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YOUR HOMETOWN LOCALLY OWNED AND OPERATED NEWSPAPER

Vol. 4, Issue No. 40

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Victoria, B.C.
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TERRACE, B.C., WEDNESDAY, October 5, 1988

Nobody was frowning last week at the official opening of project Starship _ ‘least of all
Repap chairman and CEO George Petty and Premier Bill Vander Zalm. For story on the
launching of the $42 million sawmill, see page 3.

against
a challenge... page 22.

Legislative Library,
' Parliament Buildings,

50 CENTS

$5 million retail.
complex unveiled |

TERRACE — ‘Kind of excit-
ing” is how acting mayor Bob
Jackman described the
Okanagan-Skeena Group’s new
mall concept, ‘‘It will provide
space for small businesses or
home industries just on the verge

Inside
this week’s

Terrace Review

INUNDATED: Last week’s
rainfall came within a few
drops of breaking a record...
page 15.

THEATER THERAPY: Skeena
drama students are up
their biggest

SUPPORT FROM THE TOP:
Premier Vander Zaim backs a

“northern university... page .

23.

Business Guides. 12. -
Church Directory 16
ClassifiedAds 19 — 22
Coming Events 14
Comics» 18
Crossword 7 18
Dining Directory 10
Editorial = 4.
Entertainment... 10.
Horoscope 2
Letters §
Sports 8
Talk of the Town | a.)
Weather 2

Federal election to be Nov. 21

On Saturday, October 1,
Prime Minister Brian Mulroney
called a federal election to be
held Monday, November 21,
1988 and already Skeena Riding
Associations are busy campaign-
ing. Offices are setting up, press
conferences being called and
pamphlets distributed in Ter-
race,

The candidates for Skeena in-
clude NDP incumbant Jim Ful-
ton, Member of Parliament for
Skeena since 1979, He ran unop-

posed at. the Skeena New

Democratic Party convention
held in Prince Rupert on June
18.

On July 23, Ray Halvorson of
Kitwanga won over Doug Smith
of Terrace in his bid to represent
the Progressive Conservative
party.-Halvorson, a logging con-
tractor and a resident of the
region for 22 years, has started

campaigning on a pro-free trade .

platform.

~ In Smithers on September 10,
Tom Brophy of Usk became the
riding’s Christian Heritage Par-
ty candidate. In an interview
. Terrace Review,
Brophy focused on the issues of

' tax reform and changes to the

- Candidates fire opening shots — page 24

penal and justice systems.
The Liberals have set the date

of their nomination meeting for .

October 10 (Thanksgiving Day)

at 1:30 p.m, at the Terrace
’ Hotel. Those seeking to repre-
sent the party in Skeena are to be.
~ announced shortly.

The federal riding of Skeena
takes in a huge area, stretching
from the B.C./Yukon border to
about 100 kilometers south of
Kemano, as far east as Telkwa
and Walcott, and west to include
the> Queen Charlotte Islands.
The population in the region is
about 78,000.

Terrace voters will be

enumerated by a door-to-door.
‘canvassing from October 14 to

20, returning officer Elaine
Johnson said. She’s organizing

the election for the whole region .

from an office at 4931 Keith (the

former Dave’s Plumbing build-..

ing), with duties including train-
ing enumerators, doing voter list
revisions, and distributing ballot

boxes. There will likely be three.
or four polling stations set up in
Terrace for the November. ar

with the ttew mill

vote, .

At dissolution of parliament,

B.C, had 18 PC MPs, one Liber-

al, eight NDP and one seat va-
cant. In the 1984 election, the
popular vote stood at 46.4 per-
cent for the PCs, 16.43 percent
for the Liberals, and 35.05 per-
cent for the NDP. Brian Mul-
roney held 203 seats, John Tur-

ner 38, and Ed Broadbent 32
seats at the time of dissolution.
Dissolution of parliament kills
the controversial child care
legislation which promised to
double the number of day care

‘spaces to more than 400,000.

The free trade bill is also on the
line, as the Liberal-dominated
Senate had not yet approved it.

Log inventory slows

Alex Houlden of the Terrace
Laggers Association says that an
excessive log inventory could
hurt local small logging contrac-
tors if the situation isn’t rectified
soon. He says that a slow down
in the industry due to weather is
normally expected at this time of
year, but. he expressed concern
that problems at Skeena
Cellulose could. compound the
situation. .

But SCI woods manager Pat
Ogawa says local. contractors
may not notice the difference.
He noted that startup problems
were an-

down contractors

ticipated to cause a backlog of
inventory, but logging was per-
mitted to continue at ‘‘normal’’
levels in anticipation of the fall
slow-down, The mill didn’t
come on line quite as quickly as
he expected and an excessive in-
ventory caused the slow down to
begin in August.

According to Ogawa, as
‘*bugs’’ in the new system are
cured the mill will use up the in-
ventory and logging will pro-
ceed. He said this could take a

few months but pointed out that
there is no real calise. for con ,

cern.

of wanting to expand into ‘mall
space.” Jackman says the con-

cept, as described by Okanagan- .

Skeena’s real estate manager
Robert Guy, was well received at
ameeting of city council’s Com-
mittee of the Whole Monday
night, and council members are

“now waiting for a formal presen-
- tation at a-meeting Oct. 11

before giving approval.

by Tod Strachan

If built as designed, Guy says,
the mall will provide an exciting
new look to downtown Terrace,
and he gives much of the credit
to council for their support and
assistance in finalizing details.
During an interview with the
Terrace Review, Guy used a
model of the $5 million retail
complex to show how the new
structure would complement the

Skeena Mall and the Terrace ©

Shopping Centre by connecting
them as a single unit.

According to Guy, construc-
tion of the center will mean clos-
ing Ottawa St., but due to the
building’s ‘design, vehicle access
will still be open between Greig
and Lakelse. He adds. that the
design will better direct traffic in
a confined area which is now
considered as dangerous. ‘‘One
of the things we want to do is tie
in all the shopping centers,’ he
explained. And, ‘‘One of the
things that council is very
positive on is limiting the access
points.”’

Traffic trying to cross Ottawa
St. and six access routes to
Lakelse Ave. located within a
few hundred feet of one another
would be eliminated. Guy ex-
plained that exits from Skeena
Mall, the liquor store, two at
Petrocan, one in the adjacent
parking lot to the east and one at
Ottawa St. will no longer com-

_ pete. Instead, there will be only

two access routes. to Lakelse
Ave, from the new mall, The
parking lot, from Emerson to
Eby, will provide a free flow of
traffic between the three shop-
ping centers without using city
streets,

Petrocan, the Bank of Com-

merce and the liquor store will

remain in their present loca-
tions, says Guy, but the took will
change and the new center
shouid also attract new business-
es.to the city, ‘We will be
creating new space which is lack-
ing on the market right now,”
he said. ‘‘We’re dealing with
prospective national tenants
who have not had the ability to

. move into the downtown area

because there wasn’t any space
available.””

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