pulp and paper mill south of.
Meziadin could be in doubt
because of the time it’s taking.

Official. bas

don’ t: now hi
be:

pany -vice’ president. Fri
Foster last week. ; ;
The ‘company “submitted its
plans to the provincial govern-
ment ‘for ‘approval earlier. this
year but there have been several
delays in making a decision.

SRA PRON pai rie re gare peaarrpeetenly

TERRACE —A planned $365 a
million Orenda Forest Products .

the province: to tiake an: @p--. an
proval. decision; Says a company.” 1

“Time is runiting out on us, I -
) ‘long. we dan.
‘stagnated: before 4

“to-start. 16 ‘make some |
kind of: progress," said-com- _
~ some” ‘investors’. vh ve already’.
fallen’ “away because: ‘of the”
delays andi. the: ‘economic

———

the project, give conditional ap-

‘proval pending the receipt of
* necessary licences and permits
~ or order in-depth 1 environmental

“Certainly : we'r *

climate,’ said Foster. te
As. well, whe. said” potential.
competitors. are moving ahead

: with their r plans and could be

ni crete

Colourful capers

- CAT AND MOUSE. That’ s the mouse, aliasJonessa Beintema,’:
“trying to escape the cat: Chris Back is giving her a hand with
the parachute at Copper Mountain Elementary’ $ co-operative

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1d al Me

aa rane fee ye
soma gh! bcieitheny

‘The province can either reject, ———

There are several reasons why
-the government is late on mak-
ing a decision about the Orenda
Forest Products planned mitt.

“That story is on’ Page A2.

ty

“mon ats producing before the Orenda
“behind. first. roleee ae

. project is completed.

Orenda wants to use a Fine |

nish technology that features

chydrogen peroxide as a.
‘That's

bleaching agent;
“markedly different from con-
; ventional pulp mills which use
Chlorine. Hazardous dioxins
“and furans are a by-product of
the e latter Process.

+

games day May 24. The games day was ‘planned i in the spirit
of Year 2000. tt replaced more conventional Sports days.

And unlike . conventional
mills, Orenda won't befeleasing

liquid effluent | into - water

systems, ~

The process involves what is
called a. closed loop system
whereby liquids will” be
recovered, Sludge will be put i in-

toa contained land Fill aréa,

developed by. a Finnish com-
pany called Tampella, It's been
asked to be an investor in the
Project and has already produc-
ed sample paper for Orenda to
test and then to show to poten-
tial customers.

TERRACE — The second re-
jection of a 48-unit apartment
block proposal sends a message -
to developers — but Aldermen:
disagree on what itis: =".
Council last week’ split. three: -

Tribruck Investments to rezone:
as multi-residential. a" property’
on Kenney St, across from
‘Lazelle ‘Ave..

jacent to his house, : A’ tie vo
defeats. any motion”:

c There’ s ‘good :
hews for Bhragésale, devotees.
The “farmers’ “market | assocla-
tion Is now offering’ a: weekly. .
flea market, the first. of which
was held this past Sunday, . :

‘Lena Chapptow. éaid it is notin

tion of the. farmers’ market dit

a ‘abit of everything”,

“4

Intéd out: the Davis Ave, .

“tik ad ‘nll. not beet ‘untied :

three ‘on - an. application: ‘by’

Mayor’ Jack Talstra ‘didn’ t
vote because the property.is ad-.. .

Aldermen ‘Darryl “Laurent,” ,
Danny. ‘Sheridan and Bob; wt

Describing the event as ‘a
- giant garage‘sale," “spokesman :

iended'to be simply'a continua?

a quite. different ‘event. ofeig

‘Suggesting there was a de.

- Cooper voted in favour with

Rick King, Ruth Hallock and

Mo. Takhar opposed..
It's: the. third: proposed

“sent,

ast couple of years encourag-

~3 Ing “development and ‘creating |
the impression Terrace-was ‘an’

“open: and accessible place to do
business.?? wo

" King: disagreed, ‘maintaining
the message to developers was’

My hoiukdn't expect rezoning _

“On a Sunday. That wis ; also a a
“day when a lot of. people were
“downtown shopping... <>”
°C WHile it will ‘take ‘time.to
-become fully established, Chap-
-is) confident the -flea

plow:
marketwould prove, as great a

eee as. ts farmers’ market ig

The flea market will run each ~

Sunday beginning at 10 a.m, Jt

Will cost Vendors $$: to setup

shop there and: they will have'to’ -
mand for this-type of market, : | provide their. own table. Those. -
same conditions apply to’ the.

farmers! winch

He ‘said council: ‘had spent the”

