ago this

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Ogging was on the skids a

: year ago this week... or
} so it seemed. Lyle Gold

and Sons and R: Pelletier Enter-

prises both pulled their Kitwanga-
based operations out of the bush,

- Saying they could no longer run-

them at the prices Westar was
offering for contract logging ser-
vices, The jobs. of 50 hourly

workers were on the line. Accord-

ing to Lyle Gold, logging costs
had risen steadily since 1987 while
ihe price Westar was paying for
logs had dropped $2 per cubic
metre, a decline of 15 percent.
Westar, in the meantime, had
recently shut down their Kitwanga
mill, claiming log exports had

‘dried up their timber supply. And

this meant even more jobs lost.
Exports were already unpopular
and the Kitwanga closure made
them even more so. But the Minis-
ter of Forests and the companies
cutting the logs for export had
another story to tell. According to
them, if it weren’t for the high
prices logs bring on the export
market ‘the North Kalum forest
area would never be logged at all.

Ex-forests minster Dave Parker
pointed out, however, that Westar
did have:a source of timber but

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gave it up. Prior to 1984, said
Parker, Westar had the entire
North Kalum sewn up as_ the

_ holder of TFL #1. But in 1984, the
‘company went to Minister of

Forests Tom Waterland and asked
to be relieved of the northern half
of the tenure because it was un-
economical to log. -

The request was granted and the
licence was split into three parts
and given to Tay-M Logging of
Terrace and Orenda and Buffalo
Head of Stewart. Each got volume-

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based tenures with reviews sche-
duled at five-year intervals, The
future in this area, said Parker,
was the wholesale export of deca-
dent and marginal timber which
would allow for the replanting of a
new forest. (In 1986, Westar sold
the southern half of TFL #1 to
Skeena Cellulose.)

Not every director of the
Regional District
Stikine agreed, however. After
considerable discussion a year ago
this week, the board went on
record as opposing log export
permits for Small, Business Enter-

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region. One director who disagreed
with the board’s position was
Andy Burton of Stewart. He said
that log exports and the logging
and trucking: activity it created
were vital to the Stewart economy.
Nass Valley director Harry Nyce
also disagreed. He pointed out that
companies like Westar had built
their mills on capital earned from
Cxports and were now calling
"foul" when others were attempt-
ing to do the same. "The big com-
panies got their breaks years ago,"
he said. "They've paid off their
capital, and now they’re crying

foul’... there’s something dras-

tically wrong with this scenario,"
Nyce told the board.

And to round out the logging
controversy, Skeena Sawmills had
complained of a timber shortage as

of Kitimat. .

well ‘and had indicated they might
move their Terrace sawmill to a
new site near Kitimat. A year ago
this week, however, mill manager
Don Chesley said the company
wasn’t prepared to make an offi-
cial announcement at that time and
no one should be concerned about
the immediate future.

ut there was more going
B on than debate of the

merits of log exports a

‘year ago this week. Terrace city

council assured Heritage Park they
would receive another year’s fund-

ing. This amounted to $2,000 for

their 1990 utility bill and $15,000
to cover the cost of a full time
park supervisor.

Council was considering trail
development along Howe Creek..:.
again. They were getting serious
about recycling in Terrace, but

Ruth Hallock summed this one up

by explaining, "It’s not going to
happen overnight." The recreation
department was looking for a way
to cool off the banquet room so it
could actually be used in the sum-
mer... but air conditioning was too
expensive. And traffic safety was
apparently still a concern. Two
more pedestrians had been struck
down in downtown crosswalks the
week before. But there were ap-
parently far fewer solutions than
there were: hazards.

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Shelter was host to an injured
loon, Freesia Dorval and Stephanie
Whitford won the "Fire Chief fora
Day" honours, the Thornhill Parks
and Recreation Commission got a
$30,000 grant to cover the cost of
Thornhill Community Centre reno-
vations, work was progressing
steadily on the Shames Mountain
access road, and Skeena Broad-
casters had initiated a second
viewer survey to sec if we wanted
the 24-hour CBC news network
added to the list of available chan-
nels. The first survey was criti-

-¢ized as being incomplete.

Terrace RCMP were investigating
a _ shooting incident at Lakelse
Lake. For no apparent reason some
trigger-happy vandal used-a .22
calibre rifle to, shoot out three
windows in the B.C. Parks office
as well as a vehicle windshield,
and an outdoor floodlamp and an
electrical metre outside the build-
ing.

he Alaska panhandle was

i a topic of discussion a
year ago this week. Doug

Dryden, a special projects officer
with the B.C. Ministry of En-
vironment, said he had been con-
tacted by a representative of the
49th state who wanted a road built
up the Bradfield Canal to connect
with the Iskut mining road. It’s a
long term proposal, said Dryden. It
would take the Alaskans two to

‘three years just to complete an

environmental assessment.

Still, it was possible the Alaskans
were way ahead of us. While the
B.C. government and the pro-
vince’s mining industry were doing
an evasive dance around the issue
of who would pay for the $12.5
million road into the mineral-rich
Iskut River valley, the Alaskan
community through which most of
the freight and money was being
funneiled to service the gold fields
got $50 million over a 20-year
period to improve their airport.

in high school volleyball, Kitimat
stole the show a year ago. this
week. They defeated both the
Kermode boys and girls in a Kiti-
mat championship tournament, and
in a Terrace Grade 8 tournament
they did the same. In the Terrace
action, though, the Skeena ’A’
girls team won the most sports-
manlike team award.

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