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Cariboo Forest Region and is
considering another bid on a
623,000 cubic meter offer in the
Prince Rupert Forest Region.
Pat Ogawa, a senior manage-
ment representative at the

Skeena Cellulose Terrace saw-.
mill, said the bids are part of the.

same search for pulp supplies
that the company has been con-

. ducting for more than a year.

The Cariboo offer, bid on by

scr three days before the dead-
line, is currently embroiled in

~ Skeena Cellulose has entered.a
bid on a 265,000 cubic meter
_. pulpwood agreement offer-in the

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. controversy because Premier Bill.

Vander Zalm expressed support

. for acompeting bidder, Cariboo

Fibreboard, during. the Septem-

‘ber Cariboo riding by-election.
_ The company has proposed con-
struction of a $110 million fibre-

board plant in Williams Lake,
but claims that despite $55

million in government loans.

guarantees it can’t get bank
financing without the security of
supply provided by the pulp-

- wood agreement.

If SCI is the successful bidder,

they intend to build. an- $11.

million chipping - plant at
Anaheim Lake. The wood chips

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would be trucked to Bella Coola
and loaded on barges, then ship-.
ped to their pulp mill complex
near Prince Rupert.

In offering the pulpwood
agreements for bid, the Ministry
of Forests says they are intended
to. create further employment
and. community stability arid to .
utilize wood fiber that presently
isn’t economical. to transport
and process.

. If SCI succeeds -in ‘both bids

they would secure nearly a
million cubic meters of pulp-
wood annually for the next 25
years. The company’s Watson
Island pulp mill currently -pro-

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The first snow of the season has fallen and gone, and for residents on the 4900 block Park
this means that we're close to the beginning of another season of early morning sand
‘trucks and snow plows threading their way from 4930 Park to rural roads and highways.
.North Goast Road Maintenance had plans to move their maintenance yard to asitenear the |
Copper River before winter set in, but it looks like residents will:have to;bear one fast .
‘winter. The idea passed the regional district board about two months ago but is currently

‘stalled in Victoria. If all goes well, the move is now planned for next spring.

as

Home owners living on the
east half of Halliwell Ave.
will soon be asked to approve
a Local Improvement Pro-
ject for upgrading the street
between North Thomas and
North Sparks. After hearing
the complaints of the last
several years, Terrace city
council won’t be expecting
much opposition to the pro-
ject, which will upgrade the
street to curb and gutter stan-
dards next year.

Just how much the project

Halliwell upgrade
being costed out

‘The province will

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will cost the individual
Halliwell propoerty owners
hasn’t yet been determined,
but the numbers available to
date break down this way.
pay
$242,288 of the $540,000
estimated cost, the city will
pay about $125,000 and pro-
perty owners will be respon-
sible for about $183,000. If
everything goes according to
plan, the project should be
underway early next year.

Rotary

auction

raises $23,000

’ This year’s Rotary Auction has come to a close and it was as suc-
 gessful as ever. John Jack, chairman of the Rotary auction commif-

tee, says a preliminary count indicates that about $23,000 was rais-

_’ Proceeds from the Rotary Auction help the club to meet their
ongoing commitments in the community. Some of these include an-
iual contributions to groups such as the Dr. R.E.M. Lee Founda-
tion, supporting minor sports and providing school scholarships,
while other funds are directed to major community projects such as
tennis courts. Jack says there are dozens of cash donors and mer-
chants to thank For this year’s success but a very special Rotary
“thank you"? was earned by CFTK-TV and their staff, who

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_ voliateered their time and effort to make the auction possible.

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‘duces 1,400 tons of pulp per
day, consuming 2.8 million

cubic meters of chip furnish a

year, Ogawa said. SCI’s Tree

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based Forest Licenses in the Ter-

‘Face area provide the company
with’ about. one million cubic
meters of total fiber per year.
The combined current require-
‘ments of the pulp mill and the
Terrace sawmill add up to 3.5
million cubic meters a year,
Ogawa said.

The pulp mill uses chips from:

the Terrace sawmill operation,
and the company. gets further
chip supplies from both West

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TERRACE — The day when
tickets will be issued to violaters
of some city bylaws is drawing
closer,

Parking in the downtown core
is one major concern. Soon,
bylaw enforcement officer Fern
Sweeting will be on the street
writing tickets, and violators will
be paying an appropriate fine.
Some of the other violations
Sweeting will be looking for are
covered under the city’s
nuisance and noise bylaw.

City administrator Bob
Hallsor recently attended a pro-
vincial seminar on the process of
- isguing tickets, and he says city
staff ate now working out the
details. He says they are current-
ly identifying specific violations

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Fraser and Westar. Ogawa said

SCI ‘also buys pulp logs from
logging operators based.
Stewart.

SCI has been evaluating an eX-

pansion project at Watson — ee,

Island which at one point was
said to be in the magnitude of
$600 million. Ogawa said - the
outcome of the two pulpwood
agreement bids ‘‘will be one fac-
tor in the expanion decision’.

A public hearing on the
Cariboo agreement will take
place in early January, and a
hearing on the Prince Rupert

pulpwood offer is scheduled in ©

Smithers for May 9.

ticketer_
ready to write

of certain city bylaws and deter-
mining the amounts of fines that
will be levied in each case. Once
this work has been completed,
he says, council will give the first
three readings to the bylaw
changes and these changes will
then go to Victoria for approval
from the Attorney General and
the Chief Justice of the provin-
cial court.

Once Victoria’s approval has
been received, says Hallsor,
council will adopt the changes,
tickets will be printed and the
lives of non-violators in our
community will become a little
more pleasant. For those who
have been bylaw violators in the
past, they will either change
their ways or pay the price.

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