A2 - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, February 21, 1996

TV commercials mark
Start of p.r. campaign

LIGHTS, CAMERA, action!

Local residents are soon to be seen on television com-
mercials expressing UWieir support for the Nisga’a agree-
ment in principle.

There’ll be four, 30-second spots and they’H cost an
estimated $30,000 cach to produce.

That sounds like a lot of money — and it is — but the
spols form just one part of what’s expected to be the most
concentrated and expensive public relations exercise in
northwest history,

The production cost of the commercials doesn’t include

the purchase of air time and they will be shown only in the
northwest.

We could start broadcasting as soon this weekend and

thal’ll be followed by a series of newspaper ads.

Government officials didn’t have cost figures readily
available for the entire scape: of the public relations ex-
ercise bul did stress a lot-of the work was being done by
public officials and wasn’! being contracted out

The list of people interviewed last weck for the commer-
cials includes Terrace Women’s Resource Centre * co-
ordinator Carol Sabo, business owner Donna Zicgler,
Anglican minister Dean Houghton, United Church minister
Michael Hare and Kitimat Canadian Auto Workers official
Ross Slezak.

Provincial government official Peter Smith said Terrace

50 protest at B.C. Tel

FIFTY PROTESTERS demonstrated outside B.C.
Tel’s Laozelle Ave, office Monday morning to protest
planned cuts to local jobs.

B.C. Tel has stated that it must close the Terrace office
among others in order to save money.

But Larry Sippel of the Telecommunication Workers
Union said “our concem is B.C. Tel seems to be deter-
mined to close these offices even though no specific
studies have been done indicated that it’ 5 more expen-
sive to keep them open.”

The B.C. Tel employees have until mid March to
decide whether or not to accept a job buyout package.
If they don’t accept it, their-future with the company is
uncertain. The Terrace’ office is slated to close this
October.

The information picket on Monday morning may. be
followed by more job action. Sippel hopes to get the
support of the full telecommunications union, and says
job action may nat be limited to cities where offices.are
Slited to Close, He inentioned information pickets and
demonstrations at B.C. Tel headquarters and during
leadership awards on Feb, 23,

B.C. Tel workers also plan to bring their case before
city council this Friday to ask for the council’s support
to keep B.C, Tel jobs and workers in Terrace.

Marijuana seized

RCMP HAVE seized around two pounds of marijuana
from an Agar Ave. house following araid on Monday.

Cpl Rob MacKay said the pot had a street value of
about $20,000 and a handgun was also seized at the
home,

Two men were arrested and appeared in court
Tuesday. Charges had not been laid at press time, but
were expected to include counts of drug trafficking.

Poaching alleged

A37-YEAR-OLD Rosswood man will stand trial in
Terrace in April,

Matthew MacDonald is charged with possessing wil-
dite without a permit.

It's believed he was found with a moose in Rosswood
back un October 30.

He had pleaded not guilty to the charge.

The trial is set for April 14.

Uplands decision soon

THE CRUNCH is on.

By next September parents and school board officials
will have to make some tough decisions about potential
enrollment problems at Uplands Elementary School,

One wily school officials are dealing with the problem
is by holding an early kindergarten pre-registration, on
Feb, 27. Typically kinderg urten registration lakes place
in mid-April,

The early registration for kindergarten students will
help to alleviate parents concerns about enrollment. It
will also give school officials un idea of what numbers
of students they might be dealing with,

Student accommodation for all grades, including kin-
cergarten, will be discussed in a public meeting on
Monday, Marcly 4 at Uplands elementary at 7. p.m,
There parents, teachers and the community: will be able
to muke recommendations to the board of schoo!
trustees,

These recommendations will be discussed at the regu-

lar school board meeting on March 12.

The board hus asked the education ministry to consid-
er building a new elementary school on the Bench. The
ministry however, has treated the request as a low pri-
orily. The board is now asking the ministry to reconsid-
er its decision,

Trade war averted

A SOPTWOOD LUMBER deal between Canada and
the United States is being hailed as the start of a five-
year truce between the Wo countries’ woods industries.

The deal culs B.C, limber exports to the U.S. by sev-
el per cent in exchange for free and secure access to
the American market,

The (vo countries agree to disagree on the matter of
B.C. stumpage rates, which. the Americans claim
amounts to an unfair subsidy of B.C. lumber exports. —

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will also soon be the site of a storefront office to give out
information on the Nisga’a deal,

All of the public relations efforts are aimed at one thing
— giving people all the information they want on’ the
agreement int principle,

“The object here is to inform people and to encourage
them to gel invalved — to read and digest the docunicut,”"
said Smith said last week. -

This'll be a marked contrast to the past three years when
the provincial and federal governments and the Nisga’a
held: Abeir, negotiations. behind closed doors and, signed
secrecy deals. .

The only ‘officially sanctioned material came out of an
unwieldy. body made up of representatives of three negoti-
aling partics.

But the Nisga’a did produce their own information book-
lets and their own TY commercials.

Government officials now say they’re more freely able to
speak because now there’s something to talk about.

Before, all that was in circulation took the form of
rumours of cducated guesswork about the substance of a
Nisga’a land claims deal. -

4 problems?

The governments and the Nisga’a say they want as many
people as possible to learm more about the agreement in
principle because of upcoming public meetings.

In doing so the governments are stopping just short of
air-dropping copics of the agreement in principle over
populated arcas in the northwest.

Smith said no dates have been set yet for the public
meetings.

“Our first goal is to get that agreement in principle out
there. We want lo give people time to digest it before we
hold the mectings.”’

Those meetings are likely to be the main forum for local
people to express pleasure or disappointment with specific
sections of the agreement in principle.

The provincial government says it'll look at changes

depending upon the scope and extent of reaction to specific Terrace

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