fm gat pa ce vn eee ee B16 = Terrace Review — Wednesday, May 15, 1991 | Looking back... A fter two years of waiting and debate, the uncertainty was finally over. It was this week in 1989 that Terrace city councit approved the pool expansion project. The full cost, up a little from original estimates, was said to be $922,062. This story all but overshadowed other council stories that week, one of them being the fact that the Public Works Department had _ declared war on illegal sewer connections. Stopping the flow of- run-off water into the sewage system, we were told, would solve the problem of sewage backups in south Kalum and Graham Ave. neighbourhoods. The big news from the year before was also about construction. "Terrace building boom still going,” the headline read. To the end of April, 1988, 72 building permits estimated to be worth $4.93 million had been issued. This was truly a boom when compared with previous years: 82 permits in 1987 worth $1.51 million, 42 in 1986 worth $2.79 million, and 47 in 1985 worth a paltry $293,310. With all this building going on, the Planning and Public Works Committee was working a new city bylaw. According to city director Rob Greno, the city received "numerous" phone calls every year complaining about private fences. "It is evident that local citizens would like some guidelines and consistency," he said, "and from a safety aspect some controls should be introduced." A year ago this week, a planned five percent tax hike was cut to only 3.8 percent in the city’s final version of their 1990 budget, in part due to the fact that $115,000 worth of LIP projecis on Sparks, Mills, Thomas and McConnell failed to gain sufficient support from property owners and were scrapped. were told the Skeena Cellulose beehive burner had belched it’s last gasp of putrid smoke. According to mill manager Jim Davis, the burner was officially shut down Monday, May 16, 1988, and, would stay that way unless there was an unforeseen problem. The Nisga’a Tribal Council’s Terrace chapter was a reality, Their third organizational meeting in only a few wecks attracted about 200 people, 160 of them voting members. On the legal front, a meeting here on the formation of a community law office was encouraging. Jack Olson, executive director of the Legal Services Society said we should get an answer for an office here by the end of June. . And on the medical front, Kitimat General Hospital wined, dined and lost one more orthopaedic surgeon. Kitimat General escorted Dr. Michael Hall around the entire hospital district as a part of their sales pitch and it backfired. He decided he would like to set up his practice in Terrace. Kitimat cried foul. The Regional Hospital District told Hall, "Kitimat or nothing.” And he left. It was 1989 when the Regional District accepted a proposal that would allow the Peaks Gymnastics gymnasium project to proceed. The gym would abut the southern wall of the Thornhill Community Centre, and this plan offered the club a significant saving: there was no longer a need to include a banquet facility in the project, since the community cenire was already equipped. And it was also 1989 that the Terrace Review witnessed a shameful exchange between our mayor and a Kitimat aldermen. It took place during a break in a regional district meeting and was triggered by the - tongue-in-cheek rivalry that infests the Northwest each spring; the annual tri-city Fitness Challenge. In this particular exchange, Bev Rodrigo, who was busily cleaning up on the last of the sandwiches and sweets, said of our mayor, "He’s anything but fit." Jack Talstra lost a bit of his usual cool. "I have stood here," he declared, "and watched alderman Rodrigo make a pig out of herself, and if she’s any example of fitness in Kitimat then there’s no need to worry." -In 1990 a different a different kind of competition was in the wind, one in which the verbal exchanges were not quile so light-hearted. The library board had been working on an expansion project for some time but there were some in the community who decided we needed a community-convention centre far more. And we couldn't afford both. Both projects would have to go to referendum before they could proceed and library board chairman Willy Schneider said during a E Isewhere in the community, il was this week in 1988 that we Chamber of Commerce address that his group was ready to go. In fact, he said, the library board belicved they had already been slated for a fall referendum. & his week in 1988 there was a stalemate at the bargaining table } surrounded by the negotiating teams of School District 88 and the Terrace District Teachers’ Association. [t was a matter of protocol. Teachers and the board couldn’t agree on the manner in which each side would present proposals to the other. In 1989, area teachers and the board lost one claim to fame. They held the record for the longest running teachers’ strike in B.C. history, but their counterparts in the Nass Valley had just entered the sixth week of their dispute and the two sides weren’t even talking to one another. And then it was 1990 and there was this story: "Twenty-one teachers. in School District 88 will lose their jobs unless they join the Terrace District Teachers’ Association before June 30." Those opposing the union hicrarchy had run out of time. It had been two ycars sittce the TDTA and the board had signed a contract which enshrined 4 closed shop, atid the TDTA said they had waited long enough. BEAR ALERT ISSUED The motorcycles are oul... and so are the bears. It’s official. Spring is in the air. And with this thought in mind, Terrace conservation officer Joe Garay has a few things to say about the bears, noting items like: fish fertilizer on the garden; compost heap steaming; a bag of garbage by the back door, and dog food by the front. This may sound like home sweet home to you, but in reality, it may be more like the invention of a better bear trap. Try to avoid a few of these things if you can. Once bears get used to finding free food laying around, they can become aggressive if they don’t find what they expect... They’re a lot like kids. And that can be a problem. If you head into the bush, the same common sense rules apply. Never, never feed the bears. Avoid cooking foods with strong odours, like canned fish, and burn out tin cans -and scraps after the meal. Also, do your cooking away from your tent, and it’s a good idea not to wipe your hands on your cloihes. You might even decide dried foods are safer than canned fish. When you’re finished with your meal, store your food in the trunk of your car or make a bear-proof cache by suspending the food ina plastic bag between two trees at least 10 feet off the ground. If you’re ina provincial campground, use the garbage disposal facilities provided. In back country, hikers are required to pack out all gar- bage. It’s a waste of time burying it, the bears will just dig it up. And speaking of back country — avoid pitching camp where you find fresh tracks or droppings, or along a trail clearly used by ani- mals. When you’re on the trail, watch for signs of bear... droppings, fresh tracks or their strong scent are dead give-aways.. 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