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A2 - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, May 11, 1994

News In Brief

Lots of

people WITH MORE than 4,000 people attending, the 1994 Terrace and District Cham- ber of Commerce trade show went well, reports its chairman, John Evans,

Attendance surpassed [ast year’s figure of 3,750.

“We had lols of good comments from participants and from those who went,’’ said Evans.

Two new features, food and enlertainment, will Tetum next year.

“They helped to draw people and were ap- preciated,’’ Evans noted.

DLN Contracting was chosen as having the best service display, River In- dustries best retail display and B.C. Hydro best indus- trial display.

Course

starts

FORTY PEOPLE begin tak- ing a customer service course tomorrow run by the Terrace and District Cham- ber of Commerce and financed by the Canada Employment Centre.

Half the people are al- ready working and the other half are on unemployment insurance.

In addition to 23 hours in the classroom over four days, there’s a 17 hour prac- ticum period to put into practice what has been taught,

Although this first course is being sponsored by the federal government to help with start up costs, the in- tention is to make future ef- forts self supporting.

The chamber wants to run the program at least twice a year

The course teaches com- munications skills, team work, time management, telephone skills, conflict resolution, sales skills and the customer culture.

Leader visits

THE LEADER of The Christian Heritage — Party pays a visit here May 14.

Jean Blaquiere, a retired RCMP officer from Quebec, is here as part of a province wide tour. He’s also sched- uled to speak in Smithers and points north.

The meeting takes place at the Happy Gang Centre and begins at 7:30 p.m.

From front

Boom

number of jobs in that sector will decline, said Kunin,

“Geography isn’t destiny. You can sell services or make things any place that has tclephone lines of an airport,”’ she added,

Kunin says more and more people will be working for them- selves in collage industry settings from their own homes,

Trade agreemenis such as NAFTA will open the doors to more business opportunities for those willing to take risks.

“The top one-third of the Mexican population is roughly equal to the Canadian population. Their income is equal,’’ said Kunin of opportunities down south. :

She said areas such as Terrace can further develop tourism as long as it is first class and put to- gether in easy to purchase pack- age deals.

The one big factor in Terrace’s future is the pending settlement of native land claims, Kunin said.

“When agreements are reached to give native groups title to land and resources they’ve never had before, expect them to be devel- oped on their own or in joint ven- tures,” she said.

Correction

A figure contained in quote con- ceming Sunday’s Chain of Life was WIOng.

The quote should have indi- cated there was one aborilon for every five pregnancies in 1969, not one in 50.

Sparse crowd told park creation is not that easy

WITH PERFECT weather and the airshow as competition, it was a sparse crowd thal tured out May 3 for a Terrace Greenbelt Association meeting.

Not that organizers were dis- heartened.

“Tonight is a very, very small beginning’’, Lori Merrill told the 20 who had shown up to discuss the future of Howe Creek.

Merrill noted the association had been working since last July make the community aware of the issues involved, gather pelition Signatures and lobby council. to protect the green space at the foot of the bench escarpment.

The association was born of the controversy surrounding two proposals to develop properties adjacent to the creek. ,

The fist, Dick Coxford’s plan to build luxury condominiums at the corner of McConnell and Munroe, was killed by council.

The second, to build single fam- ily homes on land between Eby St and the foot of Skeenaview Drive, has been the subject of in- camera mectings with developers Howe Creek Investments.

Planning committee chairman has declined to reveal the content

of those negotiations, saying it could jeopardize them.

Meeting chair Dr. Norma Kerby explained the idea was to come up wilh proposals to present to council.

.These.. would also be used as.a basis for more detailed planning at a further meeting tentatively scheduled for carly June.

Among the speakers was city parks and recreation director Steve Scotl who outlined the methods by which the city could obtain land for parks,

They ranged from donation to purchase or expropriation.

While purchasing sounded Straighforward, Scott cautioned the money would have to come from tax dollars or the sale of other city land. ‘It’s not that casy”’.

Expropriation was expensive and rarely used to create parks, he added.

Although widely used through- out the province, requiring a de- veloper to give up five per cent of his land for parks as a condition of sub-dividing had its wrinkles too.

If the lots to be created were

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larger than 2.5 acres, the five per cent rule did not apply.

And if the official community plan did not earmark the area for parkland, the developer could opt to give the five per cent in cash equivalent.

Local resident and parks ad- visory commissioner Scolt Mac- Donald said his family had been using the Howe Creek trail sys- tem for the past five years.

“Many people don’t appreciate what's there,”’ he maintained.

Urging people to use the trail more, he argued the more it was used, the easier it would be to persuade council to support ef- forts to preserve the green space.

MacDonald also called for an “‘adopt-a-trail’’ program under which individual groups would undertake maintenance and up- keep of designated trails,

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