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~ WEDNESDAY, February 5, 1992 ~ ”

Vol. 8, Issue No. 6

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"Serving: the communities of Trace Thornhil, Usk, Cedarvale, Kwang wecidi, Stowart and the Nass Valley.

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to recommend:
referend um *

by: Tot Strachan

WITH A MAJOR HURDLE

_pleared, .. the. _long-awaited ,

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~ expansion reférendum mhay _
be. near.

An” agreement | was “reached
Monday night on a library eX- |
"pansion plen: project valued. at.

$1.75 million during a meeting
_ between the city’s Committee of

. the Whole and the Terrace. Pub-.

“He Library board of trustees.
- There are still details to sort out,

but according to city administra-— .

tor Bob Hallsor a public referen-

. dum on the project is-likely be:
- held this June prior to the com- |

pistion. of the school. year. |
-There are two things. that must
“happen first, however. City ©

council must first ‘ratify the |

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_commitiee recommendation at ‘THUMBS UP. Monday night m may have signalled a new era for the Terrace Public Library. City council's Committee of the
“their Feb. 10 meeting. And they: - whole andthe library board of trustees came to a final agreement on an expansion plan. City council must. now ratify the
‘must then make'a formal propo-_ ‘committee recommendation and make a formal request to the regional district to hold a referendum on the same date as
gal to the Kitimat-Stikine the. city. Above, displaying the result of several years of hard work are children’s librarian Gillian Campbell, board chairman: .
-Regional District board of direc- Judy Chiryster, trustee Willy Schneider, librarian Ed Curell, and trustees Mardy Lorimer and George Clark, a

tors requesting a different fund-.-
ing formula. The regional: dis--

trict, as library users, must: bear.
- Continued on 1 page 3

It was an anxious 2A hours for
friends and relatives, but seven
Terrace snowmobilers who went

missing on Sterling Moutitain |
north of Terrace Sunday after-

noon were. not lost. They
decided weather conditions had
become too severe to leave the
mountain safely and sought out

the shelter of one of two Skeena -
the lead snowmobilers drove his
_ machine over the edge of a steep |

Valley Snowmobile Club ‘cabins
instead. =

Terrace area land search
coordinator Gord Sweeting says
the seven snowmobilers were on
the mountain for a day of recre-

ation and ran intd a minor prob-

lem in the early afternoon. One
of the machines broke down, and

because... they. were . unable . to

correct the fault they proceeded,
to tow the machine. down the
mountain.

That brief delay in getting off

‘the mountain, however, resulted
“in a more serious problem. The .

group was Caught in near white-
out conditions due to an ap-
‘proaching storm.

Due to poor visibility, one of

100-foot embankment. He was

able to jump free of the snow- —

mobile as it began to go over the

‘edge and was uninjured, but it

was at this point that the group
decided . their descent had
become foo hazardous. ‘They

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the storm.

“Unaware. of these: events,

friends and relatives became
concerned wheti the group failed
to returg from their outing.-at the
end of. the day. As the storm
continued. to pound the moun-
tain, a search party of six
Skeena Valley Snowmobile Club
members headed up the moun-
tain at 9 a:m. ‘Monday morning
under the direction of Terrace
Search and Rescue.

It was tough going for the
fescuers, says - Sweeting. . In

severe white-out conditions they

had-to walk up the mountain,

‘walking ahead of their parked

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