‘ouncil’s mixed | messt

A growing ‘ ‘concern over the

lack of rental accommodation .

t t from a
“development denied in less than - has brough comment fr .

a year; leading Laurent to fear a wo
- “really bad “Signal” ‘is. being

variety of places... ;
‘Those stories on it Page AS.

portant and there is a need for

‘more rental accommodation, he
-.. Said §, thé. decisions
“maybe | they. (the developers)

indicated

are looking’ in “all ‘the. wrong
» ’ Places aod they should do a lit-

‘approval “without them having :
“to work for it.”
: While new development i is im-

sage

tle more work,”’

Noting the strong opposition
from. neighbourhood. residents,
King: “said -it-was obvious what
had been proposed was not in

their’ best intérests and that: ‘also

had to ‘be. taken, into considéra-
tion’. 5

However, Laurent argued
council: Was supposed to make
decisions on the basis of. What
was good for the city. The 66

people. who signed-the petition

opposing: ‘the. apartment block
“represent. one half of one per
cent of the population of Ter-
race,”” he said,

et We ngst Po vases

Orenda’s planned pulping .
-and paper making process was .

The process is seen as one of
the strengths of Orenda’s plan
because of the growing world
wide worry about the -en-
vironmental effects of conven-
tional pulp operations.

Wood for the mill would
come form a cutting. licence
_ Orenda already has in the
Stewart area. '

It’s been logging the wood
since receiving -the licence six
years ago and has been selling
pulp and saw. logs to foreign
and domestic customers,

Although the company has
been looking for investors, most

cont'd A2

Fish limits
draw debate

TERRACE — The results of a
public meeting tomorrow night
will help determine regulations
affecting angling guides on a
375km_ stretch of the Skeena
River.

In March 1990 the environ-
ment ministry’s fish and wildlife
branch put limits on the number
of days guides could take
anglers out on rivers classified

“‘special walers’’.

* he Skeena upstream from a
point 1 Skit “above where the
Copper (Zymoetz) River joins
the main stem.was one stretch
of water to receive that designa--
tion. .

Those Segulations limited the
number of. guides operating on
that stretch to 24 and gave them
8 fotal of not more than 3,000

rod-days: Takings élient out.on
. the.river. for. one day equates 10...

a rod-day, °.° >

Those figures, explained pro-

vincial fish biologist Bob
Hooton, were based in part on
the guiding applicatians receiv-

Helping

TERRACE While it was still
dark last Thursday morning,
Mary Roberts stood alone on
Hwyl6, 30km east of Terrace.
She'd been abandoned by her
boyfriend,

Roberts, ari 18-year-old Col-
orado state resident, had been
travelling through.the night to a

_new life in Alaska when her

boyfriend allegedly slapped her
and left with her car.

Al 3:30 a.m. the headlights
from an RCMP cruiser picked
her out, shivering in a shirt and
shorts at the edge of the road.

The roadside rescue was only
the beginning of a day made dif-
ficult by international
bureaucracy.

As an American citizen, she
could not receive monetary
assistance from Canadian social
services agencies.

. “SIF she tried to go for social
service here she’d get a criminal
record ..because she's not 4
Canadian — she'd be called an
illegat alien,'' pastor Cliff
Siebert of the Terrace
Pentecostal Assembly explain-
ed,

Siebert, who helped find a
place Mary could stay for
several nights, said the church
gets asked to help people about
once a month,

“We help with food or lodg-

ing, but we can’t always help

ed prior to setting the limits. Yet
only 18 guides ended up pur-
chasing a licence and of those

only 11 actually worked the Up- ..

per Skeena. The end result was
less than 300 rod-days were ac-
tually used.

Although overall use was far
below projections, ‘‘some
localized areas were heavily us-

ed,”’ said Hooton.

And because those areas con-
Linued to be in high demand, the
environment ministry “‘want sto
make sure we get those areas
taken care of Fairly quickly," he

_ said,

In an neffort to give both guid-

ed and non-guided anglers a fair _
share of fishing opportunities,

the branch wants a ‘10-guide,
900 rod-day_ restriction on. the

ry

‘Upper Skéenas 77" *
Also under | consideration is

partitioning the Upper Skeena
to ensure guiding activity does

not deprive local residents of
fishing opportunities at prefer-

red times and locations,

hand

them,’ he said,

The church's assistance: was.

sought by Karen Walker of the

Terrace RCMP's victims’ ,

assistance program.

She also made contact with a
women’s shelter in Ketchikan,
Alaska, and Roberts was put on
the ferry to that state last Satur-
day in Prince Rupert.

The boyfriend was picked up
by RCMP in Prince Rupert arid
returned to’ Terrace, but no
charges were laid.

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