{"id":6839,"date":"2020-08-05T23:36:19","date_gmt":"2020-08-06T03:36:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=6839"},"modified":"2020-11-18T15:24:40","modified_gmt":"2020-11-18T20:24:40","slug":"service-industry-in-smithers-is-booming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/service-industry-in-smithers-is-booming\/","title":{"rendered":"Service industry in Smithers is booming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Photo courtesy of Pamela Haasen<\/em><\/p>\n<p>There are two new businesses in Smithers and the Bulkley Valley that have come at just the right time.<\/p>\n<p>In January of this year, Smithers' only taxi service closed due to lack of drivers and the high demand for the service which lead to a burn out on the owners. A new taxi service is opening this month (August) and it's coming just in time when more restaurants and bars are open and the weather is gorgeous.<\/p>\n<p>Paddy Hirshfield and Patrick Hibbitts are the general managers of BV Taxi and Transportation, which service from Prince George to Prince Rupert.<\/p>\n<p>Also in the news, a zero-waste shop opened in Smithers with warm reception. With a little trepidation, Emilie Schmidt, owner of Rejar Zero Waste, said she was a little nervous and felt that \"the world was against her\" when her business plans were well underway to open and then the pandemic hit.<\/p>\n<p>How could she justify opening a business where you bring your own jars and containers when the world is concerned with sanitization, close spaces and sharing? With a few tweaks, Rejar Zero Waste opened with a boom. Rejar can be found in the alley behind Main Street in between Second and Third Ave in Smithers, BC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo courtesy of Pamela Haasen There are two new businesses in Smithers and the Bulkley Valley that have come at just the right time. In January of this year, Smithers&#8217; only taxi service closed due to lack of drivers and the high demand for the service which lead to a burn out on the owners.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":6841,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[217,218],"tags":[714,715,654,713],"radio":[],"origine":[280,263,231],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6839"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6839\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6839"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=6839"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=6839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}