B16 ' Terrace Review — Wednesday, September 12, 1990 A year ago... this week unday shopping was a hot issue a year ago this week. Terrace city council’s Finance Committee was examining a proposed bylaw that would Tequire businesses to close no later than 12 noon on Sundays, and local residents on both sides of the issue were digging in for the expected battle. Skeena Mall was counting the number of Sunday customers to support their position, and Overwaitea released an in-store petition signed by 1,200 of their customers who favoured unrestricted Sunday shopping. Delaney’s were working on a similar petition. — At the same time, the Chamber of Commerce offered a phone poll of 100 of their members that indi- cated only about one-third of their members were open on Sunday and only one half of those reported increase business as a result. Mem- ber’s opinion was split on the question of whether or not there should be Sunday shopping at all. _ In other city news, Terrace coun- cil had adopted in principle recycl- ing as a component in the develop- ment of their waste management plan, Fern Sweeting had been hired as the bylaw enforcement officer, and Judy Deagerness had been hired as deputy treasurer. The city donated a 1979 Ford one-ton crew cab to the Fire Safety House Project, and volunteer fire- fighters would rebuild the vehicle and return it to the city for the use of the Fire Department. And the Fire Safety House received another boost a year ago this week, a $1,750 donation from Pacific Northern Gas. And one other potential munici- pal asset surfaced in council a year ago this week. Alderman Dave Hull asked the Parks and Recre- ation Department to explore the development and funding of a passive park area north of Christy _ Park. In other words, the beginning of a Howe Creek linear park. Everyone was in favour of the idea, but alderman Ruth Hallock was sceptical, calling it deja vu. The idea had been offered a num- ber of times in past years she said, most recently by George Clark, and that proposal was still on the books... somewhere. ost talk around town Meee about Howe Creek, city employees or the Fire Safety House, though. The final results from an impressive Skeena Valley Fall Fair were in and the winners were recorded in - history. There were crafts, green thumbs, husbandry, equestrian skills and loggers sports. And there was, finally, an understanding of what a slab race is really all about. The City administrators were smart. Stew Christensen and Steve Scott Jost in the first round to avoid any further humiliation. This allowed them to sit back and watch aldermen Danny Sheridan and Darryl Laurent strap them- selves to a couple of pleces of ‘lumber, in public, and attempt to plod back and forth in a vacant field for the rest of the afternoon. And to the Administrators delight, Sheridan and Laurent fell to the Thornhill Volunteer Firefighters *A’ Team in the final event. There was good news for Thorn- hill residents. Some work had already been done to address safety concerns on Clark Road and according to Ministry of High- ways’ John Newhouse there was much more to come. Newhouse said there would be an additional five feet of pavement on the east side of Clark within two months, the corner where Clark intersects with Old Lakelse Lake Drive would be made safer, "possibly next year", and the possibility of more crosswalks was being inves- tigated. This list probably impressed regional district director Les Wat- mough more than the one given to Minister of State Terry Huberts by the Region 6 Transportation Com- mittee. According to Watmough, this list, that presumably addressed all transportation concerns in the northwest, was nothing more than a rehash of the work done by the regional district in the past cight years or more and it cost some- thing like $2.5 million to produce. Drivers around the area seemed to be behaving themselves much betier than the bears a year ago this. week, RCMP reported- no serious injury accidents over the Labour Day weekend, but conser- vation officer Terry McGunigle said it had been a bad year all around for bears in the area. A number of incidents had been reported over the summer, he explained, "and they’re larger, wiser bears" than he had seen. before. n the business world, the I B.C. Council of Human Rights dismissed outright a complaint of racial discrimination against Skeena Cellulose. The company failed to rehire a former East Indian employee when their Watson Island ’B’ mill reopened in 1986 but the council found no evidence of discrimination. There had been about 1,000 applications for 133 jobs and the work ability of the former employee was described as lacking. Mine safety in the Northwest was a different matter, though. In response to an "alarming number of mining related deaths in the last half of 1988 and early 1989", the Ministry of Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources launched an audit that found the primary cause to be a lack of adequate training for newly hired underground employees. The Terrace Health Care Society elected their 1990 board of direc- tors a year ago this week. David Lane was elected president, Alex Houlden vice-president and Fred Hislop treasurer. There was no real indication of the direction the new board would take, but there were some exciting projects in the works; among them a nuclear medicine facility and the suppor- A year ago this week Graham Ave. resident Miguel Aguirre said the summer had definitely been a"{0" for tomatoes. Sunshine that just wouldn’t quit, he said, produced one of the best crops ‘(Canada Early variety) that he’d ever seen here. tive housing project. In other health-related news, local organizers of the Canadian Arthritis Society were trying to get a support group together in our area, and local musicians Wayne Millar and Ralph Trelenberg were busy organizing a dinner and dance benefit to raise money for the purchase of an Alert telephone system that were being distributed through the Terrace Homemakers And the Terrace Hiking Club wasn’t quite finished for the year; they still had Clearwater Lakes and Bornite Mountain to visit. And a final note: just what kind of a summer was it last year any- way? A year ago this week we asked a few locals and they rated it anywhere from a six to a 10. Comments were varied; we heard Service to disabled and elderly residents, n the world of education it | was "back to school" time, and for Grade 6 students interested in music there was a chance at something new: the Grade 6 music program had been introduced and the response, accor- ding to district director of music Terry Anderson, had been over- whelming. In sports, there were all kinds of things going on. Terrace Youth Soccer was winding down another season. A year ago this week Tide Lake took the Girls Division and San-Berry won the Under-14 trophy. Terrace cyclist Mike Christensen celebrated a laborious Labour Day weekend. First there was the Coquihalla Challenge, where he placed fifth overall and first in his class, and then there was the Tour De White Rock international event where he put in a respectable showing competing with some of the best in the. world. Westpoint-Skeena won the Larry Swanson memorial softball tour- nament, the Terrace Northman rugby club was defeated by "youn- ger legs" in Prince George, and international wheelchair athlete Paul Clark was pleased with his year’s performance even though the stats weren’t as impressive as they had been in previous years, But Clark was competing in the open class at the international level for the first time in his career. For Jess active residents, the Skeena Valley Golf and Country Club’s charity golf tournament raised $2,500 for the Terrace Child Development Centre, and the Kiti- mat coho fish derby was won by Archie Begin with a 15 pounder. things like busy, excellent, great weather, and there was one who Said it was the summer he pro- posed to his wife-to-be. The 10 rating came from Graham Ave. resident Miguel Aguirre, who said it was a summer where the sun- Shine just wouldn’t quit and pro- duced one of the best tomato crops he’d ever seen here. NeEeWeS by Robert Q. 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