Getting up there

The cost to build an average home
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it’s starting to happen

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WEDNESDAY
MARCH 15, 1995

Jurassic age.

a Big, orange and beautiful

MOVE OVER FLINTSTONES, Bernadette Fitzpatrick’
school put their papier-mache skills to use in creating
They chose to paint him orange,
and added green and brown cam

S kindergarten students at Veritas
Stegosaurus, a plant-eating dinosaur,
to hide amidst the hot lava coming out {rom the volcanoes,
ouflage so he could blend with the plant life remaining in the
The class made Stegosaurus in January for a science fair last month. The
orange dino was exhibited at the fair and now graces the front

lobby of Veritas school. There’s
a search on for a permanent home — no parent has yet volunt

eered,

Man jailed for assault

THE MAN who tried to rape a lo-
eal woman Nav, 23 in the Farm-
ers’ Market parking lot has been
sentenced to four years in prison.

Edward Henry McKay, 25; of
New Aiyansh, had pleaded guilty
to sexual assault in connection
With the attack. a

He was sentenced last Monday
in Terrace provincial court.

The victim — a woman in her
20s — was walking to work just
before midnight when she had ihe
sensation of being followed,

Crown prosecutor Paul Kirk

Councillors

COUNCILLORS once again
paid lip service to the idea of cut-
ling back on their own travel, but

in the end rejected a motion to do.

so by 4-3 vote. °

Councillor Val . George's
motion would. have limited city

Mttendance atthe. annual . fall
Union of B,C. Municipalities con-

vention to three councillors and:

an ncininistrator and would have
allowed only two cotneillors al

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told the court her sensation was
80 strong, she took out a small
pair of scissors that were on her
key ring.

As she walked through the
Farmers’ Market lot on Davis
Ave., McKay ran up, jumped her
and brought her to the ground.

“She fought back and stabbed

him with her scissors several —

times,’’ Kirk recounted,

McKay removed some of her
clothes, before relenting and run-
ning off.

Provincial court Judge Paul

The motion was backed by
Ruth Hallock and Ed Graydon.
But David Hull, Gerdon Hull,
Rich McDaniel, and mayor Jack
Tulsira voted against it Monday
‘hight
.. David Hull said he agreed
with the spirit of the motion, but
said it vould make tore. sense to
five ‘council more freedom to

attetid conferences-and instead re-

‘examine Policy 58, which allows

councillors’ spouses to travel free -
_ lo suchevents.

Lawrence said the victim put up a
*‘brave and valliant struggle” in
fighting off her attacker.

_ McKay showed up at hospital

later that morning, first claiming
he had been beaien up behind the
Dairy Quecn. |

He later admitted that was a lie
and confessed to police.

Kirk called it a ‘‘random attack
on a stranger”, arguing for feder-
al jail time,

Defence lawyer Jeff Amdt
called for a sentence of less than
two years.

rejec

“UBCM is the best value we
fet for our travel money,” David
Hull said, adding the city needs a
healthy delegation there (o get the
attention of cabinet ministers and
attend the sometimes overlapping
meetings and workshops,

He also noted the spouses of
councillors make sactifices,

“There are innumerable even-

ings when you're riot hone. There®
are weekend seininars, ‘other,
meetings, four aid five’ lunch .”
hours a Week.” he said,

By JEFF NAGEL
ALCAN HOLDS a couple of
super-weapons in its play for
compensation for the scrapping of
the Kemano Completion Project,

They were unveiled last week
when a list of issues Alcan views
as unresolved began circulating.

One is the right to divert more
Nechako water than it now takes,

The other is the right to divert
the Nanika-Kidprice river system.

Both should be dead issues —
resolved under the 1987 Nechako
Setilement Agreement,

But it appears the province’s
decision to cancel the project —
apparently breaking the 1987 deal
— could release Alcan from its
obligations as well and tum the
clock back to the mid-1980s in
northem B.C,

Those were the days when fed-
eral fisheries officials were regu-
larly taking Alcan to court to
force the company to release
more watcr to preserve Nechako

fish stocks.
~~. And they were also grappling

with the very real possibility of
Alcan exercising its tight to
divert water from the Nanika-

Wood word ea

By MALCOLM BAXTER
_ THE NORTHWEST will soon
know chief forester Larry Peder-

sen’s decision on the North
Kalum annual allowable cut
(AAC),

And if he follows the pattern of
his recent Fraser Valley decision,
it will be good news for com-
panies logging in that area and for
sawmills here in Terrace which
depend upon that wood.

In the first AAC decision of his
tenure, the chief forester reduced
the Fraser Valley cut by 12 per
cent, effective April 1.

That was in Hine with the “‘base
case scenario’’ spelled out in the
timber supply review for the area,

In his rationale for thé decision,
Pedersen explained the base case
is simply a forecast which
“avoics excessive changes from

decade to decade and significant .

timber shortages In the future.”"

He also emphasized AAC deci-
sions did not have to coincide
with ihe base case forecast,

However, that's just what hap-
pened, despite his frequent ack-
nowledgements of uncertainties
Surrounding the assumptions used
in the review,

While following the base case
was bad news for the Fraser,
northwesterm companies will
have no complaints if ihe same
approach is adopted up here.

