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Jack Talstra: |

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“SMITHERS: — A Canadian
Airlines flight to Terrace aban-
doned standard procedures
Thursday and force-landed ‘at
the Smithers airport in-a snow
squall. because it was low on

airline- spokesmen con-
firmed.

The 737 jet was flying from
‘Terrace Oct. 11 ,
) take on. fuel i in Ter-
before flying: on to Van-

time ‘of the incident.
Cloud at the Terrace airport

forced the: plane to‘turn:back 9,
“Smithers:
- snowstorni had developed at the
. Smithers: airport” ‘that would

‘Meahwhllé”

normally have prevented a lan-

_ ding’ there, Canadian Airlines

spokesmen said.

~ ‘Although the. craft did not
run out of fuel, pilots were forc-
ed to. fly through ‘(extreme
weather conditions” because of
the fuel shortage, said Gerry
Schwab, manager of Canadian
Airlines, Smithers, -

"The snow squall could have
lasted all afternoon and (the
pilot) certainly did not have the
fuel to circle all that time,’” he

. said.

Canadian Airlines spokesman
Jack Lawless —- in town that
day to announce cuts in flight
service to Smithers ~ said the
plane left Smithers at 10 a.m.
after ledrning weather in Ter-
race was clear. But conditions in
Terrace changed by the time
they arrived, forcing their
return to Smithers.

‘Again, Lawless said, the pilot
was told the weather was‘clear,
but by the time the jet arrived
oyer Smithers, a snow squall

covered the airport,’ :

With-a: dwindling fuel supply
and the: ‘pilot: ‘rapidly. running
out of * ‘options, Lawless. said it
was: critical’? - the jet land in
s - despite” the: bad
‘It’: “couldin’ t’ go
anywhere” else: —. everywhere
else was socked in.”

procedures;
have carried ‘out: what is known

' aS a’ tnisted-approach pro-

boy“ who drowned in’ a local

pond. this ‘spring - Say. they will.

sue a-local farmer's insurance
company;.’ ‘but not’ the. City of
Terrace os

‘Davi Wainer, lawyer for the:

Parsons. family- whose’ gix-year-
old, boy’ died in the pond created
by: works” of," local” chicken

farmer’ Stan’ Kinkead, ‘says the’:
family, has. demanded: an: Une
distloied’ amount. “of ‘mon ey”

from Kinkead’s insurers.
_ The ‘company has sod days to

. Bay marina expansion

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“cOUve “he “was ‘carrying five
: crew. and: 50° passengers at the -

the airplane would.

budgetary shortfall: b

- Works Canada’s. July stimates ‘the
_ Kitimat-Stikine regic

_ been told the projected
20 eu
agdin — this time to jus sh

million. ° et

money the federal “and: provincial:
governments havé committed to the. -Pro-
ject by more than $1 million. ° ye

However, |

band, willy “feduce “the”

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district chairman -
Taistra remains hopeful ‘both: levels. of. i.
government, will come up’ “with, more’
money and that, combined with‘a: ‘con- |;
tribution by the Kitamaat. Village, Haisla “

.- $100,000, h

“Jack .

“Which gave’
then: proj
- of

if vageable proportions.

: \Talstra said. the district ‘had ‘already
talked. to Tory.M.P: Frank Oberle about’
:thé'p ssibility of Ottawa “topping up"?

‘prepared to handover an. extra -

7 could be increased to. $400,000,
The’ district Mill also ‘go back to the
provincial government to Tequest an in- -
crease in thé'GO.B.C. grant it approved ¢
in June of: last. year
$707,000 ‘was now ‘out of date because
. the amount had'been based one formula

Victoria. incr eased, the grant to one-

lion: . grant \ approved’: in
Noting» the federal
ready indicated it was .

as’ hopeful that: figure

He ‘pointed out the

he, district one-third of the
1 million cost.

third of the latest projections, it would
mean‘an extra $300,000 for the district
and.close.the gap to approximately half
a-million dollars. -;

- Since negotiations . with the. Haisla

, band on how much equity it wanted to
acquire i in the joint venture had not yet
begun, Talstra would not speculate on
‘what, effect: any. agreement would have -.
on the’ amount the.district would even-

‘tually have to finance...

