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Industry

Service in Prince Rupert, said the Kitimat
Valley has been logged and second growth is now
being cared for. The forest service is opposed to
the pre-empting of its reforestation investment
by single industrial users. ;

He said that even though there are no logging
operations being carried out in the valley at the
present time this does not mean that the valley is
not being used for forestry purposes.

All high-yield forestry growing sites occur in
valleys and reforestation is like tending a gar.
den, which needs to be thinned and cared tor
during the growing process. The vatley cannot be
used for something else in the meantime, he
sald.

The District of Kitimat belleves that the
Kitimat Valley should follow the historical trend
of development along river valleys, according to
Kitimat alderman, Fran Buschert. The only
valley left in B.C. for development, with existing
transportation and communication amenities
atready available, is the Kitimat Valley, she
sald.

The valley has 15,000 acres of flat, easily
developable land, she said.

An Industrial Utility and Transportation
Corridor study, made in Kitimat, led to con-
siderations of corridors further north in the
valley and connections to the CNR mainline for,
rall service, roads, and corridors for major
utilities: however, large-scale considerations
were made in connection with the NKK steel mill
proposal a few years ago, she said.

Kitimat’s interest in the Kitimat Valley is its
cancern for adequate controls and planning in
the area north of the municipality, she said.

This Is to support and encourage cantinuing
Jobs for the existing poputation of the area and to
support a natural increment of population
growth, she said.

“Services, service industries and recreational
facilities need a solid tax base and a population
nucleus to support them. This can only come
about by Increasing industrial activity and
population,”’ she said. -

Bob Cooper, representing both the regional
district and Terrace District Council, said that
the sites that will eventually be developed as
industrial parks are called Thunderbird, which
is adjacent to the airport and is approximately
2,000 acres; Dubose, which is near Onion Lake,
and is approximately 8,000 acres; and the
Wedeene, which is the area that runs from the
northern Kitimat boundary, approximately
#700 acres to the Wedeene River. .The 14,700
acres of Industrial parks in the Kitimat Valley is
only a small fraction of the 3.8 million acres of
timbered area, Cooper said.

“The whole question of forestry‘s priority for
use of the Kitimat-Lakelse Valley needs to be~-
explored,” said Cooper.

Tourism, agriculture, fishing, forestry as well
as industrial development can be made use of in
the valley, he said.

Cooper said the forest industry in this area is
divided into three parts, and each part is
government controlled or owned. ‘‘While this
control is not regarded by everyone as a bad
thing In itself, it is of concern, if, as past history
shows, it cannot be done on a sustained and
economical basis,” Cooper said.

To sustain such as basis ‘‘we have to think ata
scale larger than thinking solely about a single
resource,” he said.

“We have to entertain questions about the
future of the area. We urge you to think beyond
the short term, limited proposals and projects.
What will the area be like in 10 to 20 years? Do
you want your kids, whe grow up here, to have a
variety of opportunities,” he said.

The solution to problems in the Kitimat-
Lakeise valleys is to be found with a high level of
co-operation between the local agencies and the
provincial resource managers operating out of
Victoria and a coordinated effort to utilize all the
areas’ resources fo ensure the economic

prosperity and stability of the area, sald Cooper. —

The proposed corridor, although not designed
for the specific industries listed in the brochure,
is designed to encourage industries to locate and
expand in the area, Buschert said.

Roger Davis, a Terrace resident, said the
proposed corridor is a ‘‘terrifying’’ concept and
_ he Is worrled that local governments will use
‘thread-line scare tactics” to persuade people to
support the corridor.

Cooper later said the industrial corridor was
designed because of a failing logging industry in
the valley.

A man, who recently moved here from Sud.
bury, Ontario, said he does not want to see
polluting types of Indusiry here because they
have been proven fo kill off trees in communities
like Sudbury.

Jim Culp, from the Steelhead Society, said that
he Is going to be taking some positive views on
the brochure but there has to be consultation
between the public and the developers of the
corridor.

“I'm In favor of a ferry service or a grain
elevator but | don‘t want this area to develop into
another Plitsburgh,’’ he sald,

Davis said it was interesting that there are five
of the most polluting industries listed in the
brochure as potential development for the area.

Buschert said that these industries have shown
an interest in the Kitimat Valley...’*not us.”

