Al6 Terrace Review —

Wednesday, February 28, 1990

-~Pulpwood offer draws five

Five companies have applied for
the right to harvest 623,000 cubic
meters of pulp-quality forest stands
in the Northwest over a 25-year
period.

The offer for the non-renewable
agreement from the Ministry of
Forests attracted proposals from
Eurocan-West Fraser, Northwood
Pulp and Timber of Prince George,
Skeena Cellulose Inc. Orenda
Forest Products, and Zaul Zap
Industries from the Nass Valley.

Prince Rupert Forest Region»
manager Bob Friesen said last
week that Eurocan-West Fraser
and Skeena Cellulose had entered
the only two proposals for the
entire volume of the agreement.
The offer required that proposals
would have to involve “con-
tinuance, expansion or new cons-
truction" of a pulp mill. Friesen

said the Eurocan-West Fraser:

proposal is for harvesting of
pulpwood to back up expansion

work’ that has already: been com-

pleted on their Kitimat mill, and
the SCI proposal would involve
construction of a new mill at
Watson Island, site of their exist-
ing plants.

Northwood, Friesen said, are
seeking 150,000 cubic meters’ of
coniferous pulpwood i in the Morice
and Lakes Timber Supply Areas
for chips to feed their integrated
operations around Prince George.

Orenda applied for 100,000 cubic

Canine distemper outbreak
worst in many years.

Dog owners in the Terrace area
are being strongly urged to get
their pets inoculated immediately
against canine distemper.

Communities throughout north-
em B.C. are experiencing the
worst outbreak of canine dis-
temper in years. A representative
_ from Terrace’s All North veteri-
nary clinic said they have seen
more than two dozen cases in the
last two weeks, and last Thursday
animal control officer Frank
Bowsher said he had been forced
to destroy two dogs found run-
ning at large in a terminal stage
of the disease.

Bowsher noted that there is a
large population of foxes in the
Terrace area, and veterinary
authorities believe the current
outbreak started with foxes and
spread to domestic dogs. Hund-
teds of cases have been reported
in Terrace, Kitimat, the Nass
Valley and Fort St. James over
the past two weeks, said Dr.
Adrian Cooper, communications
director for the B.C. Veterinary
Medical Association. _

Cooper said this outbreak
involves a particularly virulent
strain of distemper with neurologi-
cal symptoms. The early signs are
runny eyes and nose, skin pus-
tules, coughing, vomiting and
diarrhea. The disease quickly
degenerates into seizures, "che-
wing gum" fits and ataxia.

Cooper said dogs exhibiting the
early symptoms can sometimes be
treated effectively with the vac-
cine but can fall victim to what
veterinarians call "old dog en-
cephalitis", a type of brain inflam-
mation, in later life.

He added that this distemper is
sometimes also called “hard-pad"
because the dog’s nose and the
pads on its feet become hardened
and brittle.

Cooper’ s advise for dog owners
is to make sure their pets’ shots
are up to date and to keep them
out of situations in which they
may be exposed to the virus from
other dogs or foxes.

The distemper virus is expected
to be around for some time to
come. Cooper explained that the
heavy snow this year contains
Jayers of dog feces. As the
snowpack melts the layers become
exposed. "Dogs are great sniffers
of interesting smells," he said,
"and as the snow melts the virus
keeps getting released by the

layers of feces."

Puppies and old dogs are most
susceptible to the disease, but
Cooper, Bowsher and the local
veterinarian emphasize that all
dogs are best protected by vac-
cination.

It has created a particularly bad
Situation for Bowsher, who says
that because the virus is airborne
in nature, like the common cold,

‘he can’t risk taking animals that

might be infected into the animal
shelter. “It’s a very exceptional
outbreak, the worst I’ve ever
seen," he remarked.

Terrace Women’s Re-
source Centre spokesperson
Carol Sabo is ‘‘in a state of
shock” over the recent bud-
get announcement that all
women’s centers in Canada
have had their core funding
cut.

