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The maiden voyage of the city’s $35,000 tent was
Committee free of charge as a trial run for city staff and the committee designated it’s use to the
Riverboat Days Slo-Pitch tournament. Everyone came out awinner, including the local Big Brothers
st $500 for their group by manning the barbecues. The

and Sisters organization who made at lea
tant looks something like a miniature Sadd

end was not installed to give a more open atmosphere.

a success, It was set up for the Riverboat Days

le Dome but for the purpose of this event the exposed

- Discount rentals for
city tent considered

If you saw something that looked
like Calgary’s Saddle Dome at
Riverside Park during the River-
boat Days Slo-pitch tournament, it
was actually the city’s recently
purchased $35,000 tent. The tent is
available for rentals through the
Recreation Department, but on this’
occasion its use was donated to the
Riverboat Days Committee free of
charge to give city staff an oppor-
tunity to find out how to set the
tent up.

The Riverboat Days Committee
offered the tent to the Slo-Pitch
tournament for their beer garden,
and that was probably a good
choice considering the fact that
Terrace Big Brothers and Sisters
were working in the beer garden to
raise some money for their own
organization. But is the fact that it
was offered free to a ball club a

Ul frauds
bring in
fines of
$53,000

During April, May and June the
investigation and control unit of
the Terrace Canada Employment
Centre. examined 458 of the 4,400
UI claimants in their territory
covering Smithers, Houston,
Hazelton, Kitwanga, Terrace and
Kitimat. Unit officer John Jack
said 152 claims were found to be
fraudulent, resulting in $53,072 in
penalties.

Combined claim abuse and errors
uncovered in investigations

allowed the CEIC to recover
$205,071 in overpayments.

During the same three-month
period $10,703,486 was paid out in
benefits in the region.

precedent setter?

City council is ever-cautious of
setting precedents that might cause
a problem at some point down the
toad, but when they were pre-
sented with a request from the
Terrace Inn Mens’ Slo-Pitch team
Monday night fora reduced rental
rate on the tent they were appa-
rently unaware of the recent free
rental and "regrettably" denied the
request. Council members felt that
given the size and cost of the tent
the rental schedule they had set up
was reasonable.

The tent is 20 feet high, 60 feet
wide and 80 feet long, and when
the purchase was first announced
last May alderman Danny Sheridan
said it had room for up to 800
people. Guests of the Riverboat
Days beer garden, however, might
agree that 400 to 500 could be
seated with much greater comfort.

But according to Bob Dempster
and. Ritchie Mallet of the Terrace
Inn Slo-Pitch team, the $1,100
rental fee they have been asked to
pay for the three-day Larry Swan-

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son Memorial Tournament on the
Labour Day weekend is too high.
"If this is added to our cost of
renting chairs, park user fees,
permits, and umpires you Can see
it adds up to quite a bit for one
organization to cover solely
through the profits of a beer gar-
den," they point out in a letter to
council.

As it stands, however, the Ter-
race Inn team will have to pay the
full rental fee if they want to use
the tent... but there is some hope
of a partial refund in the future.
Council has said they will review
their rental policy and if they can
come up with a better long-term
rental deal and still cover the cost
of maintaining the tent. The Ter-
race Inn Slo-Pitch team could
receive a partial refund after their
tournament. As one city alderman
pointed out, it doesn’t matter if the
tent is set up for three days or a
single day, it still costs the same
for city staff to set it up and take it
down.

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Terrace Review — Wednesday, August 15, 1990 Ald ©

‘Kin Hut parties

prompt examination

The Terrace Kinsmen Club has a
few money problems with their
newly renovated Kin Hut in
Skeenaview Park. First, there have
been a few complaints of loud
parties from their Halliwell and
Sparks St. neighbours. RCMP
Insp. Larry Yeske says he can
solve that problem by not issuing
any more liquor permits for events
at the Kin Hut that are going to
jast later than 10 p.m., but this
threatens the income of the Kins-
men, who have already spent
around $50,000 to renovate the
building.

The second financial problem for
the Kinsmen, who are now faced
with the possibility of reduced
revenues, is the fact they have now
been told by the B.C. Assessment
Authority they will have to pay
property taxes — not just on the
building, but on Skeenaview Park.

The Kinsmen leased Skeenaview
Park (the area southwest of the
Halliwell/Sparks intersection ex-
cluding Heritage Park and Terrace-
view Lodge) from the city on Nov.
14, 1985 for $1 per year. It was a
five-year lease renewable every
five years for a period of 99 years,
and the Kinsmen planned to reno-
vate the existing building, con-
struct a play ground (the existing
play ground is only the first instal-
ment), and build tennis courts and
a softball field.

Faced with this dilemma, the
Kinsmen Club presented the city
with a request for tax exemption
on the property, but this didn’t get
far with city council Monday
night. First, it was a late request
— the tax exemption bylaw is all
but approved — and second, no
other service club in town is
exempted from taxes on city
owned property. So why the Kins-
men? Short of a flat refusal, how-
ever, council did send the request

to the Finance Committee for a
quick review and tabled the final
reading of the bylaw pending that
committee’s findings. This means
the Kinsmen will have to wait at
least two weeks for a reply.

Just so the Kinsmen don’t have
to sweat it out for two wecks, the
Terrace Review has checked out
their lease with the city. The
Finance committee recommenda-
tion is a foregone conclusion: the
Kinsmen don’t have to pay taxes
and they can party all they like.

According to deputy administra-
tor Denise Fisher, the lease states
that the lessee (the city) shall pay
all taxes on the property and build-
ings and requires the Kinsmen,
whether they like it or not, to
make the building available to the
public for "social activities". The
entire block is zoned R2, says
Fisher, which allows an operation
like the Kin Hut to do business
and use the building for the pur-
poses of fund raising events such
as public meetings, bingos and
social activities.

It appears then that the problems
facing the Kinsmen Club aren’t
theirs at all, but the city’s. Past
Kinsmen president Brad O’ Morrow
sees things a little differently,
however. He says they are sensi-
tive to the needs of their neigh-
bours and are looking for ways to
either control or eliminate any
noise or activities that are disrup-
tive to the peace of the neigh-
pourhood.

He says they’re willing to nego-
tiate hours of operation with the
city, although it doesn’t appear
they really have to, and have
decided they will change the sign-
ing on a door facing Halliwell so it
is an emergency exit only.
Keeping that door closed, he
explains, will eliminate much of
the problem.

perience.

mi] tact:

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The College of New Caledonia is accepting applica-
tions for the Soclal Services (Developmentally Disabl-
ed Specialty). This certificate program prepares
students to work with mentally handicapped _In-
dividuals in a variety of settings. There are six courses
and one practicum. All courses are in a distance
education (correspondence) format and can be com-
bined with full-time employment.

Applicants who are not currently employed in this fleld
should have working with mentally handicapped
children or adults as-a career goal.

The admission requirements are grade 12 graduation,
G.E.D. or mature student status with related work ex-

For more information and registration package con-

College of New Caledonia
Counselling Department 561-5818

Admissions and Registration 561-5800

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