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THE VOICE OF BUSINESS

Claudia Blair - Executive Director, Ken Wilson, Angela Sommer - President, and Jason Ryll Past President, celebrating Ken’s Fellow Award for outstanding service

at the BC Chamber AGM & Conference last week.

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NEWSLETTER Williams Lake & District Chamber of Commerce2 - SUMMER EDITION

The Williams Lake & District Chamber of Commerce is proud to be the ‘Voice of Business’. It is my great honor to serve as the chair for the Williams Lake & District Chamber of Commerce for a second year. The past six months have been busy for the Chamber, meeting with many levels of government, community groups and businesses to help Williams Lake continue to be a vibrant and business friendly community. Your board and staff have been working hard on behalf of our members by developing policies that will impact the Forestry and Resource Development Sectors and our delegation presented those policies at the Annual BC Chamber AGM at the end of May. Policy development is our most important means to present the needs and requirements of our local members on the provincial and national government level. Many of our past policies are making an impact in our province and we are always happy to share what the Chamber is doing. Our local strategic plan has been reviewed and is in the process of being updated. I am always amazed and impressed by our local business community recognized at the Business Excellence awards. It is a fantastic showcase of what Williams Lake has to offer and recognizes businesses of all sizes and across all sectors.Summer is the busy season at the Visitor Centre and our knowledgeable staff is making sure to showcase what Williams Lake and area has to offer to the many tourists that stop in. I am looking forward to summer, working with the Chamber’s board and staff and to continue being the ‘Voice of Business’ in our community. I am proud to be a member of a strong and active Chamber that makes a difference.

Angela SommerPresident, Williams Lake & District Chamber of Commerce

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The Williams Lake & District Chamber of Commerceis “The Voice of Business”: Businesses working together towards economic and social well being to make our community a better place to live. We promote the well being of business and foster a work, shop and play at home atmosphere.

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EXECUTIVEPresident - Angela Sommer

1st Vice PresidentCharlene Harrison

2nd Vice PresidentScot Durward

Past President - Jason RyllDirectors

Mike AustinTammy Deausy

Mark DorattiLyla Floberg

Brian GoodrichSarah HutchinsKathy McLean

Vanessa RiplingerRoger Solly

Elmer ThiessenKen Wilson

StaffClaudia Blair, Executive DirectorJaylyn Byer, Executive Assistant

NEWSLETTERWilliams Lake & District Chamber of Commerce SUMMER EDITION - 3

FromClaudia’s Desk by Claudia Blair

As the tourism season is upon us we really need assistance from our members; we need to know if you have any events happening and in particular the tourism operators. Keep it simple, call, drop in, or email information on your business like events, special activities and/or things that would interest people to stay an extra hour or day at your place or in our area. The visitor information counsellors answer questions daily on our community and area, and the number one question is what should I see and do while I am in the area. So your information is vital to helping keep people here. To provide details call 250-392-5025, or go into the Williams Lake Visitor Facebook at www.tourismwilliamslake.com or email [email protected]. We believe the residents here were happy to hear that there will be a 0% increase in property taxes this year. There are lots of positive things going on and we look forward to seeing even more happening for our community. The BC Chamber and the Canadian Chamber work with local Chambers like us to foster a strong, competitive economic environment that benefits businesses of all sizes in all sectors across Canada. To meet this goal, they engage the government directly on issues that are critical to the Canadian economy. They rely on the work of local Chambers like us through our Policy committee. We are happy to say that our Policy Committee was successful in having our forestry policy accepted at the BC Chamber AGM recently. We also supported a number of resolutions that affect the majority of the province. One of the resolutions that passed calls for a dialogue towards a made in BC value added tax (VAT), and in the shorter term, measures to mitigate the damaging effects of PST. “Every extra day British

