A2 - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, October 22, 1997

STOP I Press

They're re coming ‘back

FOLLOWING LAST week’s tour of the north,
Opposition Leader Gordon Campbell and his Liberals are
planning a return next year.

Campbell says the party will be hosting economic for-
ums in the north to learn more about the region’s needs and
plans.

Last week’s tour featured four groups of Liberal MLAs
visiting various areas of the north.

Summit gears up

AND WHILE the Liberals plan a return, more than 150
invited delegates and others are preparing to converge on
Prince George for the Premier’s Summit on Northern Jobs
and Development Oct. 27-29.

«<IP1»Included on the list are representatives from
| Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, the Yukon and the
Northwest Territories.

The summit wilt examine everything from transporta-
tion to trade to education to more regional control of deci-
sion making.

One of the summit’s key organizers is Skeena NDP
MLA Helmut Giesbrecht.

For those interested in more, visit the summit’s home-
page at www.ei.gov-bc.ca/JobsforBC/PGSummit

Clark visits Kitimat

PREMIER GLEN CLARK is expected in Kitimat today
to officially take part in the resumption of production at
one of Alcan’s pot lines.

Pot Line No. 7 was closed several years ago as an econ-
omy measure but is starting up again as part of a deal earli-
er this year between Alcan and the province.

Also on hand for the ceremony will be Eric Sykes,
Alcan’s director of BC operations and Carroll L'Italien,
president of Alcan.

The province has agreed to supply Alcan with sufficient
hydro-electric power so it can construct a smelter in the
Kitimat area.

Watch those sweets

CHOCOLATE LOVERS with peanut allergies are
being told to watch out for Ulker Hanimeller brand hazel-
nut cookies sold in 110 gram packages and Elarso brand
milk chocolate bars sold in 100 gram packages.

Both contain peanuts - something that’s not declarged
on the label.

Importers of both products are recalling them from
stores.

Wickie rewarded,

\ ha KITIMAT-STIKINE. segional; district itreasurer Verna.
| Wickie has been awarded a senior certificate.in-municipal
administration. .

The certificate, awarded by a provincial body of exam-
iners, is given to individuals based on education and
experience.

Tourism numbers good

MORE PEOPLE stopped at the tourist information cen-
tre this summer than all of 1996,

The statistic gathered by Bobbie Phillips of the Terrace
and District Chamber of Commerce continues to defy the
popular notion that tourism was down this year.

Even August, the first month in which the impact of the
cancellation of the ferry from Prince Rupert to Ketchikan
took hold, was surprisingly strong, she said.

“We were down just 100 parties, a couple of hundred
people,” Phillips noted.

It’s left Phillips wondering what the numbers would
have been had the ferry not been cancelled.

All told, 5,010 parties totalling 9,338 visitors stopped
between May and August. That’s compared to 4,788 par-
ties and 8,216 visitors for all of 1996.

The trend continued into September with 650 parties
and 1,159 visitors compared to 570 parties and 917 visitors
for the same month in 1996.

A new facility and absence of roadwork in front of the
combined chamber office and tourism information centre
is partially being credited for the increase in numbers.

For 1997 to date,196 parties and 11,004 people have
stopped.

Overseas visitors to the area remain a strong component
to the tourism industry here.

Skeena
Cellulose

= creditors

could get
shares

CREDITORS OF Skeena
Cellulose can expect a pro-
gress report on plans to re-
organize the company by the
end of the month.

Although the company is
back operating its Prince
Rupert pulp mill and sawmiils
in Terrace, Carnaby and
Smithers, it still has to address
the more than $100 million
owed unsecured and secured
creditors.

The deal to re-open opera-
tions was struck between
Prince Rupert pulp workers,
the provincial government and
the Royal and Toronto-
Dominion banks which took
over Skeena Cellulose earlier
this year.

Information released by the
Coopers Lybrand, the court-
appointed monitor of Skeena
Cellulose, last week indicates
a reorganization plan has to be
filed by Nov. 28.

And meetings with creditors
to vote on the plan are to be
held no later than Dec, 31.

Details of the reorganization
plan are crucial to unsecured
creditors such as lopging con-
tractors in the Terrace area.

They’re owed millions by
the company and worry they
might be offered just cents on
the dollar, says Justin Rigsby,
a spokesman for a local credi-
tors group.

Included in the reorganiza-
tion plan will be details flesh-
ing, out the idea that unsecured
creditors will be offered shares
in the company.

Those shares are to come
from the 45 per cent owner-
ship stake in the company the
provincial government took in
return for lending it money for
improvements to its Prince
Rupert mill.

Prince Rupert pulp workers
are to receive some of those
Ishares in return for wage
rollbacks...

In the meantime, the two
banks,bave told Coopers and
‘Lybrand they’re putting a
$100 million cap on an operal-
ling line of credit to finance
|Skeena Cellulose’s slart up.

The banks and the province
earlier agreed to provide $40
million in interim financing.
The provincial portion of this
involves a foan guarantee for
$16 million.

driver
JUST BEFORE midnight
last Friday the RCMP
pursued a vehicle in
Thomhill for about six and a
half kim.
The vehicle sustained

minor damage when
stopped, and there were no

Thornhill was charged with
dangerous driving. Hell

Correction

THE HEADLINE “‘HIV victim speaks out’? over an Oct.
8 letter to the editor was incorrect.

Mr. Gregg does not have HIV. As was indicated in his
letter, Mr. Gregg in fact contracted Hepatitis C from
tainted blood, not HIV.

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THE HEADLINE ‘‘Former coach charged”’ in an Oct, 15
story was misleading.

There is no information to indicate a man charged with
four counts of sexual assault on a youth from 1976 to 1985
_ Was a coach in a sport in this city.

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