“1 Legislative Library ’ Parliment Buildings ‘|; Victoria, B, c, V8V+124 4 Serving the. Progiessive.. ', ddavary 9-29, 1984 “Lorenzon. of. Terrace. In MAlfis “Memoriat :-Hospltal. ‘Jerrace’s. New Year's baby ie ‘tiny. Elaine ‘only’ four pounds,- four. ounces. Marie: born Jan.-1 to: Maxine: George and Tony. 1984's first arrival. was born at 7:50 a.m. on New Year's Day, and weighed In‘at a took i a while for mom and child to get feeling well enough to - _ have thelr phote taken, but here Is five-day-old “Elaine Marie with: her mother and father, In: ‘ Ahelr room ‘at Mills Memorial. Herald, Stott’ Writer’ . feason of programs on Monday, Jan. 14 and Northwest Conmemuity College will be a part.of it. - ar a ‘The Business of Management: is the title of. a a course — ‘produced by Northwest Community. College and being : offered for credit through the Knowledge Network: Glen Mitehell, of the networks public affairs aection, says, ~ NCC expects to get inyolved in producing more TV credit *., Courses. He says he is particularly glad to see this college © becoming more involved in TY instruction since NCC is one, . of B.C,’e largest community colleges and has the most | . _- towns within its area served by the Knowledge Network. Rytes is another program about to alr. It is designed to teach students the basics of computing athome, While ore" ~ doea not have to have a computer to take the course, 18 ’ students are guaranteed to own one before the lessons are finished. The network is awarding a total of 18Commodore . @ personal cpmuters to those taking the courses: Each, * education Institution invalved with the. courpe Is donating ,.. one computer to be-givenaway,, |; “Not all the Knowledge Network programs ‘are purely _ dnatruictional, Some are highly entertaining too. The B.C, educational TV station will ghow Visions this _ Sports. &. pages 4a5 || Comics — Classifieds For those whoare Interested in home computers, Bits and — a ma season, a Series cunverning Canadian. artists - originally TERRACE— The Knowledge Network begins a new - ‘produced by TV Ontario. It has been ‘said Visions is- “some - of the best TV shot in this country ina long’ while.” British Columbians may'nete the music for the. artistle series is composed by ‘brovincial. Singer Anne Mortifee. . a While some local academies have critized the Knowledge “Network as potentially taking their jobs away and boiling education down to the level of soap commercials, Mitetiell ~ Bays the network bagn’t coat the lost of a single teaching job in. B.C, . Infact, he days, it has created some, . ‘He grants that it's possible that in the future there may: “-be“gome' economies of scala” that may eliminate’ afew ace bat “it won't wipe cut local teachers." * - Mitchell ‘sees ‘the. network. as nat another. tevel ‘of édueation, but a medium that draws: existing levels - together. : mos The Knowledge Network is riot that much different from what many freshmen experience even being on the campus _ of major B.C. universities. auditorium with an instructor so far away the!'T'V. monitors _ afe, placed around the rooms 80 students ean see his face more clearly, Potential students are asked to check local TV listings for * complete information on new offerings available o on 1B. Gs" ~edeeattonal TV channel. " . Pe Paes s OF WHY. BUY.NEW?. _ - WHEN USED WILL DO! : “Day you want pafts to fix’ ‘up your car buf your “budget "won't allow (t? Gat the high cést. of new parts iti, awality used parts Irom we nye eS ~ SKB. AUTO. SALVAGE - 635-2333 or 635.9095. “There students ‘often. find ’. themselves sitting 500 to 1,000. in- number sitting: in-an - — 3690 Duhan (ivstoif Hwy. ee} of _ tral hurtled down the steep grade into the South Saskat-.° . system but it would have had Ilttie effect on the entire train emergency brakes would also not have been likely to stop ~ $8 761.5 millimetre He Brake failure caused wreck? _ ‘failure caused by a pinched hose was the likely cause of a “train. wreck that killed an engineer and started sulphur fires . that forced hundreds of residents. from their homes here. : Saturday. ' Mato brake hose on a flat car was pinched in a cushion draw bar, ‘ ‘chief of information. services for’ the Canadian Transport. ‘telephone interview from: Ottawa. : in its brake hose: apparehtly cut off the. automatic braking the brake pipes to operate the automatic train brakes,” CP ; Rall Spokesman Ralph Wilson said in Medicine Hat Sunday. spection of any similar cars. which miay ‘be in the Canadian rail. system. Rain frustrates. B.C. residents 3 - VANCOUVER (CP) — Roads, bridges and railway tracks ere washed away, cars-stalied’in the dampness and ski f acations were rained out as 1984 begani in British Columbia with a deluge, *s not particularly: new. The province has been having keeptionally wet weather ‘_ for the last four years. Each of hose years has made Environment Canada’ $ s Top 10 list of - cy rainiest on record... J ¥ ‘itest ever, wilh 1,489.5 millimetres of “enough to drown anyone under ve-feet tall.in, ‘toronto, the average annual precipitation Regina gels only 384 millimetres on insurance’ ‘claims because floods are considered naturat _ disasters, : also ‘believes loging is. to blame for the destruction, © Coatta said’ “weather is. cyclical by nature and there's heavy, rains). is a Jong-term change." “Of course, there’s.nothing to say that it isn't, either." Of the millions of dollars of damage caused by rain in B.C. in recent-Years no area has been hit harder than the mountainous Squamish, Highway between West Vancouver, and Squamish; ‘§0 kilometres to the north. It was on that highway ii October 1991 thal nine people -. died when their cars plunged off the abyss where the M . Creek, bridge had stood before being ripped out by a massive mudslide... ' "MORE'DIE * ‘ Another four people have died § since then | in rain-and., average, . e rain is beginning: fo: Bel on the: nerves ‘of British Columbians. Tony Tonerelii; a resident the flood-devastated Hatzic ‘alley northeast of Missiomin the Fraser. Valley; urged his _ ighbors ata community meeting last week: to’ turn their shotguns on loggers.; LOGGING ‘BLAMED : ‘onerelli believes bad logging practicés ~ = hillsides Isid bare and not replanted — ere. responsibil for floods that fave Jaid waste to' pa “Area residents présented the. provincial government with three demands Sunday following’ a meeting: af homeowners _ It by flooding. :»: - e residents want full: Conipensation for property and personal affects; immediate: ‘implementation 6f the Mac: erson ‘Report, ‘which calls for the restoration and. im- rovement of the nearby Cascade Creek area and a com-, Pigle moratorium: of logging i in:the area. If their demands aren met, they threaten to block roads hh ‘and: aut of, the: area‘to;a 3 _ highway. whieh’ snakes. along Howe Sound, Several homes : have: been: swept: away: while’ dozens’ “more: have ‘been . logging. +. But Fotests ‘Minister Tom. -Waterland said: Sunday that logging is-not, to blame. . as “This question comes up each time there i is flooding and it. . has -never yet: been demonstrated that the. logging is a ” significant factoy,"! he said. ‘In Hope; for; ‘example during that flooding period (ast week); you"had ‘5.8 inches of rainfall in a 24-hour period. Put -that on ‘top of a*heavy - ‘snowpack and - warm weather and you're Boing lo get flooding.” 2:00. t The latest ‘deluge may. be an indication’ of another trend. major ‘east-west: transportation routes:in the:province. Chilliwack, vas closed for two days and in July the Trans- ; Canadai was closed for two weeks in the Roger's Pass area in southeastern B.C. after a bridge was washed out. a JULY DRY =... "British Columbians are e accustimed to wet weather si ‘the. winter but‘the July ‘rainfall. came'as 4° surprise: because that’s usually the driest month. ~ . fewer. Okanagan cherties in supermarkets last year and ' farmers in the lewlying Fraser. Valley suffered millions of dollars of ‘damage to crops and bulldings..- ' Each time heavy rain. pours into Vancouver’ 8 watershed _ for more: than two or three days, it-stirs up sediment in the é ithe’ city’ 5 tap water: into an tmap- e}-weeks: ‘tlovever, in the: il pee tea aitver-lintng iépart- ment, hottled-water’ sellers say their business is booming.. a who doesn ‘t expec tio sover an ny, of his wees from. . MEDICINE HAT, Alta, (CP) — Investigators say a brake e locomotives and five cars once they had separated from ye rest of the train. The engineer may-have, died in a “last-ditch attempt. to ceramble across his locomotive "soutside catwalk and try to. get toone of the other units. Shane Leuck of Medicine Hat, a crew member” who rode, the out-of-control freight into the downtown yard estaped with a. sprainéd ankle. “George Slemko, also of Medicine Hat and the engineer ‘of the yard-locomotive, underwent an eperation in Calgary hospital Sunday for broken bones and facial lacerations. He . waa listed in fair Condition. - . Near’ the’ derailment site, in the: ‘jargely’ residential Riverside district on -the west side. of the river, cars carrying lumber. burst open like match boxes, spraying ‘The preliminary conclusion of investigators 4 ‘is: 5 that a a type of shock-absorber mechanism, said: Peter Sthnobb, Commission. . a : The car was made in the United States, and apparently was being used by a U.S. shipper, Schnobb ‘said in a - It was sécond car behind the locomotives andt the problem ‘system in the rest of the 73-car. train. “This restriction prevented the necessary flow of air in Shop. FEAR SULPHUR posed by two piles:of burning sulphur.: ' The fear of high concentrations