M@ MORE THAN 150 people in the northwest may be out of a job after a 3.3 per cent reduc- tion in the annual al- lowable cut for the Kalum timber sup- ply area and an eight percent reduction in the cut allowed for the Nass timber sup- ply area next year. MSOME CUTS IN hospital services are likely at Mills Me- morial Hospital un- less the provincial health ministry agrees the hospital needs more money. The hospital board was denied a peer review, which it hoped would prove its regional service to qualify the facility for a budget increase. MA PLEA BAR- gain deal leaves 16- year-old convicted killer Christopher Charles Williams eligible for parole after seven years in exchange for testify- ing against another man. Sentenced to the mandatory term of life imprisonment for murdering Jean Gosselin last year, Williams will testify against 28-year-old George Bliss Haw- thorne, charged with . the crossbow killing of Y von Gosselin. —october— MONE LOCAL CHURCH was stop- ped from its yearly tradition of feeding the needy on Thanksgiving Mon- day because it doesn’t have a com- mercial kitchen as required by health tegulations, BSOME THORN- hill residents are protesting the idea of having their local dump become the ‘super’ dump for all garbage from the city of Terrace and its surrounding area HA CROWD OF 400 danced acrossa new bridge spanning the Nass River at Gitwinksihlkw, to celebrate the open- ing of the new $5.2 million, 127-metre link between Git- winksihtkw (Can- yon City) and other Nisga’a villages in the Nass Valley. MANGRY PAR. ents at Kitwanga el- ementary schools confronted school board trustees with their concerns about violence and racism at school, the lack of ad- equate busing and the need for 4 qualtfied=learning- assistant or coun- sellor. -decem MTERRACE WILL become the centre of the largest school district in the prov- ince ifthe amalgam- ation plan of the education ministry goes ahead. The plan would combine districts No. 80 (Kitimat), No. 87 (Stikine) and No. 88 (Terrace) into one ‘super-district’. Year End In Review Brought To You BIN REACTION to Mills Memorial Hospital’s pro- jected deficit of $500,000 and news that the province may cut its operat- ing grant, hospital workers have told senior management they may have to cut services and refuse out-of-town admissions. IETHE RECENT AT- tack ona schoolgirl walking a forested trail on Lanfear Hilt has prompted a call for the widen- ing of the road to make room for roadside pedestri- ans and cyclists. MSOME OF THE students at North- west Community College are going to class hungry, say the organizers of a new food bank on the Terrace campus, WA WISH-LIST OF what will be needed to persuade Thorn- hill residents to amalgamate with Tetrace or incorpo- rate was sent to the provincial ministry of municipal affairs. A decision on what kind of re-structure package would be offered by Victoria is pending, BESCORTS WHO stirred up trouble at city council by tak- ing out a city busi- ness licence over the summer are found operating out of 4 log house on the street where the mayor lives. Dial-A- Doll Escort Services move from that house a‘few wéeks~ later but continue to operate in Terrace. ber- MCITY COUNCIL- LOR David Hull says a savings of $474,120 in the city’s operating bud- get ts the result of council's reorgani- zation of the city staff thal included cutting three admin- istrative jobs and two unionized posi- tions earlier this year, HEAVY SNOWFALL marked this y but |t didn't deter those who lumed u The annual event marked the end ears Remembrance Day Pp to pay their respects. of a year-long series of activities noting the end of the Second World War. @A SUIT FILED by the Metlakatla band, a member of the Tsimshian Tribal Council, has be- come a legal barrier to Tsimshian land claims talks. The suit alleges that the band wasn't properly rep- resented in the early part of the century when a piece of northwest land was removed from its re- serve holdings. BLOCAL UNSEC- ured creditors of the Terrace Inn won’t get any of their money in the after- math of the hotel’s bankruptcy, says a lawyer for John Georgilas, the Inn’s largest creditor and mortgage-holder. MOLGA POWER, head of the local health care society, says she is angered by the health minis- try directive which threatens to with- hold the salaries of hospital