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The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, February 8, 1995 - AS

. oh HOUSING STARTS run at record or near record levels ee
- year after year, yet supply still has a hard time keeping up _

“with demand and the city's vacancy rate remains onie of ©

_ the lowest in northern British Columbia.

The explanation is simple enough: there is a Steady flow
of new people coming into the community. But who are

they and what brings them here?

Dana Hubler provides some answers with the following
profiles of individuals and families who made ferrace:

their home in 1994.

THE POTTS family left Ontario for Terrace last August. Making the journey along
with their parents, Jeff and Nancy Potts, were children Elissa, Melina and Jolene.

Pastor's position prompts trek ©

NANCY AND JEFF Potts made the cross-

LOIS CAMPBELL always
thought she was a city person.

But since moving to Terrace
last July, Campbell has dis-
covered another side of her-
self.

*T’ve noticed the warmness
and openness of people here
that you just don’t see a lot in
the city,”’ she said.

“I’m almost in awe of how
supportive the community
here is.”’

While Campbell lived in
Terrace for three years in the
late ’70s, the rest of her life
was spent in Vancouver.

behind her return to the north-
west.

a

Campbell | in awe of :
community support

Family was the driving force.

Lois Campbell

Two of her children live in Terrace along with seven of her 11

grandchildren. Another of her children lives in Telkwa.
Campbell realized she was missing out on time with her family

home For mentally ill adults.

and set out to find a job in the area.
She now works as the Osbome House administrator, a group

THE KEMANO Completion

_ bnigue in that all the positive

lhe: negative effects were’ in
“some other part of the pro-
Vinee, At last that was how it

-! Just before provincial Liber-
al Ieader Gordon Campbell
{made his. decision that the
“project should be scrapped,

{fc lhat: 64. per cent of British
~ Columbians
- EE KCP, Following the recent
— | decision by the Premier,
‘MLAs of the B.C, Reform
party have also supported the

Anger
wont
help

By HELMUT
GIESBRECHT
Helmut. Giesbrecht is the
NDP MEA for Skeena,
Project ---has - always been
aspects applied in the
Kitimat/Terrace area while all

was perceived,

polling results were showing

were against

decision.

The reality is that all politi-
cal parties in B.C. and the ma-
jority of B.C. voters are
pleased with the decision.
With such odds, anger docs
not accomplish very much.

For proponents of the pro-
ject — most of who reside in
Skeena and for those of us
who still thought a com-
promise was possible — it in-
creases the frustration to real-
ize that even if the 64 per cent
of British Columbians are
wrong, the wishes of the ma-
jority must carry some weight
in a democracy.

We may not always like the
ouicome, but any political
leader would be a fool to ig-
nore the wishes of the elec-
torate,

If you are angry, then J sub-
mit that there. are cnough
people on all political sides
and on all sides of the KCP is-
sue on which to focus your
anger.

The Premier just happened
to be available in Kitimat a
day after the announcement.
He came at my request."

Seventh-Day Adventist school, Jolene, 4, and
one-year-old Melina.

**We really love the mountains but i's main-
ly the people we’ve met that have made the
difference,’’ said Jeff.

“The job was the vehicle that enabled me to come back and be
closer to my family,’’ said Camptell, a registered iurse who has .
managed boarding homes for nine years in Vancouver. ‘Other
than the snow, I love this place - I’m here for good.” — .

The only thing she admits missing is Vancouver’s restatirant

In the -heat of” frustration: a
lot of claims” were. «made |
Which bear na resemblaitce ‘to
the truth. It was inferred’ that.
the New - Democratic govern."

Canada trek io live in Terrace, site unseen.
While still living in Smiths Falls, a city of

10,000 near Ottawa, Jeff was hired as a

Seventh-Day Adventist pastor in Terrace.

* Although Nancy had grown up in 100 Mile

House, neither she nor Jeff had ever been 10

Terrace before they arrived here September 1.

_ » Making the move along with them were their
three daughters: Elissa, 7, who attends the

Family
: reun ited

BARB ADAMS joined her
husband here in August.

Jim Adams has been in the
Terrace-area since December
1993 as the Nisga’a Tribal
Council financial administra-

“tor.

But Barb and her two sons

_ waited until the end of the
school year to move from
Powell River.