Columbia operates under the broken and archaic PST, we do our economy, our businesses, and our residents a major disservice,” said Maureen Kirkbride, BC Chamber interim CEO. Congratulations to Ken Wilson on being recognized so highly by the province in becoming a Fellow of the BC Chamber of Commerce. This was a tribute to all that Ken has done not only for our community but for the BC Chamber of Commerce as he served as their director for a few terms. He volunteered to travel to many communities in our region helping with chamber issues. It’s not too late to complete your census questionnaire (outreach continues until end of June). Go to www.census.gc.ca to complete it online. Enter your 16-digit secure access code and follow the instructions. If you received a census letter, your secure access code is located at top of the page. If you received a paper census questionnaire, your secure access code is located at the top right corner of the first page. Alternatively, you can complete a paper copy and return it in the green envelope accompanying the questionnaire. Complete your questionnaire today. It’s important! For more information, visit www.census.gc.ca or call 1-855-700-2016. Respondents who use TTY (a telecommunications device for people who are deaf) can call 1-866-753-7083. We are looking forward to some great events coming up in Williams Lake soon; Williams Lake Stampede and BIA downtown street party, ArtWalk, Harvest Fair, and many other volunteer lead initiatives. Show your pride, give of your time, get involved, participate, and enjoy what our wonderful community and region has to offer.

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Williams Lake in the summer is an exciting, vibrant place to be and this summer promises to be no different. From breathtaking mountain scenery and cool, deep blue lakes for fishing, the Cariboo Chilcotin Coast offers so much to our many visitors and our local people alike.

In the City, the Williams Lake Stampede starts June 30 – July 3 and will kick off the summer season with a lot of fun, rodeo, and entertainment down at the Stampede Grounds; and line the streets in the downtown for the Daybreak Rotary parade. The entire community can celebrate as usual with the Williams Lake BIA street party which takes place Saturday July 2.

Performances in the Park will be taking place every Thursday starting July 7th and continuing until August 25th. Free to the public, this is a fabulous event.

The Taseko>Gibraltar Mine tours will happen 4 times this year, call the Chamber office to book your spot, spaces are limited 250-392-5025.

If you would like to see more rodeo action and cheer on more cowboys, come in to the Visitor Centre and pick up your BCRA events brochure

see when and where the rodeos are happening. The rodeos are always popular with our visitors and you will hear many foreign accents mixed in with the local talk in the spectator stands.

Here at the Williams Lake Visitor Centre we offer a variety of colourful, local wares to both the travelling

public and locals. Come in and do some shopping; pick up some Williams Lake-branded merchandise including Pioneer Log Homes for your friends and family, and support the year round operation of the Visitor Centre.

On behalf of everyone working at the Visitor Centre this summer: Enjoy the lovely season and have a Happy Summer!

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Mayor’s Message by Mayor Walt Cobb

Time continues to fly and now summertime has arrived in the Cariboo again! It seems to have started a little early this year but we will take it - hopefully we don’t pay for it until at least November.

Thanks again to the Chamber for all you do for our community. Where would we be without our valued volunteers, who are the strength and heart of our community? We cannot operate without your tireless dedication, which positively influences all aspects of our Cariboo lifestyle.

It is my pleasure to welcome all our visitors from near and far to Williams Lake and area. Just a reminder that, due to the early warm weather, please be careful with your campfires. Make

sure they are completely out. Forestry is our bread and butter and we want to make lumber for housing from those trees, not have them burned to the ground.

Williams Lake has many exciting events happening this summer including a Multicultural Pow Wow, the Elders Gathering, Performances in the Park on Thursday evenings, and the 90th Anniversary of our Famous Williams Lake Stampede. The

planning for these events is well underway, and I encourage everyone to take advantage of all of the opportunities to get out and enjoy these activities.

Summer is a great time to play in Williams Lake. Enjoy our first-class golf course, our exciting mountain bike trails and the many fishing and recreation lakes within minutes of our core downtown shopping area.


BUSINESS PROFILE Adventure GamesAre you tired of hearing, “there’s nothing to do” and “I’m bored” from the young people in your house? Send them down to 83c Second Ave in Williams Lake where they’ll find Adventure Games. This unique store and gaming lounge supplies all the fantasy games and accessories loved by gamers young and old and even has space available for playing the games. Dungeons and Dragons, Halo and Magic Cards are just some of the many adventure games available here.

Bryton Kaufman has owned and operated this store for two years now and he is enjoying his role in Williams Lake’s gaming community. Adventure Games supports the community by hosting tournaments in their Gaming Lounge and supplying prizes. In between tournaments, players can also spread out over the big tables in the lounge and enjoy playing adventures like table-top war games.

The customers here are great and Bryton has expanded into an on-line store in order to serve them even better. You can find them at adventuregamesinc.ca or even on Facebook. The gaming community in Williams Lake is small as yet, but it is growing and with support from a business like this, there’s no reason for anyone to say there’s nothing to do in Williams Lake. All you need is your imagination and a deck of magic cards or a board game.

