B12 Terrace Review — Wednesday, June 12, 1991

[Looking back...

F riday, June 10, 1988, was a date that would have a far greater

impact on our community than anyone imagined at the time.
During an evening meeting at the Happy Gang Centre, the

June Jive - — - events i in history |

_ Compiled by Tom Taggart — special to the Terrace Review

Terraceview Lodge Society and Mills Memorial Hospital Board were:

_dissolved, and the Terrace Health Care Socicty was formed. It was the
first amalgamation of its type in the province, and a Ministry of Health
spokesman said it would provide a province-wide model for coordinated
health care.

Other stories from that same week in 1988 include a council decision
to renew their lease with CNR on Fisherman’s Park. They weren’t
pleased with the new rate of $1,250 per year, but agreed with park users
on the value of the site. While that park was saved another recreational
facility was lost. The Terrace Torken BMX Club had apparently been

: dissolved; at least, none of the regular contacts were around. And the
_ city, concerned someone might get hurt, decided to level the track.
An engineering study on the feasibility of a long-sought Terrace North

water system was finished, but in the words of regional district

~ administrator Bob Marcellin, "It doesn’t look good." He didn’t rule out —

all hope, but suggested the cost per resident might be too high. A rough
estimate: About $800 for a service connection, plus the cost of a private
line, plus a $270 annual connection fee, plus about $9 per meter
frontage tax for capital debt retirement. An average home owner with
150 foot frontage, then, might pay about $1,500 for a connection and
about $700 a year.

On a more regional basis, the recommendations of Judge Thomas
Fisher were causing a bit of a stir. In order to equalize the population
in each riding, Fisher recommended that the number of provincial
ridings be increased for 69 to 75. He also suggested that the size of
Skeena should be reduced by attaching Hazelton and Smithers to a fair
chunk of Omineca and renaming it. Bulkley Valley-Stikine, and
recommended that the Nass Valley and Stewart be moved into the North
Coast riding with Prince Rupert. —

concluded that the death of two miners in an explosion at

Newhawk Gold’s Sulphurets mine site north of Stewart was.
homicide. The jury recommended that the government examine
procedures for the storing and handling of explosives and that Newhawk
be required to institute a mine safety program at the site: ~~ v= >

Other stories told how Mills Memorial Hospital received top ‘marks.

They were given a three-year accreditation by the Canadian Council on
Health Facility Accreditation, the highest honour they can award. The
budget-cut dilemma for CBC continued. CFPR in Prince Rupert had
been down-sized but we didn’t now yet if the service would shrink
further. Okanagan Skeena postponed the construction of their $5 million
Terrace Shopping Centre for one year. The timing was wrong. And a
big batch of oatmeal spice cookies was baked at the Terrace Women’s
Resource Centre on June 7, It was part of a nation-wide campaign to
protest the lack of child care funding in Finance Minster Michael
Wilson’s 1989 budget.

if t was this week in 1989 when a Terrace’ coroner's inquiry

seven people on a Skylink Airlines flight that crashed in near

2H:

A year ago this week the coroner's inquest into the deaths of

the Terrace airport the previous fall was sct to begin in
Terrace. There were 16 witnesses and the inquest was expected to last
five days. .

Things were looking good at Shames Mountain. TT&C Contracting of
Terrace had been awarded an $85,000 contract to clear the ski runs and
the work was well under way. The Ministry of Energy Mines and
Petroleum Resources had called for expressions of interest to explore
the Mount Layton hot springs area to see if it was the right place to try
a geothermal energy project. The prospects were unclear, however, Two
experts who explored the region in the early 1980s offered differing
views on the potential of the region.

The future of another major project seemed more clear. It would never
_ happen here. The government told us that Prince Rupert was in the
running for a $4 billion stecl mill but Wood Gundy investment analyst
Steve Laciak told the Terrace Review that it was wishful thinking. He
said China Stecl was much more likely to locate in Malaysia. His
reasoning was difficult to dispute. For every ton of steel the mill
produced, B.C. could casily supply the ncccssary half ton of coal, bul
the 1.6 tons of iron ore thal was required simply didn’t exist here.

And in closing off our look into our past, thete was a very spccial
presentation in council chambers a year ago this week, one that hil close
to the heart of every car owner in town. Rotary club member and city
alderman Darryl Laurent made the presentation... a battered but neatly
engraved muffler that lost its life in a Halliwell pothole.

In fairness, Halliwell was being reconsirucied at the lime of the
mulflcr's demise and a few rough spots were unavoidable. But the job

was taking a little longer than expected and [rustration was setting in.
There were some drivers who didn’t complain, but it was suspected

those” tesidents siniply hadri’t’ noticed the difference between the
pte-reconstruction . and reconstruction road, .