of potentially: lethal sulphur dioxide triggered the evacuation. - —-- Firefighters using breathing apparatus brought the fires under contral by early Saturday evening: They were helged “by sevéral chemical-spray rigs from’ a Red Deer oilfield - blowout control - company. The ‘wreckage continued to ‘smoulder Sunday: . | Police and firefighters at the acene also said it was lucky * there was no explosion from any of the tank cars. There are often loaded tankers of volatile materials in the downtown ~ rail yard. Alberta Environment: ‘Department technicans took samples of river water to see if any sulphur had found its way inta the South’ Saskatchewan River. The departmetit monitored. sulphur levels in the air ‘throughout jhe. incident and Medicine Hat Mayor Ted: Grimm sald he was told they never went beyond accepted ‘ safety levels. “There were levels of sulphur. that should make us cautious,” he said. “We took the decision (to evacuate) on the basis of being on the safe side.” CP Rail track crews reopened the railway'’s main line by about 3:80 a.m. MST ‘Sunday. During the blockage west- bound Via Rail passenger trains were delayed at Calgary and eastbound tralns rerouted onto Canadian National Railways tracks. vo CLEAR SITE © Wilson put initial damage estimates al about $2 million. He said it could take more than a week to remove ihe debris and replace about 600: metres of damaged track on the eastbound line, . Several of Medicine Hat's 40,000 residents took the , derailment in stride, Many came io watch salvage operations until warmed off by police. Downtown Medicine Hat bustled undisturbed Saturday night, . “Schnobb-sald the commission will ask for a visual in- He said officials will have to check a registry to see. how many; if any, similar cars are in the country. v. s. officials - Will also be notifed. =" 2. . HURTLES DOWN. , With most of the brakes apparently gone, the eusthound oe chewan River valley and toward the heart of the city of 40,000; - Sixty-two cars jumped the tracks on acurve approcching a bridge across the river... . Three locomotives and five cars brokeloose and sped east . across the bridge into the downtown railway yard, where. -they smashed into a yard engine-attached to 12 more cars. ’ “The vibrations felt like a jet had flown past," said Kevin. Skauge, who was s working in the Assiniboia Hotel near the yard: ~ “It sounded like. the building roming. in,”. said Peter . Malson; who runs a nearby. botile depot. “We heard a big rumble. We went out through the front doar arid we saw a big cloud of yellow : stuff going across.” At-least one tank car carrying Mquid sulphur ruptured . and burst into flames. Police ordered the evacuation of 250 © residents when sulphur dioxide began billowing into theair. About 800 more people left their homes yoluntarily as polite. and firemen worried about fumes and about a possible explosion from empty tankers containing residues of butarie, propane and a polsonous compound called lolvene di-lsocylanate. Thousands: more people were Blaced’ ‘on evacuation elert., Residents, including a group from a senior citkens"- home, began returning to their homes late Salurday. Railway and police sources said the dismembered body of “engineer Mike Kullkoski was found in the wreckage on the - weat aide of the bridge. He had been the object of a-day-long search in which dogs were used to probe through the | crumpled wreckage. - Schnobb praised Kulikoski, a Calgary resident i in his mid- Bis. !*Tt appears thé guy did everything to stop.” A check of tevera and switches showed the engineer had done éverything he should have done, Schnobb said. "The locomotives had a separate emergency braking - A local television siation said most of the calls it received concerned whether Saturday night Mass ¥ ould be cancelled at St. Patrick's Catholic church about two blocks west of the crash, Sunday "Mass wag schedpled to take place. ' Thecrash is likely to renew a 30-year debate over moving CP Rail lines out of the city’s core. Ald. Wayne Buss aid "the derailment shows the potential danger posed by ~moveiment of hazardous material through the city, coming down the steep grade, Schnobb said. The’ waited untit emotions triggered by the aceident have , spoled. — Volume 78 No.5 ‘nothing: in; weather. patterns to. suggest that (continuing _ stide-related. incidents ‘along the scenic’ but treacherous _ damaged or are under threat. Again, somé residents blame . For. the second time jn six months heavy | rain. has “out oft - Last week the Trans-Canada Highway between Hope and “The July drenching played havoe with crops. “There were_ boat a oa P fof their cargo onto ‘buildings and cars at a nearby aulaborty However, the greatest" fear of officials -was-the danger Grimm said he would rathet that discussions of the issue |