A12- The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, December 2, 1998

Out & About

SCI backed

THE CHAMBER of.

Commerce is leaping to the

defence of Skeena Cel-.

lulose in the chipper saga,

A cily report said the ultimate noise solution is construction of a building to house the chipper, and the cily could fine the company until it complies.

“We should be grateful that we still have our mills operating and employing our citizens,” chamber pres- ident Leona Klein said.

“The chipper at SCI employs nine people, who might not be otherwise employed. Noise from mills is part of living in a resource-based community, and something we will all have to be tolerant of from time to time.’”’

The city is waiting for SCI fo investigate a series of noise-reducing options.

They come

CANADIAN TIRE opened just over a year ago as the northwest was enter- ing ils economic downturn.

But store manager Bob Nearing says that while the tough economy has taken a chunk out of local spending, that’s been made up by the fact that the store has at- tracted many more people from outlying communities.

‘People are coming from further than we thought they would,’’ he said.

He said the Hazeltons and

‘Smithers weren’t part of the store's expected market. _

‘But the people are com- ing from those areas and shopping: here,’’? he said. “Prince Rupert is also a good draw.”

COMMERCIAL thinning is an ideal way to take extra timber off the land and make what's left grow big- ger and better.

That was the focus of a workshop here last Wednes- day that drew more than 60 local loggers, consultants and forest industry reps.

The meeting on commer- cial thinning and new forest opportunities was hosted by the Northwest Loggers As- sociation and Kalum Forest

District. Skeena Cellutose’s Kevin Derow said commercial

thinning should be allowed to take place over and above a company’s annual allow- able cut.

The Kalum Forest District is planning to put 10,000 cubic metres of timber up for commercial thinning sale in 1999, the group was told.

But the longer-range goal is to increase that number up to as much as 50,000 cubic metres a year.

Besides creating logging.

jobs, commercial thinning requires skilled work in planning and field work, such as tree marking, Derow said.

Typically trees are cut at the age of 40 years — halfway to maturity.

Because it means working between trees that will be kept, small machines and even horses are usually re- quired, rather than large in- dustrial logging methods.

‘TERRACE’ STANDARD

hinning, salvage options touted

A WORKSHOP that attracted more than 60 people last week focussed on com- mercial thinning and other new forest opportunities.

Using the wood and marketing the products are huge challenges, however,

Derow said much of the wood is of relatively small

diameter and difficult to’

use,

Additionally, he said, rela- lively high harvest costs means the wood must fetch high prices to break even,

‘We have to be able to find the market that will pay us $60 to $80 per cubic metre,”’ he said.

The group also heard Kalum Forest District offi- cials conclude they'll con- tinue with a small scale sal- vage program started this year.

The program allowed numerous smalt value-added operators to go out and sal- vage blowdown, logging residue and trees killed by

, bugs or fire.

District harvesting

Shake (ducers, among others,

resource. technician Don Coburn said the program proved popular with cedar and shingle pro-

Some of them were able to obtain wood for their ven-

tures with very little equip- ment — in some cases noth- |

ing more advanced than a chainsaw,

“We feel we can get at least 15,000 cubic metres a year,’” he said.

Former forest minister Dave Parker also reviewed his recent work in preparing a forest industry develop- ment strategy for the city.

Parker said he’s convinced there arc opportunities out there waiting to be found.

As an example, he cited one producer who has been using hemlock to make ex- pensive staircases for multi- million dollar homes in West Vancouver.

It's a blast from the taxation past

IF YOU want to look back to the good old days in terms of municipal taxation, you can go all the way back to the 1935

Village of Terrace tax roll.

A little over 100 property owners are listed and it’s a who’s who of the city’s ear- ly pionects, Many of swhose 1 ames now ap-, ;

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Regrets To

Seniors

With regrets, the Royal Canadian Legion Ladies Auxiliary will not be hosting the Seniors Christmas Dinner this

year.

This dear to our hearts December event has grown too big for our 44}

facility.

We are now exploring an alternate plan for 1999. We wish all of you a happy holiday season.

$1,440.32

pear on local strect signs. Total dollar figure of the tax roll:

’ The largest single taxpayer was G. Little,

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kicking $269.01 into the civic pot. But the vast majority of taxpayers had ,1935 tax bills of less than $10.

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“That's a said.

Parker said he also sees the need for a log marketing

dandy,” he

log, where harvesters could’

bring wood and small pro- ducers could buy it.

That would Jet producers focus on creating and marketing their products and relieve them of all the facets of logging, road building, planning and sil- viculture.

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