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_ May

The Nisga’a highway leading north

from Terrace into the Nass Valley and

* in the valley itself now has a number

and it’s a significant one. The number
‘is-113, the number of years from 1887,

when the Nisga’a first. attempted to’
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resolve what they call “the land ques-

tion”,
2000. 4

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The Terrace Lumber Company be-

gins sawing wood again May 1, ending |
"a five week-long closure of that part of°

its operation. A high Canadian dollar
continues to make exporting wood less
"Profitable.
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The. City. of Terrace establishes the
City Freeman Scholarship in honour
of the city’s freemen. The announce-

ment is made after Vesta Douglas, 95, -

passed away. She was a city freeman,

» Jong time. community booster and phi.

lanthropist.  -* .
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- At a cost. of $1.9 million and with ;

a combined 5,000 square feet, a brand
- new intensive care unit (ICU) and.a

. fully renovated emergency room make.

up arguably the most’ important con-
struction project in-this area in the last
while. Having the two units side by
side means’ it’ be safer and easier to

transfer critically ill’patients from the |

ER to the ICU.
— OOOOd
_ British Columbia’s
Governor Iona Campagnolo visits the
Nass Valley during the Nisga’a Lisims
government’s special assembly. She
attends the ground breaking ceremony
at the future site of a swimming pool in
the small village o Gitwinksihlkw.
. ee aed
An unnamed man breaks his ankle
after jumping off the Sande Overpass
on to a rail car filled with wood chips.
CN police officer Kelly Yendrys says
the young man is lucky the train was
‘not in motion.
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Fifty three full and part time em-
ployees at the Terrace Zellers store are
told they will be out of work by January
. at which time the store will be closed.
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The superintendent of the Nisga’a

school district in the Nass Valley has.

retired, citing personal reasons. Pat-

rick Moores was the superintendent for’
about five years and is being replaced —
temporarily by Garr Roth, a Victoria- .

based education consultant pending a
‘search for a new superintendent.
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Hefty fines were handed out to a .

company and its owner whose. failure

to ensure proper bracing of a crane led.

to the deaths of two men near here al-

most a decade ago.
A Port Coquitlam provincial court

_judge ordered Scott Steel Ltd. to pay —
fines totalling $70,000 and owner Ron.

Stee] to pay a fine of $15,000 for their
roles in the collapse of a bridge trestle
on the CN line south of Terrace Oct.
27, 1997.

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Bed demand at Mills Memorial -

Hospital is on the rise. The hospital
routinely admits more patients than its
approved number of 25, says its admin-
istrator. Sometimes the number can be
as high as 38 and is commonly in the
low 30s.
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Bear Creek Contracting sends off al-
most of its heavy equipment — grapple
yarders, bull dozers, rock trucks and
more — on a barge to Vancouver where
it will be auctioned off. It’s the only op-
tion owner Jan Munson says he has to
salvage what’s left of the 40-year-old
business that his family has run locally.
He calls on the provincial government
to find a way to boost the economy in
‘the northwest.
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Daybreak Farms finds itself at the
centre of a controversy after it refuses
to comply with orders made a by a pro-
vincial tribunal to bring the farm up to

‘to a final treaty being signed in

~ as the province’s official mark; even

Lieutenant |

: drug. A crystal meth forum is held.

what are known as “normal farm prac-.
tices.”

The decision comes after the board
received numerous complaints about
excessive flies on the property and in
the. surrounding neighbourhood. The
farm’s manager says the farm does not
have a fly problem and says the board
is overstepping its bounds.

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The provincial government govern.

ment registers the name Spirit Bear

more than half a million dollars for
project design. North American Ice
Development’ $ consultant Wayne Ais-
sem is an experienced ice rink builder —
and the city believes he will help the
city save money on the project.

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- months and does not specify a start up
date. Plummeting lumber prices and
a high Canadian dollar’ continue | to.
plague the local company.

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The Regional District of Kitimat-
Stikine produces posters, T-shirts: and

though the City of Terrace registered
the same name three years ago. It also
egistered Kermode, Kermodei and
‘Moskgom’ol.
“"  OOOOO

- Jason Mattenley, 17, passes away
after suffering serious injuries in a late
night cycling, accident after a grad-
related party in North Terrace. Joel
Manning, 17, is also involved in the
accident and spends weeks in hospital
recovering from injuries.

at raising awareness regarding the dan-
gers of hitchhiking in the area.-  ~
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Fire fighters worked around the
clock to contain a forest fire on Copper
Mountain — the second such blaze in as
many years.
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HIV rates in the northwest are ris-
ing — two new cases were discovered
in Terrace within a single week, twice
the yearly average of cases being dis-
covered,

‘June

The Regional District of Kitimat-
Stikine grants $60,000 toward educat-
ing the public about the perils of the

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The long-awaited Highway of Tears
report makes numerous recommenda-
tions. including developing a shuttle
bus system, increasing RCMP high-
way patrols, raise awareness and street
victim prevention measute, develop an
emergency readiness plan and hire co-
ordinators among others.

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» The City of Terrace will now act as
its own general contractor for its long
planned second sheet of ice project and
wants to start construction at the site
this year. The move sees the city hiring
a new firm called Northern Ice Devel-
opment instead of continuing with PBK —

STEPHANIE RITTER shows off a fly strip from her garage on Dairy Ave.,
near Daybreak Farms. Her family believes the excessive fly problem
stems from the egg laying operation. SARAH A. ZIMMERMAN PHOTO -

Architects which has already been paid

. The ‘Terrace Lumber Company :
closes its mill for the third time in two..

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