"The weather station at the

- -<-Terrace-Kitimat Airport re- ©
|.corded the first frost of the
[season on Oct. 16. Weather-

**mian John Howe says that’s

«Nearly right on time, accord-

|. ing to Environment Canada’ s

-‘lecal records,

The earliest Te-

- The -big question now is

oo the date on which “the first
|. snow’s going to fall. Howe

First frost. on. time —

“same - 25-year ‘Average . cited

. Snow date ‘at - ‘Oct. 30. The ~
Howe "said “the 25-year -
_}<caverage from. 1955 to 1980°
a puts the date of the first frost. :
: ovate Oct. 17.
_.}'° corded frost came in on Sept.
{°:23 (he didn’t have the year
. for that) and the latest on -
a Nov. 12 (or that one either),

othe: winter. of *
the: latest was: Noy.
1979-80, :

said the airport received trace
amounts recently, but the fall
has to be measurable — at:
least .2 centimeters — before
it’s officially récorded:. The

above sets: “the usual first-

earliest date ris Sept. 27 in
972-73, ‘and
24 in

Weather personnel at the
airport aren’t exactly un-
involved in this matter —
Howe says they've got a
‘snow pool” going, but he
didn’t say what the winning
date will be worth,

- Rafael Zur, owner. of Skylink |
~yirlines, is: appealing. the. deci-.

sion to cance} his. operating: cer-
“tificate by Minister-of Transport
_ Benoit: Bouchard, -and he said
|- yesterday” he’s confident: the.
. airline will. be back i in operation .
within weeks. : .
of * Skylink’s operating certificate
- was yanked Sept. 30 as the result _

of an audit launched after a fatal

crash at the Terrace-Kitimat air-

port Sept, 26. In announcing the
move, Bouchard cited problems

with maintenance and other rec-

ords, the use of unqualified
pilots and falsification of safety

~ Sunday shopping - ™_ continued from page 1.

‘small town values,’’ argued

Hull, adding that he doesn’t
believe large corporations
‘“should be permitted to toy with .
~~ those values for their own finan-
<¢ial gain. Hallock stuck to her ©
"guns and upheld the results of a

- 1987 referendum, in which 64

percent of the voters said ‘‘no’’

~ to Sunday shopping. “‘I believed
..we could deal with this before it
- became a problem,’’

" Mallock of the referendum.

said

- Because the vote wasn't a tie,

- "mayor: Jack’ Talstra didn’t have
‘a vote. But he did have a few
_things to say..He said he favored
Hallock’s:
though.” thes bylaw

“perfect solution”, it’s as good

Jas one’ could. get from- a:

_pasition, and even

municipal source, Anything

“more: would have to be done at

‘the provincial level.
‘He also had something. to say

‘about the values of big business.
‘Overwaitea Foods owner Jimmy

Pattison was in town a year or so

ago and, according to Talstra,

isn’t a

‘the Radio Shack

when asked how he was gaing to
deal with the Sunday shopping
issue he replied, ‘“Whatever you
want, we'll do.” But even after
the referendum Overwaitea re-
mained open. “It’s bothered me
a great deal that someone in that
position could break their prom-
ise,’’ said Talstra.

Even though the: restrictive
bylaw is dead, however, it may
not be the final chapter for those |
opposing Sunday shopping. For
some, there may be a glimmer of ©
hope. In respohse: to the force

E+

supporting the-bylaw, at least a

few of the big corporations .

showed a willingness to com-
promise. There’s a new clause in
the Safeway employee’s contract
that allows workers the choice of

being excluded from working

Sundays; and according to Cur-
rie, L&C Management has
promised to meet with Skeena
Mall tenants in order to make a
compromise

This promise isn’t enough for
franchise

Whatever soo wer
~ Weclean with « aie/

owners, however. ‘When we
signed our lease it (Sunday shop-
ping) was not an issue,’” Naida
Stainton. told council.
there are no government regula-.
tions, by the terms of our Jease
the landlord can impose any
hours he wishes and you're left
with three choices, You can
choose to open Sunday’s. and
stay in business, you can choose
to shut down, or you can choose
.to move.”’

i

ized as: “minute...

“But if -

The Annual General Meeting of the _
Terrace.& District Community Services Socigty.
will take p, ace on Tuesday, November 14, 1989" ‘In the

“All pane of the community are invited
.49 attend and are eligible to vote
by: -becoming members of the Society.

PLAN TO ATTEND AND BRING A FRIEND. 1118 J |

‘| Skylink appeals grounding ae
_ Claims allegations ‘unfounded’ -

documents. Zur says he has been .

notified of. the: audit: results by -

violations. which. he * character-
- clerical: er-
rors”. ‘The problems involved,
he: said, were to do with flight:

log: entries and illegible hand- -

writing. “Ridiculous,’”? he com-
mented, _

Zur says the minister’s deci-
sion was based on ‘‘unfounded
allegations” and blamed Skeena
MP Jim Fulton for presenting
those allegations to Parliament
shortly after the crash. “I wish.
he’s say it outside the House so I

~ could sue him,” Zur said.

The Skylink appeal will be
heard Oct. 30 by the Civil: Avia-

tion Tribunal. Stephen Rybek, a

public affairs officer for
Transport Canada, said the
CAT is a quasi-judicial panel
empowered to hear appeals

’ against decisions of the ministry

in civil aviation matters, | The
first stage will be a hearing at

_ which the. nierits of the. appeal
will. be assessed, ; If adequate —

" Transport Canada investigators, “grounds are found, the appeal -

and. claims . they “discovered 16: goes’ toa threé-member tribunal
which. can ‘either confirm the
: ministry’ s decision or recom-

= mend a substitute decision of its

own.:
Rybek said the Skylink audit
is finished but the results cannot
yet be released. “‘If there is a
probability of civil litigation or
contravention of law, the
RCMP are called in. We can’t

release anything until we hear-
from the RCMP or the Justice

Department,’” he explained.
Transport Canada has received
no instructions in that regard
yet, and Rybek said he couldn’t
speculate how soon those in-
structions will be issued.

Rybek noted that after the

‘cancellation of Skylink’s

original operating certificate,
there was nothing to prevent the

“company from applying for a

new one, No such application
has been received, he said.

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