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Blocks R Us is a perfect place to spend a sunny spring afternoon. Their colourful garden centre, innovative planters and inspiring outdoor kitchen make this a great place to look, wander around, and plan your own yard makeover. For Mothers Day this year the outdoor pizza oven was fired up and happy crowds were fed pizza while they gloried in the colour and atmosphere at Blocks R Us.

Owner Fred Ball has been in this business for 22 years with different partners along the way. The community of Williams Lake has treated him and his partners well and he couldn’t be happier with the way things have turned out. Fred and his current partner, Wayne, have expanded the business and added the garden centre three years ago.

Blocks R Us is located on the Soda Creek Road, just past West Fraser Mill. They are easy to find: turn onto the Soda Creek Road across Mackenzie Avenue from Glendale School and drive just over two kilometres until you see the big sign and the driveway on your right.

Blocks R Us carries concrete blocks in all shapes and sizes as well as topsoil, turf and mulch, hanging baskets for your garden, decorative rocks, planters, fountains and garden decorations. They are also a licensed manufacturer for Terra Force Retaining products and they ship all over the Cariboo and beyond. Last year, they even shipped products to Edmonton. Cariboo-area customers often come in from Quesnel and 100 Mile House.

Here you can come in and buy 1 block or hundreds. If you are a do-it-yourself’er, Fred and Wayne are available to give you advice and point you in the right direction. They’ll act as consultants and give you a demo, if you want one. If on the other hand, you are new to landscaping, Fred and Wayne will create your yard for you. They have been shown weed-covered lots and told, “Do

your magic.” You need to book them well ahead for that though, they are very busy.

The business operates year-round but it is at its peak in the spring and block making and installation are seasonal.

One of Blocks R Us’s biggest projects has been Williams Lake’s downtown Spirit Square. That installation helped them to win the Chamber of Commerce’s Manufacturer of the Year Award.

So whether you are upgrading a huge yard or lot, or you just need a couple of blocks to set off that flowerbed, come in to Blocks R Us and talk to Fred and Wayne. Your yard will be glad you did!

BUSINESS PROFILE Blocks R Us

Tel: 250-392-2395 • Fax: 250-398-7423 • [email protected] - 235 Oliver Street, Williams Lake, BC V2G 1M2

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Explore the garden centre at Blocks R Us


BUSINESS PROFILE IBEAsIan, Brenda, Eric, Andrea and now Sophia Hughes. IBEAs (the acronym formed from the first initial of each name) is a family-owned business that has been operating in Williams Lake since 2007. Andrea Hughes and her mother Brenda are the main partners involved in IBEAs quilting and fabric store while Andrea’s father Ian and brother Eric are silent supporters, behind the scenes. As for Andrea’s daughter Sophia, well time will tell.

IBEAs started in a small location at the very end of the strip mall on 3rd Ave downtown in Williams Lake. Every year the store and business expand a little more and now IBEAs is located in a larger location on the other end of the same strip mall. Long-time quilting customers and new customers looking for fabric, yarn, embroidery, cross-stitching supplies or even ceramics come into the store from all over the Cariboo region including Prince George, 100 Mile House and Bella Coola.

In addition to selling Baby Lock and Janome sewing machines, Andrea services machines, cleaning and repairing them both locally and as far away as Kamloops. Sewing machine maintenance and repair is a big part of the business as are the two-day in-depth beginner quilting classes that Andrea teaches.

The fabric sold in the store here is high-quality, quilt worthy fabric and Andrea concedes that quilting is an expensive hobby. It is also a very popular hobby. She is just back today, the day of our interview, from a quilt show in Prince George that drew visitors and vendors from all over northern BC.

A small, family-run business that just keeps growing, IBEAs has a very comfortable and supportive feel to the store and welcoming, bright displays that make even a non-sewer think she might like to learn how to quilt...or knit...or paint ceramics. Just watch out that you don’t step on Abby, the store’s little black dog

mascot. She is as much a fixture here as the fabric, the needles, the sewing machines, the buttons and the helpful and friendly people staffing the store.

Andrea Hughes is one of the partners of IBEAs

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Tolko is committed to the well-being of future generations through responsible operational and environmental performance. Our Woodlands departments hold third-party certification on the forestlands they sustainably manage in British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba.

