2 Terrace Review — Wednesday, July 9, 1986

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Expo

legacy

application

still'not

answered |

TERRACE — As the
season for building con-
struction passes, Ter-
race’s ambitions to ex-
-pand the municipal
imming pool, erect a

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band shell in lower Little §—

Park, and landscape the
- rubble-strewn hill in
front of the arena will

have to be put off until - E

next year.
These projects were all
part of the city’s applica-

tion to the Expo Legacy —

Fund, filed in mid-
December of 1985. No
ruling on the application
has come forward from
Jim Hewitt’s office, the
agency responsible for
disbursement of the $30
million fund. TO
“Not a word,’’ said
Mayor Jack Talstra in a
recent interview. ‘We
made two phone calls,
and both times we were
told that meetings take
place from time to time,
but that’ our card hasn't
come up yet. We said,
‘Thanks a lot.’ If we get
the money, the construc-
tion season is over and
we won’t be able to start
any of this until next
spring.”

The Expo Legacy
Fund was established by
-the B.C, government in
order to spread some of
the wealth from the Van-
couver extravaganza into
other parts of the pro-
vince, but the northward

migration of that wealth
is not in danger of setting’

any speed records. At the
_time the application was
sent from Terrace, city
administrator Bob
Hallsor :said that he ex-
pected an answer by the
end of January.
Municipal Affairs
Minister Bill Ritchie,
when asked about the
application at the
NCMA convention
May,. replied, “I think

the north was touched on |

the other day.’’ Specific
information is as scant
now as it was the day the
application was filed.
The funds would-be
used for adding a wading
pool and a hot pool to
the existing swimming
facilities, enlarging the
weight room in the same
building, landscaping the
arena hill, and building a
band shell in lower Little
Park, Talstra said that at
this point it appears that
only the planning stages
can go ahead before next
year. The Legacy Funds
are expected to cover
about half the cost of the
intended improvements.

Cut Glass

Petrified wood is very
hard. You should be able
to cut glass with it.

in .

Lorde

John Dando, (right), secretary for the Terrace Water Polo Association, recently presented
Shane Palikicky of the Terrace Jujitsu Club with a cheque for $500 on behalf of the assocla-

tion. The local martial arts o

and protective equipment.

tganization has been on a fund-raising drive to purchase mats

Local woman embarks on —
walk to Victoria —

TERRACE — The ties
that bind families are
often hard to break and
when parents are faced

with separation from.

their children a struggle
to bridge the gap
sometimes begins.

Terrace’ resident
Darlene Wright wants to
be reunited with her son.
To make her plea known
to provincial authorities

- Wright has embarked on

a trek to Victoria by
foot.

Mary Foster, resident
of Chimdemash Creek
located east of Usk-said
she saw Wright on mile
14 of her walk along

Highway 16 outside Ter-

race at about 1 p.m.
Tuesday, July 1. Wright,
a native Indian woman
in her 30’s, was.outfitted
in Davey Crockett style
rawhide she had con-
structed herself. The
lone figure in the flowing
rawhide robe who wore a

leather band through her

braided hair, could not
help but draw your at-

_.tention, Foster said.

. She invited Wright in
to her home for coffee at

Chimdemash Creek so
the native woman could
repair one of her moc-
casins. At this point
Foster was informed of
the Indian woman’s mis-
sion. Wright began her
walk to Victoria July 1

for the purpose of seek- ©

ing custody of her: son
Douglas who is approx-
imaiely 12 years of age.
Wright’s outfit is laced
with the same amount of
holes that coincide with

the number of miles she .

will cover on her trek to
the parliament buildings
in Victoria.

Gwen Hoedt, native .

community aid worker
with the Kermode
Friendship Centre in
Terrace, said Wright is
separated from her hus-
band who had been tak-
ing care of Douglas. The
boy was apprehended
from her husband’ and
officials at the Ministry
of Human Resources
supposedly informed
Wright her son would be

given back to her, Hoedt

Ted Johnston (left), who arrived in Terrace years ago on the
riverboats chate with Ken Kerr whose parents came to Ter-
race by riverboat In 1008. Many old acquaintances are re-
newed at the old timers raunion banquet every year. This
year's Sth annual banquet will be held on Friday, July 25 at
the Terrace Hotel. Anyone who has lived In Terrace for 30
years or more (1956) Is eligible and welcome to attend.

Tickets will be on sale soon. Watch for announcements. —

said, Wright has custody
of her daughter Penny
but has received no in-
dication from govern-
ment authorities that she
will. soon be reunited
with her son, Hoedt said.

" When contacted
Thursday, July 3 Doug
Colwell, social worker

with the Ministry of

Human Resources in

Terrace, refused to. com-
ment on the issue, |

‘Skeena sockey
below averages.

An early test fishery
conducted by the
Department ‘of Fisheries
and Oceans has shown

the initial return of

sockeye. salmon to the
Skeena and Nass Rivers
to be only 10 percent of
the normal run for this
time of the year.

The results of the test
were released June 27,
and information obtain-

_ed a week later indicated

that the run was up
slightly but. still’ far

below normal levels. Les’

Jantz, a biologist for the
DFO in Prince Rupert,
stated that the forecast

..- Teturn for sockeye this

year is 2.8 million fish,
but he added that the
scarcity in the early part

of the run ‘‘is. not a real.

serious concern yet”’.
Jantz said that the

‘DFO has been using test

fisheries to determine
openings for commercial
fishers since 1956 on the
Skeena and since 1963 on
the Nass. He explained
that the figures obtained

_enable the DFO to

forecast the size of the
tun and the time at

‘which it will occur.

Over the past 15 years,
Jantz said, the early part

of the run has been weak
‘because it involves the

diminishing ‘natural’.
stocks, -as opposed’ to _

hatchery-enhanced ‘fish: -
which. return later and

constitute the greatest ”
proportion of the run.
Up to July 4, gillnetters .
had been allowed. only ©

_three days of fishing.

_Jantz added that the
chinook salmon \.run
coincides with that of the

‘sockeye, and he stated

that returning . chinook
are presently at the
highest levels on record. .
In two weeks he expects
the beginning of the pink

Salmon and steelhead —
‘Tuns, and around the end

of July the first coho |
salmon should begin -
making their way up the
Skeena. Cs

Kitsumkalum band
chief Cliff Bolton con-
firmed that up-river
returns of sockeye are
low, but he also express-
ed the feeling that the
run is simply late this
year, Bolton added that
this year’s herring season -
had also experienced a
delayed return.

.Why not hire a student.

- this week? Phone the

Canada Employment
Centre in Terrace at
635-7134.

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Harry and Elsa Murphy are pleased to announce the
birth of thelr daughter, Cassandra
June 27, 1986. She welghed 10 Ibs.

Steve and Kathy Stonem would like to announce the arrival of
thelr daughter, Blair Kathorine,
5 ozs. Blair Is a sister for Lesile.

Lee Murphy, on
10 ozs.

on July 4, 1986, weighing 5 ibs.

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