came

” More northwest men: ‘dle
from. heart. disease at, ‘a.
‘younger age than do those
diving i in the rest: of the pto-.
ivince. “nd
* That statisti? donitaied 10,
‘a a ar health i Sat ;

] TERRACE — Permission to: exe
_port logs is putting 50 local peo-,
pie. back to work this week,

-The people work for Bear.

* Creek Contracting which will be:

cutting for International Forest.

'. Products ‘at “Scotia River, ap-:
proximately halfway | between
. - Terrace - and-Prince Rupert *_
1a along the SKéena River... i
‘ “International Forest Products’

=‘ Interfor. — shut down’ ‘its.

» contract’ ‘logging shows last year
| after. falling lumber _ prices -
‘ couldn’t cover the cost of shipp- -

ing wood from up-north to mills :

it. has on the lower mainland’.

That changed two weeks: B80 -

when Interfor received permis-
sion from the provincial govern-
Ment. to export logs to help
defray those shipping costs,

The amount the company ex-
pects to export will be over and
above that required for its mills,
said . spokesman: ‘Bob: Fechtner

‘last. week,

“In that : sense: We. won't be
exporting jobs. We won't be ex-
-porting’to the detriment of our
local mills,’’ he said: ....

. Fechtner estimated. Interfor
‘will have: ‘cut for“it-at least
170,000 cubic meires.this year,
‘the majority of which will come
from’ the Scotia River. et

THE stranigt ati df layers of si nic
lumns of. STOW react to stress, It

N ig In then mountalris meas isla

TERRACE — _ Pune here who
rely on the legal aid system in
family law cases-may be the vic-
tins of a lawyers’ :strike.

B.C.’s branch ‘of: the Cana-
dian Bar: Association: has voted

to stop -taking’ legal: ‘aid: cases

Apr. 14, saying fees are too low."

‘The boycott call‘is an effort:
to “negotiate: higher: rates with:
the provinicial:goyernment, says:
local,: Lawyer: -Ed) DeWalle. °

“They pay, less than ‘a third of

the usual. hourly rate for most

lawyers,” ” he added,

could ‘still bs-affected.. ~

? That's: because most nore,
tawest t ldwyers m ueey "aie
: " *, arguing that money spent flying |

y: Law “Cet
ca ar ald See ;
fins rea: fahcouver. awyers
; ‘handle those has been urirecepti ;
: Brown said legal aid rates. are .

bar assiciation _ predicts few
Lower Mainland lawyers will be :-

taking those cases because ‘of ;

the strike, call, -
SE think it: will drasticatiy af
fect us;'".éaid Terry Brown, the.
law -centre’s .staff. lawyer,“

think there is. a danger (hat.
lawyer $1,950: under the legal

people will go.unrepresented),’” °
Brown said. family law cases,

that’: don't, ‘requite. court: ap.
“such: as. routine, ~

pearances: —
uncontested < divorce: cases -—

probably won't be'a problem...
,y But he said people involved in’
s custody suits, maintenance pay-
ment enforcement and accets -
” enforcement: could: have trouble :

Ekaries Says vt people mh getting legal aid,’

The Jaw. centre’ ‘¢ board 1 has

- been pushing for'a.second staff

lawyer for more thah'a year,

lawyers: “up . from -Vancouver
could pay most of the salary of
another staff'lawyer,
So ‘far: the provincially-
financed Legal. Services Society
ve..: Dye no

* mire northwest lawyers would
"take legal aid referrals, he said.

The: ‘current legal aid rates
-pay.a_ lawyer, $7,000 for a
murder {rial consisting of a
three-day. -preliminary hesring
and: “10-day. trial, A four-day
contested -eustody syit gets a

ald fee structure.

It’s also planning two smaller
logging shows, one just south of
Prince Rupert and the other fur-
ther. down. the coast;

The 170,000. cubic metres -is
the minimum amount Interfor
has to cut-to meet its logging
licence .: ‘requirements, said:
Fechtner. °

“And since the company can
export an average eight per cent
of that cit, the amount going
‘overseas could add up to ap-
proximately 15,000 cubic
, metres, he added. '

“at the least we'll be cutting.
- 1 B,000 cubic metres, at the top.
“irl be 18, 5000 cubic metres,’’

TERRACE — The library
board will soon ask the regional

- district for money to help pay

for 2 planned library expansion.

‘No date has: been set for a.
-formal. meeting, but library:
board chairman’ Judy Chrysler,

said last week it wants a meeting
with Thornhill and: area

.. regional district directors first.

