ee he ee tees Zed ili aa tied Shakey te a SIGNS posted i in the Wal- ‘Mart parking lot Clearly Inform RV campers that overnight stays are not allowed. =” "SARAH A. ZIMMERMAN PHOTO Local peeved at RV Campers: BY SARAH A. ZIMMERMAN DESPITE A complaint by a Thornhill - resident, city officials say they won't be policing the Wal-Mart parking lot ‘ to ensure RV campers don’ t spend the night there. A city bylaw prevents overnight - camping within city limits unless in a designated campground and Sheila Bork says it needs to be enforced to “prevent RV campers from parking’ in ” the store’s parking lot overnight. - She says. money’ generated. from camping fees at the nearby Ferry Island _ campground is important to the local . economy and to promote tourism here. “Ferry Island is beautiful we just put an new expansion in there,” Bork says, adding it wouldn’t take much for RV drivers to cross the river‘and spend. the : night in a fully serviced campground. “Tourist season is upon us and we need to foster good relations with our visiting guest but not at the cost of loss- S401 our-economy-?... a ‘A LOCAL appraiser is being honoured by his peers by _ Award created in Terrace man’s name : The award will be presented to the chosen appraiser when the provincial association hold its annual general meeting next month in Nelson. I “It was kind of a surprise but I guess they have been thinking about some kind of an award for somebody who had made a major contribution to the association,” Goodwin having an award created in his name. The Keith Goodwin Award will be presented by the B.C. Association of the Appraisers Institute of Canada to an ap- praiser for making outstanding contributions to the profes- sion. Goodwin first became the regional representative of the B.C. association and then its president before moving up to eventually serve as president of the national institute. Wal-Mart is widely known in RV circles: for being RV-friendly and in many cities the company encourages. campers to spend the night. But when Wal-Mart came to Ter- -Tace, area RV park owners complained © allowing visitors to camp in the store’s . parking lot would take business away from them. ” Store management agreed. to post . signs informing customers camping’ S not allowed here. Despite the signs, Bork says some _ RV campers are still spending the night even though Ferry Island is just a few . _-hundred metres away. . City planner | David . Block’. says © Bork’s i is the first ‘complaint: about the issue that he’s had. all year and unless — the overnight camping becomes a sig- ” nificant issue, the city simply can’t take the extra time to enforce the bylaw. That’s because Terrace has been without a bylaw enforcement officer since February.of. 2005 - When that Po- said last week. force our bylaw, sition was axed asa cost-saving mea- sure. “T guess if we had the manpower and. _.the staff and bylaw enforcement people in the evenings to go there and request | them to move we could do that,” Block says. “With the staff levels we have we just.don’t have the people to patrol out . there in the evening.” ‘Bork doesn’t buy the response and says it’s up to Wal-Mart management to enforce the rules. Not so, says Block. “It’s our bylaw, so when it comes down. to it, it is incumbent on.us toen- * ” he said. The store itself can’t be fined for al- lowing camping there unless it is found to be promoting. the parking lot. as a campground, “If we found an ad in the tourism flyer saying, ‘come camp in your RV in ° the Terrace parking lot,’ then we could fine them,” Block says. a ra Mt There a are about 1, 200 appraisers across B.C. Video rental outlet moves to mall ‘TERRACE’S only locally-owned video -rental outlet has moved locations. Video Stop moved from it’s Lake- ‘Ise Ave. location across from the Coast ‘Inn of the West to the Skeena Mall at ae | ‘ ‘ 4 4 Bee ee Fete ettell, fatleiecte data it Yi ai) ‘the end of July. The outlet’s new home i is located i in the former Citizens On Patrol office i in the shopping centre. , The. newer location should be just as convenient for customers returning — videos and. DVDs because it has its ' , own entrance from the parking lot of the mall. 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