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3SDAY, MARCH 28, 1990
issue No, 13

Phone 635-7840
635-7269

Pond where youth drowned was identified
by city as a hazard four years ago

TERRACE- A north Sparks St.
resident blames a man-made haz-
ard at Samson’s Poultry Farm for

the diowning of six-ycar-old Joey

Parsons last Friday aftemcon.
. Ina letter to Terrace council
Monday night, Ben Webber said
the pond where the boy fell
through the ice and drowned was
created several years ago when
Samson’s owner, Stan Kinkead,
dammed Heek Creek. According to
Webber, the hazard -should. have
been eliminated in "1986 when’ a

Terrace city council resolution
ordered Kinkead to fill one end of
the pond and fence off the rest, but
he says Kinkead failed to comply
with that order.

Last Friday afternoon Joey, his
eight-year-old brother and a few

‘other. friends were playing in the

bush near Orde Road where it
intersects with Johns Road. Less
than 100 feet south of that inter-
section. is a pond about 100. feet

‘Jong, 50 feet wide and six feet. to
deep. Some: of the- children ven-

The Terrace Health Care Society received some
property designated for their housing project had
- for $1. This was followed by the presentation of
purchase of a CAT Scanner. Above,
Bamett, Michael Leisinger, David Lan

tured out on the ice of that pond,
the one-inch ice broke, and Joey
and his brother fell into the water
shortly after 3 p.m. His older
brother was rescued but it was 40
minutes before the Terrace Fire
Department found Joey’s body. He
was rushed to Mills Memorial
Hospital by. ambulance but was
pronounced dead two and a half
hours later.
Now, Webber hias’ asked the city
“dispatch every: available piece
of earth moving. equipment” to

"flatten" the dam and drain the

pond. |
According to Webber, his prob-

em began in October 1984. The

problem in the ‘neighborhood,

though, began two years earlier.

Webber says that Kinkead had
dammed Heek Creek and and he
discovered after he had purchased
his land that the pond created by

this dam flooded a portion of his

property at certain times each year.
He says he attempted to the
resolve the matter through dis-

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cussions with Kinkead and the
Public Works Department but got
nowhere.

On Jan. 22, 1986, therefore,
Webber wrote a letter to city coun-
cil asking for help. In that letter,
he stated that a "watershed ravine"
flowed through his property in a
southwesterly direction. He said
that an adjacent property owner
had dammed this ravine 100 feet
southwest of his property line.

Continued on page A14

good news Monday night. First, they were told by Mayor Jack Talstra that

been deeded back to the province and could now be sold to the society

$50,000 donated to the society by the City of Terrace to go towards the

receiving: the cheque from alderman Mo Takhar are sociely representatives Dick
6, Dawn Martin and Clif Botton.

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