Page AS — Terrace Standard, Wednasday, July 15, 1992 USINESS MP investigate holiday shopping TERRACE — RCMP are inves- tigaling a complaint that the city’s large grocery and depart- ment stores were open Canada Day, July 1. Local RCMP Staff Sergeant John Veldman said last week the investigation stemmed from a complaint made after the large stores were open Victoria Day. And he said — information gathered will go to the. provincial crown counsel’s office where a decision will be made on whether shame oo inci tyeteare for — Sometimes a small business needs a silent partner NOTICE All playing fields in the Ter- race, and Thornhill area schools will be fertilized monthly. this program. will run from. May through O¢- tober 1992. At-the Federal Business | agement seminars or provide SMW you with the services of. . 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He could not say. when the in- formation gathered will be sent to the crown counsel’s office, The complaint is ‘being investi-. gated under the Holiday Shop- ping Regulation Act. ~ But a supreme court decision arising from a case in Cranbrook declared that act not to have any force, Veldman said that may be the case but since the act has not been repealed by the legislature, it remains as’a piece of legislat- tion and complaints made about it must be investigated. enfants d’étudier en francais? VERTICAL BLINDS ’ Are Now Only: 2°. : m LOTS OF COLOURS TO CHOOSE FROM! 4 ‘ Oter expires Aug. 31 . ¢ For your FREE consultation call: LINK WINDOW COVERING La Commission Scolaire de Terace offra un programme © d'immersion de la maternelle jusqu'au niveau secondaire, Inscrivez les le plus tot possi- ble. Pour de plus amples infor- mations vous pouvez communi- quer avec une professeure d'im- mersion au numéro 638-0921 entre 11 a.m. - 6-p.m. Pe ee “We have a valid complaint on a valid statule,”’ he said. Although the Holiday Shopping Regulation Act may not have force any longer, a-section of the Monicipal Act does prohibit openings of stores on slatutory holidays. , The Municipal Act also con- tains a section permitting a coun- cil to ‘override those closure or ders by passing a by-law. — Such a by-law does not exist in the city. And unlike ‘the Holiday Shop: ping Regulation Act, any. such _ by-law. docs not first requite ap- proval of. - velty.- voters ina referendum. rae kkk ro * - Major retailers this spring made a request to the city to allow them to open on all statutory holidays with the exception of Christmas. Day and Good Friday. That request was made through the city-sponsored tourism vind completed by this fall. - Wall Worker An 11-unit strip of commercial condominiums is under con- struction at the 4700 block of Keith Ave. Prospective tenants include a ski shop and a bike shop. Here, Lothar Juetten does the brickwork on the building which | is scheduled to be cee economic | advisory commission which has. ince passed a recom- mendaticii® ‘tor that effect to city council... ‘Major retailers told: commission members that. ‘there freedom of businesses here ‘} : money. to businesses in” Kitinnat On holi-" days: . ‘There’ " no indication of when council members, who will con- a cominittec-of- the “whole, “should be . referred. to the regular council for ‘ch ce ‘and that « sider the matter as a separate group called... ge gommittec-of- the. whole, are to ‘meet on ‘the subject. “Alter ‘a decision is made in it is consideration. . Administrator Bob Hallsor said ‘ gathering all council: ‘members to- - gether duging the summer is dif- Ricalt t because of vacation sched- ules. EVELYN RITTER TEL: 635-4949 WESTWORLD MOBILE HOMES LTD. 1992 MODELS NOW ON DISPLAY General construction meets or exceeds all CSA and : provincial construction and safety codes. * Trades Welcome * Sales & Listing Service * Single & double wides available STOP BY AND SAY Hi! 3117 Clark Street LENDRA RITTER. ‘ax: 635-2245 - TERRACE = Marketing “inio the United States is. developing customers this summer for -an outdoor adventure company. North Coast ‘Hell-Raft Adven- tures. spokesman, ‘Barry . Prince says thal 70 per. cent of the 120 people’ ‘already. booked this year are Americans.’ The company flies people up the Exchamsiks River between here ‘and -Prince Rupert in a helicopter from where they raft back down to Hwy16, It opened last year and resumed operations lwo weekends ago. “We did a lot of marketing in the United States. A lot of people are calling before they Icave on vacation,”’ said Prince. tok kk Don’t worry if your BC. Hydro bill covers a different period than normal, That’s because the crown cor- poration is re-organizing its miter reading routes, Population growths in the area mean that standard routes must be changed to reflect those changes, says B.C. Hydro: spokesman Susan Henyecz.. And the: technology - -of reading a meters has-also changed. ‘Ynfonnation -is entered “into a hand held device, plugged into a: cradle at night and transmitted to B.C. Hydro’s billing com puter in Vancouver. Kakak Smithers-based | Vancouver this week: The airline says itil “enable a people to. fly to’ Vancouver * in time for a full business day.” flight. I'll also be keeping aircraft and crew in Terrace overnight as part company | cablevision manager “old or younger and fit criteria of of the new schedule plan. - Sharon Taylor. eo - being innovative, having an oper- T E R R A C E. M 0 TO R Ss TO Y OTA. : wk kkk ” Newsworld is now. offered ‘only aling-success and being involved The B.C: branch ‘of the Cana- dian Bar Assoclationi wants the supreme court to - declare - un- constitutional ‘its six oper “cent So-" yUT AND ABOU ~ Central Mountain Air’ added ‘an: ‘carly. moming flight- fom: ‘Terrace - to cial services tax on legal services. ‘*"We.are concemed that the government | is suggesting that legal services area luxury when, _ in fact, they are an. essential ser, vice?” said Wendy Baker, presi- dent of the bar association’ s B.C: branch. ; ek ok te More than 500 certified man- agement accountants arc in Van- couver this week for a three-day conference on, succeeding in a competitive world. It’s organized: by the Confer- ence of The Socicty of Manage- _ ment Accountatits of Canada. hak kk .Owners. of a Smithers-based you-brew. store want to open onc here. Mike O'Sullivan: of. Tales and . Ales says plans-are to open in the new shopping plaza being built beside. United Buy and Sell on Hwyl6. .. Customers at yoti biew outlets - pick the kind. they’ want, it- is - brewed on site and’ they retum after it is aged for bottling. Tales and Ales in Smithers of- fers'a range of becr, wine, cider and wine coolers. “There's. a. lot..of: technical knowledge need to run this place. “We've learned a: lot in the -Last two years,” said O'Sullivan. - Ok k But any sulch move will depend _ on customer preference and‘costs ‘and atiy. such consideration won't lake place ‘until next. ycar, says fn Prince. Rupert where it costs” customers 32 cents a month and’a ‘further’ four’ cents a month as- “sessed by Skeetta Broadcastets. ” The channel was put on the air this January for a six-month trial period and cable customers there have just voted to keep the ser- Vice. ‘Taylor said Newsworld has asked federal regulators for a rate increase to 58 cents a month. The channel was introduced in the fall of 1989. across the north- west for a (rial period along with In Terrace, customers sald they preferred YTV over the all-news channel. kkk. Mining Association of B.C. president Tom Waterland is guest speaker at a July 23 luncheon hosted by ‘the chamber of com- inicrce. He was to have been in town last month but bad weather pre- vented his plane from landing. A former Social Credit cabinet minister with the Bill Bennett . government, Waterland. acts as spokesman for the mining indus- try on a variety of issues. - The luncheon takes place at the Coast Inn of the West and begins at 11:45 a.m, Call the chamber office at 635-2063 to book a scat. tok kk The Federal Business Develop- “ment: Bank,’ a federal crown cor- poration, and the. Ethno Business ; Council of B .C. are looking for a “Skeena Broadcasters could of: - fer CBC’s all-news TV channel -~ “Newsworld. 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