| RE'LL BEa return to the days when sternwheelers made their way up and down the Skeena River
a local,aiderman’ s idea takes shape. Danny Sheridan wants to buy a modern sternwheeler and con-

Vert it into a tourist-bearing craft.

Sternwheeler era
could come back |

TERRACE — There could soon
“be a sternwheeler working its

_-way up and down the Skeena:

: River if an alderman’ 5 plan
7 takes hold,

* Danny-: Sheridan: ‘said. last .

week he’s looking for people to.

_ form agroup to investizate buy-

ing a modern. sternwheeler..

: - "That vessel,” the 91-foot long
: Native was. ‘built j in 1986 for use”
as a floating home. It’s for sale
“ atca cost of approximately

$500,000 and is moored in Rich-
mond,

"[¢'s actually propelled by

~<: -two wheels and, from what I

can understand, can turn on its
“2° axis because of. that,’ said
an ‘Sheridan last week.

: :. Sheridan, through his -con-

ae sulting company, has had a .
yes preliminary. report drawn. up on
~ the: possibility: of: running a

“sternwheeler on the Skeena but '
_ Says:more detailed information
ds now required,

“His

return: to the ‘Skeena River of

- the kind of craft used to ferry

people and equipment up and
-- down, from Prince ‘Rupert to
os ‘Hazelton prior to the railway

4 opening ‘early in the century.
-The proposal would see the

i “riverboat, it could:hold:up to.49:

People, run tours from: Terrace
_/-) t0 just below Kitselas Canyon to

"take & advantage: of plans by the

proposal envisions a’

‘Kitselas band to restore. its
original village sites.

Based on river flow and rin
off periods, the craft could

operate from mid-July through -

to the end of September. .
Although tourism would be

. the main use for the riverboat, it °
coyld also host weddings and
family reunions, said Sheridan. -

‘There’s the possibility of

dining cruises. We have to look

at. the potential from’ the

tourism market and for the resi-

dent population,” he said.

Sheridan’s preliminary pro- © *

posal, drawn up by Northwest
Community College business

‘administration student David
indicates a stern- -

Rolison,
wheeler- could | be operated on at

least a break-even proposition.

- “]t's ‘realistic, but now we
have to go one step further,”
said Rolfson.

Sheridan said the operating
body: of the’ sternwheeler could
be a private company or a socie-
ty. The advantage of the latter is
‘the possibility of government
assistance of one kind or
another.

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Deadlines are for this week only:

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‘OUR OFFICE WILL BE CLOSED SATURDAY, AUGUST 4
AND MONDAY, AUGUST 6 :

We would lika to take this opportunily to wish everyone a i .
safe and enjoyable B.c. Day! E.

Po=4|PERRACE Sanaa

ean |
officer
added‘.
up hers

dP. _ " Another full-
time environniental health of-

ficer is being added to the i

Skeena Health Unit; ..~
The new officer is to be based

-in Terrace, according to medical &

‘health officer Dr. David Bower-
ing. The. addition . brings ’ ‘the

number of northwest en-; ¥
vironmental health officers —

formerly called public health in-
spectors — to one half- time and

five full-time positions.)
The health officers carry out
water sampling, restaurant, in- .

spections' and approve: sites for
sewage treatment systems.
Bowering sald ‘the ‘increase
could mean improved inspec-
tion of remote logging, mining

and silviculture camps. ‘We do J

our best, but there are‘areas that
fall between the cracks — such
as tree-planting camps.’”

He said the increase in the
number of health officers ap-
parently: signals a greater
recognition of the value. of
health prevention-by the provin-
cial government. |

“Tt's necessary, "he said,
“and we're glad that the

powers-that-be have recognized

that.’”

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