V8V 1X4 . Legislative Library, woo ee Parliament Buildings, Victoria, B.C. Fax _ Sunday shopping: market forces win TERRACE — Those in favor of Sunday, business hour restric- tions outnumbered those oppos- -ed, but it made little differerice . when city council had to make . its decision. A bylaw that would have required local retailers to _ Close no later than noon Sunday has been scrapped, by Tod Strachan - Well over 50 people jammed council chambers Monday night - while others lined up as far away as the top of the city hall stair- way in a bid to. express their opinion — a process that took over an hour and a half. Asking for the proposed hour restriction bylaw to be imposed were Ter- race Co-op manager Lawrence Gosselin and one Co-op employee, Wayne Jones, local businessman Jack Cook; Ter- race and District Labour Coun- cil president Wilma . Costain, Radio Shack franchise owners Jim and Naida Stainton and one employee, Bev Haydon, Carlo Stella of All Star Shoe Repair, Francisco Trigo of Trigo’s Footwear, Bob Lavoie of Copperside Foods, and Terrace resident Isobel Brophy. Opposing the bylaw were Bruno Belanger of Gemma Bed and Bath Boutique, Tertace and District. Chamger of Commerce president Bob Park, Canada Safeway manager Eric Johanson and one Safeway employee, Don Bell, Skeena Mall manager Gail Currie, Northern Drugs. co- ‘owner Gerry Martin and management representatives - from Overwaitea Foods. Both sides presented emo- tional arguements but the final word belonged to city aldermen. Darryl Laurent was first to make a motion; to scrap the bylaw and _ let the retail market dictate business hours. This was sec- onded by Mo Takhar and re- ceived the support of Bob Cooper and Danny Sheridan. Ruth Hallock and Dave Hull were the only aldermen oppos-. ing the motion. Their votes were recorded. In explaining their positions, Laurent said that his personal observations indicated: Sunday shopping in Terrace was a_re- sounding success and individual ‘businesses should be allowed to _choose their operating hours. ““If the people weren’t there the stores would be closed,’’ and, “If we don’t open Sundays, Kitimat will,’* were his closing remarks, Takhar said a noon Sunday closing time was imprac- tical for local bars and, in the . overall scheme of things, Sun- day shopping isn’t really all that bad. “Bars can do a lot more -harm,’’ he suggested as he asked council to lobby the provincial ‘government for Sunday closure of local liquor establishments. “T’ve always been-in favor of freedom of -choice for The notorious gas and smoke-belching wood waste burner at the Skeena Cellulose sawmill is now truly history. The burner has been out of use for months since SCI installed a smokeless hog-fuel machine, but it was still an occasion for relief when the old beehive bit the dust for real. In. a procedure not unlike felling a tree, a large tracked backhoe did-an undercut-and-pull on the beast lasts. cade Saturday, laying it low for good. - everyone,” was Cooper’s com- ment, have to shop on Sunday or open your store.’ In supporting Laurent’s motion, Sheridan found fault with the bylaw itself and criticized the provincial government for leaving municipalities to make provin- “Tt doesn’t mean you. cial decisions. “Téchnically the” an said | - “A business could). bylaw doesn’t work,’’ Sheridan. open midnight Saturday. I think very soon we would be in court | with this bylaw.” On the other side of the coin, ‘Terrace is a small town with continued on page 2 Information recovered from the flight data recorder (FDR) of Skylink flight 070 provides some idea of what took place just prior to the time when the aircraft crash- ed into a forested area about but it. doesn’t explain why. The Fairchild Metro III “a.m. on Sept:.26 killing the - pilot, co-pilot and all -five race residents. _ According .to’ a news release from the Canadian Aviation Safety (CASB), the decoded data from the FDR indicates that the aircraft was - following a normal flight a half mile west of. the Terrace-Kitimat. airport —. crashed shortly before 8:30 | passengers. None were Ter-. Flight data deepens mystery Terrace. Two minutes before the crash, the aircraft had .teached the minimum ap- proach altitude of 1,240 feet and was flying at a speed of 150 knots (168 miles per hour). One minute later, however, the aircraft des- cended below the minimum approach altitude to some- where between 850 and 950 feet, The published altitude of the Terrace Airport is 713 _ feet, and the trees in the area range between 50 and 80 feet. Over the next few seconds the aircraft descended an- other 100 feet and airspeed was reduced to 140 knots. Ten seconds before the crash, though, the aircraft descended further while gain- ing speed. The flight re- corders ceased functioning when the right wing of the aircraft struck some tree tops but the last recorded air speed was just over 175 knots {about 200 miles per hour). The stall speed of the Metro | III, with landing gear and flaps down, is 87 knots. Roger Ayotte, the CASB investigator in charge of determining the cause of the - accident, says the recovered | FDR data will be used to try — to determine the cause of the accident, Following the on- site investigation in Terrace, however, Ayotte suggested that confidential information on the voice data recorder may be even more valuable in. determining the cause. profile for its descent into see eet ce er ee ea Phone 635-7840, 635-7269" ? t i eon . 7 ve Be ee eee ee 7 Feo mee Sewer "Leis cams et aa oeeg meng one Uae ey one ee ee ek wens Sea ae Sle ey UE tee ae Eyet ree SOIL ae