«AA - The ‘rece Standard, Wednesday, October 5, 2005

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- Thar's gold .. ves

in ‘them thar hills. How much, nobody ‘iow,
* Perhaps : some copper, too. And other metals.
~ It was. gold that brought some of the first Eu-

~". ropeans to this area in the late 1880s. They never:

did find much. |

‘ Some.of the only evidence that remains of their:
~ search can be found at Heritage Park in the form
Of what looks like an artillery piece. Water was
forced through to hydraulically blast.earth’ and

: Tock i in hopes of dislodging. gold underneath. »

Those a bit more adventurous can drive just east
to Kleanza Provincial Park and climb the trail that .

. - winds up to the top of Kleanza Creek. Remains of

’ the Cassiar Hydraulic Mining Company can still

| m _be found there.

| Kleanza means. “gold in ‘the Gitxgan language
| and the‘creek was once called Gold Creek. Placer’ |.
_Inining ‘for gold was first carried out in the creek

inthe late 1890s. Gravel was shoveled from the
-creek’s bars into sluice boxes. »
“This: ‘process proved ‘unsatisfactory ‘because

there. was too. much. water in the creek and the

. bedrock was too deep for handwork.

A provincial mines geologist, JoAnne Nelson |
| \ who. ‘spent, this past. summer in and around Ter-.
~ race looking for mineral-bearing potential, thinks

that: perhaps, attention was diverted from. mining

-_ when the area’s forests. became a more lucrative
Doce “way: to make a living.”

The provincial govertimént wants to change

that by the work of Nelson and by other means to. |.

_ encourage mineral: exploration.

_ Asitis Cranbrook-based Eagle Plains Resoure- |

es.is working two properties just north of -here.
NovaGold from Vancouver's is eee $40 mil-

a : Both companies areusing Terrace asa base. The |

economic benefits so far have been rather hidden.
About the only visible proof of the activity has
been the daily presence: in the sky of helicopters
“heading north.. -

Provincial mines minister Bill Bennett paints a
broad picture of his government’ s push for min-

eral exploration. He sees mining jobs as a partial
’ replacement for those woods jobs which will be
lost because of the devastation of the interior for- »

ests due to the pine. beetle.

-We.don’t have the pine beetle here but Terrace
~ has experienced | its Own economic devastation
due to the collapse of Skeena Cellulose.

It showed us that over dependence upon one in-

“dustry and by one company can have horrendous
results. Le

If mining is a way of. balancing the area’s econ-
omy, then it is important to get in front of this i iS-

sue rather than to play catch up. -_
And that makes it something to be discussed by

municipal and regional district candidates leading

- up to the November civic elections.

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Thornhill’ Ss future needs debating —

3 “WELL, IT looks like the game

. is afoot. -

_ . With the ‘recent motion
at the Regional ‘District of

» Kitimat-Stikine, Thornhill was

. going for the fuli meal deal.

If not amalgamation with
Terrace, then. incorporate
Thornhill as its own munici-

pality.

. The fact that the regional -
district director for Thornhill .

is putting forward a motion to
incorporate is good news for
that community in that even he
‘recognizes that working within

is not where Thornhill’s future
lies. . ;
‘So if the status quo isn’t

working then is incorporation

a better option than ‘amalga-
mation? —

One of . the arguments we
will hear to support incorpora-

“tion will ‘be to’ look’ at! models
like’ the, Greater ‘Vancouver’

Regional District .(GVRD),
which provides governance to
adjoining communities.

_ Conceptually this should.
- work just fine. Take a clos-

er look at that model and if
there’s a definition of dysfunc-:
tional municipal government

‘in action, that group truly is it.

__ The first thing that comes to
mind is their handling of the
RAV Line. If there is a project

.and issue more important in

the lower mainland than trans-

. portation, I can’t think of it.

From economic develop-
-ment, environment,health and
safety concerns, the movement

-- of goods, services and people:
- is something you would think
' they could agree upon.

But one look at their per-

: MY VIEW

-a-regional . district framework _ a

ROGER HARRIS

formance voting over and over

again on the RAV line clearly
demonstrates why that. model
doesn’t work very well.

A quick look at the many —
‘services duplicated over and
over again through each mu-
_hicipality from law enforce- |
ment, maintenance crews to.
administrative staff the cost to

the public is extensive.

Imagine’ the increased ser-
vices the public could receive
if some rationale was brought
to the GVRD model.

From a practical prospective
it makes little sense to build an
entire municipal infrastructure
five minutes down the road
from Terrace.

The argument about. lower.

taxes in Thornhill will go right
out the window as the bureau-

‘ cracy builds and anyone who

believes it won’t grow hasn’t
truly watched government at
work.

A mayor and council for:
Thornhill will demand a sup-
porting administration and
the cost to the residents of

that community will be at
~ least equal to Terrace and in
all likelihood, be significantly

higher.

Today for practical purpos- ,

es the two communities act as

one. Families travel back and |

forth between communities
for sporting and community

. events all the time.
It is a seamless border, |

- where for most, no one really

_knows where’one community

ends and the other begins.

In my last column I wrote,

extensively about the advan-.
tages of being the second. larg-
est city in northern BC. The

importance of being able to
separate yourself from other

communities in search of both
public and private investment.

It is exactly for those rea-
sons that it is so important for
Thornhill and Terrace to final-

“ly speak as.a single voice?

