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$200,000 for Hydro.

Might just as well be $200 million
thanks but no thanks say owners

vigtarlle's Flace”, the
struggli ittle
restacrant operation 17
miles West of Terrace —
the last place for
motorists and other
travellers to stop for over
7 miles, is not served by
B.C. Hydro, and has no
telephone.

To operate the small
generator it costLyle and
Bonnie Roe over $500 a
month for fuel (not to
mention repairs and
maintenance).

Although there are
gasoline pumps at the
establishment, since it
would mean having to
start the generator (used
only part time, to save
costs) each time a gas
customer pulls up — so
the pumps are idle.

Gas companies are not
fussy about providing fill-
ups because Charlie's
Place would be their only
customer for the 4 mile
round trip there from
Terrace.

In attempting to get
B.C. Hydro (“Owned by
the people of B.C.”) to
provide electricity, the

"3 have had to face
the almost insuperable
obstacle of a small
business versus a giant
corporation.

e Roe’s appealed
sometimee ago to Skeena
MLA Cyril Shelford who
has since gallantly taken
up the battle with the B.C,

ydro, Hydro’s figures

have now (as can be seen
in the accompanying
letter) dropped to
$200,000 as the estimated
cost to put hydro service
in to reach Charlie's
Place. (This would not
include installation
however).

Bonnie says, “It might
just as well be 200 Million
dollars. $200,000 is ap-
proximately what
Charlie’s place would
take in (Jet alone makes)
at its present rate in
Twenty-five years, if it
survives that long.

The problem is a
“chicken and egg’’ one.
Without Hydro, others
will not move into the
district in sufficient
numbers to justify a
Hydro line. Hydro will not
go in until it has enough
customers to justify
going in. The situation
rests there, for the time
being.

However, the Roes,
with MLA Shelford givin
them moral support an
joining in the battle, are
still hopeful ‘there is a
Santa Claus” and have
not given up. Meanwhile
they use candles,
kerosene lamps,
flashlights and “put the
kids to bed

early.” Whenever
possible they go to bed
early, themselves,

To help eke out the
“thin pickings” of

operating the lonely
roadsid: restaurant on
High ay 16, Bonnie and
Lyle raise goats, sheep
potatoes, grow their own
rhubarb for pies, have a
vegetable garden — and
numerous other barnyard
animals including

_chickens, geese, cats,

rabbits and dogs.

This summer a
primary class of school
children from Terrace
visited Charlies place to
see (and cuddle and
stroke) some of the
animals there.

Bonnie has a column in
the Herald which started
last week. She says she
“loves Visitors ‘and
apparently visitors love
Charlie's place, which is
more often than not
providing shelter for

“human” strays, as
well as the animal
variety.

8 Dec. 1977

FILE: 1615.2
Cyril M. Shelford, MLA
4683 Park Avenue
Terrace, B.C.
VeG 1V5

Dear Mr. Shelford:

In response to your
letter of November 1, 1977
we have approximated an
estimate of cost to serve
Charlie’s Place west of
Terrace, We believe the
cost to provide service to
Charlie’s Place from the

end of the existing power
line in New Hemo, is
about $200.000 consisting
of 10.5 miles at $16,000 per
mile, pki; $30,000 for
brush clearing.

Although the people in the
area could suve some
money by doing the brush
clearing and digging the
pole holes. the customer

contribution would
Temain in excess of
$150,000. The other

aiternativy of laying a
submarine cable across
the Skeena River from
our transmission line on

_the south side, is even

more expensive.
Because there are so
few _ residential
customers in the area of
Charlie’s Place, there
would be little assistance
from the Provincia!
Government's Rural
Electrification Program.

For these reasons
providing power to
Charlie's Place is

presently prohibitive and
is likely to remain so,
until considerable growth
occurs in the area.

If we can be
assistance in this or
ather matter, please
at any time.

Yours sincerely,
W.A. Sandhals
District Manager
B.C. Hydro and
Power Authority.
Box 490,
Terrace, B.C,

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B.C. No. Winter Games Society
Protests BC Games Competition

Submission regarding
The B.C. Games
At the Northern B,C,
Winter Games Society
meeting in June held in
Prince George, the
Society - membership

i. expressed. several cons.

cerns regarding the B,C,
Games, In light of this
announcement,the
executive of the Society
have been authorized to
ensure that the interests
of the Northern B.C.
Winter Games Society
are full protected.

We have already made
one attempt, through the
Deputy Minister, Mr. Bob
Aherns, to express our
concerns. He assured us
that he would pass on
these concerns to you,
and we felt quite sure that
some reply from your
office would be for-
theoming.

