EARTH DAY CELEBRATION — with a mass clean-up of Howe
Creek by two Grade 11 and 12 biology classes from Caledonia
Senior Secondary last week. The 40 students are following up this

Vol. 6, Issue No, 17

Fax

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 25, 1990

Phone 635-7840 _
635-7269

.campaign with letters and meetings

organizations who directly affect the state of the creek, which is a
Popular trout-spawning stream.

with

individuals and

Council leaves pond
issue with lawyers

A hushed gallery of 17 city resi-
dents watched Monday night as
Chris Parsons made an impas-
sioned plea before a silent city
council. "It’s time I said. someth-
ing,” Parsons began. “I’m here
because of your lack of fulfilling
your duties in the last four years."
Parsons’ six-year-old son, Jocy,
drowned March 23 when he fell
through the ice on a man-made
pond at Samson’s Poultry Farm.

The pond was created several

years ago when Samson’s owner
Stan Kinkead began filling the
Heek Creek ravine in preparation
for a subdivision project there,
Following complaints from neigh-
bors and a subsequent investigation
by city staff, however, Kinkead
was directed by an April 28, 1986,
council resolution to take specific
corrective measures, Two of these
were to add fill to alleviate flood-
ing problems on neighboring pro-

perties, to be completed by the end

of August 1986, and to fence the
remaining portion of the pond
which was to be completed a year
later. The work was never done,
however, "And now my son is
dead," Parsons said to council.

At one point, Parsons’s lawyer,
David Warner, asked council mem-
bers to drive to the site and take a
look at the problem for themselves,
Parsons asked council if any of
them had done so and only one,

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City backs Shames
debt-for-share plan

Shames Mountain Ski Corporation president Gerry Martin was
successful Monday night in convincing the majority of city council
members they should back the Shames Mountain debt-to-share
conversion proposal. This means that Terrace council representatives
who sit on the Regional District of Kitimat-Stikine board will join
their Kitimat counterparts in asking the entire board to support them
in requesting that the Ministry.of Muncipal Affairs allow the
regional district to go ahead with the share conversion.

If approved by both the regional district board and the ministry,
$322,150 of the original Kiisumkalum Ski Hill debt taken on by the
corporation would be converted into regional district-owned shares
in the Shames Mountain project, As explained to council by Martin,
the debt conversion will give the corporation the security they need

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