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message from Mother Nature they were doing the right thing. The first flakes of the white stuff
fell on the city that afternoon. One of those getting ready to head for the hill was Sheena

Leclerc, above. The two-and-half-

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TERRACE — It was one of the
biggest pine mushroom seasons
in years, re

Local mushroom buyer
Lionel Sears estimates
mushroom revenue for the area
could hit $20 million this year
— far in excess of the roughiy
$7.5 million taken during the
1987 bumper crop four years
ago. rn
“It’s the biggest year Terrace
has ever seen," he said. ‘It was
the heaviest volume ever — the
biggest we've ever seen it,” __

Prices for the top grade pine
mushrooms ranged from high
of $52 a pound to a Jate season
low of $12 a pound. -. 3

“In September our outgoing’
air freight was around 50,000
pounds,’’ said Canadian
Airlines manager-Terry Morris, -
“Of that, 40,000 at least was
mushrooms.”? He said October
mushroom shipments would
likely match September's.

: Air B.C. indicated it shipped
more than 35,000 pounds since .
late. August, while Central
Mountain Air pegged its.
Shipments for the season at
around 28,000 pounds.

Most of the pine mushrooms
are destined for the Japanese
market, although substantial
demand is now also coming
from the domestic North
American market.

““New York was clamouring

SCI gets trailer break

TERRACE — § Skeena
Celiulose’s (SCI} trailers on its
Keith Ave. property can stay
despite a city by-law prohibiting
such structures except in mobile
home parks,

The trailers were originally
approved in 1987 when the com-
pany said it needed them as tem-
porary offices while it carried -
out upgrading of the sawmill.

That approval was given
under a section of the by-law
which allows council to grant a
six-month temporary permit,
Since then council has granted
two extensions of that permit.

Earlier this month SCI asked
for another extension, this one
for two years. Appearing before i

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for these things this season, and
they’ were ' paying . big, big
bucks,’’ Sears said.

. .He said the season ‘here has .

been big because of the number
of what he calls ‘career
mushroom pickers’? who came
to: town. - ore

_ ‘Look. at- how this. town is

fumming’-right now, There's.
“money, money, money all over |
. the place,'’ he said: tS

Stories abound of individual

pickers making. more. than

$2,000 in.a-single day. “Some -
“Some guys have -

already made $50,000.

to $60,000. But they’re :

the professional pickers. .
A very minor number of
people make a fot of.
‘Money atit’ —.

guys have already made $50,000
to $60,000," Sears adds. “But
they’re the professional-pickers.
A very minor number of people
make a lot of money at it,”' -

Those stories, however, have
drawn many local people out to
the bush, he said, and if those
weekend pickers make enough
to buy anew TV set ora VCR,
they’re happy.

Plenty of competition bet-
ween loval buyers meant you
could judge the price being of-
fered by the length of the lineup

committee, company comp-
troller Abram Wiebe explained
the company could not afford
to build new offices to replace
the trailers. ‘
Noting the trailers housed 12
forestry managers and super-'
visors, Wiebe said there was no
room for. these individuals in

‘SCI’s existing offices.

City planner Marvin Kamenz
pointed out that although the
by-law allowed council to issue
a six-month permit, nowhere
did it- authorize extensions of
that original permit.

Other businesses which didn’t

\. At One. point there were’ 15“

“outside the depot, _

panies halt slash burning and bé :
. more selective in their practices:

Terrace Standard, Wednesday, October 20, 1961 ~ Page’ Ag -

room season

and log: around the: prime .
mushroom: grounds... The:

growth pine: and hemlock
forest. 0 Oona,
He said this year’s crop could

have been way higher if some

pine mushroom groves in the

“past weren't destroyed by ‘logg-
ing. 0 oe a

“It’s been absolute’ bloody.
destruction in some areas,’’ he

_ Says. “They have ruined mega-

patches. They’ve just ‘mowed
them down.) 0 vent
. Sears suggests that in many.
areas pine mushroom revenues
exceed timber values over the
longrun; oe,
“It can take 10,.20, 50 years

‘to come back after logging,” he

says. “They’re burning up
millions and millions of dollars
a year doing what they’re
doing." ey

" mushrooms: grow: best in older :

perty as “‘one of the tidiest and -:
_ heatest industrial sites in the

northwest’, alderman - Riuth
Hallock conceded .““We do have
@ by-law and it (the extensions)
is stretching it a bit far.”
Alderman Bob. Cooper,
however, said SCI were “fan in-
tegral part of the community,’*
Therefore, council should “"give
them a certain amount of flex-

. ibility.””

have the money to build new |

Premises were renting existing
Office space, -he added. mp fate
‘While describing the SGI pro-

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The committee eventually.
recommended allowing SCI to retain.
the trailers pending a review of.
the heavy industrial. zoning by-

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