_ July CITY COUNCILLORS have backtracked on a "plan to ban dogs from two city parks. Pooches stil] have access to George Little “Park downtown and Christy Park — as long as ~ they are on a leash and their owners pick up their droppings. Councillors originally wanted dog free zones so children wouldn’t come into contact with fec- es. Instead of dog free zones, council will instead put up signs encouraging owners to scoop the poop and to keep their pets on leashes. whotckk THE FIRST dollars from a $41 million, seven- year plan to improve the roads into and in the Nass Valley are beginning to flow. Jock’s Excavating of Terrace received a con- tract to fix up a section of the road south of Lava Lake. Contracts are awarded under the basis that workers be paid according to a master union agreement signed between construction unions and Highway Constructors Ltd. This company is owned by the B.C. Transportation Finance Au- thority which is borrowing the money for the work. 7 thkkk SKEENA CELLULOSE is being sued by the owners of the chipper it abruptly stopped using this Spring. Slender Lake Ventures Ltd., owned by Don Hull and Sons Contracting, says it and Skeena Cellulose had a verbal contract, which was to become a written one, for a five-year arrange- ment. Skeena Cellulose instead, says Slender Lake, terminated the agreement in favour of shifting chipping to Skeena Sawmills. The company wants damagaes and compensation for losses and lost profits. , whkkk ‘ THE PROVINCIAL government has increased its share holdings in Skeena Cellulose thanks to the Toronto-Dominion Bank. / The bank gave up 5.75 per cent of the compa- ny to recognize the province taking on the full ‘cast of modernization. :-This means the province a ; y Es . .LIOD yo ea The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, January 5, 2000-AS - iy. BRIDGE BUILDERS: Caledonia construction students built yet another bridge spanning Howe Creek late last spring. Walkers, hikers and bikers were soon able to use the bridge to access an entirely new section of the trail running west toward Lanfear Hill. and 25 when it is open. Hospital officials said the nursing shortape isn’t unique to Terrace, adding that it is a prob- lem across the country and around the world. kkhkk CONTAMINATED WELL WATER supplies continue to plague Braun’s [sland residents and they’re not happy with the city’s responses, They say there’s a connection between what's wrong with their wells and a spill from the city’s ‘nearby sewate treatment plants during this year’s highwater periods. Residents have had their wells tested and re- verted to bottled drinking water. City officials did say the city will be as help- ful as possible and that an eventual hook up to the city’s system might be feasible. tototik ALCAN’S POTLINES were down barely four hours before it and its unionized workers reached a three-year deal. Workers will receive raises of at least two per cent a year and a one-time signing bonus of $1,500... ‘tow ‘owns'S2b per chinePthecompinys 4 wel ztunsA KEY feature to ‘ending’ the strike Was an "U Bulpwoikers‘in Prince Rupert éhrlier refustd ° to surrender some of their holdings.’ 7 ; took ak - IN A move to safeguard patients and nurses, Mills Memorial Hospital began restricting ad- missions this month. The hospital didn’t have enough nurses to handle more than 15 patients when the baby ‘nursery is open and 20 when it is closed. At normal staffing levels, the hospital can handle 30 patients when’ the nursery is closed Body ee q STEVE COOK vowed to defy city zoninng after’ he set up his real estate business on Keith Ave, an area where general offices aren't allowed. The city gave him until just ‘before Christmas to comply. 2 OF | FENDING PIPE: Braun's island residents like Diana agréémerit‘to form. 2 committee to look into pen- sions which couldn’t be resolved during contract talks. Heading into the strike, workers were making $50,000 a year in wages and receiving $25,000 a year in benefits. khkkk SOME OF those attending a meeting protest- ing new federal gun laws said they’ll go to jail rather than register their weapons. ~ Nearly 100 people gathered to~hear Bruce Hutton from the Law-Abiding Unregistered Fire- arms Association talk about Bill C-68, the act to register weapons. He urged people to walk into the RCMP de- tachments, declare that they have weapons and force their own arrests. August PASSENGERS HEADING down south will be paying $19 in the form of a new airport user fee as of mid August. Airlines are reducing tickets prices by $6.65 to reflect a fee they already pay, making for a net increase of just over $12. The new fee takes in what the Terrace Kiti- mat Airport Society says it needs to run the facility, taxes and airline administration costs to collect the fee. khkkk HOSPITAL ADMINISTRATORS are warning that nursing shorlages, which in turn affect the number of beds the hospital has for patients, will go on for months. They point to statistics which indicate the nursing workforce is getting older. It’s estimated that 30 per cent of all nurses in Canada will retire within the next decade. thhkk eG ees enner LS