A year
ago this
week -

THE SAFETY
CHILDREN was being considered
‘by city council’s Planning and
Public Works Committee due to a
list of concerns brought to coun-
cil's attention by Terrace resident
Mitch Kohl a year ago this week.
Kohl said in a letter to council that
it had been six years since he had
been told Scott Ave. was the next
street slated for sidewalks... and he
was still waiting. During that six
years, though, wrote Kohl, side-
walks had been installed on Olson
and Hamer while children from
five different schools continued to
walk on the roadway on Scott
between Sparks and Munroe.
*Let’s have something for the kids
to walk on," Kohl said, describing
the situation as dangerous,

Other safety issues raised by
Kohl included crosswalks where
regulations are not enforced and
children doubling on bicycles —
riding all 6ver the road — without
being reprimanded. Adding to
those hazards, said Kohl, were
heavy duty trucks parked on city
streets contrary to a city bylaw and
motor vehicles with broken head!-
ights. Kohl said there were times
when he had counted as many as
six cars with broken headlights a
day. "I have never seen a town
such as Terrace with such poor
regulations," Koh! wrote, adding,
"If they are on the town books,
there is a lack of consistant en-
forcement."

There was cause for some ne hope,
however. Sidewalks on Scott
between Sparks and Munroe were
being considered by council a year
ago this week for inclusion in the
1990 budget. ;

KOHL ALSO ADDED A PER-
SONAL CONCERN. He com-
plained about the city-owned cul-
vert under his driveway entrance.
It plugged up with snow in the
winter and grass in the summer,
causing the ditch to overflow and
flood his front yard. He said he
had been complaining to the city
for years but still his yard flooded.
"You people are paid good tax
money,” he wrote. "When are we
going to see some results?"

BUT THE CITY HAD. OTHER
PROBLEMS. The miniutes of an
in-camera Tourism and Economic
“Development Committee meeting
summarized a Public Health .con-
cern in this way: "People are fish-
ing on the gravel bar and relieving
‘themselves in the bushes." The
gravel bar was on Ferry Island,
‘and according to the report the
Public Health Inspector had told
the city to take immediate action
or an order might be issued against
‘the city. The short-term solution
was to-put in a couple temporary
- facilites but the superintendant of
parks and recrealion was asked 1o
look for a more permanent solu-
tion.
~ While one commitice was spend-
ing money on Ferry Island, though,
another’ was’ looking al” ‘pethaps
‘reducing revenues a little, The

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anything a year ago this week when they came up against a four-

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Recreation Committee was review-
ing the city’s campsite rental pol-

icies with a focus on two major
items: discounts for senior and
disabled campers and the length of
stay and size of party allowed at
each site. Rates ranged from $7 to
$9, depending on whether the

camper had a power hookup or

not, and a 50 percent discount for
seniors was being considered as

were complainis of tree planting.

crews taking over several sites for
a number of weeks every summer.

There was: an idea around,
though, that might balance the
budget and pay for a few side-
walks as well, Alderman Danny
Sheridan’s three-month-old propo-
sal for an alternate city tax resur-
faced a year ago this week. It was
sent back to the committee from
whence it came, however. Council
wanted to know exactly what the
revenue potential was and whether
or not the province and feds would
let them keep any of the money. If
the idea went ahead, it would
mean the city would levy a tax on
a number of goods and services;
perhaps liquor, gasoline and hotel
and motel rooms.

BUT MOST CITY RESIDENTS
WERE OBLIVIOUS TO THESE
EVENTS. Summer was upon us
and many where thinking about
Riverboat Days, the Skeenaview
reunion or holiday travel. Some of
the outward-bound traveled in
packs. Twenty-three Terrace
Scouts and Venturers, for example,
who were on their way to the
Canadian Jamboree at Fort Am-
herst, P.E.I.

Others were thinking of skiing...
or perhaps ski jumping a few
hurdles. The long-awaited an-
nouncement that the last four kilo-
metres of the Shames Mountain
access road would be completed
was still on hold but ihe truce
believers were far from depressed.
One of these believers, Terrace
resident Andrew Rushton, told the
Terrace Review a year ago this

week that there "will" be skiing cn
Shames in the not too distant
future and quoted Martin Kimble,

_ one of the developers of the Mount

Allan ski slopes built for the 1988
Winter Olympics in Alberta, in
explaining why. "The groundwork
has been done and it has been
done properly,” said Rushton.

