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The proposed Terrace Safeway
store expansion project is a step
closer to reality. If city council
adopts a recommendation made by
the Committee of the Whole Mon-
day night, the city will soon be
asking the Ministry of Municipal
Affairs for permission to close
Ottawa St. between Greig and
Lakelse and, at Safeway’s expense,
relocate the street 132 feet to the
west. ;

- This is similar to an agreement
reached between the city and the
Okanagan Skeena Group some
time ago that resulted in an appli-
cation to the Ministry of Municipal
Affairs, but according to city ad-
ministrator Bob Hallsor this will
be a brand new application; we’re
back to square one.

Wedeene —

Channel Resources. for 51,000 ©

cubic metres.

Andy Amanovich, forestry and
engineering manager for Interpac,
said yesterday that if the applica-
tion is successful, Wedeene’s role
in’ Interpac’s operations will
become more clear over the next
few wecks.

Heritage trees — Continued from nage Al

the Sitka spruce be replaced with
cedar, a more deeply-rooted, salt-
resistant tree that should grow to.
an acceptable height in about 15 to
20 years.

Everyone, particularly Halliwell
and North Sparks residents will be:
sorry to see the trees go. But the

one person in town who might be -

affected the most is the man who
helped plant those trees in 1935.
Corby King, the man who would
become the general manager of the
Terrace Co-op 16 year later,
planted those Sitka spruce with a
friend, George Anderson, at the
age of 16.

King says that he and Anderson
worked for a-dairy farmer named
Billy West in the 1930’s. West
owned the property where Heritage
Park and Terraceview Lodge are
now located, and he used it to
grow hay and turnips to feed his
dairy herd. One day, says King,
“West decided a few trees would
act as a good wind break and
improve the appearance of the
property as weil.

So the two boys headed off into

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‘Recommendation to move street passed

If the relocation goes ahead,
Ottawa St. would border on the
PetroCanada property and join
Lakelse Ave. directly across the
street from the Bank of Montreal.
To avoid traffic conflicts due to
the proximity of Ottawa to Sparks
St., director of engincering Stew
Christensen has suggested that it
will be necessary to restrict left
turns from Ottawa onto Lakelse.
Left tums are already restricted

-where Sparks St. intersects with

Lakelse.

Robert Traylen of the Canada
Safeway real estate department met
with the Committee of the Whole
Monday night and said his com-

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Interpac already has interests on
the north coast, Amanovich said.
The company manages "several
licences", although it holds no
tenure in the area. Amanovich said
its services include forest and
engineering management for tenure
holders and log sales. Most of that
activity is in the North Coast Tim-

the bush (now the area around
Westview Drive and the Coachman
Apartments) where they found an
ample supply of healthy, two-foot
high Sitka spruce. They dug the
trees up, carried them to ‘West’s

property, and using a posthole

digger planted them in two neat
rows. One along what is now
North Sparks, and the other along
Halliwell.

The connection of these two boys
to Billy West, might be found in
the fact that they were a part of
our pioneering farming commun-
ity. King’s father, Claude King,
worked for the CNR out of Prince

Rupert. But due to his love of

farming moved to Terrace in 1928

and sold the produce he grew to

Prince Rupert consumers. His

contribution to our community was
recognized by the naming of King
Ave. in Thornhill.

Anderson’s father, William Scott
Anderson, worked as a mechanic
for the Public Works Department
and in the early 1920's was trans-
ferred from Prince Rupert to Ter-
race to take charge of the Terrace

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pany had obtained legal options on _
a 132-foot strip of properties west
of Ottawa owned by the Okanagan
Skeena Group and the Canadian
Imperial Bank of Commerce. He
said they now require the reloca-
tion of Ottawa St. in order to
proceed, and he confirmed his
company was prepared to bear the
entire cost of the relocation.

In addition to the roadway, this

involves moving gas, water and

sewer mains.

The Safeway expansion plans
includes the addition of 12,800
square foot of floor space to the
west and.south sides of the build-
ing, bringing their total floor area

ber Supply Area, he said.
The North Coast TSA is where
Wedeene’s licences are located.
Any decision made by the court
on the fate of Wedeene River will
be subject to approval of the Min-
ister of Forests.

Works Garage.
apiarist, Anderson built a home on
the bench on the street which now

- bears his name. He kept 15 bee-
hives there and sold honey on the
local market,’ - on

The spruce trees lining Halliwell
St. were cut down Monday by city
workers but the more interesting
question of how to remove the
trees bordering North Sparks is yet
to be answered. As of press time
yesterday, director of engineering
Stew Christensen wasn’t prepared

to say just how these trees, bor--

dered on one side by B.C, Tele-
phone lines and on the other by the
Heritage Park fence and log build-

ings, would be removed. -

As for the fate of the fallen trees.

An amateur f

4535 Greig Avenue,
Terrace, B.C.

‘ Christensen says they have been

offered to the Corrections Centre
for firewood, but it is more likely
they will be hauled to the city
dump and burned. Many of the

trees are too rotten for firewood,
he says, and those that aren’t are
so twisted they would be nearly

impossible to split.

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up to nearly 42,000 square feet,
plus the addition of 86 more
parking stalls. Traylen told the
Committee of the Whole that they
would like to begin their expansion
project in the spring of 1992,
In his original application to the
city, Traylen wrote, "The develop-

oes with Safeway plan

ment will further strengthen the

downtown as the major fetailing

sector, increase the city’s tax base,

and our new facility will employ -
additional people and jobs will be
created during development." Mon-
day night he said that the number
of employces at the Terrace store
is expected to rise from 100 to
about 120 once the expansion is
complete. .

‘How do you surprise...
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Shames insurance settled

The Regional District of Kitimat-
Stikine has agreed to turn over to
‘the Shames Mountain Ski Corpor-
ation part of an insurance seitle-
ment arising from two separate
incidents of vandalism to the Kit-.
sumkalum Ski Lodge.

Shames Mountain president
Gerry Martin asked the regional
board for the entire settlement,
explaining that renovations to the
lodge cost $110,000 and "much of

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