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_ place.”
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- dents are confused over the ac- |,
tual status of the proposed site.

-bourhood Concept’’.

‘Neighborhood’

TERRACE — A meeting. at

”. Northwest Community College
Monday night attracted about.

20 people concerned with a pro-..

‘ posal to move:the Terrace Cor- -

rectional. Centre to a 32-acre site ©

on the bench: bordered by Sou-

cie, Mountainvista, Marshall
and Bailey:

_ Objections. for the proposal

range: from smoke and noise .

from: the center’s firewood oper-
ation to possible security risks —
‘involved i in locating .a detention
‘center in-a residential area.
-Following a discussion onthe
issue, the group resolved to
further their cause by soliciting
the support of the entire com-

correctional institution ‘in any
residential area: of greater’ Ter-
Tace. They also struck a four-
member committee to question
politicians : atid - proviricial>staff -
to ‘determine if and when the
proposed move would take

tion felt by the group, however,
isn’t directed at the provincial
government.. Instead, many. resi-

The problem, it seems, is. a
document produced by the city
entitled, “Public Meeting, Up-
per Bench Plan, Information
Package, October 1985”. The

document states that it was initi- .

ated by city council and plan-
ning staff ‘tas the second in a
‘series of public forums designed
to obtain and exchange informa-
tion and opinions with members
of the community on proposed

‘policy for the Upper Bench
° Planning Area.”

The document paints an idyl-

Hie picture of a model communi-

ty with an “Identifiable Neigh-
It pre-
serves: a variety of residential

 lifestyles,, encourages orderly |

residential growth through
phased: expansion, and depicts.

’ individual neighborhoods, com: ”

plete” ‘with convenience shop-
ping,
elementary school and park free
from through-traffic. In addi-
tion, it describes a 10-acre por-
tion of Crown land, a portion of
the same property currently be-
ing looked at by Corrections,
which. would be acquired jointly

88 for a neighborhood park and
school site. Many local residents
believed such an acquisition had

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. actually taken place.

This, however, isn’t the case.
The land in question is still

Crown land and. even School

District 88 staff don’t recall such
a proposal. With city politicians

and senior staff attending the

Union of ‘B.C, Municipalities
meeting in Penticton it’s diffi-
cult to find out exactly what
happened to the Upper Bench
Plan but it appears to have

centered around. an -

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fallen temporarily by the way
side.- City Planner Marvin Ka-
menz was still looking into the

.problem ‘at press time but it -

appears the city was short-.
staffed at the time the document °

was “producéd and the whole

concept was shelved.

Now, according to Kamenz,
with new staff available the en-
tire Official Community Plan is

_{n the background at the starting line, Miss Terrace Lyne
Lagace, with a little help from Miss Personality Jessie
Carroll, was the official starter for-the local Terry Fox
Run. And as you can see in the picture above, it didn't

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being updated and the Upper
Bench Plan and other similar
proposals are being considered
as a part of that larger. process.
What isn’t clear. at this time,
however, is whether the city’s:
vision of an ‘‘Identifiable
Neighbourhood Concept” for
the bench area, or any other part
of the community, is of any
value in the face of the proposed
Corrections move — and this is

Legislative Library,
Parliament Buildings,
Victoria, B.C.

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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER. 20, 1989
Vol, 5, issue No. 38. oo

Phone 635-7840
Fax 635-7269

concept lost in Corrections plans

one of the things residents ‘want
to find out. es

As one property owner. ‘at the
meeting pointed out, there are
other pieces of Crown land in:
residential areas of the city and.
any one of ‘them could be a

‘development target for the So-

licitor General. ‘‘It could be
your neighborhood,”’ she said. .

matter whether you jogged,

wheeled... it only mattered
pages.

rode, ran, walked or:
that you took part. Story on

GOOD-BYE FISH, GOOD-BYE TOURISTS

TERRACE — The fledgling
fishing guide industry -here, a
large component of the overall
tourism industry, is in danger of

losing much. of its clientele due .

to a disastrously low return of
the
‘Skeena River steelhead.

The total return this year is
one of the five worst in the past
quarter century. Martin
Schmiderer, proprietor of Ex-
clusive Fly Fishing, said he
‘called his European clients and
cancelled six weeks’ worth of

" bookings. ‘There was no point
by the city and School District’:

in bringing them over here,’* he

said. Schmiderer claims he lost

$180,000.

Cosmo Zavaglia of Northwest

internationally-prized .

Fishing Guides said a clients
didn’t cancel; but he’s appre-
‘hensive of what another year of
poor fishing could do to the
local industry’s reputation. Ful-
ly 50 percent. of his clientele
come here to catch steelhead, he
said, and if the fish don’t return
the fishermen won’t either.
'.Gord Judzentis of Water
Witch Excursions said he shut
down his steelhead fishing en-
tirely and he’s not going to
bother booking any clients to go
steelhead fishing . next year.
‘‘Within four years there won't
be a steelhead sport fishery
here,’’ he said.

Ina good year Judzentis guar-
anteed clients 20 fish a day

(caught and released), and Za-
vagilia’s figures were equal to
that. This year Judzentis said
“two was a good day’’, and
Zavaglia noted that the Ministry
of Environment had given him
200.tags to put on steelhead his
clients caught and released on
the lower river. ‘“‘The way it
looks now, they’re going to get
all 200 tags back,’’ he said,

All three guides agree that the
commercial gillnet fishery at the
mouth of the Skeena is to blame
for the diminishing number of
steelhead coming back to the
system. The summer return,
which apparently accounts for
most of the fish, comes upriver
simultaneously with the salmon

‘Kitselas Band ready to create park in Canyon - page 11 _

of greatest commercial value,
sockeye, Zavaglia said the com-
mercial openings are sometimes
12 miles up the Skeena, where

the returning fish are funnelled |

into the gillnetters with devastat-
ing effect. Judzentis noted that
before the Babine River sockeye
enhancement program the com-
mercial fishery used to close for
eight hours after each day of
fishing, allowing an adequate
number of both sockeye and
steelhead to escape upriver to
spawn. Now, with the massive.
numbers of hatchery-enhanced
sockeye, the fishery goes non-
stop and the steelhead are being
wiped out.

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