A2 - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, May 29, 1996

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Workers face lock out

UNIONIZED WORKERS at Canada Safeway
and Overwaitea here are being encouraged to find
temporary work following lock out notice served to
them late last week.

The notice comes into effect midnight tomorrow:
and if acted upon will put more than 15,000 people
out of work and ‘shut down all Canada‘ Safeway’ and
Overwaitea Food Group stores across the province.

Locals 1518 and 2000 of the United Food and
Commercial Workers Union have opposed demands
by the two food store companies for pay and benefit
rollbacks since negotiations began two months ago,
Workers responded with a strike vote of just over.96
per cent.

The province-wide lock out notice itself followed
72-hour strike notice given the the union for a number
of stores on the lower mainland, ,

Overwaitea is making plans to reduce prices on
selected perishable items, excluding produce, to trim
inventory. Canada Safeway is not. Stores are expected
to be particularly busy today and tomorrow as month-
ly social assistance cheques are being distributed

Other stores are gearing up to meet the anticipat-
ed demand for food stuffs by arranging for more cash
registers and more sales space and inventory.

Canada Safeway and Overwaitea want an imme-
diate $1.54 an hour pay and benefits rollback with
more to take place during the life of any subsequent
contract.

Two fly to London

TWO TERRACE MEN fly to Landon today to
take part in an airshow marking the 50th anniversary
of Heathrow airport.

Dave Menzies and Paul Hawkins of Hawkair
Aviation Services Ltd. are to check over a Bristol
freighter and then fly it in the June 2 airshow.

It'll be a homecoming of sorts for the pair as they
were part of the crew that flew the Bristol from
Terrace to Landon two years ago.

The Bristol, a bulbous-nose, front-loading aircraft
built in the early 1950s, is just one of three left in the
world. All three were based at the Terrace airport and
belonged to Trans Provincial Airlines before it went
into bankruptcy in the early 1990s.

A group of British Airways pilots then bought the
aircraft and they were refurbished here by Hawkair.
Hawkair now owns two of the planes. One of them
took part in the airshow here May 7.

The 1994 flight of the third Bristol to England
was made memorable when one of ils two engines
“conked off the coast of Scotland, forcin’s the crew to

make an emergency landing, “_—

It was repaired and the crew continued on to
Heathrow where it has been parked ever since,

City issues arena call

THE CITY has issued its proposal call for a
privately built second sheet of ice,

The decision came Monday night after debate
over whether ice users should contribute towards the
$4,000 cost of advertising the propesal call.

Mayor Jack Talstra wanted second sheeters to
commit to a $500 or so donation towards the costs.

Second sheet organizers Brian Downie and
Warren Garten refused, saying $500 wasn’t much, but
they didn’t want to commit ice users to the principle

Park plan gets thumbs up

THE CITY’S parks and recreation com-
mitice had few concerns with the recently
released parks report. The report outlines a
plan for the city’s many communily, neigh-
bourhood and district parks, =~

Currently Terrace has approximately 100
beclares of park land, not including Terrace
Mt The land is used: for ‘sports, passive
recreation, playgrounds, camping, hiking,
fishing and urban forests. a

Already work has begun on some of the
recommendations in the parks study,
Paving is going ahead at the parking lol by
Christy Park, and plans are underway to ex-
pand electrical services a1 the Ferry Island
campground by 10 sites in midJune. ~

The report also listed 10 -parks as being

unamed. In researching the northern most
of these parks, Steve Scott, head of the
recrealion department, discovered it had
been declared Norman Chapman Park in
1969, Chapman is the man named on the
cenotaph in front of city hall. He was killed
during the Second World War.

Scott also recommended that Pear St.
Park, behind the’ Muks-Kum-Ol housing
complex, be offered for sale since it is very
smali and there is no access to it.

Anolher concern brought up during the

‘Meeting was trespassing on private property .

along the Skeena river on the southside. Al-
though the city plans to eventually creale a
park along the river, much of the property

in that area is privately owned.

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JUNE 3, 1996 TO

City Hall Office 8:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. :
Public Works.....Office....... ..8:00.a.m. = 4:00 p.m... J.
Work Crews *7:00 a.m: - 3:30 p.m.

Porks & Office 8:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Recreation Parks Crews 7:00 a.m: - 3:30 p.m.
Facilities “As posted

* Please note that garbage will be ‘collected: earlier
during the day due to summer hours.

TERRACE
SUMMER HOURS -

City of Terrace operations will be on Summer
Hours as follows:

AUGUST 30, 1996

E.R. Hallsor
Clerk-Administratar

of paying some unknown share of future costs.

Papers warned
by gov't body

CARIBOO PRESS Ltd. has been officially warned that it
has contravened the new B,C. Election Act.

The company, which publishes 17 weekly newspapers
through the interior, including The Terrace Standard, pub-
lished advertisements in each of its papers last week that
criticized a section of the legislation.

This section stipulates that individuals and groups cannot
spend more than $5,000 during an election campaign to
support or criticize a political party or candidate,

Official parties aren't subject to the limit as arc groups
that register with Elections B.C, the non-partisan body
that oversees election regulations.

Cariboo Press president Bob Grainger said the company
booked the ads because its editors and publishers belicve
the advertising expense section of Bill 28 contravenes the
Charter of Rights and Freedoms,

He said Cariboo Press is demanding that the provincial
government repeal the section of the Act or lay charges so
thata legal challenge can proceed,

A letter Thursday from Elections B.C, chief electoral of-
ficer Robert Patterson notified Cariboo Press that it must
register as an election advertising sponsor as required un-
der the Election Act.

Patterson said the 17 newspapers are in contravention of
Sections 231, 236, 237 and 239 of the Act.

“I must inform you that if you continue to contravene
the provisions of the Act, this office will refer the matter to
the Criminal Justice Branch of the Attomey General's
ministry for consideration of a prosecution,” Patterson
said.

Grainger said Cariboo papers will nat comply with the
demand. ‘‘In no way are we going to register. This stand is
about freedom of speech in a democratic socicty.

‘We don’t care if the limit on advertising is $5.50 or
$50,000. It’s wrong. We're not running Pravda newspapers
here, There’s no need for these kinds of limits on Cana-
dians.””

Grainger stressed that Cariboo Press publishers and
editors agreed to defy the Act on a matter of principle.

He said the intent is to bring the issue to a head and to
challenge what is considered to be unlawful legislation.

“We're saying that if the law has come down to having
to register with the government because you want to make
a philosophical or political statement in this country, then
we refuse to be a party to that kind of thinking. We're
saying to the new government, repeal this law or charge us
and give us our day in court,”

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DAILY RECORDS
MAX, YEAR -MIN, YEAR’ PRECIP, YEAR
26.7 1966 | -06 1971° 12.4
26.7 1956 | -06 1965 6.4
28.9 1956 | 08 1976 7.2
30.0 1963 | O68 i971 15.7
31.7 1963 | 21 i982 19.5
27.2 1969 | 15 1977 11.2
29.4 1969 | 00 1956 18.2

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