TAA Eve tog pea, wes ps hap EP tye 4 ve are _ : | STA Pechd reas: OT RY nay . WEDNESDAY, September 11, 1991 Vol. 7, Issue No. 37 ar j aT a ae | iy nite 7 VE sy Phone 635-7840 Fax 635-7269 a Serving the communities of Terrace, Thornhill, Usk, Cedarvale, Kitwanga, Meziadin, Stewart and the Nass Valley 75 cents plus GST Lake residents want Orenda plan reviewed - Independent environment assessment called for A meeting of the Lakelse Com- munity Association Sunday after- noon for the purpose of discussing the Orenda mill proposal ended with a call for an independent environmental review. According to association chair- man Sandy Sandhals, this means -an- independent consulting firm selected by the Regional District of Kitimat-Stikine and paid for by Orenda. Sandhals is also- the regional board director for the area, | About 20 percent of more than 50 people in attendance at the meeting were Prince Rupert resi- dents who own property at Lakelse Lake, and Sandhals says a second resolution calls on the Major Pro- ject Review Process to insist that Orenda hold a meeting in Prince Rupert as well. Sandhals says the meeting lasted about three hours. Most of the people in attendance, he said, were against the proposal because of its — Continued on page A2 THRILL SEEKERS. Freelance writers like the Terrace Fieview's Stephanie Wiebe (centre) sometimes live life on the edge, and occasionally placid typesetters like Carrie Olson (left) get inexorably dragged into the fast lane as well. The pair got some advice from Terrace Stock Car Association president Guy Lynch last weekend before roaring onto the track in the last avent of the season at the Terrace Speedway. For a report from the driver's seat, see page A10. Solution near for long-term drainage problem on bench Westar mulls sawmill bids The Westar Group opened bids last week for the sale of its forestry branch, Westar Timber, but a company official says _it will be at least a week before they have the offers b cr ee sufficiently analyzed to form a clear picture of the situation. _ "We have no announcement pending. There is tons of paper involved," said Bob Chase, vice-president of finance for Westar Group. He characterized the bids as demonstrating "good, substantial Interest" in the logging and sawmilling operations. In the Northwest Westar owns two sawmills, a whole log chipper and associated timber tenures in the Hazelton and Kitwanga areas. Both mills and their logging operations closed for an indefinite period of time last month, putting about 300 people out of work. Westar also has mills in Vanderhoof, Castlegar and Malakwa. The timber assets are being sold to pay down the company’s debt. After the sale Westar Group’s assets would consist of coal mines in southeastern B,C. and the Roberts Bank bulk terminal south of Vancouver, Chase said 11 parties have bid on Westar T: imber, either as a totality or in separate components. A permanent solution for the ponding problem in the Heek Brook ravine may finally be at hand. After Stan Kinkead of Sam- son's Poultry Farm installed a 10- inch culvert last year to drain the pond, it was declared inadequate for the job by the Water Manage- ment Branch. In January of this year Kinkead was ordered by the Water Manage- ment Branch to submit a plan pre- pared by a professional engineer that would provide a better sol- ution. A deadline to start the work was set at April 30, but before the process cven got off the ground, Kinkead appealed the order. Now, Kinkead has submitted a new proposal and it appears it may it would be about 2.5 metres or a be a workable plan if Kinkead can come up with some satisfactory answers to a few technical ques- tions. Wilf Dreher of the Water Man- agement Branch in Smithers says he has studied Kinkead’s proposal and says it will work if it’s done right. He explains Kinkead has proposed digging a ditch the length of the fill downsircam of the pond in the Heek Brook ravine and using a large culvert as an outlet down the west end embankment. Dreher says that such a ditch would have io be decp enough to drain the entire Heek Brook ravine, and that means at the deepest point little over eight feet deep and about 30 feet wide. The sides would slope 45 degrees to the ’V’ bottom and the entire ditch would slope 0.5 percent towards the outlet, Kinkead’s plans are now in the hands of the appeal branch in Victoria, who will probably approve the project if they receive appropriate and satisfactory answers to Dreher’s concetns. . These concerns include the slope of the ditch — Kinkead had sug- gested 0.0 percent siope — the depth of the inlet end of the ditch, and the culvert design at the outlet end of the ditch. The Skeena Valley Fall Fair, a review and the results — B5-8 xiv nee re a ne