4 Trace Review — Weert May 17, 1989

Contributed by: Ruth Wright |

styles of choral music, ranging

year’s Fall Concert featured

“Northwest singers"
_ Spring concert ©

- The Northwest Singers is of Chamber. Choir proportions .
and is comprised of, local individuals interested. i in various

Madrigals to Barbershop Quartets arid modern pop tunes.
The group | formed approximately seven years ago, and in-
itially met in the home of Jean and Neville Hope on Monday
evenings; our name at that time was, appropriately, “‘Mon-
_ day’s Hope’’. Our second year together saw our name change
to ‘The Northwest Singers’? and from our informal, wine-
sipping, beginnings we grew and, although our rehearsals re-
main on Monday evenings, they have become more focused
as our concert commitments have taken shape. -
We currently present two yearly concerts, our Christmas
Concert in the fall and our Spring Concert in May. Last

. Handel’s Messiah performed jointly with the Prince Rupert
Rotary Choir at the Knox United Church in Terrace.

Our Spring Contert is kept musically lighter and this year’s |.
is a Dessert Concert at the Bavarian Inn on May 19 at 7:30 —
p.m. Tickets are $10, available at Erwin’s Jewellers in the
Skeena Mall. Your ticket entitles you to admission, one

from Handels’ Messiah and

traditional selections from

WAYNE BRAID: An in-

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JEAN KRYZANOWKSI:
resident since

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a Johnson. This week, the Terrace Review presents'a brief profile of each Siar
- candidate, v with further coverage. to, ‘come: next, week.

Quintet which you won’t want to miss..

given to local charities.

dessert and tea or coffee. A no-host bar will be provided. This
year’s concert has the pleasure of presenting a local Brass

. Wearea non-profit group with any money made going into
purchase of music and concert-related expenses. Any excess is

surance agency proprietor .
‘and Terrace resident. since

1970, Braid has been actively:

“Invoived in local service

clubs, charitable organiza-
tlons and amateur sports in

the community.

West and.
‘member of several advisory
a west Community College —

1969, Kryzanowski is a ser-
vice worker. at the Inn of the
has been a

groups in the community,
former preschool! organizer

and an elected member of

the original Community Ser-
vices Society.

FLIP CERVO: Running again

after a defeat in last fail’s
regular election, Cervo works
as a warehouseman at North

and has a history of strong
involvement in amateur

sports and community:

organizations. _

Hazardous rail goods examined

Twenty rail .car loads of
methanol go through Terrace
every day. But does the handling
of dangerous cargoes by CN
Rail compromise our safety?

CN special commodities offi-.
cer Don Gadsby of Edmonton
‘ Says NO, During a public: meeting.
in Terrace last week, Gadsby’
and other. CN officials, mem-
bers of the Canadian Chemical
Producers’ Association (CCPA)
and Terrace emergency response
coordinator Ray Tank, de-
scribed the safety measures that
have been put in place and the
ability of the system to respond
under emergency conditions..

Through a program called
TRANSCAER (Transportation,
Community Awareness and
_ Bmergency Response), Gadsby
and CCPA officials have been.
travelling the country to de-
scribe what's happening in the
railway industry and ease public
anxiety through education.
Gadsby says that 500 freight
trains and 250 passenger trains
are moving on CN’s 33,000

kilometres of track in Canada -

every day and many people, not
knowing all the facts, have fear
and concern that their lives may
be in danger. But, ‘“CN has been
working with industry to reduce
the hazard,’’ he says.

According to Gadsby, -CN
spends $35 million annually to
train employees. They have also
improved rail line structures,
and in 1986 introduced a new
track evaluation system using
video cameras and lasers. As

well, he says, CN has installed
new train control systems: ‘an
auto block system which signals
crews if a block of track is
occupied (this is failsafe by de-
sign, he says); centralized com-

~ puter traffic control; switches.

- which return to their original
_ position once a train has passed,

“and event recorders which moni-

for! /an engineer’s movements

and apply the brakes if there ts a

wrotig response.
“Gadsby claims that other re-
° cenit changes to. the trains. them-

selves enhance rather than com-

promise safety standards. Test.

results from. cabooseless. trains
have been “‘excellent’’ so far he
says. (Cabooseless trains are not
in service yet — their future is a
matter for the courts to decide
but Gadsby | believes they will be

“ih service soon). Air pressure is
‘monitored at thé end of the
“train, roller bearings have re-

placed older style bearings and
track devices and hot boxes de-
tect overheated bearings, a drag
monitor detects anything ‘that
may be hung up or dragging
behind the train, double shelf
couplers prevent accidental de-
coupling, and head shields, ther-
mat protection, skid protection
and new types of steel which
eliminate fractures all add up to
safer trains, says Gadsby.
‘But, he says, despite their

safety record accidents do oc-

cur. However, accuracy in re-

cord keeping by both the indus- —

try and CNR, and the prepared-
ness of CN emergency teams as
_well as local emergency response

teams, minimize. any danger. |

According to Gadsby, a record
of all dangerous cargoes is main-
tained by the conductor on all
trains and this is backed up by
computer records in Montreal,
Toronto and Edmonton.
_ In addition, all manufacturers
of hazardous goods are required
by faw to maintain a 24-hour
‘thot line’ to provide informa-
tion on the danger and handling
of their products in the event of
a spill. And there are no secrets,
he says, including military car-
goes, ‘‘We are prepared, ** he
says. “‘We have an impressive
emergency response resource
and first responders bring these
resources into play.”

But does the system really
work? According to Ray Tank it
does. He says. he has conducted
two exercises where he has used
actual times and car numbers to
test the system. Both these exer-
éises involved a theoretical de-

railment and hazardous spill
and, according to Tank, CN

passed with flying colors.

. Tank and Gadsby may or may
not put the public mind at ease, ©
but both say that there are
things the public can do in the

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