Tolko is a proud supporter and partner of the community of Williams Lake and the Cariboo region.


BUSINESS PROFILE Thompson River University (TRU)The Thompson Rivers University commencement was held on May 20th this year and there were 250 certificates given out to graduates amongst all the various diplomas and degrees on offer to TRU Williams Lake students. To say this university is kind of a big deal here is absolutely right. While higher education models haven’t changed much in the last 100 years at large universities, smaller universities like Williams Lake’s TRU can be much more flexible in meeting the demands of their communities. According to Ray Sanders, Executive Director of TRU’s Williams Lake campus, TRU prides itself on meeting the demands of Williams Lake and its outlying centres for quality higher education. TRU is specifically trying to integrate with the community and be responsive to the needs for post-secondary education, including all the trades and health services, in all outlying areas of our Cariboo-Chilcotin region. When it comes to local education, Ray’s challenge is to ensure that TRU balances costs, quality and access. In other words, anyone, anywhere can receive higher education for reasonable cost. As part of that effort, TRU has gone to what is called a “Block Blended Modality”, offering demand-oriented 6-week long courses which are available on-line and are interactive. This institution has a long history in Williams Lake. From its start as Cariboo College up on Hodgson Road through its time as the University College of the Cariboo, to its present reality as Thompson Rivers University on the end of Western Avenue and its partnership with the campus of Thompson Rivers University in

Kamloops, this is a campus who’s economic impact has always been large for its physical presence in our city. It is also a campus that is growing every year and shows a strong potential for including the larger part of its end of Western Avenue within its physical campus. With fourteen acres of land to expand into, the TRU campus at its full size would easily anchor the western end of the Williams Lake. An important part of TRU’s success is no doubt due to its emphasis on partnerships within the community. From trades diplomas to undergraduate degrees, TRU keeps a finger on the needs of our community and city and keeps on filling those needs. 250 happy, recent graduates can attest to that.

The inviting front entrance to TRU’s Williams Lake campus


BUSINESS PROFILE Whispering Willows CampsiteThis quiet, friendly and small campsite is located on Highway 97 22 kilometres north of Williams Lake. Eight brand new, pull-thru and full service sites have been recently added to this campsite and in addition to the six sites beside the creek which offer power and water and the twelve tent sites, this campground is more than ready to serve your camping needs this summer. Washrooms and showers are available on site, as is firewood and the campground can easily host your family gathering, your company picnic, or even your wedding.

Whispering Willows is run by the Xatsull First Nation under the guidance of Community Economic Development Coordinator Miriam Schilling. The campsite and the nearby Xatsull Heritage Village work well together with campers able to travel the short distance between the two sites to experience something different from what most campgrounds have to offer. In addition, new Mountain Bike trails are under construction and a Facebook presence has been established to encourage more visitors to the campsite. The biggest new asset though, is that the new full service camping sites are pull-thru. A lot of Whispering Willows traffic is on its way north to Alaska in the summer and the “big rigs” like the convenience of this friendly little campsite that allows them to simply pull through the site of their choice, without having to back up or even turn around.

There is a campground host on site to help with any problems or questions campers may have and side trips to the Xatsull Heritage Village are easily arranged. Besides finding the campground on Facebook, the staff can be contacted via email at [email protected] or by telephone at 250-989-2311. The campground is expecting to be

full for Stampede this year and then again for the following Elders Gathering in Williams Lake but you can contact them at any time when you want a quiet, relaxing camping adventure for yourself or your family.

Whispering Willows Campsite just minutes north of Williams Lake

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Summer 2016Nestled in the heart of the beautiful Cariboo-Chilcotin, Williams Lake offers a unique mix of rural charm and urban excitement that attracts visitors from near and far during the summer months.

One of our best-known events, the Williams Lake Stampede, will be celebrating its 90th anniversary over the July long weekend. The Stampede will once again feature top cowboys from Canada and the United States for an exhilarating weekend of Canadian Professional Rodeo Association action.

For those who would like to discover the history of the Williams Lake area, there is no better place to start than the Museum of the Cariboo Chilcotin. This museum includes a fascinating look at our region’s ranching and cowboy history, and also features the B.C.Cowboy Hall of Fame.