“I really like the people
here, but I have to say I’m al-
ready sick
snow,’’ said Barb,

The family bought a hause in
Terrace last May and Jim now
commutes between Terrace
and his job in New Aiyansh.

. Much of their time has been

. Spent remodelling the house,

building an addition, painting
and reflooring.
Both their children attend

‘Uplands School, Matthew in

grade seven and Sam in grade
four,

Barb, an avid rabbit breeder
and animal lover, plans. to

‘open a petting zoo behind her

home on the bench in the
spring.

' She already has 22 rabbits
(French and Holland tops), a
‘pot-bellied pig and a dog in a
barn behind her home.

i She hopes to .add another

pot-bellied pig, chickens, a
Yniniature donkey and some

‘goats to that collection for the

‘petting 200.
:. Barb will also be planting a
small orchard.in the spring —

she has cherry, plum and apple

trees ordered,

“Technically Terrace is a city but it has a
small town flavour that we really like.”’ ;

The family plans on staying in Terrace as
long as Jeff has a job as pastor. He said the
average tenure of a pastor in seven years,

selection, z a Thai, restaurant being the fi rst on her list. -

of shovelling

BARB ADANS and her two sons 5 departed Powel River last August to join her
husband, Jim, who has been in the Terrace-area December, 1993, Sing in their
new home now under renovation (top right) are Matthew, Jim, Barb and Sam.
Keith and Eleanor Young (bottom right) moved to Terrace last March, leaving the
smail Saskatchewan town of Esterhazy. Making the move with them were their two
children, Dana (ieft) and Allison (right), both of whom now attend Uplands School.

From prairies
to mountains:

THE YOUNGS moved to Ter-'
race last spring to set up a new °

business and a new life. ~..

Hy Power, the industrial.
hydraulics company Keith .

works for, decided to set up a
new branch in Terrace.

. Keith was chosen io run the

new branch, which has already

set up a lifting system at the ©

new Petro Canada bulk sta-
tlon.
The move took them from

,Esterhazy, Saskatchewan, a .

small town of 3,500.

Eleanor was able to transfer
from the Esterhazy Royal
Bank to the Terrace branch.

Allison attends Uplands

School in grade 4 and is taking

figure skating lessons,
Dana, a member of the

Spcedee Printers Tykes hock- |

ey team, is in grade one at
Uplands.

*'Everyone’ 5 greeted us very
warmly,”’ said Keith Young.
“We really enjoy the com-
munity services here like’ the
library and the skating rink.”’

While they have now settled
into a rental unit on the bench,
they said it was difficult find.

} ’ ing housing last spring.

“given an LNG plant to Prince.

"project to the next stage in the

is “estuary is. still {n the works: to

: nianaged to get private. capital .

“Cragey mine in the Tat-

we have it any other way for

ference that Prince’ Rupert

come under federal jurisdic-

or the provincial government.

“and then look at the future,

‘ment had shut down Orenda, :
the Kitimat Port Proposal, the .
‘Copper Smeller, and even

Rupert instead of Kitimat, All’
this ‘i is so much patent non-
ense;

“The. Kitimat’ Port Proposal _
ground. to a halt because the |.
federal’ | Department —... of
sheries_ ‘and Oceans would
‘not cooperate with taking, the

aor Project Review Pro-.
‘study of the Kitimat River

determine. if it has any ¢n-
ronmental capacity, for de,
elopment. .

ce The. copper smelter hag: ‘not

investment, It was not. everr
dependent. on the Windy

shenshini. That was stated by”
the: consultant himself,
Orenda has been given the.
land. and. they are still trying
to get private investors,
The government position is
that private: industry needs:to.
show that it has confidence in
the copper smelter = and.
Orenda before’ taxpayers are
asked to risk liability. Would:

government handouts? os
Finally there was the in-

was getting Kitimat's LNG
plant. This discussion started
when the Prince Rupert port
altempted to court the petro-
chemical industry and started
to offer incentives. Ports

tion and none of their actions
were endorsed by the premler

’ The anger is understandable
even if ihe conduct of some
people is not. Some of the
remarks made were motivated
by pure partisan politics and
that interfered with any
meaningful discussion of the
concems ar a search for op-
tions,

Perhaps now we can start a
rational ‘debate ‘on ‘the . sub-
stance of the B,C,, Utilitics
Commission Review of KCP +