Chamber hosts banquet for special guests
Chetwynd Chamber of Commerce hosted a banquet at the New Blue Sky Restaurant last Wednesday. Special guests were Jack Greenwood, B C Chamber President, and Jim Fitz Gibbon, Executive Director of the B C Chamber of Commerce, who addressed the gathering. They described the province wide business information access program as a joint effort with the local Chambers, the B C Chamber and the Ministry of Economic Development to aid small businesses.
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Chetwynd Chamber of Commerce
New Blue Sky
Jack Greenwood
B.C. Chamber
Jim Fitz Gibbon
B.C. Chamber of Commerce
Fitz Gibbon
Ministry of Economic Development
Canfor appoints new GM at Chetwynd replaces Hal Smith
Canfor announces Hal Smith leaving his ten year role as General Manager at Chetwynd and A J Bert McGraw named as his successor. McGraw joined Chetwynd management in 1974 with a civil engineering background and professional engineering credentials.
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H.O
Hal) Smith
Balco Industries Ltd
Kamloops
Chetwynd
Hal
A.J
Bert) McGraw
Bert
Association of Professional Engineers of British Columbia
Maritimes Lumber Bureau
Council of Forest Industries
Vancouver
Royal commission flags political choice in BC Rail sale
The report says the British Columbia Railway is uneconomic and should be sold to Canadian National Railway if possible. If CN refuses, the government should shed direct control and allow a Crown corporation to run the line, amid criticism of political motives and subsidies for the Fort Nelson extension aiding two sawmills. The commission warns keeping the line costs the public more than the mills’ payroll.
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Victoria
British Columbia
Royal Commission
B.C
Canadian National Railways
Fort Nelson
Chetwynd Outreach closes and new service site opens
The Canada Employment Centre in Dawson Creek shifts services for Chetwynd residents to the Ministry of Human Resources Office on Wednesdays and Fridays from 10 00 a.m. to 12 00 noon starting December 6 1978. On site employer services continue with counsellor visits while unemployment insurance forms are available at the centre and at the Chetwynd Post Office. Premier Bill Bennett highlighted the Grizzly Valley pipeline project as a major growth milestone for British Columbia, with Westcoast Transmission Ltd. awaiting permit to flow gas and a Pine River processing plant planned to raise capacity to 250 million cubic feet daily next year. The project promises thousands of jobs and substantial gas reserves, boosting provincial and nearby markets.
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Canada Employment Centre
Chetwynd
Bill Bennett
Grizzly Valley
B.C
British Columbia
Westcoast Transmission Ltd
National Energy Board
Hasler Flats
Pine River
Bennett
United States
Westcoast Transmission Company Limited
Mary Buckna Opens Provincial Government Agency Office
Mary A Buckna announces the official opening of the Provincial Government Agency in Your Government Agent area on Wednesday November 22 1978. She holds multiple titles and will represent British Columbia handling licenses permits vital statistics tax and revenue duties.
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Chetwynd
Mary A. Buckna
British Columbia
I.C.B.C
Fisheries and Wildlife Acts
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Fitz Gibbons
Lower Mainland
Canfor
G.A. Patterson
McGraw
H.O. Hal Smith
Ann Tel
Premier Bennett
Bill’ Bennett
Ed Phillips
Don Phillips
Commotion Mountain
Bunne Hoffman
Mary Bukna
Mr. Wau
Dawson Creek
Ministry of Human Resources Office
Mary Buckna
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