Mayor Jack Talstra received an unusual! but significant bit.of memorabilia.

Monday night from the Rotary Club — a muffler that became detached from
its vehicle somewhere on Halliwell Ave. The street Is now In the process of
: oe. paved. =

- Auction tickets going fast |

Tf you haven't bought your ticket

a for. the R.E.M. Lee Hospital Foun-
- dation "Gala Evening and Auction"

yet you had better do. it now.

.. There are not many left.-There is a
.. chance you will be able ‘to sit
-, home and watch it on channel 10
~ ,but «that’s only. an. unconfirmed

_ rumor so. fat, If that’s your choice,

- {hough, .you’ll only find out what
. you! ve missed... you ‘won't be able

to ‘bid on a single item,

Items like Roy Henry Vickers

limited edition print-of Ringbolt”

Island: entitled "Kitselas". This
painting was commissioned espe-

cially for this event, and justin.

case you haven’t seen any of Vic-
kers work.we’ll tell you right now

that it’s not going to go cheap.
There’s also limited edition prints .
by Bruce Dall,

"Sounds of .

Nature", ' and, -Sue - Coleman,
"Fishing", ‘and an original land-
scape by W. Visserman.

Or how about something a little

more unusual? There’s polished

petrified wood, an unusual. Cree
Indian offering, birch bark chewi-:
ng, an aigillite totem: from the
“Queen Chartoties; and a couple of
items thought to be extremely rare |

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WEDNESDAY, JUNE. 13, 1990:

Vol. 6, Assue. No, 23°
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Phone 635-7840
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635-7269

Skylink inquest
books five days,
16 witnesses

TERRACE— _ ‘The coroner’s
inquest into the deaths of seven

_ people ona Skylink Airlines flight

that crashed in Terrace last fall
begins. in ‘the court house on
Kalum St. Monday. Northem
regional coroner John Wolsey will
preside over. the inquest.

Wolsey’s office said last week
the court room has been booked
for five days, although Wolsey
added that he hopes the process

~ won't take that long. An inquest

has powers. of calling witnesses

nal court trail, and Wolsey said 16

witnesses have been called to

"testify during the Skylink proceedi-

ngs.
Scheduled to take the stand are:
Archibald Stewart Buchanan, a
corporate jet captain; Kelly Derk-
sen, an aviation refveller; Bruce
Chapman; Charles Thomas Milner,
flight service specialist; John

Henry How, weather service spe-

cialist; George Wright, manager of
safety and security for the Terrace-
Kitimat airport, Todd King, a

Skylink baggage handler; Barry
Keith Franzmann, a Terrace emer-
gency medical specialist; Robert
Allan Coburn, a forest technician; -
Ian Swan, helicopter company base
manager; pilot Bill Ashe; Donald
Royai; pilot Brian McCook; Ter-

race RCMP staff sergeant Woods; . .

Ruby Debest, a pilot for Transport
Canada; and Roger Ayotte, super-
intendent of operations for the

Canadian Transportation Accident .

Investigation and Safety. Board
(formerly the Canadian Aviation
Safety: Beard).

The crash, involving a Skylink
Metroliner 18-passenger airplane,
occurred. on the moming of Sept.
26, 1989, Five passengers and two
crew members perished. The Cana-
dian Aviation Safety Board has
completed its investigation into the
accident, but the report has not yet
been released to the public. An

interim report did rule out “tech :

nical problems" as a cause.

The entire inquest process will be
open to the public.

Steel mill in
Rupert unlikely,
pen SayS

An announcement last week by
the provincial government that
Prince Rupert is in the running ‘as

- a location for a $4 billion steci
~ mill‘ is being dismissed as wishful

thinking by at least one expert.

_ Steve Laciak, an investment
analyst for Wood Gundy in
Toronto, told the Terrace Review
Monday that China Steel, the pros-
pective proprietor named by the
Ministry of Regional and Econ-
omic Development, will in all

probability decide on Malaysia as-

a location for the mill.

In the ‘announcement Prince
Rupert and: Port: Hardy were said

to be “short-listed” as potential ,

locations for the mill. Skeena
MLA and northern. development

minister Dave Parker said "prefeag-.
ibility" studies will be conducted
by the government and China Steel

for. both cities. -

- Laciak said China Steel is exaln-

ining other areas of the. world

"much. more scriously” and rated : | -

the possibility of the plant actually

being built in either B.C. location

as being “very small". China Steel,

he, said, would like to: have a‘
"+ strong-domestic market for steel

wherever it builds the mill, and
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