June 1: CHILDREN’S DAY/PRC; Helen Keller, Radcliffe graduate, passes on ( 1968).
June 2: Marquis deSade lives (1740), deaths of Lou Gehrig (1941) and V. Sackville-West ( 1962).

June 3: Valerie Solonas air conditions Andy Warhol (1968).
Great train wreck in Soviet Union kills 462 humans (1989).

June 4: Three week street riot in Beijing, PRC, subdued by “‘People’s Army” (1989).
June 5: U.S. presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy shot dead in Los Angeles (1968).

June 6: First drive-in movie opens for business and pleasure (1933). Oe :
‘Rising Sun’’ eclipsed at Midway (1942); D-DAY, FRANCE ( 1944).
Alaska: Mt, Katmai erupts (1912); B. Washburn first woman to climb Mt. McKinley ( 1947).
Teheren: Body of Ayatollah Khomeini mobbed by ‘‘Hounds of Hell”’ (1989).

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June 7: Dorothy Parker quips no more (1967); Ann Hanson flips tomato at Canadian pol (1984).
June 8: Death of Tom Paine (1809), Gerhart Hauptman (1946) and Satchel Paige (1982).

June 9: Birth of Peter Romanov aka ‘‘The Great’’, first among Russia’s Tsars (1672).

June 10: Bulgarian voters decide to keep their nation socialist (1990).

June 11: Hang Yang, PRC: College kids attack ‘Party’ headquarters and cops (1957).
Israel whips Arab Nations in ‘‘Six-Day War’’ (1967).

June 13: Birth of the Poet, Yeats (1865); Pentagon Papers published by New York Times (1971). .

June 14: St. Petersburg: Crew of Battleship Potemkin mutinies (1915). i

June 15: Ben Franklin flies kite (1752); FBI founded (1924); Lennon meets McCartney (1956). &

June 16: Cosmonautte Valentina Tereshkova of USSR first woman in space (1963). a :
People’s Republic of China (PRC) explodes its first hydrogen bomb (1967). Sao “

June 17: Watergate for Nixon (1972). : Sete

June 18: Waterloo for Napoleon (1815); death of the journalist I.F. Stone (1989).

June 20: Iceberg snags Soviet liner ‘‘Maxim Gorky’’ (1989).

Great earthquake (7.7 Richter) kills 34,000 Iranians (1990).

June 21: John Hinckley declared insane (1982) for shooting Reagan with .22 cal. gun.”
U.S. Supreme Court gives thumbs up to torching the U.S. flag (1989).
SUMMER SOLSTICE, 1991 ((EVENT OF THE MONTH))).

June 22: Vatican threatens Galileo with torture for non-conformist beliefs (1633).
Hitler tweaks the ‘‘Bear’’ by invading USSR (1941).

June 24: Napoleon tweaks the ‘‘Bear’’ by invading Russia (1812).

Pilot Ken Arnold clocks nine UFOs speeding at 1,656 mph-near Mount Rainier (1947).

June 25: Birth. of the architect Antoni Gaudi (1852).

Sioux Nation whacks U.S. Cavalry at Battle of Little Big Horn River (1876). :
Czechoslovakia: New word coined, Robot (1925). :

June 26: ‘‘... Over There..’? American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) land in France (1917). :
New Guinea: Anglican priest William Gill and 23 others sight UFOs in sky (1959).

FULL MOON, 1991.

= June 27: USA: Death of the Mormon Joseph Smith (1844); Russia: Birth of Emma Goldman ( 1969).
Nicaragua whips USA in World Court (1987), but justice delayed.

June 28; Birth and death, resp., of J.J, Rousseau (1712), and the runner Terry Fox (1981).

G. Princip precipitates WWI by assassinating a blue blood (1914).

June 29: Death of Guatemalan democracy (1954), and the singer Tim Buckley (1975).

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June 30: Charles Blondin trips across Niagara Falls on tightrope (1859).

Mysterious ‘‘Tungushka Fireball’ flattens 1,500 square miles of Siberia (1908).
Quebec City: 100 snow monkeys bust out of zoo/jail (1989).

TO OUR MANY

FRIENDS & CUSTOMERS

As of July 1st, 1991 we will be
turning over the keys of our com-
pany to Bryon and John Heighing-
ton of Terrace.

At this time we would like to
take the opportunity to thank each
and every one of you for your sup-
port over the past 24 years.

To the employees past and pres-
ent who gave their utmost over the
years, a very sincere thank you.

Derick & Eileen Kennedy