H ee ne ay ¥ oe ae Vactorne Ba Ge OM etiament Baad tei nes TEM WEDNESDAY, APRIL 10, 1991 Vol. 7, Issue No. 15 Phone 635-7840 Fax 635-7269 Serving the communities of Terrace, Thornhill, Usk, Cedarvale, Kitwanga, Meziadin, Stewart and the Nass Valley 75 cents plus GST in paving may go to. fall vote TERRACE — Willi we be holding a referendum this fall? Mayor Jack Talstra.told those gathered for the Northwest Housing Conference last. Friday that we might be. ‘This ~ referendum. would be in addition to the library expansion. A "Yes" vote to this referendum would cost the average homeowner about $100 a year to pay off roughly $25 million in road recon- struction costs over 25 years. There is a 30-year option for the same $25 million program at an average annual homeowner cost of about $67. During the 25-year paving pro- gram, Talstra said during the hous- ing conference, all city streets that needed reconstruction or new pavement would get it, and curbs as well. And all open ditches would have culvert installed and be covered over. Currently, the city has 70 kilometres of paved road and 15 kilometres of gravel. Of the paved roads, about 55 kilometres need some work. Pothole-shy motorists driving vehicles jarred into near disrepair may find this referendum and its subsequent cost easy to swallow. ' These same motorists would likely . find no fault in the opening words of a report received by. council Monday night that describes the program. "The City of Terrace is facing some critical challenges with respect to road construction and reconstruction,” the report begins. "Many of our roads were built on less than adequate bases, they are in poor condition and expensive to maintain." And a couple of sen- tences down the page, “Over the — Continued on page AZ COME TO THE CABARET. Last Friday evening, Skeena Mall shoppers were treated to a Dixieland Jazz concert presented by the Terrace Community Band. Band director Jim Ryan takes a break from directing to play with the band (foreground, playing clarinet). The band is on a ticket-selling blitz for its Cabaret Night this Saturday at the Elks Hall. Gwynne Dyer to lecture here next — week on aftermath of the Gulf War Gwynne Dyer, one of the world’s most respected authorities on the politics and economy of war, will be giving a lecture at the R.E.M. Lee Theatre on Wednesday, April 17 at 7:30 p.m. The title of the lecture will be After the Wars. It will focus on the post-Cold War and post-Gulf War, trying to make sense of these events through the broad relation- ship between war, technology and civilization. Gwynne Dyer is author of the book War, upon which the acclaimed television series was based. War is a remarkable and absorbing analysis of the greatest and most tragic type of human drama. In this book, Dyer shows, according to Crown Publishers “in chilling detail, how our present dilemma (the distinct possibility. that we might blow up the world) is compounded by the fact that all the escape routes we have dreamed up to extricate ourselves from our predicament are blind alleys. The solution lies in understanding that our problem is a direct result of mankind’s 9,000-year-old practice of "civilized" war. Dyer argues that war, "like other such human activities, can (and indeed must) be modified." Dyer, born in Newfoundland, can be frequently seen and heard on CBC television and radio as a world affairs analyst. He teaches and lectures and writes an syndi- cated column that appears in more than 250 newspapers throughout the world: The Terrace lecture on the 17th is being sponsored by the Terrace and District Teachers’ Association, Fairhaven principal dies — 7 Terrace Public Library, School. District #88. and the Northwest Educational Development Associa- tion. Admission is free. in mountain accident — The principal of Fairhaven Farm school in Kitwanga was killed April 6 in an accident while hiking on nearby Three Brothers Moun- tain. Jon Kent Carrington, 42, was on a survival course outing with several of the school’s teachers and about 20 students. A New Potholes, pavement and song: a spring special — pages B8,9 | Hazelton RCMP representative - said Carrington was helping stu- -dents roll rocks over a cliff when about two metres of the cliff edge on which he was standing gave away. Carrington was killed in the fall. The accident was reporied at 5:40 p.m. A coroner's investigation is under way. BLACK CARPET REFERENDUM? $25 million “RS, a 4