— 1992: The ~ NOVEMBER ans Tre THORNHILL tree nursery says it is winding up planting opera- - flons beginning next year, ~. Demand for seedlings has dropped as planting has now ‘caught up With a backlog, says nursery owncr Pacific Regeneration Technologies. _, “sf The nursery was one of eight sold by the province in 1988. Five jobs are affected as is a substantial amount of seasonal employment. Unionizep TEACHERS are erieving an additional five minutes of -Class-time every day, oo, “’The minutes were added by the school district to mect cducation min- ‘istry requirements for the school year. Teachers say those extra minutes ‘should be negotiated and that they should be paid for them. HE, LEGION building here could be closed if more members don’t ‘turn out for its events and more ccash generated to'meet expenses. - ‘}Past-branch president Peter Crompton said not a lot of people are *. “aware that memberships are available to those who do not have a mili- ary background or who aren’t related to those who do. Fez’ LUNCHES are now being distributed to needy students al --Clarence Michiel and E.T. Kenney schaots. iy = ‘Money for the lunches comes from the provincial government and the -. Tertace Anti-Poverty Group Society has the contract. Its delivering a - minimum 100 cold lunches each school day. ; 7 ‘SHELL CANADA will be. storing its products at the expanded Im- ‘perial Oil-bulk plant here. — ; {The company said sharing storage facililies is common in order to reach economies of scale. Shell and Imperial Oil will be shipping their “product in by-rail from Alberta instead of having it barged up from ‘ancouver.. ..... - e ‘A SECOND staff lawyer will be hired at the ‘Lax Ghels Community Law Centie here. That means help Terry Brown, the centre’s only law- yer now working there. ie ‘it means an end to the practice of flying up lawyers from Van- ca ~cabver to help aut. “2A Iegal information counsellor and a part time legal secretary will ~also be hired. They’ ll work in the Nass Valley. -OCAL LOGGING praclices are being examined by two consulting companies, . <-Their probe, paid for by the provincial government, follows those .. don elsewhere in the province. Approximately 90 cutblocks have been - selected in the northwest. Natives WILL receive.a hiring preference during construction of the plannéd Orenda Forest Products pulp and paper mill. -But there probably won’t be a quota system set up, says a spokesman for the construction company selected for the project. ‘And ‘the spokesman said there will be plenty of opportunity for other people living in the area. Ciry ECONOMIC development officer Peter Montcith met with a “pasty surprise in a Seattle washroom. -- Down there to drunv up tourist business, Monteith was held up. He described the robber as being very polite. OLE IN THE ICE’, the oldest pole at Gitanyow (formerly Kitwan- oe cool) has been taken down for safekeeping. —* “Ts at least 130 years old and has been threatened by wind storms. The hous¢:thal owns the pole has. commissioned a replacement..Il’s _sgchealyled to be. completed next year. S , rte eeMP tee ” provincial governments."' +" - 4 The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, January 6, 1993 - Page A3 Year in Review, RENEWED CALLS were made for a shelter for: the city's home- less people after local native woman Daisy Wesley froze to death : v aa ve on a vacant city lot. That’s anti-poverty advocate Gerry King bes- Ide the tarp where she and her husband lived. A PROVINCIAL review of has- pilals in Terrace, Kitimat and Prince Rupert suggests they don’t need more money. What they do need, the review says, is to operate more efficient- ly with the money they have al- ready. Northern hospitals had. their budgets frozen this spring. For Mills: Memoriai, that meant cut- - ting the equivalent of 11 full time jobs. The review also said there should be more community based health services. Nisca’a LAND claim negoti- ators have finally released an im- portant agreement. The interim protection measures agreement gives the Nisga’a a say in resource devel- opment ia their claim (territory leading up to a final settlement. Final signatures on the agree- ment had been held up because of a spat between the federal and ey 1 ! Fleer grt eps ~ DECE The agreement is in effect until - September or until an agreement in principle on the claim has been negotiated, Recycuine FUTURE here looks bleak after city council de- cided to stop subsidizing reut on a building used as a depot by the Skeena Valley Recycling Society. Society spokesman Frank Donahue said the city made the right decision because it contrib- uted more than its fair share. As well, prices for glass and tin have also dropped, forcing the society to pay for the items to be shipped away. Donahue said the society will work on having people the other two ‘R’s — reducing and reusing. ProvinclAL MINES and en- ergy minister Anne Edwards went -t6 Koreaand Japan to‘tielp pro- poe ees Zh, MBER mote a planned copper smelter: in Kitimal. PRM Resources has been wark- | ing on the proposal for four years, but has yet to secure [inancing, The size of the planned smelter has increased over the years, from 150,000 tonnes a year to 200,000 tonnes, oe The price has also increased, to | $550 million. Norruwesr MAYORS say they. want more say in how land claims are negotiated. Although the mayors now meet regularly with provincial negotia- tors, they say they aren't getting details of what is going on. And they want moncy from the provincial government to pay for studies they can use. The mayors say they want a fair deals that recognize other who live in ihe notthivest: sui ‘yoda’ aa” yates ae eB amet bee edeaea Te ida ee a preter OS LE Bay Qurensway AREA - resi- dents are worried when rail traffic blocks their only access out. - Thal could mean trouble if there ‘is an emergency, they say. Fears were raised in: October when a father tricd to take his son to the hospital. The father performed mouth to mouth resuscitation: on his son uniil tracks cleared. uo -. Residents have now presenied the regional district with a peti- tion. They want Doorman road Te-opened. FoREST SERVICE offjdials are busy figuring out how much wood is left to cut in the North Kalum area. 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