When she was asked if the sponsors of the
brochure would be interested In holding a public
meeting about it, Buschert said that the pam.
phlet was too “nebulus’ for that kind of
discussion.

POLICE

NEWS

Kitimat RCMP received a
report about 11:30 a.m. on
Tuesday that several youths
were seen in the Kitimat
area hanging onto the back
of moving vehicles. Police
have requested parents to
instruct their children not
become involved in this
dangerous practise.

Theives ripped open the
soap dispensing machine at
the Clothes Peg Laundry in
the Nechako Centre and stole
money from the machine on
Tuesday. There was $65
damage reported te police.

Dale Maitland, of Kitimat,
reported at 8:40 p.m. on
Tuesday that his vehicle was
broken into between 6:55
pm. and 8:40 p.m. on that
day. A ladies purse, con-
taining $85 in cash, personal
items, and some food items
were stolen, Maitland later
recovered some of the stolen
property.

Terrace RCMP said thal
some 15-inch tires were

“stolen ‘off slotted-mag rims

that were behind Totem

Ford's lot. The theft occured
overnight on Tuesday. —

A motor vehicle accident
between two caz's occured at
4:55 p.m. on Wednesday in
front of Terrace In-
ternational on Highway 16

West, There was $750
damage done to the two
vehicles. There were no

. injuries, police said,

WEATHER

Aseries of Pacific weather
systems is moving through
the area at a rate of one

every 24-36 hours, so the .

forecast for today is for
mainly cloudy skies with a
dew sunny periods,

‘There will be increasing
cloud cover throughout the
afternoon, with a good
possibility of snow toinght.

Two get grants

Two active community
groups in Prince Rupert
have received financial
assistance from the federal
government, it was an-
nounced recently by Skeena
MP and Minister of State,
lona Campagnolo.

“Grants under the Canada
Works Program have been
given to the Prince Rupert
Achievement Centre
($48,300) to establish a
shelter workshop for han-
dicapped people and to the
Continuing Education
Branch of Nerthwest
Community College ($14,112)
to operate a community
education centre for im-
migrant women", said
Campagnolo, .

The Canada Works
program is designed to -
create temporary em-
ployment as well as provide
social benefits to the com-
munity and these projects,
which will create eleven jobs
as well as provide important
services, are excellent
examples of how such job
creation funds can be
usefully applied.

“JT want to commend the
sponsors of these projects’,

Contract

A $2-million-plus 38
kilometre paving contract
along the Terrace-Kitimat
Highway 25 was awarded to
West Coast Paving Company
Limited of Vancouver,
Transportation, Com-
munications and Highways
Minister Alex V. Fraser, and
Agriculture Minister Cyril
Shelford, MLA for Skeena,
announced recently.

The firm’s $1,159,291 bid
was the lowest of five ten-
ders submitted. Paving will
begin in late April, weather
conditions permitting, and.a
crew of 25 will be employed
for six weeks.

A stretch of Highway 25
between Skoglund Hot
Springs to its intersection

* Campagnolo stated, ‘‘Laurie

Jones and Kathy Bedard of
the Community College, and
John McNish and Conrad
Hadland of the Prince
Rupert Association for the
Mentally Retarded are
representative of the many
civic-minded individuals
whose efforts make projects
such as these possible, and
who all too often go
unrecognized. It is they who
make programs like Canada
Works valuable community
assets”,

The Achievement Centre
will provide a work en-
vironment for persons
unable to compete in the
regular labour force, as well
as an opportunity for
socialization for these often-
alienated members of
society. The Continuing
Education Branch will
operate a continuation of
their effective neigh-
bourhood centre for im-
migrant women who, as new
arrivals to Canada, can be
introduced: to the different.
way of ‘life in their new
country in a relaxing and
non-threatening at-
mosphere.

awarded

with Highway 16, a distance .

of 21,1 kilometres, will be
paved,

In addition, 2.7 kilometres
on Onion Lake Hill and 12
kilometres along various
streets in the Thornhill area,
will also be paved, including
Kitimat River hill.

Work includes preparation
of existing gravel base,
asphalt priming, paving and
gravel shoulders along a
highway which suffered
damage in the October-
November storms in the
area.