administra- tors whose institu- tions don’t file 13 fi- nancial reports each fiscal year. @ COMPLAINTS about the food served in jail at Terrace’s RCMP detachment ‘has prompted an in- vestigation through the RCMP Publis INé Jerrace stanuatu, vweureouvay, ydiiuary a, rau - -november- Complaints Com- mission. A nutrition- ist said the “TV, din- ner” meals weren't nutritious enough and gave Terrace RCMP a new directive. @ VOLUNTEERS are still searching for Lana Derrick, a 19-year-old North- west Community College student who has been missing since October 7. The woman was last seen socializing with friends downtown. M@ TAXPAYERS turned out in unprec- edented numbers to vote down plans to build a $2.8 million second arena, Resi- dents inall three elec- toral areas voted by a margin of about 55 per cent to defeat the proposal to borrow $2.E million and build a second sheet of ice adjacent to the exist- ing facility. MAN ELECTRIC fence should be im- mediately erected to keepbears out of the Thornhili dump, say B.C. Environment officials, M MORE THAN 700 striking pulp mill workers are back to .work. at Prince Rupert’s Skeena Cellulose rd plant after union menibers voted more than 70 per cent in favour of ac- cepting a mediator’s recommendations, @ FOODBANK volunteers dis- pensed 419 bags of food to needy resi- dents in the first dis- tribution of the sea- son. That caunt is 44 fewer bags than last November's record, possibly due in part to the foodbank’s having re-located. MITHE FIRE PRO- tection that was un- officially extended to Jackpine Flats, Old Remo and -Lakelse Lake for the last 19 years will be cut off. The Thorn- hill firefighters say their association can ne longer operate outside its official boundaries unless residents who ben- efit help pay costs. MSHAMES Moun- tain Ski Corp. offi- cials tabled an offer from the regional dis- trict board that would have the company pay back $85,000 over five years. Shames still owes the regional district more than $300,000 forthe "old Kitsutiikaluri ski” hill equipment’ it’ bought in 1986. MN THE TERRACE Greenbelt Associa- tion has drawn up a list of seven favoured sites for a consultant that city council says it will hire next year to de- fine environmen- tally sensitive areas. BAN INTERNAL report examining the forest services abil- ity to handle the new Forest Practices Code says that na- By These Community _ Minded Businesses. POWER OUT, NO HEAT? Then you need a Natural Gas or Propane freestanding heater or fireplace insert. CHOOSE FROM REGENCY, LENNOX, HEAT ‘N’ GLOW OR OSBURN* “FINANCING AVAILABLE OAC tive issues, under- staffing and in- creased paperwork combine to create a heavy burden. The report also indicates that forest compa- nies were having trouble meeting pa- perwork demands needed to get cutting permit approvals. M@ MORE THAN 110 Thomhill resi- dents showed up at a public meeting to protest current dump practices and the pro- posal that the Thornhill dump be- come the sole dump site for all of Terrace. @ CRIMINAL RE- cord checks may de- ter some escorts from setting up busi- ness in Terrace, and will at least give the city grounds to re- ject business licence requests, say city councillors. M@SKEENA MP Mike Scott has hint- ed at alleged cor- ruption and finan- cial improprieties by native leaders. M THE RCMP are unable to track down the source of a Broadcast News radio report, aired on both CBC Radio and CFTK AM, which suggested the force believes a se- rial killer is target- ing native women in the northwest. @ DISPATCHERS based in Kamloops who direct Terrace ambulances are be- ing accused by city council of refusing to flag local fire- fighters to some emergency calls. STILL REELING from a $30 million cut in district fund- ing, school board trustees now face _ another $50 million bite, The cash re- duction comes out of the education ministry's plan to amalgamate three © northwestern school districts into one “super-district’, MAN EIGHT-FOOT wooden soldier sto- len from a residential Christmas display was found in bits on the railway tracks. “A young person could make a good career and living if willing to put in the time to learn.” Wayne Legg of R and W Contracting commenting on the jobs possibili- ties arising from the new emphasis on forest management. 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