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- Urban Transit Authority representative Steve New meeting

explains the details of the proposed Thornhill public
transit system to an attentive audience at a public

THORNHILL BUS
Hours cause concern

By ED YUDIN
Herald Staff Writer

The operating hours
proposed by representatives
of the Urban Transit
Authority for the Thornhill
bus system do not meet the
needs of the cilizéns in the
area. a . we 2

That was the min‘ point
brought to light “at Wed-
nesday evening's public
Meeting on transit held at
the Thornhill community
centre,

“I would jike to see the
service extended (o the early
‘morning and later in the
evening,"’ said Frances
Birdsell, one of 25 Thornhill
residents who came to listen
to the presentation by UTA
representatives... The
talidience-in-atlendance were
imore critica’: and: less en-
thused than the people who
showed up al the public
meeting on the same lopie in
‘Terrace the evening before.
- A number of people
commented on the fact the
proposed routes would not
begin operation until 9 a.m.
This, it was argued, was too
late either for mil] workers
or office workers who have
starling hours of 7 a.m, or 8
am. One person made the
comment that in Thornhill
"there are a lot of induslrial
workers, if you start the
system al 9 a.m., forget it,”

“The guy who is working
in the bush will be leaving
early, very early, he's the
one who really needs the
bus,” another commented.

Steve New, a tran-
sportation planner with the
Urban Transit Authority
informed the audience that
the total cost of the operation
would rise wilh increased
service.

After the meeting, he
acknowledged the need for
redesigning the proposal to
lake the increased service
requets into hand.

The need for a community
wide system was another
point brought out in Jast
night's discussion.

“T really just need the bus
to go shopping,” said
Marguerete Desjardin, ‘I

don’t think they looked at’

Terrace that closely

tonight.”’

Another observer in at-
fendance last night thought
the audience was “‘skeptical
and hesitant” about the
proposal, He added that a
cost sharing arrangement
with Terrace should be more
closely locked at.

The idea of a communily
system was pushed by the

Settlement

reached

VANCOUVER (CP) — The
1836 Pacific Vocational In-
stitute Instructors ended
their threeday _ strike
Wednesday night by
ratifying a two-year con-
tract. The British Columbia
Government Employees
Union won the 24-month
term the instructors were
seeking, an eight-per-cent
wage increase and a four-
day Christmas vacation ap a
signing bonus, unlon general
secretary John Fryer said.

There was also interest
expressed in the type of
buses to be used on the route.
The community would lease

the vehicles from the UTA at

a cost ranging from $1000 to
$10,000 per year, depending
on the quality.

thal way.”

Wednesday
munity Centre,

New said an idea advanced
to integrate the school bus
system into public transit
would be examined, though
he added, ‘“‘there isn't a
system aperating in the
province that operates in

Thornhill residents sten attentively to the details of the proposed transit

evening at the Thornhill Com-

Photo by Ed Yudin

UTA representative.

“We're trying to pull away
from thinking of it ag a
Terrace or Thornhill
system,” New said. “We're
irying to seek routes and
limes so thal it is in fact one
service,”

system at Wednesday’s public meeting at the Thornhill Community Centre,

Jewelry promo ban,
dealer calls bum rap

PRINCE RUPERT, B.C
(CP) —A jewelry distributor
¢annot use a shapely female
bottom to sell school rings to
high school students,
trustees in this northcoast
B.C. community hava de-
cided.

The bottom, clad In jeans,
is the background for a hand
sporting a ring belng offered
by the Winnlpeg-based
Jostens Natlonal School
Services Ltd, to students at
Prince Rupert: secondary

school,

The board ordered the
poster removed Tuesday
after a feminist group
complained the dlatributor
wes using sex and ster-
eot roles to sell thelr

et.
Stefanie Hudson,
spokesman for Prince

Rupert Options for Women,
said in a statement to the
board that the poater "rein-
forces the sex stereotypes,
degrades women and has
absolutely no place In the
school,”

Trustee Kathy Booth, a
member of the women's
group, and two other female
trustees agreed and outvoted
two male trustees at the
board meeting,

John Haines,
representative for the
Winnipeg-based firm, said
he did not consider the
posters distasteful and that
there always will be some
people taking offense to:
everything.

“If someone js looking for
something, to get their leg u
in the air about they’
probably find it,” he sald.

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Frank Howard, MLA for
Skeena and Opposition
House Leader, said Thur-
aday that Premier Bennett
obviously has little regard
for the idea of responsible
government,

Howard was reacting to
what he zalled the Premier's
using internal party matters
to “hide from the
Legislature."

Howard said that the

Premier and the government
are not carrying out their
reaponaibilities to the people
of the province with respect
to the proper introduction
and carrying out of
legislation in the house,
“In our demecratic

system, the people elect
MLA’s and government is
responsible to the people
through those elected,’’.

iday, No

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Howard said. “Premier
Bennett seems intent on
refusing to meet the
Legislature and thus carry
out his responsibilitles.”

Howard was critical of the

Government's failure to call

FRANK HOWARD...
+ Wants session

The Herald, Thursday, November,22, 197% Page 3

Howard slams Bennett
for considering party

a fall session of the
Legislature,, The delay in
the energy pollcy statement
originally scheduled for
Sepiember, the sloppy
development of the Family
Relations Act, the “fiasco”
of the Heroin Treatment
Program, the agricultural
land reserves controversy,
the continued export of raw
materials, and the need for a
democratic procedure for
electing our chief electoral
officers,

Howard says that there
have been several
references to a fall seaaion of
the Legislautre by members
of the government but no
sesaion has materialized.

“Trealize that the Premier
has been busy with internal
party matters,’ Howard

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