B12 Terrace Review — Wednesday, February 21, 1990 A year ago this week — Dump fires and intersections. The random burning of refuse at the Terrace Sanitary Landfill in the fall of 1988 caused Kalum Lake Drive residents to fire a few vollies at city hall. The landfill, according to one irate Kalum Lake Drive resident, was anything but -"sanitary" and the burning of ‘refuse. was polluting their neigh- borhood and degrading their ¢n- vironment. And their complaints to city hall, he said, fell on deaf ears. _A year ago this week, the burn- ing and complaints continued but the city said there was no cause for concern... at least from the city’s practices, All they were burning was wood, and that was both legal and safe. There was cause for concern, though, from the habitual waste burmers who for some reason or another didn’t want others to claim or examine their refuse. These people, Public Works said, were creating an unnecessary problem and any hopes they held the previous year -- that those guilty of the offence would go away or learn to respect the rights of others — had been trashed. A year ago this week the smoke, and resident tempers, were fuming in the aréa of the city dump, and Public Works crews and the fire department were sent in to deal with the current blaze. The fire department, though, had a problem. There’s no fire hydrant at the Jand fill site and all they could do was hose down the fire with the S00 gallons of water they carried and then drive back to town for more water. At best, all they could do was offer some protection to the driver of a bull- dozer who was trying to isolate the ‘burning refuse. These fires, said fire chief Cliff Best at the time, are almost im- possible to put out but he did offer a solution -- return to a previous system in which resi- dents paid a fee to dump their refuse and the gate was locked after hours. This would give the city the revenue they needed to keep an employee on site during opertating hours and offenders could be caught in the act. While the dump continued to smolder, so did the tempers of a few people in town. Their probl- em wasn’t burning garbage, thou- gh, it was the loss of their prima- ry mode of transportation at one of the city’s infamous intersec- _ tions, ‘The Terrace Health Care Society offered.a partial solution, though. A. year ago this week they approved a land casement allowing the city and Ministry of Highways to increase the turning radius from Hwy. 16 onto Tetrault St. This would at least make it easier for emergency vehicles, and others, to make a right turn onto Tetrault. The Health Care Society, how- ever, had another concern that their easement wouldn’t solve... entering the Hwy. 16 traffic flow - from Tetrault. The intersection was dangerous, they said, and the danger was being compounded by ' the location and number of access _- points in the vicinity.of the inter-— x BIRT EVET ANT eS Ss Eonar a -Their reasoning, Public hearings were all the rage a year'ago this week.. The Kitimat-Stikine Regional District held three rezoning bylaw hearings, and in each the public was- more than a little critical of the proposals. The hearings focused on a Thornhill - mobile home park concept, m fishing lodge west. of town. ore development at the Mount Layton Hot Springs, anda business outline regarding a section. : The board first expressed their concern during a meeting with the city in the summer of 1988 and on Jan. 30, 1989, MMH excecu- tive director Norm Carelius told the city that both hospital staff. and visitors “experience much difficulty" accessing the highway. In fact, two staff members had had accidents at the intersection in the previous week alone and the cause of those accidents, according to Carelius, was heavy traffic and poor visibility. Carelius suggested that because the turning radius project was set to proceed, propriate for the city to begin a traffic study to find a solution to the danger awaiting motorists at Hwy. 16 and Tetrault. The Planno- ing and Public Works Committee and the RCMP both received copies of the Carelius letter to consider. — . _ At the same time, though, an RCMP study of the Highway 16- Kenney St. intersection had just been completed and their recom- mendation to the city was that no action was required. According to the RCMP report, considering the marked crosswalk, the overhead pedestrian sign and the low num-. bers of pedestrians using the- intersection, there was no need for change. Ho Council, though, apparently didn’t share this view and decided to continue to monitor the situa- tion. In addition, they asked the superintendant of public works to meet with the Ministry of High- ways to determine the number of existing and planned access’ points in the vicinity of the intersection. according to alderman Ruth Hallock: “The intersection seems to be getting mote and more congested and we want to know if we can limit the danger." 8 Beare, floods and other things In other city news a year ago this week, an in-camera Com- mittee of the Whole meeting tecommended to council — that. Oath UE, SOE ISR ean a ed it might be ap-. Britton Taxidermy should be allowed to proceed with prepara- tion_of a Kermode bear donated to the city. The project bad been put on hold a few months earlier when Peter Martinson of Bornite Mountain Taxidermy claimed he had a right to at least a part of ¢ ‘the work because. he was the person who originally suggested the bear be donated to the city when he turned the illegally killed carcass over to the Fish and Wildlife branch. If Martinson per- sisted with this claim, though, the city was prepared. Council adop- ted a Finance Committee recom- mendation on Feb. 13 to increase the city’s total budget by $5,000 . in case the Kermode dispute went to court..On .the brighter side, some residents of Terrace south could look optimistically toward the year 1989 as the one that would solve their troublesome sewage and flooding problems. Areas with notable problems in- cluded Weber Ave. with surface water flooding and south: Kalum St. and Graham Ave., where sewers were backing up into basements. Public Works blamed part of the sewage problem on il- legal connections, but even with this problem corrected the city was still going to have to upgrade the sewage system. Alderman Ruth Hallock told one com-. plainant that the city was aware of the problem and was working - - on long term solutions. In other council decisions a year ago this week, it was decid- ed to hire two new city staff members: a Tourism and Econom- ic Development Officer and a Planning Officer. The positions would cost about $40,000 a year each, but according to Alderman Danny Sheridan the city Jacked an effective tourism marketing strate- gy and there-was.a.general slow- . ness in establishing an economic . . development strategy. . Speaking. of slowness, mayor Jack Taistra came with a solution for. speeding up the . democratic . process a year ago this. .week . . Continued on page Bi9 ‘ACROSS 1 Falsehood 5 Luge 9 Covortal N 10 Be frank 42 Three times > 13 Summer, Fr. 74 Typeot current 16 River, Sp. 17 Gircult 19 Sainte, abbr. 20 Seaeagle. pl. 22 Oroop . 23 Girlstudant 24 Swelling | 26 Playhouse ' 28 Helped 30 Secondirlal 33 Pause 37 Deathnoilce 38 Color . 40 Prong 41 Summit 42 Invast: 44 Gommander. abbr, 45 Upon 46 Indo-China. tree 47 Enleeble cf IN is ¥ F | AF a rps Een Jill Terrace Interiors Ltd. 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