The Terrace Women's Re-
source Centre had put in a
grant application for $50,000
to Federal Secretary of Stte
for wages, utilities, and of-
fice supplies for the 1990-91
fiscal year, A representative
came back to them sug-
gesting that they revamp it to
last year’s application
amount of $30,770. This they
did, with no inkling that any
further cuts were imminent.

The day after the federal
budget was announced, the
Centre received a phone call
from a Secretary of State
development officer, notify-
ing them that there would be
no - further core funding.
That evening, the executive
- of the Women’s — Centre

Women’s Cenire in shock |
over budget announcement

meeting to discuss alternative
courses of action.

With the city’s continued
support of the Women’s
Centre (charging only one
dollar per year for rent on
the Women’s Centre location
on Park Avenue) and con-
scientious budgeting, it was
decided that the Women’s
Centre could remain open
with current staffing until
March 31.

Sabo goes on to say that
what is still available is pro-
ject money. ‘‘We've never
built administrative costs in-
to those, but now we’ll have
to.’’ Speaking for the ex-
ecutive of the Women’s Cen-
tre, Sabo notes that more -
groups will be going after the
same small pot of money.
She says, “‘They’ve shuffled
off the portfolio to a junior
minister. Barb MacDougall

_is no longer responsible for
them.”

Ironically, the Women’s
Centre was sponsoring a cab-
bage roll workshop last Fri-

‘day when confirmation of

the funding cancellation
came through. Sabo says
‘‘They’re putting us back in
the kitchen. The women’s
movement has come a long
way. Now it’s gone.’’

Carol Gran, Minister re-
sponsible for Women’s Pro-
grams for the province of
B.C., will be in Terrace on
Thursday evening and
members of the Women’s
Centre hope to meet with her
then. What she can do for
the Women’s Centre is un-
sure, according to Sabo,
because provincial budgets
have been cut, too.

An emergency meeting of
the general membership of
the Terrace Women’s Re-
source Centre will be held the
evening of March 7. Loca-
tion is to be announced. It is
hoped that brainstorming
will uncover unexplored
alternatives for paying staff
wages, covering utilities and
other operating expenses.

Sabo concludes, ‘“‘It’s a

- slap in the face of women.” | |
Why???)

board held an. emergency

“meters in the- Kalum North for-a
new CPGW (chemical pulp
groundwood) mill, Friesen said.
The Zaul Zap application was for
433,000 cubic meters that would

be used in a new chipping facility,

but Friesen said "my colleagues in

Victoria at the Timber Branch"

‘told -him the“ proposal was ‘not:

accompanied by the deposit
required by the agreement and is
"under review".

The agreement offer states that —
applications have to include a
deposit of $1 per cubic meter to a

Three maple trees were
damaged and a fourth
destroyed on Lakesle Ave.
recently. No one is sure how
‘the damage occurred, but one
city worker speculates a large
truck or city snow removal
equipment may have been the
culprit. Large street-side limbs

| Maple trees get
severe pruning

‘were broken off and the fourth

maximum of $500,000.

front of the Sandman Motel

tree was left leaning at a
precarious angle and had to be .
cut down.

"We had planned on n pruning
the trees anyway," says Dale
McFadden of the city’s
recreation department, "but not
quite that much. |

on three of the trees located in
Pool policies

An incident at the Terrace
swimming pool last weekend. has
focused attention on an ongoing
problem ~— the behavior of a few
local youths showing up at the
pool without adult supervision. As
a result, says superintendant of
parks and recreation Steve Scott,
recreation staff will be doing some
brainstorming later this week in

under review

search of a solution.

- Solutions, he says, could range
anywhere from age restrictions to
increased user fees, an altered pool
schedule or perhaps even volunteer
adult supervisors. Scott declined to
comment on the details of the
disturbance that prompted the
review.

one is
victim

For every four ]
children who
begin life in
British
Columbia

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