Vol. 4, Issue No. 41 -

‘I cording to the Ministry of

YOUR.

TERRACE — Officers for the
local Employment Standards
Branch seem to have uncovered
the tip of an iceberg, but they’re
not sure what they’re going to
find under the surface. —.

In June 1987 Terrace ESB of-
ficer Roger Davis announced
that the Branch intended to
begin. an audit-of the payroll
records of logging contractors
operating in the region. His of-
fice’ sent. out 150° letters of
notification, covering the con-

Kermodei
gets $2.5
million —
contract

Transport Canada has
awarded Kermodei Con-
istruction of Terrace a
$2,529,150 contract for the
construction of the combined
services building at the
Terrace-Kitimat Airport, Ac- f

’ Transport project manager,
Frank Geyer, the bid submit-
ted by Kermodei was about

race H & H Construction and
about $110,000 betow that of
Vic Van Isle Construction of f
Revelstoke.

The new 1,500 square
meter building will replace a
number of smaller buildings
built during World War II
and provide space for airport j
firefighting personnel and J
equipment, as well as
Transport Canada’s general
maintenance crew. Airport
Manager Darryl Laurent said
arrangements are now being f
made to get the project |
underway, and he says he ex-
pects construction to begin
within a few weeks.

$50,000 less than that of Ter- J .

tractors they thought were work-
ing in their jurisdiction .—
roughly the entire northwest
quadrant of B.C.

The action was prompted by a
large volume of complaints from
workers in the woods who were
being treated as one-man sub-
contractors rather than hourly-
paid employees. Davis set out to
explain to employers the
specifics of employer-employee
relationships as laid out in pro-
vincial labor law.

Inside
this week’s
Terrace Review

SMALL (IS BEAUTIFUL: and
it's efficient, too. B.C. Hydro
chairman Larry Bell told a
Terrace meeting that mega-
projects are out of favor...
page 2.

PARTY, PARTY, PARTY: The
Skeena Liberals found a can-

didate, the NDP says pol-

futers should be put in jail,
and the Tories open their
campaign home... page 3.

YOUNG IDEAS: Two Terrace

girls have been appointed to

council for telling the govern-
ment what. youth really
likes... page 14.

Business Guide — 42
Church Directory. 16
Classified Ads 19 — 22
Coming Events - 44
Comics 18
Crossword 18
Dining Directory 10
Editorial 4
Entertainment 10
Horoscope 2
Letters 5
Sports . 8
Talk of the Town 5
Weather | 2

In an interview yesterday,
Davis said he has discovered that
s. ice June 1987 there have been
m ‘re than 800 loggingg contrac-
tors “passing through’? the
region, ‘‘It’s phenomenally

‘more than we had _ first

thought... every time we look at
one thing, we uncover some-
thing else. It’s nearly a bottom-
less pit.’’

Davis said that indicates to
him that contractors who have

TERRACE — The Regional
District of Kitimat-Stikine
recently expressed concern over
a provincial government an-
nouncement which stated that
current lease holders of water-
front land could purchase the
piece of property they now oc-
cupy. The provincial govern-
ment currently leases over 5,000
lakefront lots to B.C., Canadian
and foreign residents who use
the land for summer cottages,
permanent homes and industrial
and commercial use, The board
had mixed feelings about the

. proposal and tabled the matter
y after director Ruth Hallock
called the sale ‘‘a frightening

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told him they’re living on the
edge of financial collapse were
probably telling the truth, and
he expressed concern that there
is serious instability among in-
dependent woods companies in
the Northwest.

When asked why the record
profits reported over the last
year by large forest companies
aren’t making their way to down
to the contractors, Davis
replied, ‘“You’d have to ask

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Private waterfront “frightening”

prospect’’.
by Tod Strachan

Since that time, regional
district staff have investigated
the proposal and drafted a
report listing some concerns
which the board will have to
consider at their Oct. 15
meeting.

In the first place, it is felt that
an increased trend towards lake-
shore investment could have a
negative impact on the environ-
ment. Even though the Ministry
of Health regulates sewage
disposal, for example, the report
notes that ‘often construction
goes unnoticed”, and asks the

sweet smell of burning leaves are -
all has arrived and winter Is near. But
he distinctive sound of Canada
' Geese, shown here taking off from Frank’s Field Sunday on

thelr annual mer lands.

50 CENTS

Investigators taken aback by logging firm numbers

them (the forest companies).”’

With regard to Employment
Standards compliance, Davis
said in some some cases the
employers are living up to their
obligations, but there are still a
large number using employees as
‘subcontractors’ and violating
regulations governing overtime
and holiday pay.

Employee complaints received
by the ESB, he said, are down
slightly. 7

re -

question, ‘‘if there is an increase
of permanent residential devel-
opment, will there be adverse af-
fects resulting from the
cumulative impact of individual
developments?’’, The report
places special emphasis on

remote areas and suggests that -

the sale of these properties for
‘tuse-specific purposes’” by trap-
pers or fishing and hunting
guides should not be considered.
Four other regional districts in
the province have already ex-
pressed concern. The Fraser-
Fort George area encompasses
about 500 leased waterfront
properties, and the board of that
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