“The'city has already tald the

‘ board it’s prepared to hold. a __
financing referendum this’ fall .

but: also wants the regional

L district to come ‘up with more

money
: taxpayers surrounding -
ready -help. pay some

up with. $325,000. of the
estimated $1,2 million cost and
it expects the regional district to
match that figure. A further
$400,000 would come from a
lottery grant with the remainder
being raised by the Kbrary
board,

Chrysler said the cost-sharing
change is necessary because

‘library use by those living out- .

jut the amount is.

pbed
- "City council | has sald it will .
b only ask city taxpayers to come.

said Fechtner,

He said the. company will still
lose: money: from its northern
logging ‘operations despite the
reverue.it’ll' make from export,

“The market. could .improve
and stumpage:‘rates could’ go
down, but we'll be operating at
less’ of a:loss than we would
without: “the: *ékport market, ”
said Fechtner.

Interfor had originally
wanted approval - to export
100,000 cubic metres, making a
total cut"this year of 270,000

-cubic metres ‘orice its domestic
requirement had been met.

That - export fi igure would

side the city (33 per cent} was
now, much greater than the
amount (17 per cent) district
taxpayers paid toward the facili-
ty’s costs.

That's because a 1979 district
referendum: approving the last
expansion project placed a cap
on ‘the raté-the district could
levy in  collerting. taxes for the

is no longer
Chrysler said,
adding libraries elsewhere in the
province. | _ Qucessfully ‘per-
stiaded, ré “te
“come uf vith h more money. ve

ath . Fivraicwings ta

cost estimates will have ta-be-
prepared before. work begins on
the. expansion, ;library building
committee““member Willy
Schneider-.says ,that will likely
not happen until the project has
been given the go-ahead by. city
and regional district voters.
Schneider said new drawings
will be necessary because both
materials and building stan-
dards have changed. since
original plans were drawn up in

Senior housing
needs boosted

TERRACE — While a propos-
ed supportive housing project
will‘ benefit -some seniors, the
local Home Support: Services
program director -says needs of
others may be overlooked.

Those plans by: the Terrace

Regional Health Care Society

call for construction of a
40-unit, condominium-style
development on-five’ acres of
land’ adjacentsto ‘Terraceview
Lodge! The idea behind Suppor-

tive: housing is that seniors will
be able to live'on their own but

also: be able: to take advantage

of the lodge's dietary, and other .

facilities. .

‘But Betty, 5 wart, speaking.
at a housing'forum last week,

said: 40 units:is ‘too many ard:
that some. Units . for, seniors .
should be built: downtown. She
nits -of: supportive |

housing is’ ficient... 6°

Noting “senior” was used to
denote anyone past retirement,

oa) ccommodation.

age, Stewart pointed out the
term covered an age range of 65
to 95 and “their needs aren tall
the same,”

_ Many seniors no longer drove
and ‘get around on foot, leading
Stewart to say the supportive
housing focation on the bench is
not necessarily the best loca-
tion. Housing downtown will
still allow them to walk to the
stores, library, park. or Happy
Gang Centre, she said:

. Recalling realtors addressing
‘the forum had emphasized the
importance of location in selling
a house, Stewart added, ‘‘loca- .
tion is. very important to
‘seniors, too,”

Given there was a limited

amount of government money

available for such housing pro-

* jects, she said it was important

"to ensure it was spent ina way

that ‘met the needs of all seniors
and. gave them a greater choice

Fechtner.

slow 1990 logging season. nt

“We. haven't done: a. great
deal-since last’ July--It: (Wasn't
like we should have been,” he
said.

‘Things were noi as ‘tough. as

the hungry early 80s but’ it,
wasn't a good y year, ” Mu
added.

regional istic

-. Judy Chrysler:

1988. ~The board might also
want the next set of plans‘drawn
up by an architect. who
specializes in libraries, he add-
ed,

Maintaining it was ‘‘a
debatable point’? whether the
library: board needed to have
ready up-to-date plans and cost
estimates before the project
went to referendum, he pointed

out the board could end up .
spending thousands. of dollars :
to do so only to have the project '
fail at referendum and have to |
go through the same process, .

and expense, a few years later.

Schneider said the board was
confident the $1.2 million figure
it had suggested — that’s based
on the original estimate of
$880,000 plus an inflation fac-
tor — was accurate,

have given Interfor a profit for. . .
its northern operations, said.

Bear Creek. Contracting |
owner George Munson said this: -
week’s. logging: start follows a’

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