That’s because the base case for
the North Kalum suggests the
current level of logging could
continue for the next 30 years.

No date has been set for the

call to cut travel

Even the councillors who
favoured cuts said the conference
is valuable and shouldn’t be
viewed as a perk,

“Is not a lot of fun and
games— it’s three or four days-of"

_ Meetings,” Graydon snid,

- Hallock, who two weeks ear

_ lier proposed -an even ‘tougher
«travel cutback motion’ that died |
“without a-secohder,’ questloned

the ‘resulls cduiicil gets from the

conferences. 2.

"-These-are working sessions. -

Alcan’s cards
now on table

Kidprice system out of the
Skeena watershed and into its
reservoir,

Alcan gave up its rights to the
Nanika-Kidprice and agreed to
higher consistent water flows un-
der the 1987 agreement. It was a
compromise between the water
levels Alcan had been leaving in
the river and what fisheries
biologists wanted,

Often labeled as a sell-out by
project opponents, the deal. also
avoided a court confrontation
which, if the feds lost, could have
undermined DFO's jurisdiction to
regulate major projects across the
country.

In return, Alcan was given as-
surances that it could divert suffi-
cient water to power the Kemano
Completion Project.

The list of unresolved issucs
released last week cites ‘‘Resolve
the Nanika-Kidprice issue’ and
‘‘Maximization of Kemano 1 out-
put Lhd

Alcan spokesman Les Holroyd

says the company wants 10. dis- .

cuss the Issues — not be con-
frontational.
““We are still looking at the

North Kalum AAC word but Io-
cal district manager Brian
Downie suggested it will likely
come in the next few weeks.

Downie pointed out Pedersen
released the Fraser Valley timber
supply area (TSA) decision
March 2, two months after he met
forestry officials there to discuss
information.

Given a similar meeting on the
North Kalum review took place
here in late January, Downie

. levels, Holroyd said: ‘That's

gerly awaited

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1987 settlement agrecment as
being intact,” Holroyd said
Thursday,

But that assumes that Alcan is
given something in return for the
things it was promised under the
deal, he said. ,

“Part of the agreement was that:
in return for the Nanika-Kidprice,
the province make best efforts to
replace that with an equivalent
amount of power,’’ Holroyd said.

“We have returned the rights to
the Nanika-Kidprice, but we have
not received the quid pro quo,
The province has not come up
with replacement power. So
resolution is an issue,”’

Holroyd said that in absence of
Kemano Completion, the compa-
ny wants to ‘generate as much
power out of those generators as
we can,”

Asked if that means Alcan
could increase ithe amount of -;
water it diverts to pre-1987 -:

several steps down the line.””
Both ‘the’Nanika-issue-and-the-~ ~
possibility of reductions in

Continued Page A2

anticipated an AAC announce-
Ment was close.

Pedersen is due here the end of
the month to meet with district
staff to discuss the South Kalum
timber supply review and public
reaction to it.

For a closer look at the Fraser
decision and its possible implica-
tions for the North and South
Katuin AACs, plus concerns
raised over the Cassiar timber
review, turn to Page AS,

THE CITY could start issuing
its own traffic tickets and
pocket the fines that usually
end up in provincial coffers.

That’s what's happening
now in several southern B.C.
cities and the province so far
hasn’t found a way to stop it, -

It started in Nanaimo on
Feb. 2 when RCMP there
slarted issuing city-printed
speeding tickets to motorists
who speed on cily streets,

The $100 tickets are turned
over to a collection agency if
speeders don't pay within 28
days,

There’s no formal proposal
before Terrace city council
yet, but city bylaw enforce-
ment officer Frank Bowsher
says the idea could bring the

That’s the ticket

cily extra revenue, and js
therefore worth examining.

“IF we got the RCMP on
side and they were out there, I
could see something like
$50,000 a year,”’ he said.

Options Bowsher has put
forward Include printing a
limited number of tickets as a
test, or waiting to see whether
the province moves quickly to
oullaw the municipal traffic
tickets, ;

“Will the province allow it
to go on much longer?’ Bow-
sher said. ‘That’s what it
boils down to.”

To do so, the province
would have to overhaul the
Motor Vehicle Act, Bowsher
says, and that could take a
long time,

They are worthwhile although
sometimes I question the return
we get on them,” she said,
Gordon Hull said the more
people the city has there, the bet-
ter the chance of making a
difference, -- 0
Talstra said the council before
he became mayor did not attend
the UBCM meetings... -
- When he began attending, he
said, many. ministers hud negative:

opinions of Terrace, retnembering
-Aneldents ‘such as premier Bill

“Spouses, the city administrator:

_Uled to attend. :

Bennett being egged while here,
“Quite frankly, some of those
cabinet ministers were hostile
towards Terrace,” Talstra said, “Tt
took some doing, but slowly
we've rebuilt ourimage.”
The city has budgeted —
$13,000 for the trip to the UBCM
conference in Vancouver Oct, 2:6,
Five city councillors and their

and his wife, and the economic
development officer are all sched-