blew the whistle on a city ' overflow valve that in extreme circumstances would allow cily sewage to overflow into Braun's slough. A flow out of the pipe they spotted in September turned out to be nothing more than groundwater. But a few months later on Dec. 4 heavy rains did indeed cause an | averflaw of city sewage through the pipe. i BS es THE CITY ordered Norm, Degjardins to aban- ew don new construction of a giant new shed in‘ his Soucie Ave. back yard, and to remove part of an existing shed. Both structures were built without city building permits and exceeded size iimits within that zone. eview PRIME MINISTER JEAN CHRETIEN paid a visil to New Aiyansh Aug. 21 to tell assembled Nisga’a their treaty will be ratified by parliament as soon as possible. Chretien has been in the Nass before, back in 1969 when he was Indian affairs minister. tohobokk SCIENTISTS THE world over want to know more about the body of a man found frozen in a glacier in Tatshenshini Park in the far northwesl- ern part of the province. It is thought to be at least several hundred years old and was found with a cedar hat, and an ancient throwing spear. whkke CITY COUNCIL has set Nov. 20 as the date for a referendum to see if taxpayers want to bor- row money for a multiplex. This reverses a previous council decision to defer a vote until next April so more moncy could be raised to avoid having to borrow the en- lire cost, The cost has been checked out by consultants independent of the firm that put together the con- cept being proposed and have suggested the price could be revised to $8 million from $7.5 million. toh kkk DONATIONS ARE coming in to help Darcie Petuh and her three children after their mobile home in Thornhill burned down. Fire officials say their investigation has elimi- nated a cause for the blaze, leaving them to be- lieve it was deliberately set. The fire began after Petuh and her children left the home just after 8 a.m. Aug. 23. September SKEENA CELLULOSE president Bill Steele is confident the company will soon start to turn a consistent profit. That’s based on cost control measures which have trimmed operating expenses. Things should be looking even better when pulp prices being to improve, said Steele. tohWkk AFTER 10 years as the top health care offi- cial im town, Michael Leisinger is moving to Prince George. His position at the Terrace and Area Health Council will be filled by Tom Novak until a re- placement is found. Novak was brought in in the spring to control expenses at the hospital. thkik TERRACE'S FIRST French-only school opened this month at Jack Cook School. It’s run by the Francophone Education Authos- ity of B.C., offering the same kind of education as anywhere else with the exception the instruc- tion is in French, or flowers to be placed around graves in Most parts of the cemetery. totoktbok SCHOOL DISTRICT officials are predicting they'll have a surplus by June 30 of next year. A large variety of spending cuts and freezes were put in place to eliminate what had been some years of deficit spending. kkikk PACIFIC NORTHERN GAS workers spent the weekend of Sept. 11 and 12 and on into the fol- lowing week working on a temporary repair after a rock and mud slide broke the main line in the Telkwa Pass. Cut off from gas were Terrace, Kitimat and Prince Rupert. Large industrial users closed down to preserve as much gas as possible for domestic use until a repair was made. ; iS totokotok te -. THE CITY says;tests: how that'a‘trickle that had been coming out of the Giaham Ave. sewer Pipe into the Braun’s Island slough appears to be nothing more than groundwater. It’s the latest in a series of events going back to the summer when island well water became contaminated, Residents suspect the contamina- tion came from the Graham sewage treatment plant which overflowed during high water peri- ” October TERRACE RCMP have charged a Rosswood man with second degree murder after a mush- room picker was shot and his body burned. Paul Bernard Wadsworth was the subject of an RCMP manhunt Sept. 28, but turned himself in the next day. The body of Don Pears, 39, of Rocky Moun- tain House, Alberta, was found in the remains of a burned down cabin at a place called Ritchies Landing, 60km east of Terrace on the north side of the Skeena River Aolotoiotr LINDA HAWES, a city councillor since 1996, has announced she’s running for the mayor's job Nov. 20. She says she'll pay attention to the forest in- dustry and to social issues if elected, tokkick ALMOST two years after a railway trestle collapsed on the CN line toward Kitimat, killing two men, CN has filed suit against the company doing the work. CN says Scott Steel was not acting safely in replacing timber spans. tolchick THE ROAD project to connect Kincolith, at the mouth of the Nass River, with the rest of the Nass Valley, has received environmental appro- val by the federal and provincial governments. This project is expected to cost $30 million and will start once final engincering and design work has been done. CLOSE ENCOUNTER: The driver whose car hit this moose survived the crash on Hwy 37 South. The moose was not so lucky,