A year ago
this week —

THE BIG NEWS A YEAR
AGO THIS WEEK for many Ter-
race residents was an announce-
ment made by Premier Bill Vander
Zalm during a press conference
here. The province was going to
invest $2.4 million into the Shames
Mountain Access road. This would
pay for upgrading the first six
kilometres of road and build the
last four. Shames Mountain was
back on track again, and we could
expect to ski there in the Falt of
1991.

"T think it will be much more an
attraction than people even realize
it to be," Vander Zalm said when
making the announcement. "And
it’s going to be great for the econ-
omy, it’s going to provide employ-
ment, and one day it will be
another Whistler."

IN THE MEANTIME, city
council was going about business
in their own little part of the
_ world, They made a few adjust-
ments to regulations affecting local
motorisis. Maximum parking times
were adjusted on sections of
Lazelle and Emerson to help alle-
viate the lack of parking spaces
there. Hughes St. between Straume
and Hamer was closed permanent-
ly as a dust a traffic control. Also
for dust control, a portion of Birch
Ave. was going io be paved, —

Being examined were traffic flow
patterns at the North
Sparks/Halliwell intersection, the
need for a crosswalk at McConnell
and Eby for Parkside school stu-
dents, and, in a totally unrelated
matter, the need for regulations
governing the location of satellite
dishes before they become an
eyesore.

‘Alderman Dave Hull was com-
plaining that the No Smoking
Bylaw wasn’t being promoted by

the city. At the business he oper-
ated, he said, no information on
requirements or enforcement had
been received. And on a final note
from the cily, their economic
development officer was investi-
gating the possibility of working
out a cost-sharing agreement with
a major oil company to build a
small aircraft hangar at the Terrace

airport.

IN THE BIG-TIME. POLITI- .
CAL CIRCUS there was also a
lot going on. Kim Camptell, Con-.

_ servative -. -MP for Vancouver -

_ Centre and Minister of State for:
Indian Affairs was in town. She
' Said a "very positive’ announce-

ment would.be coming out of
Ottawa soon on the Nisga’a com-
prehensive land claim.
It was a little confusing how this
- might come about though. Accord-
ing to Campbell, a setilement was
a federal responsibility but they
had no obligation. to do so, so‘the.
_. province belter.get into. the act. In
-Campbell’s words: "There. {sno
obligation: on the federal govern:
- ment to resolve the claims even.
though they: may be the ones that
have the primary responsibility." "

cue crew. Don. Casper,
‘Roberison and Deanne Van Hulle
placed one, two, three.

cial participation is a must — they
have the land, resources and pri-
vale tenures.

In the same week, though, Van-
der Zalm said while in Terrace:
The province is staying out of land
claims negotiations because that’s
what the federal government
wants. And then he stated his real
reason. "I’d prefer to stay out of it.
I think it would only. pull us in to
the extent where we would pay
most of the dill. It would bail out
the feds perhaps, but it could
bankrupt the province if we started
to take over those negotiations.”

OTHER ITEMS WE HAD NO
CONTROL OVER included Via
Rail. On this topic Campbell said
there will be "considerable oppor-
tunity" for public input before

Services are cut. And there was
Herman’s Creek; almost no one
agreed on what was fact or fiction
here. One of our writers dug
around the remains and offered the
conclusion that logging to the
stream bank may well have con-
tributed to the flood threat that had
the potential to destroy one of the
province’s most productive fish
habitats.

We don’t suggest there’s any
connection, but over on page 17
we ran another siory: "Steelhead
weak despite the strike", It seems
that we were expecting a surge of
‘Steelhead due to a commercial

fishing strike and therefore no
incidental catch. But it never hap-

pened. A summary of the situation
by Ministry of Environment
Skeena region fisheries head Bob
Hooton: “It’s pretty bleak, This is
about the worst in the last decade,
and it’s close to the worst year
ever."

And finally there was the ques-
tion of a provincial election. It
seems that not even politicians
have full contre] over those. Van-
der Zalm was in town giving us
money for Shames, promising talks
with natives, and strolling about
lown smiling at men, women and
children. And just in case we were
swayed by the premier’s infectious
smile, another leader was on his
way to do a litile mainstreeting.

