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 | = - Continaed on n page AIG: ELECTRICITY FROM HOT — SPRINGS? ? Two. OPINIONS — Az WEDNESDAY, JUNE. 13, 1990: Vol. 6, Assue. No, 23° ry af aa Phone 635-7840 ' Fax 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 = ; Continued on page AIG seo /~ Letra Set | erat adn me em i ee rr = ranges y