have an agreement in principle,”’ Jhooty said. ‘We're just getting the documentation pushed

New copter on the pad

m Open for business NORTHERN HEALTHCARE manager Eric Duranda

and his employees busily stocked shelves in prepara- tion for their opening last week on the ground floor of

pany has done.”

“Tf they’re going to start it with this, they're going to do it it with others.”

Past resulls are no guarantee of what will happen in the future, he said,

“They're dealing with — public money and it should be dealt with in the best possible manner,””

About 24 of the 35 small vehicles the city owns are GMs already.

Onstein said dealerships bere get re- quests to provide quotes to

municipalities as far away as Kitimat, Smithers and Prince Rupert.

Bath De Jong and Onstein sald they plan to take the matter up with coun- cil.

*‘T have no plans to just let this lie,” Onstcin said.

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A BRAND NEW helicopter has joined Canadian Helicopters flect at the Terrace airport,

The six-seater Eurocopter 350 DA A-Star was bought by the company this month at a cost of $1.4 million.

Base manager Dave Newman flew it here straight from the factory at Fort Erie, Ontario, It was one of four new copters ordered by the company this year.

The craft replaces one of the firm’s older machines here. Canadian Helicopters has three helicopters sta- tioned here, ;

Newman said the new helicopter will transport people and sling and move freight and equipment.

Shames manager gone

SHAMES MOUNTAIN SKI CORP. has lost its gen- eral manager.

Scott Siemens has stopped working there, and has not Yel been replaced, ~ Shames spokesman Gerry Martin was not available for comment,

Students helped

NORTHERN UNIVERSITY students taking courses with the University of Northern B.C. are getting help from a $75,000 Scotiabank donation.

Two-thirds of that amount is being spent oa technol- ogy so that students in outlying northern areas can bet- ter communicate with UNBC’s main Prince George campus through video, computer hookups and the In- femet

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Great paint giveaway

PAINT MANUFACTURERS have joined up with the Recycling Council of B.C. to distribute unwanted paint to

non-profit groups or for non-iraditional use,

The B.C, Paint Care Association, to which most of the major paint manufacturers belong, already collects paint in

depots across the province for recycling,

But this latest move will result in unwanted paint being put ta a good use by those who need it, says paint care as-

sociation president Paul Iverson.

“It keeps paint out of the waste stream, and puts it on

buildings, walls and fences where it belongs,’ he said,

More information is available by calling the B.C. Recy-

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