We have, in lihgt of
your announcement, been
under pressure from the
media to make a
statement regarding our
position. We have
deliberatley stalled this
statement in hopes that
somehow the situation
could be resolved. The
details of this document
will be presented to the
media in press release

. form in mid August, and
- will represent the full

position of the Nerthern
B.C. Winter Games

' Society regarding the
; B,C, Games.

The following are what

* we believe to be our chief
"areas of concern:

1( We were under the
that any
announcement regarding
the B,.C, Games would be
made following talks with
the Northern B.C, Winter
Games Society. To
assume that our Society
would simply fall in line
with the new Games is

totally unacceptable to

us.

2) It is implied that
Regional Games would
be feeder games to the
B,C, Games. For this to

become -d-reality,sarely’
it: . would. |:bave”’ been’*

necessary to establish
both Games on the same
philosophical footing.

3) By offering $180,000
for operating plus $70,000
for capital expense im-
mediatlely puts uou in
competition with the
Northern B.C. Einter
Games. We were under
the impression that the
idea was that these
Games would com:
plement each other.

4) How can it be ex-
pected that the Northern

., Winter Games,
witbnh an operating
budget of less than $25,000
he able to compete with
the $250,000 tag beo
pfiered wotj tje B.C.

Ga,es

5) Presently there is
one obvious confrontation
arising insofar as there
are invitations being
circulated from your
office and from the
Northern 3,C, Winter
Games Society regarding
future games. It woul
seem that the best way to
handle this might have
been to designate eligible
communities in order
that one bid would nat be
weighed up against the
other

4) It is interesting that
$250,000 can be offered to
the Host Community to
host 2,600 athletes, while
Prince George, in 1978,
catering to 4,700 athletes,
will have to justify every
penny of the $32,000 grant
it has applied for, of
which $18,000 wo;; not be
spent in the City.

7) We fail to see how it
can be presupposed that

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every community in
escess of 10,000 people
coud] run these Games
for exactly $250,000. How
was this figure arrived
al

horse in hiring a Director
before the B.C. GHames
Board was created. We
are assuming that the
Board and the Director

will co-operate. Also, who.

wil have the final say, the
Board or the Director?
We respectfully suggest
representation from the
Northern B.C. Winter
Games Society on the
B.C, Games Board when
this is created by the
Government,

9) What community
with a population over
10,000 and under 60,000
can host 3,600 athletes
unless a billeting system
is used? Prince George,
for example, has only
1,750 hotel rooms — this
would be less than half
the required amount. If it
is intended that the
athletes wouuld be
billeted, then why has
$160,000 been budgeted?
At its most extravagant,
we could not spend hal,f
of this on the Northern
B,.C, Winter Games.

We have it from
reliable sourdes that
most Western Canadian
Provincial Games are
suffering through lack of
interested host com-
munities. The Norithern
B.C, Winter Games have
never had this problem,
and are booked three

ears down the road.

owever, with so much
extra funding available,
what is to say that these.
communities might noty

_ 8) We feel that thé cart - Northerdi

has been ‘put before the”

change their minds and
bid for the mord lucrative
games. If this were to
happen, then the B,C,
Games would well and
truly have destroyed the

1 B,€; Winter
Games.” ° Tike pees *

We introduced the
mass participation
concept which you now
propose to follow, and for
which you have been
acclaimed in the media.
Now, bvecause of the
dollars involved, we may
have to take a back seat,
which is just not ac-
ceptable to us.

The Northem’ B,C,
Winter Games Society, in
its present form is a
result of government
initiative and was not
motivated by the Nor-
thern Communities. It
would, therefore, seem
logical that answers to
these forementioned
roblems would have

m sought before any
announcement was
made.

The Society does not
wish to become involved
in any confrontation with
the long-awaited B.C.
Games. We feel we are a
solid working Games
model, recognized, not
only in British Columbia
but all over Canada, as an
example of. real com-
munity spirit, It would be
a travesty aof justice if
the Northern B,C, Winter
Games were now io
suffer.
squithout even con
sidering:the legal stand-
point, feel that the
recent /announcements
are both unethical and
unfair, and steps should
immediately be taken to
rectify ‘the situation.

Immigrants Abuse
Adoption System

TORONTO (CP) — A

okesman for the

nadian Employment
and Immigration
Commission sayS an
increase in the number of
adoptions by immigrants
suggests many immi-
granis are turning to
adoption to get relatives
into Canada when they
may not qualify throug
regular channels,
* Tan Thomson, director
of recruitment and
selection for im-
migration, sald these
relatives, often younger
brothers and sisters, can
come into Canada with
full status, being the
adopted child of a
Canadian resident.

_ Hesaid the commission
is looking at such cases
more closely.

