on highwave serformance A SMALL group of local residents are get- ting $50 and supper Nov. | to tell the trans- portation ministry what they think of how it. is doing its job. , ‘This is the first time the ministry has asked ordinary citizens the question but it has met with specific groups such as the forest indus- _ . try and emergency service providers up here ' before, says a ministry official. | “Meetings such as this are provided for.in our service plan and the goal is achieving ex- cellent customer service,” said Jeff Knight. He expects winter road maintenance to surface as a topic of discussion. - FF Participants for the Nov. | session were © | chosen.randomly from the phone book and athe goal is to have between 10 and 12 people Pye \ ; i sideration. “And I hope there’s a good cross section of people chosen, people who use the road , between Terrace and Kitimat — people like truck drivers who have’to drive the road in ‘the wee hours,” said Monaghan, who has be- come an unofficial watchdog of winter road maintenance in the area. Monaghan says she remains unconvinced ‘by government statements that winter acci- - dents. are primarily caused by- drivers and not by.road conditions. Several years ago she and a group of peo- ple collected several thousand signatures on a petition to back the call for increased win- ter maintenance on Hwy37 between Terrace ' and Kitimat. ‘speak with ministry officials. s “We do this ourselves. because we want édirect feedback,” said Knight. Joanne Monaghan, a Kitimat municipal councillor and ¢Kitimat-Stikine regional district director,. hopes those at- tending provide the ministry with lots of material for con- | THE PAVING contractor awarded the $10-million contract to complete paving in the Nass Valley has put final work on: hold until next year. * «Transportation ministry official Don Ramsay said Gable ¢ Construction of Kamloops simply ran out of time when it ran into rainy weather. _say. “The project will recommence next spring.” ‘This final contract of the seven-year, $50-million project bto improve roads into the-Nass Valley and in the valley itself j was to pave the section north of Lava Lake through the lava é beds, reach west toward Greenville and east toward New eaiyansh and Nass Camp. Nass Camp and a section at the south end of the lava beds theading toward Lava Lake. pave some pullouts at the side of the road, said Ramsay. Early fall rain wasn ’t the only delaying factor affecting 4 the completion of the project. Gable needed some underground phone lines taken out and replaced by ones on poles so it could pave a spot near New Aiyansh on the way to Nass Camp. « But the Telus lockout and strike put that job.behind sched- ea Bl ns Rs Al an Ma a we 'UPLAND'S NURSERY arden Talk... Quinton Freeman FALL PLANTING ‘There is much confusion about fall planting. Fall is an excellent time of year to plant trees and shrubs. Because of heavy fall rains watering is not as critical, although the soil should still be checked for sufficient moisture. The larger the tree or shrub the more water it requires. Trees.and shrubs can be removed from pots and planted in the ground at any time of year. The reason for this is because none of the roots are being cut or damaged. In the fall plants are at the end of the growing season so they are not putting a heavy demand on the root system. 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