Culture enthusiasts will want to visit the Xatśūll Heritage Village, located a 30-minute drive north of Williams Lake on Highway 97. Operated by the Soda Creek First Nation, this village provides visitors with the opportunity to experience Shuswap First Nations culture first-hand. Visitors can try traditional meals, enter pit houses and teepees, listen to elders’ stories, and view ancient petroglyphs and artifacts on site.

Those who prefer to spend their days exploring the great outdoors will have plenty to do in our area. The Cariboo-Chilcotin offers numerous pristine lakes that are ideal for fishing, canoeing, and other water sports. Mountain-biking is also extremely popular in our region – riders can now download the TrailMapps: Williams Lake app on their phone to find the best trails in the Williams Lake area.

With so much to do in Williams Lake, it’s hard to know where to start. I encourage both visitors and residents to stop at the Tourism Discovery Centre, and start planning a perfect summer vacation (or staycation) in the Cariboo Chilcotin.

by Cariboo-Chilcotin MLA Donna Barnett

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BUSINESS PROFILE Sugar Cane Treadpro

MECHANICAL SERVICES• Two Licensed Mechanics with 20

Plus year of experience each.• Two Tire Technicians with two

years of experience each.• Full Engine and other Diagnosis on

all makes• Oil Changes with Multi-Point

Inspections• Major Repairs / Minor Repairs• Four Bays with three Hoists• Wheel Alignments• Full Tire Sales and Service• Two Courtesy Vehicles

TIRE SERVICES• Light Duty and Heavy

Duty Truck Tires• Hankook, Cooper,

Kumho, Trail Hog• Passenger Car Tires• All Terrain Tires• Logging Truck Tires on request• Wheel Balancing and Alignment

VEHICLE ACCESSORIES• Floor Mats• Custom Bumpers• Steel Wheels in various styles ,

colours, for all vehicles• Mud Flaps• Batteries• Visors• Exhaust• Lighting • Running Boards

Sugar Cane Treadpro Corporation is wholly owned by the Williams Lake Indian Band. It was established in the Fall of 2009. It is located at 2579 Cariboo Highway South, 10km south of Williams Lake on the Cariboo Highway South. Sugar Cane Treadpro offers the following services:

Please drop in to see Kristin Luscombe at the Shop who will provide you with exceptional service and a friendly helpful smile. She can book your vehicle in for diagnosis and repairs or quotes for service or work to be done on your Car, Truck or Vehicle.

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BUSINESS PROFILE Sugar Cane PetroleumSugar Cane Petroleum Products Corporation is wholly owned by the Williams Lake Indian Band. The Business operates under the name “Chief Will Yum Gas Bar and Store” and has been in existence since 1994 and is in its 22nd year of operation! John Sam is the store manager and joined the Store in October 2014; Phyllis Webstad is the Assistant Manager who also joined at the same time. Chief Will Yum Gas Bar / Imperial Esso Core Values:

• To deliver quality products that customers can trust.

• To employ friendly, helpful people.• To provide speedy, reliable and friendly

service.• To provide clean, attractive and well

maintained retail facilities.• To Be Responsible environmentally

conscious neighbour. In July of 2015 the business signed an agreement with Parkland Fuel Corporation, Red Deer Alberta to become an Esso Dealer. Since then they have improved the canopy of the business with improved lighting, and the Esso Signs on both sides of the canopy. The business offers easy access from the South with a ramp off of Highway 97, and also has access from the north with a left hand turn lane. Chief Will Yum is open from 8:00 am every day and closes at 10:00 pm during the summer months. In the fall and winter the hours are from 8:00 am to 8:00 pm daily. Products offered are as follows:

• Diesel regular and premium Gasoline• In Store confectionary carrying beverages i.e.

coffee, Pepsi and Coca Cola products, Red bull and Crazy Horse Energy Drinks from an Alexis Creek First Nation

• Local handmade native crafts including earrings, beadwork, pine needle crafts, and other handmade items

• Fireworks are available• Oil , and other auto and truck lubricants• Lotto and Keno tickets • Tobacco Products to both Status and non

status customers• Tax exempt sales for both Tobacco and Motor

Fuels sold for Status card holders. Plans are underway to upgrade the Tanks so that a larger supply of Regular Fuel is available. The bathrooms will be renovated this coming fall to provide for two customer bathrooms. They offer a discount of .035 cents per litre for Chamber members and also a plan available for businesses in the area that offers .06cents per litre discount. Please come in for friendly, reliable, quick service for your motor fuel needs and also beverages, ice, coffee, and road snacks prior to your journey. Thank you and we look forward to meeting you and serving you.

