Rules change Well on their way City backs down on ban on. cemetary decorations thanks to public outcry\NEWS A5 | Caledonia apprenticeship program teaches students skills to build a -future\COMMUNITY B1 Two weeks WEDNESDAY June 21, 2000 Airline chops quick tickets | IT JUST got even morc expensive to fly out of Terrace if you’re trying to leave on short notice. Canadian Regional Air- lines this month elimina- led its three-day advance fares, which had allowed passengers to book flights as little as 72 hours before travelling for $564 includ- ing all taxes. Try booking a flight three days ahead now and you'll pay $805 including taxes, say local travel agents, The change was part of the process of making Ca- nadian Regional’s fare system consistent with Air B.C.'s. , “The three-day fare caused all kinds of confu- sion both in the travel agent community and with . our customers,” said Ca- nadian Regional spokes- man Dean Brawn. © I's effectively anather increase in the cost of fly- ing here, particularly for business travellers and other people who have to fly on short notice, “The lower fares are dissappearing,” said Diane Francis of Uniglobe Tra- vel. People trying to pay less now have to try lo book seven days ahead to get a return fare of $559 including taxes. Those flights require a minimum two day stay and you must fly out at night and come back on a morming flight. On the plus side, more scals are available to be booked now that Canadian has added a fourth flight in Continued Pg. A2 mw Vigil on this week TERRACE LITTLE THEATRE actors Alan Weston and Sharon Lynch are on stage again this week for benefit shows of their play Vigil June 22, 23, and 24. The performances ara to help the theatre troup raise money for their trip ta Ladner to compete at Mainstage. B.C.'s best bantam fastball players will be here for provincials in.two weeks\SPORTS B5. ANDARD CONSTRUCTION OF a new $3.3 million clemen- "tary school on the bench is ;almast a realily, despite “the fact the schoo) district expecis a continuous drap in student enralment in the following years. Seeretary treasurer Marcel Georges said the new school should go to tender in about three weeks, and construction should start soon after, ° He expects the . new 250-student school to be completed by September 2001. George said although the school board just looked al closing Parkside Elementary School due an expected decline in stu- dent enrolment numbers in the new school will still be built. He said the education ministry wants to build the new school to eliminate ihe portables being used at Uplands Elementary school, “That was the NDP’s main goal. That’s what Glen Clark wanted: No more porlables in the school system,” Georges said. Georges added thal when the board applied for funding for the new school, five years ago, the district had a surplus of elemen- tary students. Concerned parent Many job losses possible as a result of land-use plan NEARLY 300 forest industry jobs could be threatened in this area if a local land-use plan places a major emphasis on protection of grizzly bears, That's one of the findings in a re- port on impacts of various scenarios being considered by Kalum Land and Resource Management Plan participants. They’re meeting this weck in an effort to hammer out the Tinal details of the plan. The biggest job is’ settling the contentious issue of grizzly bear management, the factor calculated lo have the greatest impact on jobs. In four out of five scenarios ana- lyzed, the report projects at least 190 and as many as 275 direct log- ging and sawmill jobs would be lost in this area in the first decade. When indirect and induced losses are added, the number of jobs elimi- nated climbs to as high as.420, Terrace would be the hardest hit community by the job lasses, the re- port says. Despite the findings, pracess co- ordinator’ Eamon O'Donoghue is hopeful the group will find a solution in this week's mectings. He said the thinking is logging can he planned in such a way to ac- tually increase forage areas for griz- zly bears. That, he said, may allow grizzly protection that won't cause huge job losses. “The table has worked really well getting through some of these tough issues,” O’ Donaghue said. Underway today and Thursday, the mectings are the final ones sche- duled. LRMP participants are supposed to hash out the grizzly bear manage- ment question, as well as an en- hanced timber management zone, and an outstanding issue around bio- diversity, One remaining possible protected area, in the upper Copper River val- ley, is also being considered. If a final agreement is concluded, he said, they'll go to public review with it over the summer. Morale the topic of hospital survey THE TERRACE and Area “We want to find oul Community Health Coun- the state of morale, To cil is surveying ils em- have employees give us he added. ployces to find what itean input on how they feel and do ta boost morale. Memorial Hospital and at Dieter Kuntz. “We've Terraceview Lodge have The survey will be re- Kuntz. leased when completed, One method to increase moral has already oc- One possible morale curred, the renovating of what the issues are,” said booster is re-opening the the front lobby area and Employees at Mills council chicf executive | cafeteria, closed ycars ago installation of a coffee and indicated, | straints. because of spending re- food bar. - The food bar is a pri- Randy Hall, whose child suffered from years of bud- get cuts which has lead -to whete - possible, we’ will -address and rectify. the -si- Bul that will only be done if it operates on a vate business and there's no financial involvement Terrace next September, | $1.00 PLUS 7¢ GST ($1.10 plus 8¢.G5T outside of the Terrace area) - VOL. 13. NO. 41 set to go Construction this summer despite Parkside uncertainty Marcel Georges attends Parkside Elemen- tary, doesn’t understand why the board would con- Sider building a new school on the bench when they are looking into clos- ing anether dawn - else- where in the city. “There’s classrooms available in existing schools if they shifted around students,” Hall said, He added: “Knowing as a taxpayer we are spend- ing money based on a five year plan that isn’¢ applic- able, isn’t tight.” The new school, loca- ted on the Southeast cor- ner of Bailey Street and Soucie Avenue, will house 200 clementary students and 50 kinderparten stu- dents, Linear park takes shape THE FRESH asphalt winds ils way through the newly planted trees and aver the mounds of dirt studded with brightly coloured flags. The flags and the dirt May be an indication that Tetrace’s new linear park, the Grand Trunk Pathway - is still under construction but the park is slarting to lake shape into a biker, blader and walker’s dream. The strip of park run- ning along Hwy 16 is right on schedule, said Steve Scolt, superintendent for parks and recreation. The project will be fin- ished June 30, but the opening ceremonies aren't set until August Thal’s because the mounds of dirt would get in Ube way. “The last thing g : going to do is hydffteeed and we want fo get in a couple of mows before then to make the grass look nice," said Scott, Wark on the park star- ted in the spring after the criticisms about the resull- . tuations indiciled An. the. ing level of services: survey.” : break-even basis and won't” nb -on the: part of the health asubsidy, said council, sald Kuntz. cily received federal and provincial - millennium Branis for the praject MATT WEDEL. a vourneyman plumber, “works or Tetrace’s newest linear park: the Grand Trunk Path- way. Wedel is digging out a sprinkler head.