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Victoria, B.C.

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WN LOCALLY OWNED AND OPERATED NEWSPAPER

| TERRACE, B.C. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1988

| new highways and |
bridge contractor —

It was a spectacular beginning - mat, who negotiated the three- .
for the region’s new road and year contract with the’ Ministry
bridge maintenance contractor. of Highways. The dollar value,

North Coast Road Mainte- of the contract will not be. dis-
nance Ltd. took over the func- closed until negotiations in other -
tion from the Terrace District regions of the province are con-

Highways office effective Dec, 1
under the provincial govern-
ment’s : privatization program.
Two days later the regiom’s high-
ways were buried under 20 centi-
_ Meters of snow. | ,

_ Staff and equipment were mo-
bilized, but North Coast manag-

er Mike Zylicz said the condi- |

‘tions were probably about the
worst the company could en-
. counter. ‘“We don’t want to see
-any more of those,” he re-
marked. .

Vade

and the entire mess froze.
_-Zylicz said that despite condi-
tions North Coast’s first exercise

went reasonably well, He noted -

that 28 of the company’s em-
ployees transferred from the
Ministry of Highways and are
the same staff who previously
‘did the same work for the gov-
ernment, ‘“We’ve got all the key
people,’’ he said, ‘“Between my-
self and Earl Nygaard alone,
that’s 30 years of experience,’”
_- Zylicz expressed enthusiasm
for the newly privatized arrange-
ment, saying that the operation,
previously forbidden from:com-
peting with private sector. con-
tractors, is now free to bid on
contracts for clearing of parking

lots and other similar jobs. J

“We'll get better utilization of
equipment, for one thing,’” he
said. - |
_ ‘The remaining personnel in
the district highways office will
‘include “contract managers”
who will act in what Zylizc

called a watchdog capacity. En-—

forcement of contract ccondi-
tions will include random in-
spections, and priorities for
road clearing are unchanged.

Performance standards are set
out in detail in the contract.
“11s an Operation based on
common sense,”’ Zylicz said.
‘Our objective is to equal or
improve the past standards of
road maintenance in the re-
gion.” .

North Coast Road Mainte-
nance is a newly-created division
of Kentron Construction of Kiti-

he

Seventy-four-year-old Terrace reside
tion yesterday in Mills Memorial Hospital. Edwards was struck by 4 pickup truck last Friday

while trying to use a Lakelse Ave. crosswalk. RCMP stated the cause was “driver inatten-

tion”. Story on page 2, editorial on page 4.

nt David Edwards was reported t

o be In stable condi-

| ..Wrong qualifications.

Rita Johnston, B.C. Minister
of Municipal Affairs, Recrea-
tion and Culture, announced a
new program for the preserva-
tion of historic. landmarks last
Thursday, but Mamie Kerby of
the Terrace Regional Museum
Society doesn’t think it will-help
in Terrace. The problem, she
says, is that in’order to qualify
for a grant, the site must belong
to local government .or a non-
profit agency such as the
Museum Society. But the Muse-

‘Historic landmarks pr
no help to local heritage

cant role in the history of ‘the |

um Society has no source of

funding in order to purchase

locat historic sites, says Kerby,
and. the city, as she found out

with the provincial police build-

ing, doesn’t feel. it’s their re-
sponsibility.

The new program: is ad-

ministered by B.C. Heritage
Trust and offers up to $250,000
per landmark for capital im-
provements on a one-time cost-
sharing basis. To qualify, the
site must have played a signifi-

‘Trustees for School District 88 who were elected or acclaimed Nov. 19 were sworn into of-
fice last Friday. Secretary-Treasurer Barry Plersdorff administered the oath to (left to right)
Terrace trustees Lavern Hislop, Eva Daniela and Edna Cooper, Hazelton trustee Val
Napoleon and Kitwanga trustee Delbert Morgan. After the ceremony the board retired to an
in-camera session to consider a contract counterproposal for the Terrace ‘District
Teachers’ Association. 7 oO

rks program —

province, be readily accessible to
the public and belong to a local
government or non-profit agen-
cy. Funds may be used for ex-
_ terior restoration, infrastructure
requirements and presentation
materials. - . . a
On hearing of the Historic
Landmarks Program, Kerby
said there are several historic
sites in Terrace which should be

restored and preserved — but ©

none meet the last condition for
eligibility. The first she says, is

available.
built in 1912 by Will Little,-a
step-brother of city founder
George Little. —

The building is now owned by
Heinz Lehmann, who at one
time offered the building to the
city for one dollar. But the city

ing a new site and moving and
renovating the building was.too

a bylaw protecting the building
as a heritage site in order to
allow the owner to sell the lot as
a commercial site, oe
Also, there’s a hand-hewn log
home built by Floyd Frank’s

- father at Eby’s Landing in 1908.

Kerby says that this piece of
property would make a “great”?
picnic and campsite in a true
heritage setting. Another is a log
home at Eby and Walsh that was
built by the Gilberts in the early

1900's, ae

-the provincial police building -
~ which she thinks might still be
This building was |

determined that the cost of find- -

expensive. Instead they repealed

we