_—r ar ee beckoning oacktop One city councillor wants to. implement a comprehensive city street paving plan/NEWS A3 | inst ructor yolire Lightning fast = After 22 years, college cooking: instructor Brian Parkes calls it.a day/COMMUNITY B1 Local skier Rob Schibli was — clocked at 122kph during a recent race/SPORTS C1 WEDNESDAY APRIL 6, 1994 “TERRACE - STANDARD ~ Library project very close THE CITY and the library board have come up with the latest in a series of slimmed down library expansion proposals. And the figures are so close to ihe amount now available, library board chairman Dan Gilgan anticipates a consiruction stari very soon. The newest figures, prepared last week, put the total project cost in the $1.743 miltion range if a planned basement is deleted. Already committed is $1.235 million in borrowing approved by city and regional district tax- payers two years ago. That’s been boosted by $150,000 through promised donations by the regional district, cily and library board, All this still leaves a shortfall bul Gilgan is confident on two fronts. One is an anticipated favourable hearing later this month of an ap- plication made for a provincial government grant. The other is what Gilgan hopes is recognition from city council that it faces extensive repair bills to the library even if the expan- sion plan is killed. “The library as it is needs a new roof. The cost of that is in the same order of magnitude of the shorifall,’’ said Gilgan, “Part of the construction pro- ject is to replace that roof with a different one. That flat tar and gravel roof just won’t do,’’ he said. Gilgan added that the library will commit itself to an extensive campaign to raise money to cover any shortfall. “Tm optimistic that city coun- cil will provide some assistance as well,’’ he added. Gilgan’s comments on replac- ing the roof on the existing build- ing ralse what has been up until now, a telatively un- acknowledged factor in the effort to expand the facility. Most of the debate on the ex- pansion has centered on the pro- posed new space and not on repair work needed to the existing structure. The second part of Gilgan’s op- timism comes from indications the Library will receive some kind of grant from the provincial government’s BC 21 program. Although an initial request for $600,000 was rejected as too ex- pensive last month, the library board’s application has been added to the pile due to be con- sidered this month. Gilgan says the board knows il can’t expect to pet anything near what was originally requested. But there are strong indications that some kind of grant will be » Forest of poles THINGS LOOK in top shape inside the Shames Mountain ski shop as Paul Wilkinson attends to another pair of skis. Wilkinson has worked for Shames Mountain since its 1990 opening, ad- ding knowledge and experience with each pass- ing year. There are approximately 250 pairs of rental. skis at the shop’ ‘and it's Wilkinson’ S job to keep track of them and other equipment avail- able for rental. A key part of Wilkinson's jab is to ensure the right wax for the right snow condi- tions is applied to the skis, It makes for long but necessary days in the height of the ski season. Hackers exposed By JEFF NAGEL COMPUTER WIZARDS from Serbia tried to break into North- west Communily College’s com- puter system two weeks ago, It was the second time in a year someone had tried to gain un- authorized access {o the system, says computer services technician Todd Taylor. | But this time the bad guys, called hackers In computer: talk, didn’t get in. The hackers were using a pro- gram that produces - random names and passwords in an al- tempt to gain entry, At least 250 names and pasa- words were used before . the violators were discovered, Taylor added, He said the unidentified hackets apparently came into the college computer through a phone linc dedicated to the transfer of com- puter information. B.C. Tel sccurity officials traced the call first to Norway, Taylor sald, but it’s belleved the long distance odyssey began in Serbla. Now a separate country, Serbia was once part of Yugos- Javia. “There's nothing really here to inlerest them,’’ says Taylor. “IE they got into a military computer, they'd. probably stay there and play. “They just want to bounce off us and. get to somewhere. else," he explained. ‘‘They’re . using little guys like us lo get into. ble. ger systems, ”. That's exactly. what happened last June when a_ hacker, eventually traced back to Italy, actually