Page A10 — Terrace Standard, Wednesday, September 5, 1990 TERRACE — The Provin- cial Emergency Program is preparing an emergency : Operations centre here. It takes up two rooms and is intended as a place where the program can gather pro- '-vincial agencies, the police and other groups who will coordinate relief and efforts in case of a major disaster. “It’s a place we need, but one we hope we never have to use,” says Rod Salem, the PEP coordinator for nor- _ thern B.C. When finished, it will con- tain enough phone lines to handle communications bet- ween various agencies, radio equipment tied into the pro- “¥incial PEP communications network and radio equip- ment 10 coordinate com- munications between _ amateur radio operators, THAT'S ROD Salem of the Provincial Emergency Program putting together a table as the organization makes ready an operations centre to handle large disasters. It'll provide a working Space and communications for various agencies. Emergency room takes shape here “IF a situation develops and PEP is called in, or if it looks like. the province will be needed, the centre can be activated quickly,” said Ar- nold, He added that it could take as long as 24-hours to set up such a centre if PEP has to start from scratch. ‘“‘This way we have something at the ready for any situation that requires PEP," said Arnold, He said the space will also be available for training and conferences of the various volunteer groups that make - up PEP. “It?s our volunteers that make PEP work. We've had a lot of volunteer effort go into this centre. The less we spend on overhead here, the more money there is for training,’’ said Arnold. TERRACE — As the Village of Hazelton ponders whether to take legal action over the 1988 award of the Sustut-Takla timber licence to Prince George companies, New. Hazelton’s representative to’ the Kitimat- Stikine regional district s says it’s all irrelevant now, 2° Pete Weeber made the: com- ment during recent debate ofa Village of Hazelton request the district contribute toward the cost of obtaining a legal opinion on whether a court challenge would succeed and how much it would likely cost. — Weeber pointed out even if | the decision were reversed, there was now no way to get the wood to the Hazeltons.. He explained a study carried out by Westar as part of its bid for the Sustut-Takla licence in- dicated access to the timber would be via a route crossing the Babine River near Gail Creek. That route is opposed by rafters and others who wanted to retain the natural appeak of that stretch of river and, as a result, ‘‘that crossing now seems to have been eliminated,” said Weeber. The alternative was to drive a road in from the Skeena side but .a court injunction made that impossible until the Gitksan-Wet’suwet'en and claim was settled, he added. -“The’ Sustut was a wor- thwhile goal at one time but it seems to take on less and less importance. We have more serious problems (blockades) at the present,'’ Weeber said. Hazelton’s request followed a provincial Ombudsman’s report which indicated the provincial * cabinet awarded the timber to Prince George. Wood Preserving-Rustad Bros. and Takla Track and Timber despite the deputy chief forester’s recommendation the wood go to the Westar and West Fraser sawmills in Hazelton and Smithers. : In doing so, the village says the government acted contrary to provisions of the Forest Act which specified the final deci- sion in such cases lay with the deputy chief forester. The ‘result, said Hazelton mayor Alice Maitland, is not a question. of . where the wood went but. whether the decision- making process had been legal, The regional: district . did decide to contribute up to $2, 000 toward the’cost of seek- ing a legal opinion. , Directors Weeber, Andy = Burton (Stewart), John -LeSage (Kitimat) and Bob Cooper (Ter- Tace) voted ‘against the pro- posal. WHAT MAKES THIS A CRIMINAL OFFENCE? SWEDISH BOY NEEDS HOME IN OUR COMMUNITY _ THOMAS from SWEDEN is anxiously awaiting news that there is a family in thea TERRACE area who will help fulfill his dream of spending a year in Canada, THOMAS enjoys soc- . cer, hockey, music, golf and skling. He is hoping to pursue some of these Interests during the exchange year. This stu- dentis also looking forward to developing new “Canadian” in- terests and hobbies that can be shared with friands on retum- ing home. 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