Phone (250) 296-4522 • Fax (250) 296-3576Facebook/ Chief Will Yum Gas Bar

2581 CARIBOO HIGHWAY SOUTH, WILLIAMS LAKE, BC V2G 5L2

Chief Will Yum Gas Bar /Imperial Esso


The Williams Lake & District Chamber of Commerce and All-Ways Travel have partnered to offer an incredible trip called Discover China! As an exclusive benefit for Chamber members we are partnering with Citslinc International Inc. to provide an 11 day, all-inclusive tour of Beijing, Suzhou, Hangzhou, and Shanghai for $2,299 per person on October 14, 2016. Citslinc is one of the largest providers of foreign tours to China and works exclusively with over 800 Chambers of Commerce in Canada and the US. We partnered with All-Ways Travel, our local travel experts in Williams Lake to help streamline this trip for everyone. Members must be in good standing with the chamber to qualify.

This fully escorted trip is meant to be an introduction to the people, history, culture, commerce, and daily life of this exciting country. The itinerary is packed with sights and activities that will give you a full and rewarding experience. Your trip includes airfare, 4 and 5 star accommodation, meals and much more. Deadline for full payment and registration is July 15, 2016.

To find out more call our office at 250-392-5025 or to reserve call All-Ways Travel at 250-392-6581.

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The Williams Lake Tourism Discovery Centre recently received recognition having been voted as one of the top 10 favourite Visitor Centres for 2016 by RV West magazine readers.RVWest is a valued publication in the RV world and we are thrilled that their readers choose us. Readers come from across Canada and parts of the United States.Amanda McQuarrie of Koocanusa Publications Inc. Distribution contacted us to let us know we were one of the recipients of this and gave us our certificate. She advised that this is a yearly award saying “Your business has been selected by our readers as one of the best in the 10th annual RV West Magazine – Reader’s Choice Awards.”Our staff was thrilled when they were told and look forward to another great season doing their best for the visitors and our centre.

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The Williams Lake Biomass Facility, owned and operated byAtlantic Power, primarily consumes wood residues fromlocal sawmills producing enough power to provide theelectricity needs of 52,000 homes in British Columbia.

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Visitor Centre staff getting ready for the summer 2016 season


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British Columbia took over as Canada’s economic star Thursday, with government figures showing it grew the fastest among 10 provinces last year while Alberta’s output fell to last place on lower oil prices.

Gross domestic product grew 3 per cent in B.C. in 2015, the fastest since 2006, on gains in real estate, retailing and manufacturing. Output in Alberta fell by 4 per cent on the energy rout, making it Canada’s worst performer. The oil-producing province had led a year earlier, when it posted 4.5 per cent growth.

British Columbia was also the top province in a jobs report recently; with its unemployment rate falling to the lowest in Canada for the first time in records back to 1976. The changing fortunes of the two westernmost provinces will continue this year, with economists surveyed by Bloomberg predicting Alberta’s GDP will fall 0.9 per cent compared with 2.6 percent growth in British Columbia.


Hey, what’s happening with you, our members! Here’s some chatter...

Christina Roderus at the Williams Lake and District Credit Union wants you to know that some choices matter. Banking local is important. Support and choose your community! We pride ourselves on our community involvement and love what we do to help their members.

•••Walk-Rite Shoes, Western Canada’s second largest independent shoe retailer is expanding! They are opening a second location May 3rd at 1249 4th Avenue (Specialty Avenue), Prince George. Melanie says “We will be carrying the same great quality brands we have in Williams Lake with many choices to choose from”.

•••Tom Wittal has a couple of things to pass along from E.B.Horsman; E.B.Horsman has been named to Canada’s top 50 Best Managed Companies for the 6th year in a row, and has since hired a new inside sales person, Nancy

Rose has moved up here from Vancouver with her husband and three children, they are excited to have her join them. Great news, welcome and congratulations!

