The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, March 3, 1993 - Page Ag

Aircraft swarm into airport

FIRST OF 18 aircraft bringing in B. C. Winter Games athletes
"from around the province touches down at supper time last
"Wednesday, Chartered Air B.C. aircraft continued landing into

swelled the ranks of those attending the games in Kitimat, Lo-
cal volunteers were kept busy ferrying people and their lug-
gage. The procedure was jepeated on the weekend as
athletes returned to their homes.

, tie early morning hours of Thursday as hundreds of people

Storage plan angers Thornhill residents

PCB meeting

TERRACE — Dairyland Foods
has agreed to meet with angry
neighbours of its Thomhill prop-
erly where the company wauts to
‘build a PCB storage site.

“. Alex Grant, a wasie manage-
ment technician with the environ-
ment ministry, says the company

indicated it will comply with the —

‘environment ministry's ‘Tequest

that it meet with concerned Tesi-.

dents.:

~ Grant said = the ministry’s
regional - manager made the re-
quest-after recciving at least four

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But residents say they’ve been
told only those peaple who have
written letlers will be invited to
the meeting.

Agrifoods International
Cooperative Ltd. — the parent

‘company of Dairyland Foods —

has applied for a permit to store
up to 8,000: kilograms of PCB-
contaminated electrical . equip-
ment on ils property near Terrace.

The company plans to use the
same Kofoed Drive property from
which it distributes milk to store
the: PCBs, which would = be
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The permit allows for storage of
contaminated electrical equip-
ment only — not large quanlitics
of PCB oil. The old Quorescent
light ballasts and capacitors
would be placed in sealed,
plastic-lined drums and stored in
a large shipping container, inside
a fenced compound,

Grant said the ministry also
received a letter from City of Ter-
race engineering director Sicw
Christensen requesting assurances
that the Terrace water supply
would not be threatened oy the
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forward so we can address them

when we review the application,”

Grant said,

He maintains the Dairyland
proposal is a low-risk one.

“The existing regulations pro-
vide acceptable protection for the
public,”’ Grant says. ‘‘Anybody
who understands the regulations
and safeguards that are put in
place would feel a lot less
worried about PCB storage
sites." a

The date ;for,tho:meeting with
residents has not yel heen set:

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Council shorts

Parking problem cited

A LACK OF PARKING is causing difficulties for local seniors at-
tending events at the Happy Gang Centre on Kalum St.
Aileen Frank, secretary of the local Old Age Pensioners organiza-
tion branch, said the problem was particularly bad when the group
holds its monthly membership meetings during the afternoon.
Although members had previously got round the problem by park-
ing on the vacant lot at the corner of Kalum and Lakelse, she
pointed out that lot had been used as a snow dump over the winter.
**Parking isn’t too great a problem when we have our suppers as
the stores and banks are closed,’’ she added.
Council has asked by-law enforcement officer Frank Bowsher to
mect with the seniors to discuss the situation and bring back 4
report including possible solutions.

Dangerous driving tagged

THE NORTHWEST LOGGERS association wants the city to take
action to climinate a dangerous driving practice at the south end of
Sande Overpass.

In a letter before last weck’s council mecting, association man-
ager Bill Sauer said southbound vehicles tuming left off the over-
pass were immediately crossing over into the far lane instead of
staying in the inside once.

At times, this meant they were swinging right in front of trucks
which, having already halled at the Keith Ave. stop sign, ‘‘are
legally preceding in the outside lane,’’ Sauer explained.

Suggesting a solid yellow line be continued around the corner, he
said that would make drivers realize Keith Ave. traffic had the right
of way.

Noting that stretch of road is a provincial highway and not under
the cily’s jurisdiction, council decided to ask engineering director
Stew Christenscn to talk to the Highways department about the
problem.

Road show gets grant

COUNCIL LAST WEEK agreed to give the Canadian National In-
stitute for the Blind (CNIB) a $500 grant to cover part of the cost of
bringing its mobile technology exhibit to town.
Local CNIB community co-ordinator Ray Tremblay said the ex-

hibit will be here Sept, 17.as part of a province-wide tour.
- He said it will give residents an opportunity to have ‘‘hands-on
demonstrations’’ of equipment and technological advances they
would not get to see unless they travelled to larger metropolitan
centres,

‘Tremblay emphasized the grant would be used only to cover the
cast of bringing the exhibit 10 Terrace, not the accommodation or
‘living expenses of those staffing it.

. Having the city’s financial support would also avoid the need to
spend donated dollars and increase the number of communities
Visited, he added,

Land swap proceeds

A LAND SWAP is in the works which will change the layout of
back lanes at the corner of Lazelle and Sparks, ,

The existing city plan has a lane running north from Lazelle and
adjacent to Willi Wandl’s mini-mall development. Wand! intends to
puta building on the vacant lot at the comer of Lazelle and Sparks
and wants. the lane closed so he can tie the two together.

The city has agreed to the request in exchange for a strip of land
along the northern edge of the vacant property, This will connect
the lane which now runs behind the properties along Lazelle to
Sparks,

. Council last.week gaye & first.and second readings to the by-law.
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