A8 - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, December 20, 2000 BUILT AFTER severai years of effort, the skateboard park just below the arena on Paul Clark Drive has become, weather permitting, a popular place for young peopte. Organizers of the park recently returned to the city a portion of the grant money they did not need to use. Skateboard park returns money to city SKATEBOARD Park organizers have returned $3,843 to the city that they didn’t use. Ron Craig, of the Terrace Youth waAction. Society; thanked council Dec.:~ 11 for approving the grant money that let the group finish the park. Council initially put up $50,000 for the park, then added another $10,600 last June when the society returned and asked for more to com- plete the work. The returned money was the un- used part of the $10,600 prant. “We very much appreciate the funds and we want to return the balance,” Craig said. Most of the more than $200,000 project came from in-kind contribu- tions and local donations gathered over the past several years through a number of initiatives. The park is located just off of Paul Clark Drive, up from the tennis ‘courts on the corner leading to one of the arena’s parking lots. Craig called it a “successful part- nership” with the city He said the park is being well used by skateboarders as well as those on in-line skates, bikes and scooters. “Everybody seems pleased with the project,” he said. | Craig said the society may look for future projects to work towards, The idea for a skateboard park arose after local concems were raised that there wasn’t a dedicated location at which young people could pursue this recreational activity. PRETEND THIS 1s ue SMALL INTESTINE. . Gov't wipes ‘Squaw’ from place names THE PROVINCE is wiping the name “squaw” off the map of B.C. place names. “The contention is that, from its historical usage, it’s a term derogatory towards aboriginal women,” explained Gary Sawayama, the director for Geographical Data B.C. The request to purge the offensive word came from the First Nations Summit and the Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs, he said. Their calls were endorsed by the B.C. Human Rights Commission. Sawayama said the policy of the provincial govern- ment is to rescind or replace offensive or insulting place names. There are 11 place names under B.C. jurisdiction con- taining the word squaw. There are four Squaw Creeks, three Squawfish Lakes, a Squaw Lake, one Squaw Mountain, a Squaw Range and a Squaw Island. The closest one in this region is a Squaw Creek that flows into the Little Eagle River east of Dease Lake. The three Squawfish Lakes will be renamed - “Pikeminnow” after the new name fisheries scientists have chosen for squaw fish. Other names will be chosen for the other locations, in consultation with First Nations, local residents, histori- cal societies, park and forestry personnei, maritime and search and rescue organizations. Preference will be given to other traditional names or names in local use. B.C. joins Saskatchewan, Alberta, Prince Edward Is- land, the Yukon and dozens of U.S. states in eliminating “squaw” names. Road work approved THE PROVINCE has given out two roadwork contracts as part of a plan announced last year to improve sections of Hwy37 between Kitwanga and the Yukon border. White Bear Industries of Terrace has a $185,910 con- tract to remove trees, brush and roots to widen a 14km section between Rescue Creek and Kinaskan Lake. That’s in preparation for another contract soon to be let to improve the road surface. And Rorison Enterprises Maintenance of Dawson Creek has a $275,181 contract to crush various kinds ag- gregate to build up another section of road in preparation for sealcoating i in two years, The work is part of a plan to eventually have sealcoat or pavement on every kilometre all of Hwy37 leading north to the Yukon border, says highways ministry offi- ciak David Belford. Still to be decided is how to divide up some of the wark, he said. a -“Tn’a nutshell, people ‘in the Stikine area ‘are lovking'”! ta the ministry to have the work done as day labour by hired equipment,” Belford continued. This would involve having the ministry act as the overall manager on projects. And that’s in contrast to having the ministry put pro- jects out to tender with one company doing all of the work. “If work does go out to tender, it would open it to bids from companies in Terrace or Prince George for example and the people up there would not like that,” said Bel- ford. 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