' Today Terrace has ern.
‘ barked on a process to create
_a vision for the community.
- With all of the new provincial
‘and federal infrastructure in-

vestments the world is chang-
ing for all of us.

This is exactly when Ter-
race and Thornhill should be
working together to craft the

collective communities’ Vie

sion for the future.

When the regional district
director cites the Wal-Mart lo-
cation as something that gives
him grief, he is right from one
perspective. It is time that
the two areas: worked collab-

-Oratively not competitively.

The ongoing competition and
fractured politics serves no

productive purpose for either

community.

‘With all of the intense ac-

* tivity that is going on. in the:
.Tegion, how do the residents of
_.Thornhill get their input into
-what the city is doing to mar-

ket the area.
. Where is Thornhill’s voice
in discussions around im-

proving municipal services or
_ infrastructure like the sport-

splex? These are investments
that will directly impact the
residents of both communities .
equally.

Where is Thornhill’s voice
on the deliberations on what
types of manufacturing facili-“.
ties and other investments are”

-brought into the region as a re-.,

sult of the new container port? —

’ As new industry comes to
Terrace, will Thornhill be con-
sidered a viable location; or just :

:an unorganized, low serviced.
surrounding area of Terrace? :
Maybe’ not a fair: comparison,
‘but perception rarely is.

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As Terrace reaches out to-
our neighboring communi-’
ties of Kitsumkalum, Kitselas
Kitamaat,.and the other com- ;
munities of the Nass Valley,
where: will Thornhill fit in:
these new relations. _

But more critically how will
their perspective even be part:
of the conversation.

It is always easy to be criti-:
cal of change and usually not
all that difficult to finds ways.

‘to avoid it.

This incorporation-amalga-
mation debate presents both’
Terrace and Thornhill with
great opportunities. —

If we really think this thing |

through, the way ahead should

be clear as Thornhill’s water.

| Anglers, pickers cause smells

_ EVERY AUTUMN the woods

‘and roadsides in our. Copper

- Mountain. subdivision, espe-
‘cially: Haaland Avenue,. are .

booby trapped with deposits
of rotting fish guts or crap left
by mushroom pickers.

Terriers - and other dogs -

_ revel in these foul finds. They

wallow and roll in the putrid

stuff until their fur is plastered —
with it from chest to haunches. .
- Dog walkers watch for such

hazards particularly in the fall,

although the risk exists ail ,

summer.

' Why are fishermen slobs: .
- when it comes time to prop-
erly dispose of fish entrails?

Would they be happy if an an-
gry dog walker dumped their
mess back on their doorstep?

too,
could afford the. time to bar-
ricade their poop with hand-
fuls of moss or a.teepee off

branches to fend off dogs pre- -

disposed to coat themselves in
human feces.

After a number of 75 degree
evenings canceled our walks,
the dogs and I were enjoying
our first hike in weeks last
Thursday evening when our

THROUGH BIFOCALS

CLAUDETTE SANDECKI

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springer spaniel went AWOL
for a few minutes.

Usually he stays within
sight and frequently runs back

to check on me. When he gal- |

loped back to me, excited as a

puppy, he smelled so awful I

almost gagged. —

As gingerly as possible,
careful to avoid touching his
neck, I leashed him for the
walk home. All the way home
I gave: him a full length of

leash and tried to keep an inch
or two between him and the —

Lab. .
When I needed to blow
my nose, I sniffed instead: of
tweezing a tissue from my
jacket pocket. °

_ Once home, I removed the
leash avoiding his fur, and im-

mediately scrubbed both leas- —

es in Pinesol.
' Like a surgeon, I scrubbed
my hands and forearms with

soap and a nailbrush. About.
' then the phone rang. While I
chatted my husband walked

past me, stopped, backed up,

‘bent’ down and. remarked,

“Phew! You stink.” My knees

- offended him the strongest.

No doubt I had come closer
to the spaniel than I thought.
(This was confirmed days later
by a neighbour’s two dogs. On
my visit, they: vacuumed my
jacket from hem to elbows.)

Cutting the phone call
short, I :changed my slacks,
then rescrubbed my hand and

forearms. Yet a few minutes

later, raising a cup of coffee,

_ I detected a whiff of stench;
‘I must have brushed my nose .
‘ with my leash hand. I scrubbed

my face.
Next morning the spaniel

still assaulted everyone’ S nos-
trils.

1 added a liberal dose of Pi-
nesol to a pailful of warm wa-

ter, captured a ‘handful of hair ‘

between his ears, and wielded
a scrub brush to good effect.’
He hates to be shunned; he
welcomed the scrub. |
At noon, family’ still com-
plained. Again I corralled him,

but this time I lathered him -

from ears to rump with Head.
and Shoulders shampoo. He

hunched, head down, but once — §
_Tinsed and released he happily

bounded around shaking him-

Self dry.

In the many years we’ve
had this spaniel, this is the

‘first bath I’ve ever given him. °

Other autumns he’s luxuriated

in rolling about in rotting fish . |
‘and fecal matter, but never - J

anything as rank and lingering

as this..

I know I’m not alone cop-
ing with this mess. Dozens of
dogs and their owners criss-
cross our unfenced areas daily
in their search for exercise and
fresh air.

Why must lazy slobs spoil
the outing?

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