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Vol. 3, Issue No, 52

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_ As 1987 becomes history and
‘anew. and unknown entity called
1988 becomes the present, a look.

at what 1987 actually was ‘seems
to be in order, :

The Americans. signed . a.

breakthrough disarrnament:trea-

Legislative Library,

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Parliament Buildings,
Victoria, B.C,

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TERRACE, B.C. WEDNESDAY, December 30, 1987

-countered strident opposition at
-a series of public meetings, was
placed in an indefinite limbo by

directors of the: Kitimat-Stikine -
a ‘Regional District.
Terrace. city. council. held: a

_ Public meeting in an effort to get

_ty with the Soviet Union, :Cana-
dians have all but clinched a.

bilateral trade agreement~ with

- the. United States, localized ‘war- .
fare continues in every. corner of -

the world, and people are still
starving in many places, -
_ The. news.in Terrace. wasn’t

cumstance for which most of us
are thankful, but 1987 was a
‘ Significant year in. many ways
here. On the city’s 60th. birth-
day, these are some of the events
that made headlines, taken from
issues of the. Terrace Review.

January —

ent from.the B.C. government
elevating the community from

- district. to city -status..-The

a cir-

Skeena Mall was the site for a -

public celebration, and January

22.was.proclaimed ‘‘City of Ter-

race Day” throughout the prov.

ince.

- The Greater Terrace Official

‘Community, Plan, “having: en-

some direction on the issue of °
logging -trucks traversing N. |

Sparks St. and ‘Halliwell Ave.

The issue was destined to haunt

council chambers. for the rest of
the year,

‘Students at Skeena Junior’
Secondary School sent $2,000 in.

proceeds from their first ‘*Starv-

athon’’ to ‘an~ orphanage in
Brazil, School District 88 put a
$7.4 million capital expense pro-

posal to replace the aging school _
on the back burner, and trustees
decided. at the first. board

meeting of the year.to continue

the policy of. closed committee

Terrace received Letters Pat- meetings.

Fears within the umber in-
dustry were realized as Canadian
‘softwood exports to the U.S.
were nailed with a 15 percent
tariff. A replacement system of
higher: provincial stumpage fees
is presently being considered. by
the U.S. authorities.

The Terrace RCMP detach-
“ment got -a..new Officer-in-

er Year Older |

Review. panel;

Charge, Inspector Larry Yeske,
who moved here from North
Vancouver. The previous
detachment. head, Insp. Ron
Evans, was posted to Halifax.
‘A, freak wind blew the roof
off MacKay’ s Funeral Home.

ce _ February

' The Labour Legislation
consisting of
Labour Minister Lyall Hanson

“and two: government MLAs,

held day-long hearings at North-
‘west Community College. Local

ways to improve the labor code -
and the system, the panel heard
‘a couple of horror-stories about
employment. conditions’ in ‘the
logging industry, and shortly
afterward the government came
up with Bill 19, the Industrial
Relations Reform Act.

' Skeena Cellulose announced
approval in principle for a $25
million project to build a new
sawmill in Terrace.

Terrace council decided to put
the thorny Sunday and holiday
shopping issue to a public vote
and called a referendum,

The comprehensive land claim
of the Council of Tsimshian Na-
tions to land and marine areas of
the-north coastal region was ac-

50 CENTS

~ residents submitted ~advise on --"S == === 7 =
Terrace’ s official emissaries chosen by a panel of judges during this Dia-

mond Jubilee year. are Miss Terrace (center), Charlotte Shoeps, First

- Princess Becca Shears, and Second Princess Lelgha Needham. It's been a.
busy year for the three young ladies. — ;

cepted for negotiation by the
federal government, fo
Community. Futures, a federal |

government economic develop- —

ment program, came ‘to: the

Kitimat-Stikine region with a_
potential $1.5 million to aid:

economic recovery in the area. .
March

The: demise of the Kit-’

sumkalum community ski hill
was reported, but the facility
came ‘back to -life again this
winter under the direction of the

Shames Mountain Ski,Corpora- .

tion,

Appeals against proposed ef-

fluent discharge -into Lakelse

Lake by the Mount Layton Hot.
Springs were dismissed. by Direc-

tor of Waste Management
Robert Ferguson. |

A Nanaimo-based escort ser-
vice applied for and received a

business license to set up shop in:
Terrace. That’s the last we heard

of them.

School. District 88 trustees
25 percent —

voted themselves a

raise. 2. ;
“Terrace McDonald’s franchise
‘operator - ‘Malcolm. Hilcove’ wa:

chosen Busitiess Executive’ of the

year by the local. Chamber: “at
- Commierce.

- The Unemployed ‘Action Cen-
tre, a fixture in Terrace since the
beginning of. the--.cearly-1980’s

and closed.
- April

became Jack Kempf’s successor
in the:portfolio of Forests and

‘ Lands. Parker resigned his seat
as school trustee and a by-

election was called. moe
* The Ministry of Health ap- |

proved a $1 million project to

to the Terraceview Lodge. .
The Cancer Control Agency

in Vancouver discovered that

stomach cancer mortality in the
Northwest is nearly double the
provincial average. No explana-

' 4 . tion has yet been offered,

‘Canada Day 1987 celebrations In Heritage Park drew hoards of local families,

magnatic attraction for sweet-toothad youngsters.

and a giant sized birthday cake proved to be a particularly

Dozens of angry logging con-
tractors. converged on the

‘Skeena Constituency Office to

demand action from MLA Dave

’ Parker against a local company
that wasn’t honoring financial

commitments. The protest turn-

_ ed out to be the tip of a woods

industry «iceberg, and the

‘Ministry of Labour later launch-

eda full-scale investigation.
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