ce a ee eee we wee ee ee EEE RRR ERR ERR RP PRA RRR RRR RRR RR ERR RE MEABABHATAAAMRAAG AHR ADAM RAR EAR RA City okays demolition THE PLANNED demolition of an old man's condemned house got its final go-ahead from city council last Wednesday. Council held a special meeting Friday to give final adop- tion to a bylaw approving the demolition of Roy Atchison’s house at 3402 Eby St, any time after Oct, 31. immediate risk of collapse, endangering Atchison’s life, The §2-year-old man has lived in the home for 50 years and deesn’t want to leave, He isn’ tsure what will happen now, “PIL do this or that or go someplace else, Atchison: said. “Or maybe I'l! stop right here. Maybe I'll stay here for good.” Shed demo approved ANOTHER demolition order approved by council last week paves the way for the removal of a large stonige shed at 4810 Halliwell anytime after Oct. 31. Property owner Valdemar Isadero faited to show up ata public hearing into the planned demolition on Sept. 14. The 7U0-square-foot storage building is much larger than residential zoning permits, it isn’t up to building code, it” was built without a building permit, and building inspector Paul Gipps is convinced it won't withstand a normal win- ter's snowload. . Isadoro continued construction even after stop-work orders were issued, “Untortunately we have to go to this stage because he has chosen to ignore us,” Gipps said. - Neon driver wanted TERRACE RCMP are looking for the driver of a dark- coloured Chrysler Neon who may have been involved in a hit-and-run accident of a [4-year-old pedestrian, The incident happened Thursday afternoon just after 4 p.m. ona frontage road near Thornhill Jr Secondary School. The driver of the car drove away without identifying himself. The I4-year-old suffered minor injuries from the impact of rolling onto the car’s hood and landing on the gravel, | Spousal assault arrests RCMP arrested two local men on spousal assault charges Saturday. The first man was arrested after a 37-year-old Terrace woman called the police after a 44-year-old man allegedly slapped her twice in the face during an argument at her home. Later that same day a 19*year-old Terrace man was arrested after he allegedly punched a woman on the side of her head and broke her eyeglasses. The female, 20, sus- tained some bruises. Both men were released until their October court dates. Just give us land NORTHERN DEVELOPMENT Commissioner John Backhouse has his mission from the City of Terrace: solve the airport lands problem. Council met with Backhouse two weeks ago and gave him a wish list of issues important to Terrace. The city wants the province to tura over title to a large aren of lands surrounding the airport, to provide revenue tor the non-profit authority taking it aver. The city is pressing the same issue at the Union of B.C. Municipalities convention in Penticton this week. The city is acting ov Safety concerns that the house is at : against the Nisga’a treaty-or of land claims policies in general ‘asking area residents to keep their garbage inside until Papers’ owner targets treaty The Terrace Standard and every other community news- paper in B.C. owned by David Black are the story this week, rather than covering it. Black made the news by saying he will-use his:papers to oppose the Nisga’a agreement, the first modern- “day negoti- ated treaty in British Columbia. Calling the deal Nawed and a big inistike for the future of the province, Black has Conimissioned an eight par series: _of.colunins by.Mel Smith. - Smith, a lawyer, was.a-senior- bureaucrat and constitu- tional adviser for a series of Social Credit g governments. He is the author of Our Home or Native Lend?, ?, which takes a criti- cal look at land claim policies, -— . The first colume r ran last t week: and the second i is running today. Black has instructed his editors and publishers to run Smith's columns. And:he has said the company’s official position will be against the Nisga‘a deal, This will not affect The Terrace Standard’s continuing news coverage of the Nisga’a treaty and of other land claims issues. Opinions and letters from. readers on the Nisga’a treaty and on land claims in general will be printed, “David Black is exercising his prerogative as the owner of his newspapers to take a stand on a specific issue,” said Rod Link, publisher of The Terrace Stancard. “This is not a matter of censorship, Readers for or will continue te have the ability to make their views known,” Link noted that this ts the first time in 23 years that Black has taken such a step. Black owns 39 community newspapers in B.C. These include 18 in the Cariboo Press group, taking in The Northern Sentinel in Kitimat and The Interior News in Smithers as well as The Terrace Standard, There are 12 news- papers in the Metro Valley Newspaper Group in the lower mainiand, and nine in the News Group on Vancouver Island. In total, the papers reach 800,000 households in B.C, Bear fence goes up in Thornhill THE THORNHILL dump will be bear-proofed by the end of the week. The ministry of environment, lands and parks and the regional district provided money for the electric fence which ministry officials say have been very effective in deterring bears. — Since the bears are conditioned to garbage the ministry is pickup day, wash barbecue grills carefully and pick their fruit as it ripens, 3B. 0. K. 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