B16 Terrace Review — Wednesday, April 10, 1991 | Looking back... hat might have been a heritage site on the northeast corner of Kalum St. and Greig Ave. came tumbling down in 1988. In reality, the historic value of the building had probably been destroyed by the dozens of renovations it had suffered during its 70- year life, but in it’s heyday it had served as a Chinese restaurant, the Terrace branch of the Royal Bank, and the Sternwheeler Restaurant. Now, the site would be nothing more than a simple gravel parking lot. But the properly owner, Konstantinos "Gus" Sfikas, said all he needed was one major tenant and he would build a shopping centre stretching the entire block from Kalum to Atwood. Elsewhere in town, a group of seniors formed the Skeena Senior Citizen Society to explore the viability of low cost seniors’ housing in Terrace. And a group called STOP (Skeena Society to Oppose Pesticides) met with CNR officials in an effort to reach some kind of agreement on CN right-of-way spraying plans... and failed. But not entirely. STOP spokesman Rob Brown said the two sides were a little closer to a solution. , In 1989, another environmental problem was in the news — illegally set fires at the city dump. But this one, we were told, might be solved for good, Supervision and access control was the answer, said the Ministry of Environment. City council wasn’t convinced, however. They said they would talk it over, but with their Landfill Permit already amended by the controlling ministry, there seemed little choice but to coniply. Other items of concern on the city agenda included potholes, traffic safety and aggressive dogs. The pothole situation was unchanged. While local drivers took the plunge, city hall declined all claims. One of those drivers was Dr. Joe Zucchiatti. To the city, he wrote, "I realize that the city does not usually pay for damage of this nature in usual cases, but..." And the standard reply: "...the city does not admit liability for any loss incurred.” As far as traffic safety was concerned, city council and the RCMP agreed that commercial traffic had to be rerouted to a second overpass ~ if we were going to improve safety on the Sande Overpass. Under debate was just where that overpass should be. And then there was the dog situation in town. There were more of them in town and a growing number were becoming aggressive, animal control officer Frank Bowsher reported to council. Mail carriers and paper boys were prime targets, said Bowsher, and, “Public safety is a major concern." There were other groups in the community with concerns as well. One of these consisted of about 35 residents from both Terrace and Kitimat who gathered at Carpenters Hall. Their task was to develop a strategy to help the Northwest’s ex-orthopaedic surgeon, Dr. David Kuntz, regain his licence to practice. A group of teens at Skeena Junior Secondary School were concerned about the increasing problem of alcohol abuse among local teenagers. Their project — two drama productions aimed at the heart of family relationships and the distorting and destructive effects that alcohol can have on them —- was attracting province-wide attention and would be offered to the public in a couple of weeks. | - A year ago this week, the March drowning death of a six-year-old boy in a man-made pond on Heek Brook was still in the news, and a few local residents were demanding that city council take action to get rid of the pond. The group attended a city council meeting to hear what they believed would be a final decision, but their was none. The matter was simply referred to city administration for further investigation. ooking at more regional issues, it was 1988 when the Kitimat- Stikine Regional District board was sitting on the privatization see-saw. On one end was the B.C. Government Employees Union, who opposed the plan and had the sympathy of the regional board, and on the other was Premier Bill Vander Zalm, who was aware of their BCGEU support and wrote a letter saying, "Make sure you understand the facts on privatization." While all this was going on, a local group who had submitted a bid for six privatized nurseries in the province were told their offer fell short of what government considered fair value. And then there was logging. An application made to the city by Bell Pole was stuck in committee. Bell Pole wanted to remove all of their remaining timber from Kitselas during the coming winter, via the controversial North Sparks St.-Halliwell Ave. route, but the committee wanted to see if a meeting with principals in the Kitselas access road could be arranged. A year ago this week Joyce Krause and Hans Wagner were named as northwest representatives to the interim University of Northern B.C board of governors. The Fire Safety House was officially put into service and would be based in Terrace but available to other commun- ities in the area. And district teachers were still seeking a solution through ongoing contract negotialions. A might be of interest. The first was written in 1988 and told of the Shames Mountain Ski Corporation annual general meeting, at which the board set strategy for what they hoped would be a November grand opening. The second was written in 1990 and while it told a similar story, the ski hill would open this fall, it did so with much more authority. This story came from the Ontario contracting firm hired “49 take the Shames concept and actually begin construction. nd finally, two more stories from this week in history that April anecdotes — evenis in history April 1: April 2: April 3: April 4: April 5: April 7: April 8: April 9: April 10: April 11: April 12: _ April 13: April 14: April 15: April 16: April 17: April 18: April 19: April 20: April 21: April 22: April 23: April 24: April 25: April 26: ~ April 27: April 28: April 29: April 30: . Compiled by Tom Taggart _ special to the Terrace Review ALL FOOL’S DAY. 7 . Zimbabwean electorate votes to remain socialist by 85 percent (1990). Warsaw Pact packs it in (1991). : Birth of Charlemagne (742), Emile Zola (1840) and §, Rachmaninov (1873). | Fatklands War begins in the Malvinas Islands (1982). USA: College basketball title goes to UNLV over Duke 103-73 (1990). Historical date for deaths of Jesus Christ (AD 29) and Jesse James (1882). Civil rights activist Martin Luther King, Jr. murdered in Memphis (1968). American politician Joe Kennedy speaks up for Irish Republican Army (1988). . Birth of Charles Fourier, ‘‘no business as usual” advocate (1772). Lumbini, Nepal: Siddartha Gautama born again (563 BC). ((EVENT OF THE MONTH))). New Gun In Town: voters of Carmel, California ‘hire’? Clint Eastwood (1986). Birth of Baudelaire (1821) and Paul Robeson (1898); death of Phil Ochs (1976). Canadian forces take Vimy Ridge (1917). Bavaria: Failed coup d’etat by Spartacus League aka “