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Vol. 4, Issue No.-49~

- Mayor Jack Talstra revealed
his lineup of committee appoint-
ments for 1989 during Monday
night’s council meeting. Alder-
mai Danny Sheridan will. chair.
the Finance, Personne! and Ad-
ministration Committee, Dave
Hull will take the Tourism and
Economic Development Com-
mittee, Ruth Hallock will chair
the Planning and Public Works
Committee and Mo Takhar will
keep the Community and Rec-
reation Services Committee.
Alderman Bob Cooper and
Darryl Laurent will sit with
Sheridan on the Finance Com-
mittee and Keith Norman and
Denise Fisher will represent city
administration. Concerns of the
Finance Committee are general
” budget and financial matters in-
cluding police and Jaw enforce-
ment, fire protection and ser-
vices, general fiscal services, per-
sonnel development, monitoring
organization structure and the
imiplementation: of audit recom-
mendations. :
‘Cooper and Laurent will also
_assist Hull on the Tourism Com-
mittee with John Pousette and
Steve Scott from administration.
Concerns of this committee in-
clude environmental develop-
ment, commercial and industrial
development, tourism promo-
tion and the development of
long-range planning and policy.
Hallock will have Cooper and
Takhar on the Public Works
Committee-and Stew Christen-

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administration.
Works Committee is concerned
with transportation services, en-
vironmental health services
(refuse, sewer, drainage and
water), building and licencing
inspection and zoning and com-
munity planning.

~ Hull and Hallock will sit with

Takhar on the Recreation Com-
mittee with Steve Scott and Bob
Hallsor from administration.
This committee is concerned
with parks and cemetery mat-
ters, the arena and swimming
pool, library services, recreation
programs, community services.
for the needy, community health

and welfare, and it plays a sup-

port role for human develop-
ment.
In other appointments,
Cooper will represent the city on
the Airport Advisory Commit-
tee, Regional District of
Kitimat-Stikine and the Tourism
and Economic Advisory Com-
mission (TEAC). Hallock will
serve on the North by Northwest
_ Tourism Association, Terrace
and District Community Ser-
vices, the Provincial Emergency
Plan Executive Committee, the

-Skeena Union Board of Health —

and the Terrace. Beautification
Society.

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Laurent will be the city

representative to all service clubs

and serve on the Chamber of

Commerce, Riverboat Days §&
Committee and the Muks-Kum-  §

O! Housing Society. In addition,
Talstra has asked Laurent to be
the watchdog of committee

‘referrals to speed up the

bureaucratic process. ‘‘Some
things tends to be in committee

too long,’’ says Talstra, explain-

ing that it will be Laurent’s job
to keep. track of referrals. If
referrals don’t return to council
within a reasonable time, he is to
find out why.

Sheridan will sit on the Ter-
race and District Library
Association and take on addi-
tional duties next fall as the city
representative to the Communi-
ty Law Centre, which wiil be ad-

-iministering legal aid in the com-

munity. In addition to these ap-
pointments, Sheridan has been
given duties as Finance Commit-

tee’ chairman. « Talstra- says -he ,

will be taking a ‘‘really good”
look at the city’s financial and
accounting procedures during

the year.
Takhar will sit on the Ad-

visory Parks and Recreation
Commission, Terrace Health
Care Society and the Yellow-
head Highway Association.

‘Finally, Talstra will sit on the

board of directors for the

regional district. He was elected

chairman of that board last

year.

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Hundreds of children have visited the local shopping center Santa in the last little while to
share their tists of toys and dreams. And much Itke these two — five-year-old Ivy Huisman

(left), who is a little bit shy,
fidence — show a variety of different reactions. -

and her sister, seven-year-old Lee-Anna, who is full of con-

On a motion made by
Alderman Danny Sheridan at
a city council meeting Mon-
day night, the pedestrian
safety. problem on Lakelse
Ave. may finally be ad-
dressed.

Sheridan says that even
though a traffic safety study
is currently being done as a

for the Skeena Okanagan

development, there is a prob-
lem with crosswalks on
Lakelse Ave, that needs to be
addressed now. He says the
problem is getting worse.
‘*You’re better off to J-walk.
At least then you can treat
every driver as the enemy,”

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part of the approval process —

Group -shopping center.

Council to study
pedestrian safety

Sheridan remarked.

The problem of pedestrian
safety is now in the Public
Works Committee, who will
look at various solutions,
and the Finance Committee,
who will work with the
RCMP in search of solutions
and their cost. _

Seventy-four-year-old
David Edwards was struck
by a pickup truck on Dec. 2
while attempting to use the
Lakelse Ave. crosswalk at
Sparks St. He was listed in
stable condition at the time
and has since been dis-
charged from Mills
Memorial Hospital. Next
time we may not be so lucky.

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Skeena Cellulose plans

$700 million expansion

Skeena Cellulose Inc. is on the verge of giving the Northwest.
another massive vote of confidence — with its wallet. ;

On Monday SCI announced it is ‘‘actively pursuing’’ plans to
build a $700 million pulp mill to augment its existing mills on Wat-
son Island near Prince Rupert. The plan will go before the board of -
directors of Repap, Inc. — the Montreal-based parent company of
SCI — sometime this week.

Bob Black, an SCI representative at the Prince Rupert operation,
said that after board approval in principle, ‘there are an awful lot
of steps to be taken’’, including discussions with a variety of provin-
cial ministries and local governments. If everything goes smoothly,
he said, construction could start in the spring of next year. The pro-
ject would take about three years to complete and at peak employ
between 1,400 and 1,600 workers,
~ Black said the design of the mill and the pulping process will take
into consideration the major environmental considerations recently

brought up by the discovery of alarming levels of dioxins in the

marine waters near Watson Island, Emissions and effluent, he said,
will be controlled by state-of-the-art technology. The mill will in-
crease the Prince Rupert operation’s capacity by about 1,000 metric
tons of air-dried pulp per day. It’s expected to employ a full time
staff of 125 workers. | . -_
Black said if the mill is built it will increase fiber demand by
about 75 percent. Most of that increase can be met through the
company’s present annual allowable cut, he said. Discussions have
taken place with the Minisiry of Forests and other government
departments, he added, but the project is in a very early stage and

| _the details haven’t been worked out.

The market for the additional pulp ‘‘will be in line with the
company’s current markets”, said Black: the Orient, United King-
dom, Europe and Asia,

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