A6 - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, January 8, 1997

OCTOBER

THE LATEST PROPOSAL to eliminate Shames
Mountain’s debt to local taxpayers was revealed as
a scheme to credit lift ticket and other discounts
against the $483,000 the resort owes the regional
districl.

CBC NEWSWORLD offered a trial run of the
network for northwesterners, but the offer was
turned down by Skeena Cablevision.

THE KITIMAT and Terrace school boards called in

alabour lawyer to mediate their differences, But the

first meeting broke down with Kitimat trustees
walking out.

CONSENSUS eluded a committee trying to come
up with a land use plan for local forests.

LOCAL VET David Farkvam started collecting to-
cal signatures as part of a provincial campaign to
force a referendum on bear hunting. By December
provincial organizers were forced to concede
defeat.

CREWS WORKING for CN Rail dismantled the
tanks that stored chemical laced oif from an ald
pole treatment yard that was responsible for soil
and ground water contamination near Keith Ave,

SKEENA MP Mike Scott and former MP Jim
Fulion exchanged heated words during a televised
debate about native Jand claims on CBC
Newsworld. Scott later said he’d been defamed and
threalened to sue Fulton and media outlets across
northern B.C. for covering the debate. Proceedings
have begun against Fulton.

CHURCH MINISTERS here debated the govern-
ment’s select standing committee on aboriginal af-
fairs on whether the term “‘racist’’ is too extreme in
describing opponents of land claims, The com-
mittee went on to tour the rest of the province.

A HIGH TECH teleradiology service to remotely
analyze x-rays went into use at northwest hospitals.

_GORDON HULL came forward to challenge

Mayor Jack Talstra for the mayor's chair and eight
candidates came forward to seek office on city
council, They were Tim Down, Jim Fraser, Val
George, Linda Hawes, Bruce Hill, David Hull, Rich
McDaniel, and Ron Vanderlee, Nine candidates
declared to seek the Terrace and Thornhill school
board seats. And Les Waimough challenged Thorn-
hill regional district director Peggy Julseth.

A GROUP of tenants at the Woodlands Apartments
planned to unite to press their landlord for iniprove-
ments.

A SUPREME COURT Justice blasted focal lawyers
for delays in the court system here and said
Supreme Court would sit more often in Terrace un-
til a case backlog is cleared.

REPAP ENTERPRISES confirmed the company
that owns a Terrace sawmill is up for sale.

THE REGIONAL DISTRICT teceived 10
proposals for recycling projects.

RCMP REVEALED they had seized a cache of

weapons in Smithers believe to have been stock-—

piled by an American militia group.

NISGA’A and Tsimshian leaders reached an histor-
ic agreement to settle the boundary between their
traditional territories.

THE CITY announced plans to pursue further dis-
cussions with Edmonton-based Communily
Facilities Development Inc, aver the possibility of
the firm building a privately owned second sheet of
ice here and taking over the existing arena opera-
tion.

QUESTIONS about openness and the selection of a
superintendent dominated an all candidates forum
for school trustee candidates,

NOVEMBER

PLANNED PARENTHOOD opened its birth con-
trol clinic in Terrace, amid some criticism from
pro-life forces,

THE PROVINCE announced local job cuts to the
highways ministry and other departments as part of
province-wide cost-cutting.

JACK EBBELS, the B.C. negotiator who led the
way to the Nisga’a agreement, was made deputy
ininister of aboriginal affairs.

ARCHITECTS working for Canadian Tire filed ap-
plications to rezone land on Hwy 16 West for an
eventual retail store. City council approved the
rezoning.

THE SECOND phase of a subsidized housing pro-
ject on Haugland Ave. opened,

THE RCMP said they still want to bring photo
radar to Terrace despite opposition from city coun-
cil.

TERRACE MAYOR Jack Talstra defended the fis-
cal record of past councils at an all candidates

forum.

