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Wednesday, December 2, 2015
Rosswood shines on Swiss TV
By JACKIE LIEUWEN
THE TINY community of Rosswood north of Terrace and a Swiss family living there have becoming stars of a Swiss reality TV series featuring citizens from that country now living elsewhere. Hermann and Christine Schönbächler and their children emigrated from Switzerland in September 2009, settling in Rosswood. They are now featured with eight other families on the Swiss SRF network program called “Auf und davon” (Up & Away). Here last week filming for a new segment with a crew, program producer Markus Storrer said the program with the Schönbächler family scored extremely high ratings, by far the best of the seven seasons Auf und davon has aired. “They were the most famous in the whole series,” said Storrer, adding that it is largely due to Hermann and the way his appearance personifies his lifestyle. “If you talk to people about Up & Away, most of the people are like ‘ah, that guy with the beard’ … [Hermann] is very unique,” Storrer said.
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JACKIE LIEUWEN PHOTO
ROSSWOOD RESIDENTS Hermann and Christine Schönbächler are the ongoing subjects of a Swiss reality TV series about citizens from that country who have left Switzerland and who now live around the world.
Chinese set sights on next year for park By JOSH MASSEY
The Qinhuangdao Economic and Technological Development Zone (QETDZ) from China has the new year pegged for finalizing engineering plans to begin work on the 1,118 acres at the Skeena Industrial Development Park it purchased from the city last year through a Vancouverbased company. A delegation from the
zone, along with representatives from governments in that area, included a short visit to the site just south of the Northwest Regional Airport Monday as part of a one-day visit to the city. Richard Zhang from Taisheng International Investment Services, which acts for the development zone in Canada, says that master plans for the location, which takes up the majority of the development
park site, have advanced since the spring when work got underway with engineering and consulting company Allnorth. “It’s the first step, we need to follow the bylaws of the city of Terrace,” he said. What this involves is testing for water, establishing possible sewer solutions, electricity, everything that will be needed to make the site viable for investors. While tentative plans
for an alfalfa processing plant have already been announced, the QETDZ is courting other investors contemplating other industrial activity. Right now the site is a forested area with only dirt road access leading off the main paved road at the industrial park. “First we need to make this land ready for the investors, so now we will be working on master planning
for the whole industrial park site,” said Zhang. The alfalfa plant plans call for it to be located on 32 acres, processing the commodity which would be shipped in from growers on the Prairies. After processing the alfalfa would then be exported to China as feed for livestock and for people. Tentative estimates place the number of jobs at the plant in the 170 range.
Zhang added that his firm has kept in touch with Dahui Biotechnology Co. Ltd., the company that would build the alfalfa protein extraction plant. “As far as I know, right now they are doing some investigations for getting the raw materials of the alfalfa and we also help them to consult with the provincial government agricultural ministry,” he said.
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Service honoured
Garbage changes
Fighter dominates
John Jensen is honoured his activit service and work in labour unions \COMMUNITY A10
Residents will be buying new garbage bins to suit new collection system \NEWS A14
Terrace MMA fighter got a big win and is set to fight for #6 rank in January \SPORTS A27