‘DISTRACTING THE ATTEN-
TION OF OTHERS WAS THE
WORLD OF HIGH FINANCE.
Cominco ran into some difficulty
with its Snip gold property. Their
anticipated fall, 1989, opening was
delayed by about six months due
to obstacles in obtaining permits
from government regulators.
Closer to home, Skeena Cellulose

had a new project going... or so

they thought. The Silviculture
Branch of the Ministry of Forests
had told the city their Forestry
Enhancement Program had been
approved. Under this program, the
city would get $271,500 from the
province to sponsor a 450-hectare
silviculture project in Skeena Cel-
lulose’s TFL 1. Skeena Cellulose
would have to spend only $90,500
of their own money, so it was a
good deal for them, but they would
soon find out that the contract
wasn't set in stone. There was a
wrinkle or two to iron out yet.
Speaking of stone, local concrete
companies were consolidating their
forces. Fred Eichhorst of Terrace
purchased Glacier Concrete’s Ter-
race operation and then Glacier

- Concrete tumed around and bought

out their Kitimat competition,
Kitimat Valley Concrete. Norm
McRitchie of Glacier Concrete
explained that there wasn’t enough
business in Terrace or Kitimat for
two competing concrete suppliers
and the sale and purchase by Gla-
cier simply put his company in a
more stable financial position.

IF BUSINESS WASN’T
OCCUPYING LOCAL MINDS,
PERHAPS HEALTH CARE WAS.
Many local residents turned out for

‘School,
Warren Wilson would become ..

the Red Cross Blood Donor’s

‘Clinic and Terraceview _ staff,

friends and residents were not only
gearing up for the grand opening
of their new extended care wing;
they were preparing for a face lift
of the entire lodge. There would

be new drapes; paint, furniture...

the whole nine yards.

Other residents might have been
out checking their gardens for
dying plants. The Waste Manage-
ment Branch had wamed the city
that they had received a number of
complaints regarding contractors
dumping hog fuel and wood
wastes on private property and
farms in the Terrace area and it
could pose a health problem. Some
of these wood products might have
been treated with hazardous chemi-
cals,

And others still might have had a
few concerns, one way or the
other, over a move by the Skeena
Union Board of Health to join
their Cariboo counterpart in lobby-
ing to reduce the accessibility of
alcohot in B.C. Under attack
would be issues like Sunday pub
openings and after-hours liquor
sales from beer and wine outlets.

For those interested in education,
a couple of other announcements a
year ago this week might have
been considered more important.
Don Anderson, the temporary
Northwest Community College
president "on loan" for six-months
from New Caledonia College in
Prince George, agreed to a more
long-lasting —
accepted an offer of a permanent

posting from the NWCC board of .

directors.
And at Skeena Junior Secondary
it- was announced that

vice-principal; filling the shoes of
Bill Gook who had accepted the
position of principal at Thornhill
Junior Secondary because Tom
Hamakawa had taken the job of
Caledonia Senior Secondary princi-
pal following .the resignation of
Bill Sturn. For many, it was a big

arrangement and.

job keeping track of school man-

_agement in town and there was

very little time to worry about
health or taxes.

AND FOR THE FINAL DIS-
TRACTION A YEAR AGO THIS

WEEK, THERE WAS SPORTS.

Another Terrace high school bas-
ketball player had earned a spot on

a B.C. rep team. Jackie Brown of

Caledonia Senior Secondary was
on his way to a major tournament

in Las Vegas. And cyclist Mike

Christensen placed first in the final

race in Cowichan on July 8, a-

simple 105-kilometre jaunt, to give
him a seventh overall finish in
what was billed as a major week-
end event,

The Terrace Blueback Swim
Ciub named Lisa Gardiner and Ian
MacCormac as rookies of the year;
Tori Mackenzie got the sportsman-
ship award; Swimmers of the Year
were Tina Holland, Cory Holland
and Ben Bell; and most improved
were Laura Commins, Daniel
MacCormac, Sam Mackenzie,
Dave Vanderlee, Ben Bell and
Trina Daniels.

Bibbi Dozzi captured her third
Skeena Valley ladies’ open golf
chamionship a year ago this week.
She had the best low gross score
of 182 for 36 holes. Paul Clark
rolled to a fifth-place finish at the
annual Kaiser. Roll 10-kilometre
race in Minneapolis, Minnesota
and the B.C. women’s team under
Terrace coach Dianne Francis and
featuring Terrace bowler Sherry
Lopushinski, dominated their divi-
sion at the Masters’ Bowlers, Asso-
ciation national five-pin champion-
‘ships in St. John’s, Newfoundland.
For the B.C. team, it was a gold
medal win a la Terrace.

The biggest event a year ago. this
week, though, was the Skeena
Valley Triathlon. For medal and
prize winners there was the glory.
For those who simply completed
the event, the satisfaction. Still,
there were probably a few recover-
ing athletes who had the topic of
health on their minds... their own.

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