eure ese eee The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, December 23, 1998 - All Heart disease and stroke. cause 37% of Canadian A OHEART A) AND STROKE Me FOUNDATION The Dr. R.E.M. Lee Foundation presents Valentines Day, my dear New Orleans Style Sat. Feb. 13, 1999 five locations five grea __ “weekend getaways’ Victoria EES LT°) Burnaby beteeeneaee $69. Kelowna eS Ly") ‘Kamloops beveseeeues $59 Vancouver Airport 79 a : . Call toll frea for reservations "1-800-663-0298 a “Includes ehe night accommodation, single Stay n or double occupancy and 5 ave: continental breakfast for twa. Se INIS Subject to taxes and availability —, : rid Valid Fri., Sat.. Sun. Oct. 30/98 to Mar, 28/39 aye take P e S ceehaee retin Bete Eee ee ee ee , THE CITY won’t surrender quickly in its { battle with Transport Canada and CN Rail ’ over use of the Frank St. railway crossing. Councillor David Hull persuaded the rest of city council to freeze a bylaw at third | reading last week that would have bent to j Transport Canada demands and banned } northbound heavy truck traffic from the t crossing. + Hull said the move would have redirected all the area's big chip trucks onto Kenncy * St. — something the city and Skeena Cel- lulose paid big bucks to avoid when they j cost-shared the $1 million reconstruction of + the western part of Keith Ave. and Frank St. two years ago. | “Tt just doesn’t make sense,’ Hull said, “T think we’re caving in and we should stand up for ourselves.”’ ; Transport Canada had threatened to in- voke powers some councillors likened to y the War Measures Act if the city does not comply, The ageucy is concerned about the danger if a train comes when a large truck sils 4 Straddling the railway tracks waiting to get 4 onto the highway. 4 Hull ridiculed Transport Canada claims that one relatively easy solution — slowing train traffic by 10km per hour in that spot — would cause scheduling backups all the 3 way to Montreal. dat the intersection of Frank, and’Hwy 16, ) but the highways ministry is reluctant to do # that because it would require the addition of | y expensive acceleration and deceleration 4 lanes on the highway. | CN Rail also rejected the cily’s sugges- tion the railway be shifted further south at 4 LESS THAN nine per cent of all commer- 2 cial licence holders that sent in voluntary » tetirement forms in November will be get- ® ting any federal money. * Ninety-nine out of the 1124 applications « that were originally sent in were accepted, a said federal retirement coordinator Rita $ Purdon. $ The licences account for $23.4 million in ‘ federal money fisheries minister David s Anderson announced last June ta offset s west coast salmon closures in 1998. The voluntary licence retirement program Sis part of a $400 million compensation ¥ package scheduled to rebuild the fisheries » industry and help people and communities + adjust to the changing fishery. Two nuillion } dollars of that money has been set aside for } voluntary licence retirement, weewe Our Hours or Operations For 7 days of week 9:30 am - 4:00 pm Christmas Day 11 am - 3 pm CITY COUNCIL is opposing a move by Transport Canada and CN Rail to band heavy trucks from using the Frank St. railway crossing near Skeena Sawmills. City holding firm on crossing fracas ~ Another'solution’is to'isislall traffic‘lighis’”** He" did’ tia Frank St, . Hull said Transport Canada claim that the little-used crossing in Terrace is at the top of its list of safety priorities across Canada was simply not believable. The city was to ban northbound trucks longer than 12 mctres as a temporary measure and continue to seck a long-term solution, But Hull said a better answer must be found now, predicting the temporary fix will otherwise become permanent. Putting heavy traffic onto Kenney will congest the street and cause truck transmis- sion problems and road damage because of big tucks starting and stopping on the slope up to that railway crossing. Councillor Olga Power opposed Hull, fearing the city’s possible liability if it doesn’t comply. But conncillors Val George, Rich MeDaaiel and Ron Vanderlee joined Hull in voting to table third reading of the bylaw to as late as March 31 to give more time to pursue the issue. Hull said the whole issue seems to have sprung from the city’s refusal to pay for the cost of replacing crossing arms that are reg- ularly ripped off by trucks at the Frank St. crossing. The city had suggested abandon- ing arms there and just using flashing warn- ing lights, t irritated CN and Transport ,Cariada‘and said they how seem determiried “to get their way — no matter how un- reasonable it is. “It got a bee under their bonnet,’’ he said. ‘“They said ‘What? Somebody defied us? Who are these people out in the out- back of B.C.?? ” Feds spend big bucks ito buy fish licences The first round of the voluntary retirment program accepted 46 seine, 20 pillnet and 33 troll licences. The average payments per licence holder is estimated at $420,152 to a scine licence holder, $77,880 to a gillneter and $77,532 to a troll licence holder. Payments can either be processed im- mediately for licence holders that would like money this year or in 1999 if holders would rather bave the money accounted for on next year’s income tax forms. The bids were evaluated by an indepen- dent advisory committee chaired by Jim Matkin, who chaired the 1996 Voluntary Licence Retirement Committee. 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Serving Kitimat and Terrace for aver 30 years PEREIRA’s FURNITURE AND -—-- ‘by Bryan’ Hunt | 7 YOU HEALTH Well,..only two more sleeps till the big day..another >. week after that and it’s a brand New Year. | hope | have J. in some way stirred a small spark of interest, caused you to question a previous health notion, made you think twice about your health choices, educated you in some way in regards fo your health over the past year. YOUR HEALTH....that’s what this has all been about. And the more you think about it, the more you will realize just how utterly important and precious YOUR HEALTH is. Without if...you have nothing. Those lender maments with a loved one...those cherished memories of excellence in [:-: physical fitness...just one more second of time with that F! spacial someone...ill health compromises them all and eventually leads fo an untimely death, God blessed you with your health but it is you and you alone who decides what yeu do and how you live that will determine YOUR HEALTH. So...when you're contemplating those New Year's resolutions this year, why nat make a pledge to start taking control of your own health. Exercise daily, drink plenty of pure walter, eat properly, take herbal supplements for nutrition, avoid stress, and enjay clean living and healthy thoughts. Thank you for your comments and interest shown in this column. May | extand my best wishes to Ning and yours for a safe and healthy holiday season. May it be one that fives on in your memory for years to come. | raise my glass of purikied water fo toast YOUR HEALTH. 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