Total cost of the project,
including engineering
supervision and materials,
will be $2,147,000.

The Herald, Thursday, December 21. 1978, Page 3

TO SYMPOSIUM

Students invited

Grade 11 and 12 students
who want to discuss any
subject of interest at a
conference at the University
of Victoria in May are in-
vited to submit entries to the

18th annual Humanities and.

Science Symposium.

Sponsored by the
University of Victoria, and
B.C. Telephone, the

province-wide competition
gives students an op-
portunity to present projects
on any topic and in any
format. Collections of
poetry, paintings, short
stories, musical presen-
tations and multi-media
‘projects are as acceptable as
written reports. The
material should be in a form
that can be discussed ina 15-
minute talk at the sym-
posium.

Bylaws approved

Regional District of
Kitimat-Stikine board tock
three bylaws involving
rezoning in Thornhill to third
reading at its meeting in
Terrace on Saturday.

One bylaw Involves the
rezoning of property in the
Woodland Heights area
between Krumm Road and
Old Lakelse Lake Road from
agricultural to high density
rural,

The rezoning is to ac-

comodate a subdivision of 39.

2-acre lots, said Bob Mar-
cellin, a regional district
planner. :

The second bylaw is in-
tended torezone a gravel pit,
behind the department of
highways gravel pit, on Old
Lakelse Lake Read hill from
agriculture to restricted
industry. H

Marcellin says that the
restricted industry zone is
newly created to ac-
comodate the expansion of a
concrete ready-mix
operation on 14 acres of
property.

Tenders
called

The ministry of tran-
sportation, «communications
and highways has called
tenders for a contract to
demolish and dispose of two
bridges which were
damaged beyond repair in
the devastating Terrace
floods early in November.

Announcement of the
tender call for Dec. 20, came
recently from Tran-
sportation, Communications
and Highways Minister Alex
Y. Fraser and Agriculture
Minister Cyril Shelford,
MLA for Skeena.

The contract calls for
demolition and disposal of
two collapsed spans, each 60
feet long, of the Chimdemash
Creek bridge, about 23
kilometres east of Terrace
on the Yellowhead Highway
16. The work will include the
conerete deck and steel
stringers and salvage of
aluminum railing.

The second bridge is the
Legate Creek structure
about 37 kilometres east of
Terrace, where partial
demolition of two collapsed
spans, each 180 feet long are
to be removed.

Humanities and Science
Symposium is chaired by Dr.
Richard Pearce of the
University of Victoria.
Application forms are now
available at all secondary
schoals in B.C. and entries
must be post-marked no
later than Jan. 25, 1979.

The authors of the best two
dozen entries are asked to
present their work at the
two-day seminar. An ad:
ditiona? 80 student observers
are chosen to hear the ad-
dresses and discuss them
with presenting authors,

The projects are judged by
members of the Faculty of
the University of Victoria.

Last year the symposium
brought replies from about
280 students representing 60
high schools in the province.
The range of lopies received
included most of the areas of
the physical sciences, social
sciences, humanities,
theology, education and fine
arts. The papers presented ,
dealt with subjects such as
“Holography”,

“Materialism in Science”,
*‘Poems'’, ‘‘Biorhythms”

and “Modern Mer-
chandizing”’.

Students who participate
in the symposium also tour
the campus, hear lectures,
meet and talk — with
university faculty and take
part in workshops.

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The Terrace Centennial Lions wish you the
best over the holiday season.

we extend our appreciation for your sup-
port.

Your participation in our events and fund
e raising activities has allowed us to assist our
The third bylaw is to @'@ community in many ways. Some examples:

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Drive, DesJardines and Rescue equipme
Kofoed from residential ta Lazeile Preschool Financial assistans
light industrial. 3 Rivers Workshop Equipme.

The rezoning is to ac- Minor Hockey Spor

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Social servic
Community promotit
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Teen Diseo Dances
Christmas Hampers
Riverboat Days

Child Development Centre

comodate a proposed
woodworking shop for the
remanufacturing of cedar
products and to accomodate -
existing legal non-
conforming light industrial
operations, said Marcellin,
The 10 acre block includes
-Goodwill Bottling but the
‘apartment complex on that
‘bleck will remain as
residential, he said.

You have made this possible. Thank you.

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