bad Castlegar News 1986 Review, March 30, 1986

D'ARCY SAYS

‘The basis for the West Kootenay's economic salvation is
“the resource industries we have now,” says Rossland-Trail
MLA Chris D’Arey.

And D*Arcy says the provincial government's role is

industries.

‘That doesn't mean ignoring local initiatives, D'Arcy

“I would hope the government would do everything it
ean” to promote local businesses. He pointed to Emma's
Jambrosia, a jam factory based in the Slocan Valley, as a
good example of local initiative — even though the business
failed.

“The initiative, the labor and the business sense was all
here,” says D'Arcy, despite the fact the raw product — fruit
— wasn't.

D'Arcy says the province should continue supporting
local initiatives, though he doesn't suggest “throwing tax
money at ill-conceived projects just to put people to work.”

“We (in the West Kootenay) have all the skills and
initiatives . . . to make a go of anything,” he adds.

D'Arcy says the major difference between this year and
1985 is “the stability in the industrial employment which we
still had last year . . . Since that time there have been
substantial cutbacks.”

He points out that the impact of the provincial water
license fees has grown “a lot more acute” because industries
in this region are “the most electricity price sensitive” of any
in the province.

Cominco located in Trail because of low-priced hydro-
electricity, not because of the ore, D'Arcy said.

He said the $10 million a year in water license fees is
actually a relatively small amount of revenue for the
province, compared to the taxes it would receive if laid off
workers were on the job.

If all 1,800 employees laid off at Cominco over the last
few years were still working, they would generate a payroll
of $72 million, D'Arcy said — and a large chunk of that would
go to the province in taxes.

“This is the argument I have been using with the
government for four or five years now,” he added. “It is well
worth the revenue for government to have these people
working.”

Still, D’Arey said he is “quietly confident” the province
will either reduce its electricity taxes or tie the taxes to the
major selling price of the product, as is done in the forestry
industry with stumpage.

D'Arcy also said future prospects for area resource

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“The worldwide demand for the resources we
here is very strong,” he said. The problem is there are
simply too many producers, pushing prices down.

“Sooner or later some of the producers are going to
have to shut down or cut back,” he said, which will result in
improvements in price.

At that point, local industry should be in a good position
because production costs here are lower than anywhere else.

However, D'Arcy ruled out any return to the boom
years of the 1970s.

D'Arcy said it is also important to bear in mind that
Cominco is one of the few industries in Western Canada
processing raw materials for export.

Cominco doesn't simply mine the ore and ship it out of
the country, he said. It is the kind of secondary
manufacturing politicians say Canada should be doing more
of.

He was also critical of the provincial government and
federal Progressive Conservative's B.C. caucus, noting that
the four vii and Quebec d from the
federal budget with economic concessions.

D'Arcy said B.C., has the same need as those five
provinces, and could have used a package of similar value.

Lumber
company
in its
15th year

Kalesnikoff Lumber Co.
Ltd. is in its 15th year of
operations at its location in
Thrums.

Kalesnikoff Lumber manu-
factures special cut timber
and kiln dried No. 1 and 2
lumber.

In the past year, Kales-
nikoff has added on another
dry kiln charge to the exist-
ing one with a capacity to dry
a quarter of a million foot
board measure of lumber per
week. The mill has also added

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a dry shed measuring 130
feet by 60 feet.

Kalesnikoff Lumber is
owned by the Kalesnikoff
family.

The mill actually has a his-
tory of lot longer than 15
years.

Kalesnikoff started with a
small sawmill in the woods in
China Creek in 1939. In 1953
the mill moved to Robson and
then to Mount Sentinel in
1963,-before making its final
move to Thrums in 1972.

'O HELP...

Glover and Wendy Stock

statf the newly-created West Kootenay Enterprise
Development Centre. Centre provides support to

Centre helps businesses

Renewal and Development
Fund.

Selkirk College and its full
resources are at the disposal
of the centre staff.

A library of resource mat.
erial is being accumulated
which includes audio-visual
tapes in small business and
marketing subject areas;

West Kootenay and Boun-
dary region, and to serve the
entrepreneurial and devel-
opment needs of the small
business sector.

Current clients range from

businesses
culties; and from small man-
ufacturing proposals, to new

data of many var-
ieties to support market re-
search information required
for business proposals; other
teaching aids to assist clients
im understanding the busi-
ness process more clearly.
Space is allocated at the
centre for the use of clients

+ who wish to do some re-

search work on the premises.
Secretarial assistance is also

P ) expan-
sions and purchases of small
businesses.

