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2 - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, November 13, 2002

Council forum focuses on big
box stores, multiplex options

considering a box stare.”
Incumbent) councillors
Rich McDaniel. and others
said council may have no
power to stop a Wal-Mart
develupment — particularly
if the big-box ‘giant ac-
quires land that’s correctly
zoned. —

Lynne Christiansen and

Marylin Davies said. it
would be better if. a big
box stare came here rather
than ta a neighbouring
town or across the river,
where they would suck
customers away: from Ter-
race and not contribute to
the city lax base.

Stew Christensen said
the bike store he co-owns
with his son-has thrived
since the arrival of big box

competitor Canadian Tire.

He said the ‘store has
brought more’ people: to
town and a bigger market
for other local stores.

“All these things are
frat necessarily bad but we

do have to look at them,” °

Christensen said. .
No candidate
they’d outright attempt to
block construction ‘of “a
Wal-Mart store here if one
is proposed. ; oo

The depressed economy

and how to reinvigorate it
dominated much° discus-
sion. oo
Candidates agreed more
has to be done to diversify

so the city is less: depen-.

dent on Skeena Cellulose.
They offered varied: solu-
lions and a general upbeat
optimism that better ‘days
are ahead.
Several candidates
were hopeful about’ port
containerizalion, ‘cruise
ships and oil and ‘gas:
Bio-fuels and energy
cogeneration using..wood
waste were options sug-
gested by Allan McIntyre,
while Don Coburn high-
lighted value-added forest-
Ty options.
_ “Could we develop our
own line of outdoor cloth-

RCMP seek
a pick up

RCMP SPENT late last

months.

said .

ing, bottled water, or tap

into electricity through:

Alcan to build hothouses
to grow food for northern
B.C. and: Alaska?” Carol
Leclere asked. ,

:, ‘Davies highlighted her

“vision for a vintage-look
downtown ‘core; starting
with the move of the old
George. Little House,

She also. promised to
have a 911 system up and
running here within «1

McIntyre, a sawmill
worker who-has. worked
Closely with SCI president
Dan Veniez, was pressed

on whether he could take a

hard line.on his employer’s

_ repayment of property

taxes.
"MTF he owes ‘taxes he

should pay them,” MclIn-
tyre said. “But to say that
Mr. Veniez or NWBC
owes taxes in a year in
which he did not own the

company is probably ask- .

ing a bit too much.”
‘Christiansen “was the
only candidate, under

media questioning, to. ad-. :.

dress her. anti-gay pride

_ $tance and what it accom-

plished.

“There are many people
in this room that don’t be-
lieve. in ‘same-sex
partners,” she. said. “No
one group should have a
right to impose their view
on anyone else,”

“Maybe we're marked

on the map for standing up °

for what is right.”
Coburn said he would

week looking for a pickup . -

truck — and its driver -
after two parked vehicles
and a travel trailer were
struck on the 4900 block of
Walsh Ave.

The incident took place
at around 2:30 a.m: of Nov.
8 when a resident was
toused by the sound of-a

crash followed. by. “the”
sound of a vehicle. speed- 7

ing off. :
That vehicle was driven
across the lawn,: striking
ihe parked vehicles an
travel trailer. ©.
“Extensive damage. to
al! the vehicles was in-

volved. An eye witness. .

and the investigation -re-
vealed that the suspect. ve-

hicle was ‘a truck,” report

Terrace RCMP.
Information on this is
welcomed by phoning. the
RCMP detachment. at 638-
7400 or by calling Cri-
mestoppers at 635-8477. °

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for sure anyway.”

Christiansen was also.

questioned on the state of
health care here and what
she’s done about it.

“Tt... has... never... been
worse than it is right now,”
she said, agreeing with the
queéstioner's diagnosis that
care is now “awful.”

She said it-was impor-

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“At a local level every- ,

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Christiansen added. “We
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page and everyone work
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