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ay) Terrace Review — Wednesday. July 8, 1987

Simulated
disaster to
‘be analyzed
by Tod Strachan |

Terrace correspondent
TERRACE — A simulated

disaster. held at the Ter- |

race Airport. on June 10
- will be the major topic of
“discussion this week for

the various emergency
response groups who took
'. part in the exercise.

Airport Manager, Dar-
-ryl Laurent, said that a

‘critique was done im-
- mediately following the

‘drill to. examine the more
obvious aspects. of the ex-
-ercise but now that those
involved have had some

"time to analyze their part

in the drill, a more detail-
. ed analysis was required.
“We want to go back

"and contact all the people
~ sinvolved: and have an in- .

°. “depth debriefing. We want

oe ~. to talk about all the things .
~" that didn’t go the way. we

. wanted‘and find out how
‘we can improve on. them

-- ghould-there be an actual
” : disaster. That’s the whole

‘ purpose of the debriefing
+ = to really get down and
. identify.the things that we

- need to improve and try to

‘come up:with some sort of

‘a plan that’s going to cor-

rect the problem.”
--. Laurent said that once

“this debriefing has. been
- completed the emergency
* “procedures: manual :would
be updated to refléct the
experience of the most re-
cent drill. He said a copy

_of the final analysis'would '

salso be sent to the Emer-
gency Services branch of
“Transport Canada who

_ would examine the report . 3

to determine if the drill
met federal criteria for
this type of simulation and

‘ . then return a report: on
’ their view of the effec-

___tiveness of the response of

the various agencies in-

‘volved:

.. “It?s/all a learning pro-
- cess. If one area such as

- Prince George were to

7 identify'a problem during

an exercise and correct it,
‘ then everybody would get

a memo outlining the solu-

‘tion. That's one of the real.
‘ . advantages of doing these

— everybody learns from
them.” h
_ “‘Hopefully we'll do the
same. thing - again - next

-year, It’s mandatory every.

two years but I’d_per-
sonally like to see it done
. every year. You tend to
‘learn something new every
time and the intent is to
_have the best emergency
response possible.
-. *¥ou hope that nothing
ever happens but if it
' dees more lives might -be
saved.”’-

According to Laurent,
the last serious accident i in
- the Terrace area was in the
’ late .70’s when a twin en-
. gine .Otter crashed into
Herman:Mauntain during
. poor visiblity with the loss

of all’ lives.

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EXCAVATION

TERRACE — Work. will - fae
‘begin in earnest.on-Ter-'. - -
race’s new sewage treat-;
ment plant in about two
weeks, according to the
Terrace contractor | who
_ filed the winning bid to do..

_the excavation work.

Bud Smith of Bud’s -
__.Truck and Equipment-got ~—
-the contract with a. low -
tender of $650,000, and he
said in a recent interview .
excavation will start on. .
! the lagoons for. the ‘new

- plant when the Skeena
-River drops from its cur-
rent high level. Smith ex-
plained that if the work
began now the excavations
would fill up as.the dig-
- ging intercepted the water ~
table. .

The ‘project is expected

- to keep. six pieces. of

machinery and a crew of.

-* Members of the Terrace Rotary sfo-pitch ball team pose fora etre while discussing thelr.game plan.

Royal Bank turns -

TERRACE — The. Royal
Bank opened. its first full---
time branch in Terrace on-
July 2, 1947 in an office —

located . at: the. corner. of.
Kalum: Street and Greig
Avenue (Smilin’.
building).

James Stevenson. 'was
the first: Manager, at an
annual salary of $2,750
plus a living allowance of

$400. There were three on.

staff in addition to Mr.
Stevenson. and __ records
show that there were 526
savings accounts and 156
chequing accounts. ~

Prior to this, the Royal.
Bank had been running a -

sub-office (one or two
days a week) in the hard-
ware store at the corner of
Kalum and Lakelse, own-
ed by Lloyd Johnstone
and Clarence Michiel (ex-
isting Bank of Nova
Scotia building). This sub-

branch was. operated from”

Dec. 1946 to June 1947,
and was. run by: Arnold
Flaten who came by train
from Prince Rupert.

In 1952 the Bank built
new premises on Lakelse

_ (existing Twin City Meats) -
and moved. The branch
-had now grown to a staff

Sy Bee,
pele

Jack’s:

of nine, with 1,468 savings
accounts, |

‘The Manager in 1952 was
a Jim T. McConnell. This:
location was the. site of the
1958 robbery,

The Royal “remained in |
‘these premises until.

January 1969, when the

existing building was con- f
structed and the staff of

22 along with Manager

Gary Vallance. were happy
to move into what was:
considered very modern:

premises. However, Ter-

race continued to grow: &

and the’ -entire premises

‘was renovated in. April

1976. and the building ex-
panded sideways.
staff at the time numbered
46, and hit an all time high

of 49 in 1981 before slowly |

decreasing over the. next
several years with com-

puterization, to its present .

level of 30.

The Royal Bank has
had close associations
with the community over

the 40 years, hiring mostly . i.
‘local clerical staff and en-

thusiastically participating
in. local. events’ such as
Riverboat Days onan an-

continued on page 6.

368  chequing ©
-accounts and 365. loans.

%* . -...10-dusy for about two and .
~~" a half months. Smith said”
the: work. will include '‘ex- . -.
cavating two large pitsfor =~
sewage . lagoons, berm |
construction and’ trench-

. ing: for ' pipe.

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