A8 - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, April 6, 1994 Hamer Ave. daycare saga finally ends PEACE SEEMS to have returned to the 4700 block of Hamer Ave. now that Discovery Daycare is operating within city bylaw limits. Neighbours kep! close watch last week on Mickey Bromley’s daycare operation: ~~ But they didn’t call city hail, and officials there — who had eatlier revoked. his business licence — weren’l forced to pay him another visit. Bromley had been operating throughout the. month with more than: the eight children permitted under a city bylaw for family daycares located in R1 zones. Councillor Ruth Hallock on Mar, 28 again tricd to pass a council] motion that would allow Bromley to continue operating with more children than allowed until March 31, when half the children moved to a new space on Sparks St. The resolution was that council use ‘special dispensation’? to ¢f- fectively turn a blind eye to the Hamer Ave. situation for three more days. Hallock, and councillors Gor- don Hull and Ed Graydon spoke in favour of the motion. Gordon Hull said he saw the situation as being akin to an RCMP officer who uses discre- lion and issues a werning instead of a speeding ticket. Nine to serve in Thornhill NINE PEOPLE have been ap- pointed to represent Thomhili’s interests on the Thornhill Ad- visory Planning Commission. The new commission is made up of: Del Holtom, Jeannette Anderson, Tonia Hodges, Peter Vogelaar, Sharon Brewerton, Dave Lefrancois, Shelly Swank, John Halley, and Dale Berlin. The appolhtmeats were made Mar. 26 by the board of the Kitimat Stikine Regional District. Holtom is the only retuming member of the Thornhill commis- sion re-appointed. The members come from all areas of Thornhill and represent a wide variety of career experience. Most are long-term. Thornhill residents and all are active in other volunteer organizations, Mickey Bromley “Three days is just three days,” added Graydon. ‘‘I think we have to. we some common sensc here.”’ David Hull and Rich McDaniel indicated their opposition to the resolution. “T think we're Ireading on very thin ice,’’ Hull said. With a majority apparently in favour, however, mayor Jack Tal- stra refused to call a vote, be- cause he said the resolution could _ be illegal under the Municipal Aci because it condones an illegal act. Grad uating Class Kindergarten — Grade One | Program offered atnocost (2 A. frustrated Hallock finally withdrew the motion. “It’s obvious we’re up agains! astonce wall,”’ she said. After the meeting, Hallock took direct aim at the Hamer Ave. neighbours, who she said have been ‘‘relentless’? in hounding the Bromleys, “T find it unthinkable that neighbours would be so hard- nosed as to bring the long arm of the law down for the sake of three days and three kids,’’ she said. In a separate motion, however, councillors unanimously voted to reinstate Bromley’s business licence for daycare operations of up to eight children. The licence had been suspended March 18 when city officials found 11 children present after complaints from neighbours. Graydon said he has received calls from five owners of home- based businesses worried that they could be next on the city’s hit list. Bromley had earlier claimed the city wasn’t enforcing ils bylaws consistently because city officials have issued business Licences for home-based businesses that they know are operating illegally in Ri zones. Graydon said the situation is under review, but added be didn’t think existing businesses will be affected by any changes, 4652 Lazelle. 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SINCE 1963 638-1158 PVs Owned and operated by Totem Furniture & Appliances Ltd. 4501 Lakelse ES ” __ CHARGE PLAN PLAN ae | Facts about KCP The $1.3-billion Kemano Completion Project, half built when Alcan halted construction in 199], is on hold pending the outcome of a public review by the B.C. Utilities Commission. This series answers questions that KCP information ceatres have received. Does Alcan make sure that water from the Nechako Reservoir is used efficiently? Isn’t some of it being wasted by 40-year-old equipment in the powerhouse? As we said last week in this column. Alcan has operated at high levels of efficiency since the first generator went on line in 1953, Technological strides have been made in the manufacture of power-generating - | equipment, but these have not altered the basic design of hydro generators ‘and turbines. The equipment” § functional efficiency -- the amount of power. that it can generate from a given volume of water -- has’ stayed virtually the : same. The + four new generators for KCP are capable of an output of 135 megawatts each, The eight existing generators can produce 122 megawatts apiece: just about the upper limit when the equipment was made. But all 12 would. function at an efficiency rate of 97 per cent or better; the difference in efficiency between the two sets of generators is little more than I.5 per cent. (Efficiency at 100 per cent is out of reach for any power installation because of losses due to friction, heat effects and other factors.) ~~ Advances in technology, especially in use of semiconductors and computers, _have gradually been incorporated into the powerhouse system to reduce the- demands made by moving parts and manual controls, The results: higher: cle efficiency and less time that equipment must spend off- line for maintenance, oe For example, mechanical governors that regulated turbine operations are - being replaced by digital governors. Mechanical, or "dynamic", exciters for. ‘the generators’ electrical field are being replaced by "static" exciters with no; moving parts, Four generators haye undergone this double replacement ata. cost of a million dollars per unit: a fifth will be changed next month and... : equipment for the remaining three i is already on the floor. Changes like these must be carefully timed. They can require long periods when a unit is out of the system, and the demands of the smelter potlines call for the power of six generators at all times. Everyday maintenance keeps the ; equivalent of one generator down, so any additional downtime must be caref uilly managed. Another major upgrading, completed i in 1989, meant four to six months of ‘down time for seven generators in turn when coils carrying the electrical * current were replaced using space-age materials instead of mica-asphalt insulation, Here again, the cost was a million dollars per unit: another, indication that Alcan accepts the responsibility of staying up to date, no matter how the price of aluminum may fluctuate on world markets. The Kitimat Information Centre. The Kitimat Information Centre is open Monday, Wednesday and Friday. from 10a.m. to 4 p.m. Drop by the office and we will be happy to discuss any questions. you may have about Kemano Completion, Kemano Completion Project KITIMAT INFORMATION CENTRE 224 City Centre Kitimat, B.C. V8C 1T6 Tel: 632-4712 4