Commenting on the: chain ‘of events
which has :seen cost estimates double
since ‘October of ‘last-year, he pointed.
out Public ‘Works Canada-rather than
the district has been in charge of phase I
of the project — that included dredging
the old marina basin, ‘‘dry land’ ex-
cavation * and installation. ofa new

for weekly treks at the irary.e

:| Mountain vistas

i . TOUGH BUSHWHACKING was 5 required for hiker and shutterbug John Williams to get to the top
+f ‘this tidge Svetlooking Exstew valley wast of Terrace. But judging’ frorn’ the frequency of the
camera clicks, the view was worth it, Williams, of Kitimat, led the jocal hiking club which meets

ch: Sunday mo ing:

=. on the expeditio

it aunched.

TERRACE — The family OF a:

the. family will sue for.
negligence,

Joey Parsons fell through ice”
on the pond behind Kinkead’s ‘

property on the bench Mar. 23,

The family had also: been. con- :
‘sidering suing ‘the city; bécause ..

it failed to enforce.a 1986. city.
‘Council resolution: ordering : the
pond: filled in and fenced off. ©

+4 Welve come to-the decision
here’s no point in suing the cl-.
“ty, Warner sald. “- ‘don't::

‘think - we'd be ‘successful —-
“mainly because. they're not.

egally bound ic enforce their ,

City eyes

Sting

TERRACE — If the recently
established escort service per-
sists in operating here without a
business licence, the city may
enforce its by-law by mounting
a sting operation, says its direc-
tor of permits and licences,

Target’ of the operation
would be Tiara’s Finest Escort
Service: which - recently began
advertising ‘its service in local
newspapers.” -.°.

Potential clients. phone a Jocal
number *: which-. ~ puts ‘them

through* te thes “conipany's Fort -
St, John base.A meeting.is then .-
arranged: ‘and: ‘Tiara’s passes: on.

the details of the date to its Ter-
race employees, .
Confirming: no. licence ap-

- plication had -been recieved

from Tiara’s as-of last week,

_ Bob Lafleur said the city had

made every effort to ensure the

owner was aware of the need for

a licence,
That

included sending a

registered letter advising her of

the the city’s by-law’ re-
quirements, Because the “only
address the city had was a Fort
St. John postal box and
registered letters could not be.
delivered to a box number,
Lafleur said the city had first to
initiate a company title search.

Having obtained the name
and street address of owner
Marie Gelinas, he said the
Tegistered letter had been sent

more than two weeks ago. “We -

gat the card back that it had
been delivered and that’s the
last we heard,”* he added,

He had also telephoned the
number listed in Tiara’s
newspaper ‘advertisements and
left a message for. Gelinas to
return the call. ‘And that
didn't happen: either.’’

Admitting .the nature of the
business made it difficult to tell
whether. it was in fact operating
in the city, Lafleur said ‘The
only thing we could do if push
came to shove would be to set
up a sting.’

The city had sought advice
from the RCMP as to how it
would _ work. and: the local
detachment had indicated it was

breakwater.

“We ‘left it
because, frankly, we thought they knew,
what they were doing,’* he said. Now, -
however, the district had, belatedly’
discovered this type of ¢ overrun was “not:
unusual’’ with marinas built.
agency,

“Apart from the problem oft
cost, Talstra noted the new facility’:
would also be one-third smaller’ ‘than |
originally planned andthe completio :
date had been put back several times.

‘with,. Public Works: ;

r

“by. that:

lating :

ee

“Public Works Candda last. “week
awarded ‘the ‘contract’ for MK’ Bay.
Marina’s new breakwater but In doing « i.

cont'd A2 See |

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prepared to co: -operate with: the

city should the -measure. prove

necessary.

“‘We'd simply: make.a. ‘phone

call and set up a date and. be

standing there with our book of -

tickets,”’ Lafleur explained: The

RCMP would also be on hand

to ensure the city representative
the correct name from the in-

dividual who would be served .

with the ticket:

“We're not. “trying to: put
them (Tiara's) out of business,?’

he emphasized, ‘We're just try-

ing to -get-across that if they're.
going to operate here, they need |

a business licence to do it,””"

While Gelinas argued she:
didn’t need a licence because the ..

business was based in Fort St.
John and not Terrace, Lafleur
said both the Municipal Act and
the city’s own by-laws clearly
stated if a business “offered a
service for a fee’’ within the city
limits, it had. to have a local
licence,

He also pointed out many

non-resident enterprises obtain--

eda licence, even if it was a con-
tractor coming here to do just a
single job,

Gelinas was unavailable for
comment.

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