Stop dumping in my backyard USE THE dump, not the woods, say many residents of the Copper Mountain subdivision. Dogwalkers and night strollers say they’re sick of looking at garbage when they go for walks on tails in the wooded area just south Haaland Avenue. “It really boils me that people dump their garbage in the bush when they can take it to the dump for free,"’ said Russ Sparkes, whose worried his dogs will get cut on all the scattered broken glass, The trails in this area are littered with household gar- bage, cars, beer bottles, old clothes, furniture, and whole whack of other garbage. Three weeks ago someone dumped 36 tires alongside the path. *} don’t like my dogs sniffing around other people’s garbage,”’ Sparkes said. “You never know what’s in there. It’s just dirty.”" Terrace district conserva- tion officer Adrian Juch said littering in the bush occurs frequenily. “We're constantly charg- ing people,’’ he said, According to Juch, litter- ing in the bush is an offence + ute Repo - said, under the Waste Manage- ment Act and is finable through the courts, The minimum fine for dumping business waste in the forest is $575. The fine for dumping household waste is normally $115. “Violators will be investi- gated and charges will be laid,”’ he said. That means conservation officers will go through bags of garbage found in the woods to determine who discarded them. Most times, offender will be charged, fined and forced to clean up their mess, Juch “People should know it's a lot cheaper to spend the time and gas driving to the landfill because (if they’re caught dumping in the bush) then they have to take the time to clean up their gar- bage and drive to the land- fill and pay their fine,” he said. According to Juch, peaple litter in the bush just be- cause they’re lazy. “If someone bas their gar- bage in their truck and they haven’t made it to the dump, they'll just throw it in the bush,’’ he said. ‘It’s just laziness here.” a A REVIEW of the management structure at Northwest Community College calls for the ad- . ‘dition of new staff but college president, Michael Hill, says he doesn’t know where the money is going to come from. ‘We're wondering how we're going to be able to afford these (recommendations) and we . don’t have the answer yet,”" he says. Hill says the review’s critique of college man- agement came as no surprise. ‘We're stretched too thin,” says Hill. ‘*We've made cuts and more cuts.’” The review says that the current structure falls - short in a number of management areas, includ- ing leadership, regional decision making, speed and effectiveness of central services, adequacy of computer systems, and the lack of an educa- The review points out that decentralization ‘and downsizing efforts over the past decade have made administrative staff uneasy and that remaining positions have a high turnover rate. Hill says cutbacks have meant that people fill- ing the remaining management positions are simply very tired and often don’t have the time to do a lot of the planning required. “There are cuts: that can be made, but - eventually you cut to the bone,”’ he says. Among its restructuring recommendations the review recomends the creation of two new posi- tions, a dean of education, reporting to the pres- ident, and a regional director for the eastern division. The review suggests the College make every effort to obtain funding from the ministry and tlonal plan. from business and industry. Le ca here a a mee ee By eee eee aR Ag ar panto, ea leh bebe pauls taashaanaed, a, be ae RAT rt critiques NWCC management “‘The solution is not, of course, to be able to throw money at it,’” says Hill. The college has had no annual increase in funding since the mid 1990s, which Hill says, with inflation and other factors, adds up to a net decrease. Cuts in federal transfer payments to the pro- vince and financial restructuring in the govern- ment have also hit the college, says Hill, Although the college has grown from approxi- mately 850 full-time-equivilant students in the 1987/88 year to approximately 1500 this year, management staff for all of the campuses has dropped from almost 40 to 22. The college’s board of governors will look at whether to adopt the reveiw’s recommendations at its next meeting in carly September. The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, July 29, 1998 - A3 News In Brief Reporters win awards THREE REPORTERS have won national awards from the Canadian Community Newspapers Association for stories appearing in The Terrace Standard last year. Dave Taylor placed second for outstanding reporter initiative for a feature story on the debacle surrounding last year’s attempt by the provincial government to in- crease fishing licence fees. He used the provincial Freedom of Information Act io obtain crucial docu- , ments. Cris Leykauf placed third for best historical story for a feature on the discovery in the Nass Valley of a 160- year-old Hudson Bay fort, built in the last century as a bulwark against imperial Russian incursions on the north coast. And Jeff Nagel placed third in the best business writ- ing category for his coverage early on in 1997 of the Skeena Cellulose/Repap financial crisis. Derrick Penner, a reporter with The Northern Sentinel in Kitimat, a sister paper to The Terrace Stan- dard, placed second in the best news story category for his coverage of the triple murder and subsequent events surrounding the search for Kevin Vermette. The awards were announced July 25 at the Canadian Community Newspapers Association annual conven- tion in Winnipeg. ‘ New Sergeant in Aiyansh SERGEANT RANDY CURTAIN’s arrival in New Aiyansh to command the RCMP detachment there marked something significant. He’s the first detachment commander to arrive as 3° sergcant, reflecting an increase in the number of of- ficers at the detachment and the anticipation of growth in the area from the Nisga’a land claims treaty, . Curtain’s posting to the Nass Valley also marks , something of a homecoming because Terrace was his — first detachment as a young RCMP officer 23 years ago. *7’m looking forward to settling in,’ said Curtain who was recently promoted from corporal. His last posting was coramanding the Port Alice detachment on | northem Vancouver Island. There are now five RCMP officers at the delachment, and that’s the level at which the commanding officer rank rises from corporal to sergeant. Bigger, better Ootsa park B.C. PARKS will officially open its new facilities at- Little Andrews Bay Marine provincial park this Satur-- day. The new site, on Oolsa Lake, includes eight new campsites, a boat launch, an information kiosk and pro- vides better shelter from the weather, as well as pro- tection for the site’s fish-bearing stream, Andrews Creek. The opening ceremony will take place from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. and will include a barbecue and tours of the new site, :