"We are not in the
adoption business,” he
sald, “If they (im-
migrants) want to adopt
them they should do so
those countries,"

In_ three fears, the
number of adoptions by
immigrant groups in-

* creased to 2,000 from 582.

Most of those adopted
were teen-aged girls.

Toronto lawyer Mendel
Green, who Is Involved in
about 35 adoption ap-
plications, said: “In the
past, immigration had
turned a blind eye" to
adoptions by immigrants.

Gl

Seaman Paul M. Guay, left, and Petty Officer Cadet
Ronald Knoedler, HMCS Saskatchewan, had a few
light moments bargaining with stall keepers at

Guayaquil, Ecuador.

GALAPAGOS
ISLANDS, Ecuador -—
Academy Bay, Post
Office Bay and all those
other place names that
have established these
Ecuadorian islands as
one of the world’s most
famed locations were
“invaded” recently by
about 700 members of the
Canadian Forces.

It was a friendly in-
'vasion. The Candians,
sailors of the Canadian
Training Squadron in

HMCS Yukon, HMCS
Saskatchewan and HMCS
Qu-Appelle, were taken
ashore in sea beats and
motor cutters in waves of
30 at a time from each of
the ships.

The visit, which lasts a
day and a half, with the
destroyers anchored
offshroe from the various
islands, is just*one more
highlight of a i10-week
training curise to South
America which began in

Esquimalt last Oct. I. ;

Megavitamin Studies

VICTORIA (CP) —- The
British Columbia
government has ordered
a study to determine if
megavitimin therapy can
help patients’ siffering

from schizophreni¢.-

multiple sclerosis and
serious learning disor-
ders, Human Resources
Minister Bill Vander
Zalm said Monday.

He said he hoped the
study would show
positive results because
other of treatment
had not worked.

“This is ae wy
emotional issue,” he said,
“We are talking about
people who have lost all

ope of being cured and
are reaching for straws,”

Vander Zalm said he
had received so many
inquiries about the

benefits of megavitim
programs that he decided
te order a full, scientific
study.

“The government could
not endorse a program as

VES

Shipmates for a 10-week cruise to South America, Able

Dec. 16, after visiting
Peru, Ecuador, Panama,
Mexico and the US.
during the operation.
These famous islands,
located right on the
Equator and 90 degrees
west, gained their fame
when Charles Darwin
conducted experiments
and helped evolve his
theory of evolution back

..AB Guay, 23, is the son of Jack A Evelyn Guay, 192
West Moira St., Belleville, Ont. PO Cadet Knoedier,
17, with the Marmot Corp, Royal Canadian Sea Cadet
Corps, is the son of Fritz and Helga Knoedler, Box 346,
Stewart, B.C.

The squadron returned

in the 19th century.

While ashore, the
Canadians saw giant
tortoises, iquanas and
boobies, as well as
various other fomrs of
life.

under
by

The area is
stricxt control

Ecuadorian authorities in
a massive effort to
protect the environment.

controversial:-as--this | --

without knowing all the
facts. We will work as
quickly as we can, but the
study will take almost a
year to complete.”

The minister said the
study would be super-
vised by Pharmacare,
and the study group
would include members
of the B.C. Phar-
maceutical association
and the B.C. Medical
Association.

Megavitamin involves
the consumption of
massive doses of
vitamins to control
various ailments.

Students from Clarence Michiel School perforni
“Christmas From Around the World” during its an-

College Studies

OTTAWA (CP) — A
part-time research team
at Algonquin College is
trying to prove this week

that itis possible to load
dice with the human
mind,

“Does the human mind
actually possess the
ability to influence the
movement of external
objects?’ is the more
serious queslion asked by
the Algonquin resear-

chers under faculty
member Jim Rae.

The principle research
tools used are 24
regulation-size casinc
dice which are precision-
made by a Las Vagas,
Ney., firm to tolerances
of less than 1-1,000 of an
Inch,

In experiments that
will continue for four
days this week, students
will trigger a trapdoor

ord Prize winner in Herald Christmas decoration
contest, Yvonne McColman, 8 shown above holding

prizewinning entry.

¥vonne made

decorations

suitable for a table centerpiece or for a below the

Christmas treé diorama.

nual Christmas Concert, Monday afternoon.

Mind Over Dice .

device which will spill the
dice down a six-foot ramp
into a large box.

Efforts to influence the
dice are made during the
time it takes for the dice
to go down the ramp and
come to a halt at the
bottom of the box.

The standard —_ test
requires the researchers
to influence each face of
the die—one to six—dur-
ing 30 successive

releases.

Results of these throws
will be compared with
random throws to find out
whether there is a
significant difference.

Algonquin researchers
believe the experiments
will show that the hunian
mind can influence the
fall of the dice and that
this capability is common
to many, if not most
people.