AG - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, July 2, 2003

Pot smokers weren’t causing
any trouble on these nights

Dear Sir:
I read with interest two
Tecent stories reported in The

CORRESPONDENCE FOR THE TERRACE STANDARD

Terrace Standard. The first
being about havoc wreaked
on a local campground over
the May long week end. Six-
teen youths and young adults
held in the drunk tank, seven
roadside suspensions were
issued and two impaired
charges resulted. Many alcohol confiscations were made,

The second story a couple weeks ugo reported the po-
lice broke up a large party of 400 youths and young
adults in a North Terrace neighbourhood. Huge amounts
of alcohol were seized and destroyed.

Where was the pot smoking youth? Probably at home |

watching movies, playing video games and waiting for
pizza to be delivered. I think it’s about time we revisit
our drinking age.

The Mail Bag

It’s common knowledge that road racing, vandalism,

‘reckless behaviour and other bad choices are made

while under the influence of alcohol,
Where was M.A.D.D. or other groups, police and con-

“cerned parents when the drinking age was lowered 30

years ago? What message does this send our youth?
The medical scientific communities readily acknowl-
edge alcohol as being far more harmful than marijuana.
Bob Erb, Terrace, B.C.

OUT WITH the old in with the new as Dennis Zur-
owski and Stuart McCormack (top) remove asbes-
las from the old Skeena Junior school while Dan-
ny Roy (right) puts on a coat of paint on the new
Skeena Junior school. JESSIE GIES PHOTOS

School demo
work underway

DEMOLITION of the old Skeena Jr. Secondary School
has begun and will continue on through the summer ac-
cording, to Todd Hollett, vice-principal of the school.

Crews are slowly removing items such as lockers and
sinks that can be used in the new building, now under
construction, Hollett said half of the old school’s reus-
able contents have been moved to the new Skeena and
the upper floor of the new building has been waxed.

Crews will begin to tear down old Skeena beginning
this week, according to Fred Deleu of Swagger Con-
struction, the company that is building the new schocl.

Deleu declined to comment on when the new school
will be finished.

Hollett said the new school will open for the new
school year beginning Sept. 2, but staff will move into
the building beforehand. “Our hope is to be unpacked by
mid-August,” Hollett said. .

Other items from the old school that are reusable,
such as doors and windows, will be auctioned off some-
time this summer. The date has yet to be announced.

Pine blight cost fix
remains a bit murky

IT’S NOT yet clear who will have to
pay to deal with an epidemic of Dothi-
stroma needle blight threatening lod-
gepole pine forests in the region.

Responsibility for replacing blighted
stands could fall to the provincial gov-
ernment - rather than forest companies
—if the timber is old enough to have
been declared “free growing.” ,

The blight now infects forest stands
covering 50,000ha, including the Ter-
race area, the Nass and: high concen-
trations in the Kispiox and Cranberry
areas along Hwy37.

It is a killer fungus, destroying any.

market potential that could have arisen
from logging.

It could also mean big costs for the
Nisga’a Lisims Government in dealing
with the sizable infestation of timber

on Nisga’a lands.

“Our forestry staff have confirmed
it’s a problem that's getting worse,”
said Collier Azak, lands and resource
director for the Nisga’a Lisims Govern-
ment. ©

The Nisga'a treaty makes the
Nisga’a government responsible. for
dealing with any forest health problem
that threatens timber on adjacent
Crown land.

But it also says the province must
take: “all reasonable. measures” for a
problem on Crown timber that threa-
tens Nisga’a forests and compensate
the Nisga‘a for any loss of timber if
those efforts fail.

“We're scrambling, looking for sup-

port from the ministry of forests and
the licensees,” Azak said.

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