The NDP’s Mike Harcourt was_

scheduled to speak to the Chamber

' of Commerce on Aug. 21

‘BUT WE WERE IN THE
MIDST ._OF RIVERDOAT.
DAYS, and for all those with a

remote interest in these political ©
goings on there were just as many —

‘who. didn’t care at all, The food,
the fireworks, the parade, and all
the activities were great... and the
_ Skeenaview reunion brought
people back to town we hadn't
seen in years. The Rotary River-
boat Race went off without a hitch,
with a little help of Okanagan
Helicopters and a Search and Res-
Doch

“IN ‘THE BUSINESS WORLD.

7 For. this reason, she added,’ ‘proyin- ~Kyle Investments of: Vancouvet

The Terrace Aquatic Centre expansion was just coming off the drawing board a year ago this
week as excavation began on the $1 million building that started as an Expo 86 legacy project. |

bought Terrace Paving. The only
real difference, though, according
to Kentron Construction president
Lioyd Scott, would be that Terrace
Paving would now buy asphalt mix
from them instead of producing
their own. It was just good busi-
ness sense, he explained: asphalt
plants are expensive and there was
really only room in town for one.

And the Chamber of Commerce
was preparing for the 790s. With a
$3,000 grant from the Ministry of
Tourism they bought themselves

uniforms; .a -brand new, Mac :Plus..

computer and a fax machine.. The.
new electronic equipment would be
tied to the B.C. Tel INET network
and the government’s Business
Network and would provide access
to a wealth of up-to-date informa-
tion.
AND IN HEALTH, the Terrace
Health Care Society had hired their
first ever Chief Executive Officer.
Michaet Leisinger would have
overall responsibility for the oper-
ation of both Mills Memorial Hos-

pital and Terraceview Lodge. He

was born and raised in Ontario and
had previously worked with the
Ontario Ministry of Health, as the

director of administrative services |
at St. Peters Hospital in. Hamilton, .-

and as the administrator of the Fort
Nelson General Hospital acute care
facility.

IN EDUCATION, the School
District 88 board of trustees held a
special meeting to discuss a report:
"Gitwangak Gitksan Immersion

and .Gitksan Preschool Proposal”. . o>
Gitwangak Band chief councillor.
Gienn: Williams explained. the. ©
report ‘and trustees were enter. -
tained by Giiksan. preschool pri- -
mary students. The board promised

to study the implications of the
report as well as the concept of
individual. Band agreements as
they related to the Master Tuition

Agreement, the funding formula —
that determines federal contribu- —
tions to provincial education for

Native studenis,

- WITH

downed Alberta 83-66 in the final
match. The girls’? under-17 B.C.
rep team also won their division
with the help of three Prince

‘Rupert players by defeating

Saskatchewan 58-54,

One of Brown’s team mates,
Jason Pamer, was glad to be play-
ing back in Canada. During com-
petition in Las Vegas the week

‘before Pamer was walking from a

restaurant to his hotel when he was
struck in the abdomen by a pellet
fired from a passing. car.

MIKE CHRISTENSEN: placed:
second overall in Prince Rupert's.

first annual weekend bicycle race.
Prince Rupert cyclists took the
70-kilometre mens’ road race and
1.5-kilometre hill climb, Chris-
tensen won the 15-K time trial,
and the criterum went to a
Smithers rider in the senior event
and a Prince Rupert rider in junior.

ALI JOHNSON lost her national
handgun. champion status in an

eastern Canadian meet a year ago
this week. She placed second. She
did retain her position on the
national team, though, but that
didn’t help in her bid for a trip to
a Puerto Rico meet — a lack of
funding for the team meant she
would have to stay behind.

PAUL CLARK’S performance at

the Stoke-Mandeville games. in.

England a year ago this week was
not his best ever but he did place

> ninth in a-field of 70 wheelchair

athletes. One of his problems

might have been the weather. The.

rain came down in buckets during
the last 10 kilometres of the race
and all he could do was hope for
something better at Seattle’s
"Wheels of Fire", the Montreal
Marathon, the West German
Heidelberg and the Japan Marathon
— the remainder of his year’s
racing calendar,

THE HELP OF |

‘TERRACE'S JACKIE DROWN, ,
: ~ the B.C. under-17 boys’ basketball
‘THINGS WERE HAPPENING .

rep team.won the Western Cana- 7
disn juvenile | championships -in: °
Regina a year ago this week. They ‘

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