•••Owners Seralyn and Darcy Carrier of All West Freight are happy to announce they have moved to a new location effective April 1. They are located now at 1210 Borland Road near Scout Island. They purchased their building in mid February and look forward to serving their new and existing customers even better in the new location. They are happy to announce that with this move they have changed their schedule to offer more options for all clients with more trips to Bella Coola and area. Darcy and drivers travel to Bella Coola Mondays through Thursdays and to Anahim Lake on Fridays. They still provide local freight service and daily trips to 100 Mile. For more information drop in or call 250-392-6542.

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Ken Wilson celebrated with

Fellow AwardThe BC Chamber, together with Chamber delegates from across the province, celebrated the tremendous contributions of the Williams Lake & District Chamber’s Ken Wilson at the BC Chamber AGM & Conference last week.

At the Chair’s Inaugural Dinner on May 31, Judi Ainsworth, a BC Chamber fellow and retired executive director of the North Vancouver and Qualicum Beach chambers, presented Ken with the BC Chamber Fellow Award. The award recognizes individuals who have given exemplary and outstanding service to the Chamber of Commerce network in British Columbia.

Ken was recognized for his remarkable service to the Chamber network, including 30 years of Chamber membership, 25 years on the Williams Lake & District Chamber Board, and more than three terms of service as a district director for the BC Chamber.

In presenting the award, Judi said, “The Williams Lake & District Chamber of Commerce, BC Chamber of Commerce and the community of Williams Lake should be thankful for Ken’s passion of Chamber work. May it long be contagious for all!”

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WASHINGTON D.C. — The federal government is preparing to introduce legislation that will establish rules for a new border-crossing experiment that could change the way travellers enter the U.S. It will spell out the rights and responsibilities of U.S. customs agents working on Canadian soil, under the preclearance project recently announced by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and President Barack Obama.

The project will expand a system already in place for air travel — where passengers at major airports clear customs before taking off, and skip potentially longer lines in the U.S. Announced during Trudeau’s first official visit to Washington, preclearance is being extended to land travel with the first pilot projects occurring at train stations in Vancouver and Montreal. “We’re going to be aiming for a spring introduction,” said Chrystia Freeland, the Minister who runs the cabinet committee on Canada-U.S. relations.

Freeland said the new rules for land travel will be based on existing ones for airports. Preclearance is already the norm at eight airports and is being introduced in Quebec City and downtown Toronto. Under the 2001 airport deal, American agents can detain travellers in Canada — but it would be up to domestic police services to make a formal arrest. Also, American officers can be present for a strip search, but not when it involves travellers of the opposite sex. Other provisions govern the ability of agents to carry firearms.

“This is not a newfangled thing. We have preclearance (at airports),” Freeland said in an interview. “It works very well for Canadians, and that’s why we’re keen to extend it and formalize the structure a bit more.” Preclearance could potentially become widespread with people clearing customs at major train stations, bus stations and even off the side of highways

before they reach the border. Freeland said the governments are approaching it one initiative at a time.

The Canadian government has apparently concluded that the economic benefit warrants the costs. Canada will pay for U.S. customs infrastructure on

Canadian soil. “We’re ready to do that,” Finance Minister Bill Morneau told reporters during a trip to Washington recently.

“We want to have the best possible flow of people, goods and services. So making an investment in that regard would make sense. Every one of these specific decisions will have to be taken on its specific merits.”

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Are you looking for more options to play outside in our area…….The 11 hole par 3 Firemen’s Links golf course at Chimney Lake has undergone some improvements you may be interested in hearing about. In addition to new mats on all the tee boxes, each hole has two new signs, one showing yardage and one paying tribute to a business that has made donations in the past. This is a course where you can relax and have fun. The cost for unlimited daily play is $10 per adult and $ 2 for children under 12 years of age. Be sure to ring the fire bell after you have

completed the third hole!

The Landholders Association is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year and one event to mark the occasion is the Silver Dollar Golf tournament on June 25th. The entry fee is $20. Please call

the chairman of the Golf Committee to reserve your spots; 250- 392-3985.

The community hall (with kitchen) beside the course is available for company rentals at a discounted price for Chamber of Commerce members. Please reserve your date by calling 250-392-6493.

Chimney and Felker Lakes Golf Course


Networking with the ChamberHighlights

Chamber meetings provide the best

opportunties to meet others

Storytelling workshop put

on by the CCCTA provided

ideas and ways to market

your business

Premier Clark speaking at the Williams Lake & District Chamber of Commerce meeting March 31st in Williams Lake

Pacific Coastal provided an update on their business at the General Meeting

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