“this week - — POOL PROJECT ALL BUT DEAD. How could that be? A good indication of the frustration felt by some city alderman came from Danny Sheridan, who said during a council meeting that it might be time to kill the project. "The referendum was taken before J came on council and I’m in my second year now,” said Sheridan. "How long are we going to sit on the fence?" Sheridan explained his . comments by saying a May 27 deadline to make a firm commit- ment to the project was rapidly approaching and, "I don’t think we're going to make a decision by May 29." Mayor Jack Talstra, on the other hand, suggested that there was still time; a Committee of the Whole meeting was scheduled for May i5 and another council meeting for May 23. Darryl Laurent expressed the fears of many when he said, "I don’t want to see a rehash and go to tender again,” but Talstra responded by saying, "We’re not going to tender again... I don’t _ think." NO CORRECTIONS HERE, THANKYOU VERY MUCH. Residents living in the vicinity of a 32-acre section of Crown land near Northwest Community Col- lege petitioned city council a year ago this week. The B.C. Buildings Corporation had shown an interest in the land as a possible site for the construction of a new cortce- tions center, but a petition contain- ing the signatures of about 40 college-area residents pointed out that 90 percent of the area popula- ' tion were opposed to the idea. Reasons given were concerms over noise, smoke, additional motor vehicle traffic, reduced property values and the anxiety that would be caused by the proximity of the proposed center. BCBC had not officially approached the city yet, though, and council felt there was little ‘they could do at the time. The petition was received for informa- tion only. They did note that the property would have to be rezoned before a corrections center could be built there, but council then destroyed that sense of security by saying because it was the province they were dealing with, it wouldn't “neccessarily go to public hearing. The province had. the right to simply go ahead and build a facil- ity there regardless of the zoning. "That’s why the courthouse is where it is," said Talstra. But at the same time, he suggusted there was cause for some hope. The government adheres to municipal zoning bylaws more now than they did when the courthouse was built. ‘AND OF COURSE THERE WAS OTHER COUNCIL NEWS... Like porno tennis courts. _ It was a mini-project idea from the Chamber of Commerce; high school art students would paint a mural on the concrete abutment on the west side of the Kalum St. tennis courts. This, they said, would be cause for pride i in the wall and stop the ongoing applica- tion of teen graffiti. Council, though, was a little wary. The selected theme and § dress, or undress, of the people depicted in the teen oriented mural could tum into a controvery they could do without. But they decided to give the idea a chance and sent it to the Superintendant of Parks and Recreation for investigation. ALSO, council joined the save- Dr. David Kuntz movement a year ago this week and was writing a letter to Minister of Health Peter Dueck stating that fact. Kuntz’s right to practice in B.C. had been suspended by the College of Physicians and Surgeons a few years earlier. The support wasn’t unanimous, though. Alderman Bob Cooper ‘said he didn’t believe council had a right to interfere, and Dave Hull, who didn’t attend the meeting, said that if he had voted he probably would have main- tained his position of a few weeks earlier -- any interference was outside of the realm of thee city’s business. The 1989 Ferry Island mainte- nance contract was awarded by the city a year ago this week. Tri-J’s Janitorial and Steam Cleaning of Terrace won the prize with a bid of, $6,875. This was cause for concern for some aldermen. A second .bid had come in from. Brock Waldron of Terrace at $14,987 and a third from PNV Contracting at $19,985. Sheridan explained the difference, however. Tri-J had made “an excellent utili- zation of other services". Under an arrangement with the Ministry of Social Services and Housing they would utilize an employment pro- gram that would pay a part of the wages. And finally, council was taking a look at the city’s noise bylaw to see if it might.cover an anticipated problem with "boom" cars. Accor- ding to John Beltz, chairman of the Society for Soundscape Awareness and Protection, boom cars -- 32- speaker, 144-decibel, four-wheeled stereo systems usually driven by teens -- are a hazard