Saturday, December 19, 1992 Your business Is our business Neil Rachyski 365-7266 FIRST BORN Here's an interesting Christmas give- away. The British Columbia Medical Association is giving parents of the first babies born.in 1993 an infant car seat. For the 10th year, the BCMA will give the seats to the first babies born at each of B.C.’s 84 hospitals where babies are delivered. WIDE ANGLE Forestry students are being told to look at employment opportunities beyond traditional government and industry jobs According to UBC's dean of the Faculty of Forestry, students should “begin broadening the definition of a career in forestry to include positions with consulting companies, environmental groups and parks agencies.” ORGAN DONORS The Mutual Group is helping to raise public awareness of the need for organ donations. A program called By Mutual Consent encourages Canadians to sign organ donor cards. At present the company only insures recipients with corneal or kidney transplants. WorkPLACE Hey good lookin’ Neil Rachynski NEWS REPORTER Looks are everything. Just ask three local businesses. Emco Engineering Ltd. just finished renovating its offices. Tulips Floral Co. built an entirely new building. And Bonnett’s Men’s Wear Inc. reworked its store inside and out. paving on the lot will resume when spring rolls around. In fact, the bulk of the work will ensue once the snow thaws. Parkin said contracts will be put out to tender in March for plans that include widening some streets and planting trees. As far as how those contracts will handed out Parkin couldn’t say. “We haven't discussed that yet. That will be under the direction of (Kelowna consulting firm) Urban Systems,” Parkin said. s During the spring, major utility overhauls are also expected. The owners of each building said the facade improvements have done wonders. Elaine Ross of Emco said the feedback from people has .been outstanding — even to the point that some folks never realized Emco has always been at their Columbia Avenue location. “One woman walked in and said J ‘is this the new building,’” Ross chuckled. ancient.” “Good God, no. It’s Ross said one of the incentives for the improvements was downtown revitalization project. the Parkin said B.C. Hydro, West Kootenay Power and Shaw Cable are all scheduled to remove unsightly overhead cables and run them underground. Bonnett’s and Tulips have already § taken facade improvements into their own hands. “About three years ago we did the inside and we figured we should do the outside too,” Heather Bonnett said. “I wanted it done then so I did it.” But Bonnett doesn’t plan to stop there. She said she’s watching to see how the rest of the downtown revitalization projects develop. “I’m waiting to further advance the “It was expensive, but it was worth it,” she said. “Our building is worth more now.” Under a_ provincial facade 1 outside and fix it up nicely.” ] Tulips owner Kathy Soloveoff also took revitalization on her own volition. “The feedback has been wonderful,” improvement grant, Ross said they will get back one-third of the cost for [7 work on the front of the building, or $350 per lineal metre, whichever is less. Downtown revitalization chair Jack Parkin said the Emco building is a good-looking example of what the improvement project can achieve. But it’s only just the beginning. Work has begun on the 13th Avenue parking lot, but the changes there have been suspended because The evolution of Emco Engineering is clearly demostrated of the weather. Parkin said the with these before and after photographs. Soloveoff said. “We feel (the investment) was worthwhile.” All these improvements are having a pleasant side effect. It seems skin-deep is beauty enough for employees. Ross said it’s a morale booster to be in a building that looks good. “You look at the before picture and after, and it’s so much better going to work in the morning,” Ross said. It appears what is needed now is group participation by the rest of the downtown merchants. “I think this town could look really nice if everyone did their part.” Let’s talk committees. Now that Wednesday’s council session has passed, the numbers are in. The results are confusing. Mayor Audrey Moore has appointed some councillors to twice the committees as others. Now, I figured a person’s workload was dictated by the numbers of committees he or she must represent. Not so, according to Moore. “If you want to count only numbers then you are misleading yourself and the public,” Moore said. Here’s the numbers. Coun. Jim Chapman has five committees. Depending on how you view the chair/co-chair issue, he has no portfolio. Under the old school of thought, he is essentially an alternate for Protective Services. Bottom Line NeiiRACHYNSKI Moore would disagree with me. She said everyone is a co- chair, and no. councillor exclusively oversees a commit- tee™Moore said the responsib- ility is equally shared between the two councillors appointed to each standing committee. But of the four councillors I talked to, all agreed one councillor was a chairperson and the other was a co-chair. At least in past years, anyway. Coun. Kirk Duff has five committees he’s responsible for. Coun. Bob Pakula is in charge six other committees. Coun. Doug Green is next with eight committees to sit on. His prime portfolio is Protective Services. Remember, under the new- improved standing committees, Green and Chapman are both equally responsible for Protective Services. But using the consensus of this past year, Green would be top dog. Coun. Doreen Smecher has been assigned 10 committees. Coun, Lawrence Chernoff tops the list with 12. All told, there are about 46 committees. But keep in mind there is a lot of overlapping taking place — ‘co-chairs’ remember. The count of 46 Disparity of committee loads has me wondering drops when you consider the overlap. Nevertheless, there’s more going on here than your average afternoon soap opera. Smecher has Health and Welfare, but Chernoff is the person appointed to sit on the Castlegar and District Hospital Board. Mayor Moore said that’s because it’s a post she decided last week. I would have thought the person on Health and Welfare would sit on the local hospital board. Abh, but don’t forget it’s 50/50. Chernoff also has Health and Welfare. There seems to be an imbalance. Why would Chernoff have 12 assignments and Chapman only five? Why did few councillors get their Christmas wish? I’ve tallied the numbers. But remember, they’re misleading. @ Saturday, December 19° 1993 198 | ActionADS Display Ad Deadline For Wednesday ACTION ADS — 365-7266 Action Ad Deadline For Saturday __—Ss_—s 5. p.m., Wednesday Display Ad Deadline For Saturday Action Ad Deadline for Wednesday 5 p.m., Tuesday 5 p.m., Monday 5 p.m., Friday Car Pools 15 Lost 33 Work Wanted 126 THE FAR SIDE By GARY LARSON WORK, SCHOOL trips, weekly shop- ping. Cut expenses and save money Get together with a neighbor in our FREE Share-A-Ride column. We'll run your ad 3 issues free of charge. Phone our Action Ad no. 365-7266. Notices 47 MERRY CHRISTMAS AND JOYOUS NEW YEAR to my friends in the Cas- tlegar/Robson area. | miss you. 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