The centre is a consulting
service with a purpose of ad-
vising clients what needs to
be done and how to do it. The
centre then guides each cli-
ent through each step until a
satisfactory conclusion has
been accomplished, with the
client doing the work as an
educational process.

to various data bank services
in Canada through the Sel
kirk College Library facility.

Should clients require up-
grading or refresher courses
in the many areas of small
business management, the
centre is able to advise the
clients and place them into
courses being run at Selkirk

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“I am delighted to be in
partnership with a commun-
ity such as Castlegar,” Mc-
Clelland said. “We share the
same outlook to the future,
we have the same regard for
hard work, and we both know

well beyond mere rhetoric.
Even a quick look at the min-

partnership
tween public and private
sector.

“We depend on the private
the first

economic developmen
help to small business.

College, or wherever the
courses are being offered.

Should the clients request, regi

staff training needs can be
assessed and activated
through the college.

An advisory board has
been established and ap-
pointed to provide general
direction and policy for the
centre, These members are
successful business owner/
operators, or senior man-

t activities in the region and

maintaining lines of com-
munication throughout the
jon.
It is hoped that residents
in all areas of the college
mandate, who wish to pursue
their ideas for a small bus-
iness operation will take the
opportunity to discuss, and
possibly take enabling action
to make these ideas happen.
The staff of the centre are
Douglas Glover, head of the
‘ pre: ion De-

agement rep of
business, and the financial
community of the region.

In the first month of oper.
ations, the centre has a file of
25 clients in various stages of
the ive process; and

partment of the Castlegar
Campus of Selkirk College.

He brings to his new
additional responsibilities 30
years of practical experience
in small and large business

each day adds to the list of
interested parties taking ad.
vantage of this free service.

The centre is co-operating
with the Selkirk College
Foundation in presenting
seminars to members, and
the community at large. Lia-
ison is being established
between the centre and mu
nicipal economic develop-
ment commissions and com.
mittees, with the objective of

BOB McCLELLAND

area when considering ex-
pansions or new operations,
and actually focuses in on
each par

- ity.

“I am pleased to say that

- Castlegar was among our

many partners in this en
deavor.”

Another local manifesta-
tion of the support of en-

P by the p:
government is the Enter-
prise Centre at Selkirk Col-

The Enterprise Centre
helps in the formulation of

es business skills to owner/

Pp and had his own
consulting business prior to
accepting this responsibility.

His associate is Wendy
Stock, who has had long time
associations with Selkirk Col-
lege, both on the Trail and
Castlegar campuses in sec-
retarial and supervisory cap-
acities. Stock is administer-
ing the general activity of the
office, and also supervises
the 21 students in the Job
Entry program in Castlegar.

spirit of partnership between
Victoria and local commun-
ities in British Columbia can
be complete without includ-
ing the Community Organ-
izations for Economie De-

istry of Industry and Small
Business Development.

By way of this program,
called COED for short, mu-
nicipalities are offered sup-
port for the activities of a
volunteer economic develop-
ment committee or for full-
time, economic development
commissioners.

In addition, the program
offers to match up to $5,000
in local contributions for
special projects which will
raise awareness of local econ-
omic development conditions
and stimulate economic
growth.

“COED is perhaps our
most important connection
with municipalities, in a pro-
gram sense,” stated McClel
land. “It supports the grass-
roots spirit among business,
labor and the public sector

New store
in Nelson

can also buy gifts for 'a lady as we carry some beautiful
store mother-dai partnership with
Sian aan ee ~
But Lonnie's manages to offer friendly professional
service, Lang says.

aggressive stocking
tion and quality service, as

Smaxi's expands

jackets to full leather Can-

adian-made wear.

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tention to our customers,”
Woods says. “One can actu-

‘Caps\ created or directly
printed are a popular item as
well as jacket crests either
silkscreened or embroidered.

Smaxi's new location in the

Nelson Trading Co.

provides
a brighter, fresh location in
an area more central to the

town core, Woods says.

“Many customers had a
hard time finding us before.’

Over the past

sweats.
“We can give personal at-

year,
Smaxi's has added to its
stock of leisure time sweats,
jumpsuits and dressier
ladies’ styles as well as the
custom-order Penman line of

work at Smaxi's from time to
time adding a family feel to
the business.

Her son Scot is an added
bonus.

“Scot has been active in
the area as a Scout and has
been complimentary to out-
of-town visitors as he is con-
versant with where to go and
what to do, be it hiking to
Kokanee Glacier or camping
in the Valhallas,” Woods

Good selection
at A.M. Ford

with Ford — “quality is job

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Smaxi's opened in April
1979 at 253 Baker St. and
launched into silkscreening in
1983. The company acquired
a multi-color printer late this
year as well as a dryer and a
camera to do its own “line”

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