that "is yet a largely ignored hazard, harder to escape and avoid than those from smoking". LEGAL SERVICES IN TER- RACE WERE OPEN TO THOSE IN NEED a year ago this week. Actually the L’ax Ghels Commun- ity Law Centre had been in operation at the Kermode Friend- ship Centre since mid-February, but it was May 5, 1989, that Kit- selas chief councillor Mel Bevan teamed up with B.C. Minister of State for Native Affairs, Jack Weisgerber, to cut the cedar bark ribbon. There was a great need for legal assistance in the Northwest, said L’ax Ghels staff lawyer Terry Brown. Many innocent people needed help they couldn’t afford in wandering through the framework of a legal maze they couldn’t understand... and of course there Kitselas chief councillor Mel Bevan teamed up with B.C. Minister of State for Native Affairs Jack Weisgerber to cut the cedar bark ribbon that officially opened the L’ax Ghels Community Law Office at the Kermode Friendship Centre a year ago this week. In the background, against the door, is a photograph of Sarah Bevan, to whose memory the office was dedicated. were the guilty ones, too. Some of these guilty ones in need of help, perhaps, were the fugitives responsible for shooting out 44 car windows on April 22 (that was just one of several shoot- ing binges that occured last year) and a Thomhill youth who was arrested with a "Molotov cocktail" on. May 6, 1989, during a police. investigation into a suspicious Thornhill brush fire. AROUND THE COMMUNITY, 11-year-old Veritas student Tim Phillips was one of 20 young Canadian authors selected from 10,000 subinissions for the Storybook Publication’s “Prism Awards" and Forest Minister Dave Parker planted the 50 millionth tree in the Kalum Forest District ' during National Forest Week. That same weekend, dozens of local Beavers, Cubs, Scouts, Brownies and Guides planted hundreds of seedlings west of town to give our forests a new lease on life. The Vancouver Symphony Or- chestra was greeted with a "warm" Terrace greeting a year ago this week, North Coast Road Mainte- nance announced their student fundraiser/clean-up campaign, and Seven Sisters Ventures Inc. signed a@ memorandum of understanding with Gitwangak band chiefs after a year and a half of negotiation. Terrace PetroCanada operators Norm and Annie Holmes won the Club 95 Plus Award and the first” PetroCanada President's Award ever won by a service station north of Kamloops, and Dave Parker told the Terrace Review that any hope for a_ federal/provincial FRDA II agreement was gone. He added, though, that there were other silviculture funding possibilities... like the Western Diversification Fund. And on the education scene, a school trustee byelection was warming up. Hopefuls for the seat left vacant by Barbara Johnson were Terrace businessman Wayne Braid, service worker Mary Jean Kryzanowsky and) NWCC warehouseman Flip ¢ Cervo. FOR OUR’ YOUNGER ATHLETES, the Terrace Summer Memorable quotes: "We're not going to tender again... I don’t, think." Mayor Jack Taistra on the pool expansion. Hockey School was going to be bigger and better than cver, announced Jake DeJong, minor hockey’s co-ordinating director. Organizers of the 11th annual "milk run" in greater Terrace said the final tally was headed over the $1,000 mark. And Mike Chris- tensen of Terrace and Peter Krause and Mark Faude of Smithers domi- natéd 40 other riders during the zone 7 bicycle trials for berths in the B.C. Summer Games. AND FOR THOSE A LITTLE OLDER, the Terrace Northmen Rugby Club countered a 3-0 loss in Prince Rupert a week earlier by trouncing the Rupert team 34-8 in a Terrace match. The Norttimen now faced a May 14 game in Prince Rupert, but needless to say they had more than ample faith in their own abilities. When the rugby season came to a close, some of the Northmen may have been considering staying in’ shape for the 1990 season by doing a little cross-country skiing. The reason for this is a news item we printed.a year ago this week. The Kitimat Cross-Country Ski Club and the Minstry of Forests had reached an agreement and the méssage for those interested was: "Next season they should be enjoying a new ski trail system at Onion Lake, 29 kilo- meters north of Kitimat." YEAR END INVENTORY ciea Ce Gale 20% to 40% Off SELECTED IN STOCK SMITH CORONA & BROTHER _ TYPEWRITERS BUSINESS MACHINES TERRACE 638-8585 4552 Lakelse Ave. Terrace, B.C, V8G 1P8 PRINCE RUPERT 624-5714 737 Fraser St., Prince Rupert, B.C. V8u 1R1 KITIMAT 632-5037 ATE SMITH. slINIME CORONK| TOMORROW'S TECHNOLOGY AT YOUR TOUCH.