ee.

Members of the Skeena Junior Secondary School basketball team hung up their court
shoes and picked up snow shovels for a couple of hours last week to clear the sidewalk on
the Old Skeena River Bridge. North Coast Road Maintenance had more pressing matters to

_look after and offered the team $350 to make the crossing safe for pedestrians. Bryan Fick,
‘Fernando Mil-Homens and Phillip Bradford worked the Thornhill end of the bridge while

thelr team mates cleared the center and the ther end. The money ‘goes into the team’s
trave! fund. ; oo

~ LOCAL MAN DIES IN COLLISION

‘Chamber of Mines’ ‘‘‘Cor-

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1990
Vol. 6, Issue No. 7

Phone 635-7840
635-7269

Fax

Warchest to lobby
for new overpass
set in city budget |

until this afternoon, but there are some early indications of some of
the items that will be included. The first hint came from mayor Jack

Talstra when he told MLA Dave Parker during a Monday after-

noon press conference that the city would be actively lobbying for a
truck route in the coming year. ,

There have been several accidents and near-accidents on the
Sande Overpass since it was built, and with truck traffic increasing
annually, this is one item that will make a lot of people happy.

According to Talstra, a part of the city’s 1990 budget will be used
to concentrate on making a video tape of ali available CFTK news
coverage of past accidents. This is intended to graphically portray
the hazard presented by the current highway route through the city.
It’s not known yet if-the city favors Braun St. or Frank St. for the
location of a hew overpass at this time; the. main issue is to get an
overpass built somewhere other than where it is now. —

Parker responded by telling Talstra that the, provincial. govern-
~ ment’ ig currently looking at alternate routes within the City of Ter-

race, and between the two levels of government the beginnings of
something good may take place later this year. A complete report
on the city’s 1990 budget will be printed in next week’s Terrace

Review, Some goodies to look forward to will be a new overall

waste management plan, including an investigation of recycling,
and, with a little bit of luck, the beginnings of the Howe Creck
Trail. we

Mining companies
find out who we are

The B.C. and Yukon people with a definite interest in
the area, and gave out 65 Ter-
race Supply and Services cata-

- logues. to’ people who were

, together mining companies, in- - “very” interested. And most of

‘the people he talked to, says
Monteith, didn’t realize how
It was an event, according to much the City of Terrace had to
economic development officer offer. Even our airport, he adds,
Peter Monteith, that was. was less of a deterrent when they
(‘definitely worthwhile’. discovered that MLS was on its
Monteith says this is the first ‘way... sometime.
time the city has participated in ~ Monteith adds that of the
an event such as this and it may more than 100 booths there, the
help us close the gap in mining- Terrace booth was a winner.
related economic spinoffs be- This is a statement that was
tween Terrace and Smithers. strongly backed up by alderman
Smithers has taken advantage of Danny Sheridan at the Monday
these types of events for a night city council meeting.
number of years. “It’s easy Sheridan described the booth as

City of Terrace.

‘Monday afternoon.

struck a camper. The Terrace.
Fire Department was called to
assist with the Jaws of Life to -
extricate Berting. from the vehi-
cle. Fire chief Cliff Best said

A motor vehicle accident in
Thornhill claimed the life of
Terrace resident Ron Berting

RCMP spokesman Cst. Don

Oldham said Berting was the task was accomplished
rounding a corner on Old quickly but Berting was pro-
Lakelse Lake Road about 5 nounced dead on arrival at

p.m. Feb. 12 when his pick-up | Mills Memorial. Hospital. The
truck went out of control and driver of the other vehicle sus-

| The forest and the trees: a n

. tained minor injuries.

Oldham said the accident is
still under investigation, but he
added that road conditions
were good at the time and were

‘not a contributing factor in the

accident. . -

Berting, 36, worked as a
carpenter for Wildwood Con-
struction.

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now,” says Monteith, ‘“‘to see
why Smithers is where they’re
at, They’re old hands at it, so
they’re pretty smooth.’’
Smithers and Terrace were the
only communities in B.C. rep-
resented,

Monteith says he talked to
hundreds of people, received
about 150 business cards: from

“sharp” and ‘“‘very effective’,
sporting its official Terrace ban-
ner stating, “‘Terrace. A whole
lot in store for you.” He said
that one of the most effective at-
tractions was the raffle of a Ker-
mode bear picture. He added,
however, they had to explain

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