managed to gain access. “They managed to get In through an account somehow — we're not sure exactly how — and started poking around,” Taylor says. He said the hacker used a pro- gram ihat acts like a cloaking device to hide themselves, But college staff managed to turn the tables on the intruders. Taylor said they used the hack- er’s own program to hide them- stlves and then used another pro- gram to spy on the hacker, He said they concluded that the hacker was trying to use NWCC . a8 a springboard to break into MCE. an American telephone company. approved, he said. The deletion of the basement, at a savings of $163,000, isn’t criti- cal to the space the library says it needs headed into the next century. It was to remain unfinished for the time being and had been slated to act as a mulli-use room for community groups. Gilgan. called the basement mecting room an attempt by the library to be a good citizen to area community groups. The original estimate of more than $2 million included a con- struction cost of $1.8 million with referendum, architectural, and other fees accounting for the rest. ~ Heat ‘wave! GARDENERS SHOULD be happy with §March’s temperatures, reports the airport weather office. Maximum {emperature records set over the monit resulted in 23.4 growing days, defined as those days when the average daily temperature reaches five de- grees. March normally has just under five growing days. March 28 was the hottest day of the month at 16.9 de- grees, breaking a previous high dating back to 1962. Six daily records were broken over the month, Talstra tops expense list JACK TALSTRA spent more than his two rivals combined dur- ing last fall’s municipal election in his successful bid for a fourth _ term of office. ‘Disclosure statements indicate “Talstra spent $9,826.69 over the course of the campaign. Challengers Lynda Bretfeld and Franciso. Trigo spent $3,212.74 and $4,236.28 respectively. The statements of contributions and expenses filed by the candi- dates were the first of their kind to be released since changes were made to the Municipal Act re- quiring greater disclosure by municipal politicians, Talstra himself topped the list of contributors to his campaign with six separate donations totall- ing $5,296. His law firm, Talstra and Com- pany, placed second with seven donations totalling $3,823.25. Terrace Precut Mill Ltd, a company owned by Mo Takhar, pave $250 while Bill McRae donated $250. About half of Talsira’s expendi-— tures —- $5,271.43 — went to various forms of advertising and another $1,294.60 was devoted to radio advertising. He spent another $2,200 on var- ious sign, Talsira raised more than what he needed, giving him © campaign surplus of $142.56. Talsira was elected to his fourth term with 1,104, votes. Bretfeld recelved 976 votes and Trigo 431, Bretfeld ran a deficil o£ $487.74 with contributions of $2,725 and expenses of $3,212.74, Tri City Refrigeration is listed as the biggest campaign con- On Page AS you'll find a detailed list of expenses from last fall's federal election. tributor with a $1,000 donation. The Kitchen Boutique contrib- ; uted $200. Two of Bretfeld’s major contri- bution areas came from two lun- cheons — one raised $520 and the other $310, Tanner Drywall Systems con- tributed $130 to round off the top five. Bretfeld spent $1,611.63 on ad- vertising and signs, $684 on printing and $517 on the two lun- cheons. Trigo spent $4,236.28, of which $3,987.28 was in the form of cash and $249 in donated labour and office space. His forms indicate he was the only contributor to the campaign, save for the donated labour and office space, A typed note on a record of election expenses states ‘no con- tributions were accepted.” Trigo spent $3,259 on adveriis- ing, signs and flyers, kk kkk In order of votes received, here’s the amounts spent by the six people elected to council. Ruth Hallock ($394.83), Rich McDaniel = ($1,971.13),. Ed Graydon ($800), Gordon Hull ($1,100), Val George ($467.26), David Hull ($643.99). Unsuccessful candidate Bob Cooper spent $1,177. Unsuccessful ‘candidates Scott MacDonald, Joc Duben and Carol Sabo failed to file by the dead- linc. THE OBJECT of some international affections Is Northwest Community Callege’s VAX 4300 com- puter system, Callage employees Paul Fleming, left, and Todd Taylor have on two occasions dis- covered somebody trying to break in by dialing into the system from overseas. The first time was - successful but the second was not Security has since been beefed up.