VIA RAIL officials were ecstatic over the increase
in passenger train ridership over the summer on
their Skeena run following the switch to daylight
service,

‘JACK TALSTRA was re-elected mayor of Terrace,

and city councillors Linda Hawes, Val George,
Rich McDaniel, Tim Down, Ron Vanderlee and

“ARENA
BECSUH

SECOND SHEET of ice supporters of all age
were out in force at the city council all candi-
dates forum Nov, 6 to press their issue.

David Hull were elected. Roger LeClerc, Marj
Brown, Stew Christensen and Gary Tumer were
elected trustces to represent Terrace and Thornhill
on the new Coast Mountain School Board. Les
Watmough defeated incumbent Peggy Julseth to
regain the Thornhill director’s chair al the regional
district.

REPAP began a massive lobbying campaign asking
the province to ease stumpage rates and logging
costs for coastal operators.

WEST FRASER added its voice to Repap’s, saying
its Skeena Sawmills operation is losing $1 million a
month and that it will be difficult to keep the mill
open without regulation changes.

SKEENA SAWMILLS announced a six-week shut
down starting Dec. 23, throwing 155 mill employ-
ees and up to 200 contractors temporarily out of
work.

ALCAN OFFICIALS predicted talks between the
company and the province over compensation for
the cancellation of the Kemano Completion Project
will cither succeed or fail by January — the two-
year anniversary of the province’s move to cancel
the hydroelectric project.

NWCC officials contemplated drastic measures to
wipe out an $800,000 deficit.

A FRAMEWORK AGREEMENT was signed be-
tween Tsimshian, provincial and federal negotia-
tors, bringing the native group into substantive land
claim negotiations.

DECEMBER

LAWYERS FOR Skeena MP Mike Scott pin-
pointed the accusation of ‘‘racism” as being the
central argument in his libel and slander statement
of claim against Jim Fulton.

THE VACANCY RATE edged up to 2.0 per cent
in Terrace, but analysts say the rental market is still
undersypptied.

THE COAST MOUNTAIN school district started
with the top administrators from both districts.

Final decisions on which bureaucrats will be in
charge are to come in the months ahead,

THE REGIONAL HEALTH board will be dis-
mantled and community health councils will be ap-
pointed by Victoria, health minister Joy McPhail
said in announcing changes to the New Directions
health reforms,

NORTHWEST COMMUNITY College tabled
plans to cut the number of university transfer
courses it offers by 25 per cent and cut 15-20 posi-
tions to meet an $800,000 deficit,

NISGA’A treaty talks were held in the open for the |

first time. An agreement to provide more openness
still included many ways negotiators can keep
doors closed, hawever,

HAISLA natives and environmentalists called for
preservation of the Kowesas River valley — im-
mediately adjacent to the Kitlope, which they
fought for and won preservation of two years ago,

PAC RIM LNG picked a native reserve near
Kitimat as the site for its planned liquified natural
gas plant.

REPAP confirmed it’s begun buying wood from
Alaska because wood here costs too much ta log.

iy
A STUDY of the potential impacts of a Nisga’a
treaty pointed ta some job losses in forestry and
fisheries, but major economic spinoff benefits for
the region overall.

TEACHERS, students and staff at Caledonia
recounted incidents they said indicate the school is
becoming more dangerous. ‘

TSIMSHIAN negotiators demanded to know
whether Ottawa would break off their treaty talks
over a legal dispute about unauthorized logging by
the Port Simpson band.

RCMP asked the Kitimat Stikine Regional District
if they'd consider agrecing to the use of photo radar
in the rural areas here,

THE SALE OF Repap Enterprises to Montreal-
based Avenor was announced. Forests sinister
David Zimhelt wouldn't immediately commit ta
public hearings on the transfer of Repap’s forest
licences, and Avenor's unspecified plans for
*'strategic divestiture’’ of assets raised fears the
Skeena division would be sald off.

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