Page A2 — Terrace Standard, Wednesday, January 29, 1992

Vandal
program
readies

TERRACE —A_ vandalism
prevention program backed
by the chamber of commerce
should be operating the
beginning of March, says 2
member of the organizing
committee.

Doug Smith last week said.
a phone number: so people
can give information leading
to the arrest-and- conviction
of vandals has ‘already been
secured.

Vandal Watch will offer
cash rewards for that infor-
mation and the program will
also encourage people to im-
mediately phone the police
should they see an act of van-
dalism taking place,

“We're extremely happy
with the response. It’s been
very positive,’’ said Smith.

The city has committed the
interest from $10,000 to help
set up the reward pool and
has committed a further
$1,000 right away.

Smith said other local
public sector bodies will be
approached for their sup-
port.

The committee will also
ask that court sentences from
vandalism acts look at
restitution for the offence,
consider the possibility of
community service hours and
possibly require payments to
the reward pool, he said. |

A key feature of the pro-
gram will be the anonymity
of people giving information
leading to the arrest and con-
viction of vandals, Smith ad-
ded,

fe said a committee will
be set up to determine the
amount of the rewards and
to ensure that all information
is kept confidential.

“The program is working
well in ‘other communities.
It’s a matter here of making
sure the ‘i’s are dotted and
the ‘t’s crossed,”’ he said.

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change is that when Sande.traf-
fic turning left onto Greig gets
the green light, pedestrians will
have a no walk signal. The
round traffic signal lights will
become larger, she added, and
the street lights will be brighter,
increasing from 150 watts to 250
watts.

“The changes were made at
the request ofthe city and the
RCMP,”’ she added.

RCMP Staff Sgt. John
Veldman said at least half a
dozen people came forward
after the accident and told
police they had nearly been hit
in the intersection.

“It’s a difficult intersection,”
Veldman said. ‘‘It’s very con-
gested and a lot of traffic turns
there. It all came to a head as a
result of this accident here.”

Coroner Jim Lynch credited
local RCMP and highways of-
ficials with getting the change
-made quickly.

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Kitlope elder speaks

Memories of home

By JEFF NAGEL
TERRACE — Cecil Paul can
remember the Kitlope River
valley and the tiny silver
oolichan fish that spawn there
like the back of his hand. .

He should — the 61-year-old
Haisla elder was born there. :,

- Speaking last’ week after ad-
dressing.a meeting about’ con-
troversial plans: to log the
disputed Kitlope, Paul said the
valley south’ of Kemano ~con-
tinues to sustain natives long
after the Haisla village there
was abandoned. ;

Paul lived there until the age
of 10 when in 1941 he was taken

away by an Indian agent to a
United Church-run residential
school in Port Alberni.

He fought to keep his
language there and after four
years of abuse and punishment,
Paul returned to his valley,

. " was-fourteen when I went
back up there and]. oolichan
fished,’” he said, ‘i had to ga
back to the ways of my
, people,”?
- Now, he says, he is worried
by Eurocan’s plans for logging
roads in the valley and log
booms in the river.

“The people at that meeting

Meeting called
productive

TERRACE — Company of:
ficials, environmentalists and
natives say they understand
each other better following last
week’s meeting about the
Kitlope River valley.

“] think everyone was expec-

ting the usual confrontational

type of process,” said Kitamaat
Village chief councillor Gerald
Amos, who chaired the
meetings last Tharsday and Fri-
day, “But once they saw there
was a real search for understan-
ding, people really started to
work to firid answers.”

Amos says he continues to
oppose any effort by Eurocan
Pulp and Paper to log the
317,000-hectare Kitlope valley
south of Kemano. But he said
he wants to help the company
find an alternate wood supply
to replace the Kitlope so local
jobs aren't lost.

“Any loss in AAC (annual
allowable cut} has to have an
impact on our operations,’ sid
Skeena Sawmills’ divisional
forester Damian Keating.
“*How much impact depends on

how much wood is taken out.” .

Keating and Amos said no
major breakthroughs came dur-
ing the talks but both called the

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City gets exper

TERRACE — The city will
soon have an analysis of the
causes and recommendations on
solving the problems of flooded
basements on Halliwell Ave.
and land slippage on Lanfear
Hill, says engineering director
Stew Christensen. :
Christensen said Bob
Graham, a_ geo-technical
engineer from Prince George,
visited both sites last week.

Residents at the west end of '

Halliwell Ave, have been pump-
ing water out of their basements
since early December while
Lanfear Hill had to be closed to
pedestrians when sections of the
pathway there washed out,
Christensen said Graham
would be looking at the soil
structure in both areas. In the
case of Halliwell, he will deter-

mine ‘‘what we can construct

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Gerald Amos
sessions productive.

Both agrecd any solution (hat
would preserve both the Kitlope
and area logging jobs will re-
quire some kind of special com-
mitment from Victoria.

“That’s going to test the
political will of the
government,’’ Amos added.

Keating said one possible
avenue is more intensive
forestry operations to make bet-
ter use of the company’s ex-
isting timber holdings.

Wibeasi vote

and how we can go about it’’,
including whether improved dit-

ching would solve the problem.—

As well, Reid’ White,
engineering section head with
the Water Management branch
in Smithers had toured the af-
fected area of Halliwell in an ef-
fort to determine whether there

was anything the Environment .

ministry could do to help.

On Lanfear Hill, Graham
had examined the question of
the stability of the entire
hillside, both above and below
the road and gravel shoulder us-
ed by pedestrians.

Noting there had been
longstanding concerns about

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said it has never been managed.
There’s a bunch of them that
want. to gO up there and
manage. It has been managed
— it has been managed by the
Creator who put it there for me
to dwell in. My people have
managed it for centuries.”’

Paut said the. people of
Kitlope were decimated by small
pox, and left the valley
altogether in the 1950s.

‘Tt numbered in the
thousands but came down to

_ only a few families after that big

sickness in 1918, And we have
places -where we have
monuments’ where they mass
buried our people.
there.’’

Other evidence of their life
there remains.

“Where I was bom the old
house is still visible,’’ Paul says.
“The boards are still there. The
posts are still there. All is still
visible. The trees. The river
which they called the artery of
Mother Earth is still there,
where we harvest the salmon for
centuries.’’

‘All this is our serial number.
The way you have yours written
down on whatever you own.”

If the Kitlope is logged, says
Paul, it will crush the spirit of
his people.

“If everything was taken
from your bank, you would die
of starvation,” he says. “And
that’s the way I will — I will die,
The Kitlope is a bank, Feeds me
to this day. And a lot of
people.”

“Tf it was I that wants to rob
your bank, what would you do?
You're not going to stand idly
by and die a slow death of star-
vation.”

People who say the Haisla are
no longer connected to the
Kitlope are wrong, he says, ad-
ding natives continue to fish
there for colichan.

“The most prized possession
of my people,”’ he says, ‘‘is that
little species of fish,

blink of an eye — would destroy
the river. And if it’s my last act
to try to save that little fish, I

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Lanfear Hill, Christensen warn-
ed the solution, whatever it was,

’ would not be an easy one.

In the meantime, the hill had
been reopened to those on foot
by closing off a four foot strip
of the south side of the road to
vehicles - and allowing
pedestrians to use it.

Christensen said there was no
indication at this point how
long it would take Graham to
complete his report for the city.

What happened once the city
has his recommendations would
depend on the cost of any cor-
rective measures and where the
city would be able to find that
money, he added.

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