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18 Terrace Review — Wednesday, October 28; 1987

- Council asked again to support RAFT |

Council members have met
with representatives from Pro-
ject RAFT (Responsible Action

for Teens) to discuss possible .

facilities for housing the pro-
gram and have been waiting
since then for an updated report

_ from a newly elected executive.
In a Community and Recrea-
tion Services report, Alderman

Doug Smith said they met with’

acting project RAFT director
Rose Stevenson and discussed a
RAFT request that the city sup-
port the project by providing a
permanent building and staff.
Smith said that Stevenson told
the committee they will be
holding a public meeting to seek
necessary volunteers and to
restructure the program, and she
also indicated that the North-
west Community College Hu-
man Service. Worker program
may be willing to assist.
However, according to Stev-
enson, RAFT may suffer a pre-
-mature death because of a lack

of public interest. She said that .

the Oct. 19 public meeting had a
“very poor’’ response and the
_ program may cease to exist.

Stevenson explained that Pro-
ject RAFT provided a variety of
“loosely organized’’ activities
modelled. on a boys’ club theme
which was: designed for teens

who couldn’t fit into more struc- —

tured programs.

She said that RAFT had pro-.

vided recreational activities for
about 100 -teens with ‘‘nothing
‘to do’, through a variety of
sports, weight lifting, video
nights, cooking and carpentry

‘programs from November 1986.

to May. 1987. .

“ARRANGEMENTS MADE ™:
FOR SPECIAL OLYMPIANS
Special Olympics athletes may
soom be getting a break on pool
rental rates.
- , Council has adopted a Recrea-
-.tion “Committee recommenda-
tion giving-the superintendant of
and Recreation the
‘authority. to contact Special
Olympics organizers and ar-
 Yange special times and rates.
In its recommendation, the
. committee said they would en-
dorse any arrangements made by
the two parties.

__ MORE TENNIS
’ COURTS PROPOSED

The Community and Recrea-
tion Services committee has
reported to council that it was
studying a proposal submitted
by the Terrace Tennis Club for
development and improvement
of tennis courts in Terrace.

In its proposal the Tennis
Club said they were looking for
a financial commitment. from
council to build as many as nine

new courts in town and to
upgrade all existing courts.

REZONING REQUEST
SOUGHT FOR
FUNERAL HOME

The city is considering a re-
quest from Alfred and: Hazel

DeFranc of Smithers for a zon- ©

ing bylaw change and: have sent
the request to the Planning and
Public Works committee for a
recommendation.

In their request, the
DeFranc’s have asked that the
current Public Administration
and Assembly (P1) zoning
covering the old Anglican
Church Hall at 4727 Park Ave.
be amended to include funeral
homes.

On their application they said
they planned to operate a
funeral home and chapel in the
old church hall and intended to
carry out interior renovations,
add a carport/garage and do a
major exterior face lift.

SUBDIVISION REQUEST

A request from John Kroeker
for city permission to create a
new five-acre parcel of land by

subdividing his property in the -

$300 block McConnell Ave. has
been sent to council’s Public
Works committee for a recom-
mendation. .
In a memo to. city council, .

- City Administrator Bob Hallsor
asked that the subdivision be
permitted, even though this
would result in a frontage. less
than one-tenth the perimeter of.

the property, and to givethe Ap-. J

proving Officer the authority to

approve frontage reductions in- :

the future...

~:“Hallsor ‘explained - that’

“numerous five acre lots already

exist on that portion of McCon- ;

nell, not all of which meet the.
one-tenth minimum.

He explained that it was a re-
quirement of the Municipal Act
that city iots must have a front-
age greater than one-tenth the
property’s perimeter, and
therefore a council resolution is
required to approve the
variance.

“Since we have already es-
tablished and given prior ap-
proval of council for this type of.
development, I see no problem
with approving this applica-
tion,’’ said Hallsor. ;

SIGN BYLAW AMENDMENT

A bylaw to amend sign bylaw
number 1102-1986 and to incor-

. porate the regulation of residen- 3

tial business signs within the city
of Terrace has been given its
third reading by council and will

probably be adopted in the near |

future.
Proposed changes to the

Hallowe’en — continued from page 4

one-night extortion racket for
the young, and it is thought that
those miserly souls who would
refuse to share at harvest time,
and implicitly disdain to share
with the poor, got their just
deserts in the form of pranks.

The pranks have evolved to an
art form down through the ages.
At one time the overturning of
outhouses enjoyed a high popu-
larity, but with the advent of
underground plumbing and in-
door facilities the fad passed to
be replaced by soaped windows,
egg-throwing and more sinister
types of vandalism like perm-
anent forms of property dam-
age, violence and assassination
attempts against the young
door-to-door beggars through
the use of poisoned treats and
hidden razor blades.

One of:the awful flaws of this

fast-moving urbanized society is
that we no longer know one an-
other, and the Hallowe’en tradi-
tion has deteriorated into a sort
of low-level terrorism affecting

everyone and directed at no one, ©

There is some doubt that justice
was ever done by retaliatory
pranks, but at least in bygone
eras the pranksters knew who
they were wreaking havoc upon,
and why.

Oct. 31 will be a busy evening
for the Terrace RCMP. They are
recommending costume parties
that stay in one place and urge
parents to accompany their chil-
dren on any door-to-door excur-
sions, All the loot acquired from.
generous strangers should be ex-
amined and young pedestrians
should be decked out in bright
clothing. ;

bylaw, which regulates signs for
residential businesses, will per-
mit one free-standing sign per
site, no closer than five feet to
the property line, and with a
maximum height of six feet.

The bylaw would ban ‘‘sand-
wich-style” or portable signs for
good, as well as any political
campaign or real estate signs on
any public right-of-way, street
or municipally-owned property
without the written approval of
the municipality.

Although the bylaw would
ban illuminated or electrified
signs, it would. allow. indirect
lighting and would stipulate that
all signs must include the street
number, the type of business
and/or products sold. -

TRAILER TO STAY
In response to a letter written

to the Ministry of the Attorney

General last June asking that the
city be adivsed about the per-
manency of a trailer unit at the

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Terrace Correctional Centre, the
city has been told that the trailer
was not intended to be a per-
manent fixture but would re-
main as long as the ministry
needs it,

Attorney General Brian Smith

said in his reply to council,-‘‘The
purpose of the trailer unit is to
assist in housing minimum
security inmates during. periods

‘of overcrowding which, I am ad-

vised,. Occur only on rare occa-
sions. Normally, the count at the
Terrace Community Correc-
tional Centre does not exceed 24
inmates who are housed in the
main center.’’

He added that he had been ad-
vised by the B.C. Buildings Cor-
poration that the trailer unit
conforms to national building
codes and is regularly inspected
by the Office of the Fire Mar-
shall, .

**The Corrections Branch will

continue to respond to safety

standards as instructed by the
Fire Marshall or municipal
building inspectors,’’ Smith
said, but he admitted, ‘‘Mobile
trailers in general do not fit into
the zoning bylaws.
“*‘However, the trailer unit at
Terrace Community Correc-
‘tional Centre is not intended to
be a permanent structure and the
requirement for this facility will
be placed under regular review.’*

Alderman Ruth Hallock re-
sponded to the minister’s letter -

by. pointing that a trailer that
had been on the site for two
years could hardly be called
“‘temporary’’, and the matter

' Was sent to. the Public Works

committee to draft a response.

VEHICLE ALLOWANCES CUT
BY VEHICLE PURCHASE.
_A recommendation to cit city
costs by purchasing two addi-
tional vehicles has been accepted
by city council.
continued on page 21

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