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WEDNESDAY, MAY 15, 1991
Vol. 7, Issue No. 20.

Phone 635-7840
Fax 635-7269

Serving the communities of Terrace, Thornhill, Usk, Cedarvale, Kitwanga, Meziadin, Stewart and the Nass Valley 75 cents plus GST

SHORT

STRIKE

Satisfaction
on all sides

RAHN

AGAINST ALL EXPECTATIONS THE
Terrace District Teachers’ Associ-
ation and the board of trustees for
School District 88 managed to
forge a collective agreement in a
single weekend of intense bargain-
ing after having spent 14 months
trying to come to an agreement

‘without success.

Picket lines went up for a just a
few hours Monday while the final
items were being discussed. TDTA
president Rob Brown said an
announcement was made by the
board team that schools were to be
open because the agreement was
so close. In fact the TDTA
instructed the pickets to go out
because the. agreement wasn’t

PLENTY OF HORN. Edward Benson of New Aiyansh cradles
the new trumpet he received last week from Yamaha of Canada
and Terrace Sight & Sound, presented by Marilyn Kerr. Benson

was presented with the gift of music for his instrumental
accomplishments which got him a place in a prestigious open.

finalized when schools were due to

international music festival. See page A4 for story.

Trustee Kirsten Chapman, head |

Heritage trees to stay — for a while

The Sitka spruce and jurisdic-
tional controversy at Heritage Park
appears to be resolved. Tertace
city council accepted a Planning
and Public Works Committee
recommendation Monday night,
and the ailing spruce bordering the

park from Kerby Road north to_

Halliwell Ave. will stay put for the
summer.

In mid-September, however, all
of the trees bordering Heritage
Park will be removed and cedar
will be planted inside the Heritage
Park fence. Trees on Halliwell
have already been cut down, Those
on North Sparks south of Kerby
Road don’t affect Heritage Park
and can be cul immediately,

Heritage Park representatives met
with the Planning and Public
Works Committee last week to
discuss two issues; the un-
announced felling by the city of all
Sitka spruce bordering Heritage

and Skeenaview parks after a
Heritage Park study on the health
of the trees was released to city
administration; and a perceived
violation by the city of the "man-
agement" authority given the Ter-
race Museum Society over Heri-
tage Park by city council in 1983.

The Museum Society’s study
determined that the trees were
infected with a disease called
"velvet top fungus" and offered
two recommendations. Either the
most seriously infected trees
should come down this summer
and the rest should be inspected on
an annual basis and removed as
required, Or, if the city wanted to
build a sidewalk on the west side
of North Sparks this summer,
which they did, all of the trees
should be removed immediately.
The city opted for the second

recommendation and the contro-
versy began.

As far as the planned sidewalk is or even placed on hold until next
concerned, the portion north of year. But the portion south of
Kerby Road may be done this fall — Continued on page A16

New fire bylaw in works

TERRACE — A city-wide ban on residential burning of grass,
leaves and trash Is not likely to happen, but stiffer rules governing
when, where and how residential fires are set are a strong possibil-
ity.

There have been numerous environmental complaints due to
smoke from outdoor residential burning, and reports from the
Tertace and Thornhill fire departments indicate that several of
these "controlled" outdoor fires have gained the upper hand and in
some cases destroyed private property.

City council's Planning and Public Works Committee came up
with this recommendation that was adopted by city council Mon-
day night: administration has been asked to prepare an
amendment to the Fire Bylaw to address the problem through a
system of fines.

Suggested fines during the committee discussion were $500 for
anyone with a burning permit that loses control of a fire and
requires the services of the Terrace Fire Department. And $1,000
for people who find themselves In a similar situation but never
bothered to obtain a burning permit.

of the board’s negotiating commit-
tee, was so exhausted Monday

morming that she had difficulty

remembering which items were in
the agreement. Brown was still
feeling the effects of the marathon
session Tuesday morning.

The two sides negotiated -virtual-
ly non-stop from Friday night to
Monday morning, shut up in separ-
aie rooms while mediator Vince
Ready shuttled offers and
counterproposais from one side to
the other.

"It was the eleventh hour, when
you start giving in on things,"
Brown said. "It’s a step in the
Tight direction — we almost
avoided a strike. I really feel that
it’s going to be better the next
time.”

Chapman agreed, saying she felt
that the two sides had discovered a
new way to deal with one another
that should make the next contract
much easier to setlie. "Ii worked
well, with give and take on both
sides," she said.

——~“ Continued on page A2

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