| The |

Norbert Hartig

| believe the Olympics
have moved away from its
original concept, i.e.
amateur sports. The Olym-
pics, In my opinion, are too
commercial and It seems to
me that competition Is bet-
ween the corporations and
not the athletes.

Terrace Review asked:

Sherry McDames

Yes and no, just when
there’s a good sport happen-
ing. | enjoy watching swim-
ming in the summer and
hockey In the winter when
my favorite team is winning. |
would like to see B.C.
athletes capture gold medals
for Canada. | do like seeing
the bearing of the torch. |
even tried to keep up with Its
progress on the news.

Jacquie Terpstra

No. The Northwest ap-
peared to be left out of the
Olympic bulld-up. No torch

through the Northwest did.

not help the Olympic spirit.

Police

On Jan. 26 at 10:30 a.m. a
‘single-vehicle accident occurred
near the bridge at Clear Creek

on Kalum Lake Drive south of

- Rosswood.

The driver of a pickup truck
towing a fifth wheel trailer load-
ed with 3 tons of concrete lost
control of his vehicle in icy road
conditions. No injuries occurred
and damage to the truck was
estimated to be $10,000.

Terrace RCMP are in-
vestigating a series of
snowmobile thefts and theft at-

Dorothy Oman

I'm not a fan of sports so
the Olympics don't really ex-

cite me.

tempts in the Thornhill area over
the past two weeks. Al! but one
of the snowmobiles have been
recovered. Terrace RCMP urge
the public to keep vehicles secure
when not in use.

Terrace RCMP report that a
minor, two-vehicle accident oc-
curred at the intersection of
Sparks St. and Lazelle Ave. on
the afternoon of Jan. 23, No in-
juries resulted, and damages
were estimated at $1,100.

‘Do you get excited
about the Olympics?

John Whittington

No. Controversies surroun-
ding today’s sports have
caused me to !ook at sporis
with disinterest. You don’t

“really know If you're seeing a

real competition or a staged |
exhibition anymore.

Party picks
executive

The Skeena riding association
of the newly-formed Christian
Heritage Party of Canada an-
nounced recently the election of
an executive at meeting in
Smithers.

The party’s officers for 1988
are president M. Moeliker of
Smithers, vice-president J.
Kuntz of Smithers, secretary D.
Vander Hoek of Smithers,
treasurer W. Higginson of
Smithers, and directors R.
Peters of Terrace, E. Taylor of
Smithers and W. Kanis of
Smithers.

All officials were elected by
acclamation. ;

In a statement issued after the
meeting the party’s membership
indicated that its immediate ob-
jectives are to widen support
throughout the riding, establish
committees in. each Skeena
municipality and ultimately

- select a candidate to run in the -

next federal election.

In summarizing their political
philosophy, the party stated it

-Shelieves civil government to be

under the authority of God, and
that the purpose of civil govern-
ment is to ensure freedom and -
justice for a nation’s citizens by
upholding law and order in ac-
cordance with Biblical prin-
ciples’’.

The Skeena riding association

is one of 15 the party. has
organized so far in Canada,

Terrace Review — Wednesday, February 24, 1988 5

Letter

Region needs mutual
support and respect

To the Editor;

Your paper of Feb. 10 con-
tained a letter entitled
‘‘Kitimat’s Coquihalla’ by L.
Watmough. This letter pokes
fun at the proposed Houston-
Kitimat road, the Kitimat
Chamber of Commerce, council
and anything else that moves in
the Northwest.

The humor, however, has a
bite to it that we in Kitimat feel
is unwarranted and unnecessary.
If we go back to the 1940’s, Ter-
race was pretty small. and
Kitimat did not exist. Since that
time, Kitimat’s growth has
helped Terrace’s growth. More
success for Kitimat has meant
more success for Terrace. Why
then the venom, Mr. Wat-
mough?

Kitimat’s small business com-
munity is in somewhat dire
straits at this time. The popula-
tion is down 25 percent since
1981 and over 400 housing units
are empty. Where Terrace had
building permits valued at $10
million in 1987, Kitimat’s was
under $2 million. We applaude
the success of Terrace, Mr. Wat-
mough,

With respect to the proposed
Houston-Kitimat road, we must
state that our first interest in the
road is in creating additional
wealth for the region, not
redistributing it. We have to be
intrigued with this route
because, if it worked, it would
cut transportation costs for
many forestry operations as far
east as Prince George. This
would permit these forestry
operations to go further for their
logs, and this would help main-
tain their work forces.

Also, if this road were suc-
cessful, logs from around
Morice Lake could be moved to
Kitimat. It could mean a sawmill
in Kitimat and, perhaps, an ¢x-
panded or new pulp mill. This
would mean jobs in Kitimat and,
in turn, more jobs in Terrace.

We have never said this road
is a sure thing or that Highways
or anyone else should build it.

We have said the idea has to be
explored to see if it is technically
and financially feasible.

The plateau at 3,000 feet
elevation east of the pass is easy
terrain. The approach to the
4,600-foot pass is a gradual 4.6
percent grade. The pass, the 15
km, through the headwaters of
the south Kitimat River, and the
arrival at the top of north Hirsch
Creek is difficult, and the
decline at 5.7 percent grade into
Kitimat is relatively easy. (Banff
is at 4,530-foot elevation). |

It is certainly feasible to build
a road on this route. Whether it
is economically worthwhile has
yet to be determined, and this is
what we want to find out. If it is
not economically practical, we
will abandon it.

On a broader basis, we did not
complain about Terrace when
Eurocan/West Fraser bought
the near-bankrupt sawmill in
Terrace, created more jobs there
and shut down their Kitimat
sawmill with the loss of 200
jobs. When the Kitimat logging
trucks all moved to Terrace, we
did not blame Terrace.

We have also supported Ter-
race in its efforts to become a
regional centre for government
and the like. We would support
Terrace in a highway north to
Aiyansh, Cranberry, and
Meziadin. We may someday be
supporting a smelter in Terrace.

Why then, Mr. Watmough,
do you find it necessary to
denigrate our aspirations? You
and we should be building a big-
ger economic base for our
region. It is senseless spending
our time trying to undermine
each other. Let us help Stewart
get power and a sawmill. Let us
help Smithers open the land
north of it, And let us help each
other.
Norm MacRitchie

Kitimat

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group that meets once per month. Meetings are the 3rd Tuesday of the
month at 7:30 p.m. at the Psych. Conference Room at Mills Memorial
is to provide community education

group Is welcome to attend the meetings. Please call 638-3325 for fur-

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