B10 Terrace Review — Wednesday, March 7, 1990

A year ago

SPRING TIME IN THE "MINI--
LAKES". A few residents from the
Haugland and Hall area presented

a petition with 30 signatures to city -
council a year ago this week and —

the Planning and Public Works
‘Committee was asked to investig-
ate. One of those residents,
Josephine Buck, blamed inadequate
drainage and storm sewers for
annual flooding at the intersection
and told council they had suffered
long enough. Alderman Ruth Hal-
lock said they were aware of the
problem, though, and it had
already been added to a list of
other problem areas in town.
Council had received complaints
earlier from Weber St. South
Kalum and Graham Ave. residents.
At the same meeting, however,
council rejected a $975 claim filed
by Graham Ave. resident Tony
Macedo. Macedo wanted the total
amount deducted from insurance
claims he had filed due to sewage
backups from 1986 to 1989. Coun-
cil said their decision was made

. with regret but that it was city’s

policy to not assume liablitiy in
damage claims related to city
services. Sewage problems in that
area, though, were on the budget
priority list for 1989.

"’ SAW THE FATTEST
RAVEN I[’VE EVER SEEN." This
comment
' Dave Hull when referring to
crows, ‘favens and rats he said

were being attracted to "over-

flowing" dumpsters behind the

Terrace Mini-Mall. Mayor Jack

Talstra suggested more dumpsters

might be required at the site but

alderman Bob Cooper countered
this by saying mal! merchants may
not be the culprits at all. He said
residents in the area were using the

dumpsters as a convenient neigh-
borhood dump and city administra-
tion was asked to take a look. and
report their findings.

Depositing garbage wasn’t the
big news at the airport. On the hill,
the big story was about depositing
coins. A new system for paid
parking was to be installed some-
time in the spring and and it was
going to cost 25 cents an hour or
$1.50 a day to park there. This
wasn’t cause for picketing and
rallies, though, it was the old
meters that attracted attention,

The old meters, it was dis-
covered, had never been monit-
ored, Cheaters were under no more
threat of a tow job than those who
dutifully fed the meters. Any
money contributed had gone to a
good cause, though, said airport
‘manager Darryl. Laurent at the
time. Revenue from those coin
slots had contributed about $500 a
year to the operation of the airport
terminal.

- WE REQUIRE MORE COM-
MUNITY. SUPPORT council was
told a year ago this week. The
‘statement came from Terrace
Regional Museum Society presi-
dent Marie Kerby who said the
society had. gone as far as they
could: with ‘volunteers; if the city

came from alderman’

‘his week —

wanted Heritage Park to continue @
. to grow they would have to fork

‘out a few dollars for a paid direct-
or. A paid director, according to
Kerby, would allow the park to
Slay open longer -- year round
with sufficient support -- and if
they were open year round the
province would kick in some fund-

ing which would reduce the city’s f

share. Council didn’t says "yes",
but did say they had set aside an
undisclosed sum in their prelimi-
nary budget.

But Heritage Park wound up with
an unexpected gift a year ago this
week anyway. It wasn’t money, it
was a 1927 grader and a "Le Tour-
neau" pull ripper, but for some
heritage buffs it was almost as
good as cold cash. The 1927
Adams model 14 pull-type grader
was sitting at Shames at the time
but come spring thaw it would be
delivered to the park, compliments
of North Coast Road Maintenance
and the Ministry of Highways. -

CARS AND DYNAMITE...
THEY’RE BOTH KILLERS. A
couple of serious car accidents
occured a year ago this week. The
first happened on March 4 near
Vanderhoof and claimed the lives
of dedicated community worker
Sarah Bevan, her daughter Kelsey
Cootes, and 45-year-old Norman
Gill.

The following day, a 19-year-old
Telegraph Creck resident was
flown to a Vancouver hospital
where he was listed in satisfactory
condition. Gabriel Mann was
headed west on Lakelse at a high
rate of speed and failed to make
the turn at Eby St. The endurance
of the Cenotaph was tested in the
incident. Mann’s vehicle was
destroyed but
received only minor damage when
it was moved about three feet off
its base by the impact.

At the same time, the Feb. 2
explosion at Newhawk’s
Sulphurets mine site had been
Officialy declared "no accident’ by
the Prince Rupert RCMP homicide
division. "We can’t come up with
an accidental cause," said Sgt.
Wayne Watson. The underground
blast consumed more than 300
kilograms of high explosives,
killing two workers and injuring
three others.

IT WAS BUSINESS AS USUAL
FOR NEWHAWK, THOUGH.
Company president Don McLeod

told the local Chamber of Com-
merce a year ago this week that
the company would be using Ter-
race as their main staging and
supply area for their Sulphurets
gold mine, Whether it would draw
other investors to our door of not
was unknown but around the same
time the Ministry of Highways
announced their n new signee? poll-
cy.
In other business news a year
ago this week, a battle was brew-

ing on the health labor front: the |
collective agreement between. the

Health Labour Relations Associ-

ation and the B.C. Nurses Union .

the Cenotaph.

‘The Cenotaph in front of city hall proved it was more than a match for a speeding vehicle a year
ago this week. A car that missed the tum at the end of. Lakelse Ave. struck it and drove the
concrete monolith back a couple of feet.

was about to expire and the imme-
diate future of health care was in
doubt. There was peace in
Kemano, though. Alcan announced
they had just signed a collective
agreement for the life of their
Kemano Completion project.

IN EDUCATION the school
board was getting ready to put
together the 1989/90 budget while
strike-wounded Caledonia students
were worrying over the results of
government exams, The Ministry
of Education Board of examiners
had reviewed exam results from
three school districts where stu-
dents had missed class time due to
labor disputes and in their final
report on School District 88 said
they had “found no evidence that

the January results were any differ-

ent than would be expected". Cale-
donia principal Bill Stumm wasn’t
convinced, though, and had school
staff tabulating past results in order
to establish evidénce for an appeal
to the decision.

THERE WAS PLENTY OF
ACTION in the local sports scene
a year ago this week, At the top of
the news, the Caledonia Kermode
boys proved without a doubt they
were the best senior triple ‘AAA’

basketball team in the northwest
' by scO¥ing three one-sided vic-

tories in a three-team double--
knockout zone final series. On the

same weekend, Skeena Tsimpsean -

junior boys won their zone final
but the Skeena girls were elimina-

ted. Also in basketball, Texmace’s .

gift to the Canadian division,
Michelle Hendry, picked up a
couple more honors a year ago this
week: Athlete of the week and
District Player of the Year. —

In other sports, Branch 13 of the
Royal Canadian Legion won. their
zone dart finals and were off to the
B.C. finals in Langley, Northwest
athletes picked up four gold, eight
silver and seven bronze medals in
the B.C. Winter Games, the Peaks
Gymnastic Club hosted 36 north-
west competitors in a successful
Merit/Bronze meet in Terrace, and
for the summer, tennis buffs were
talking expansion.

reported in the Terrace Review,

"There should be tennis courts at

Skeenaview Park." This came from
council’s Recreation Committee
who met with the Terrace Tennis

Club. The new courts, according to
the: club, would be built with the
help of Terrace Kinsmen. This was
short of the tennis dream, though;

‘the. club wanted courts within the

reach. of every neighbourhood in
town.

ALL IN ALL, IT WAS A BUSY
WEEK. It was the first week of
Special Olympics Month, the

windup of Multicultural Week, and

the stage-setter for International
Women’s Day and World Vision’s
30-Hour Famine. But it was lucky
it was a busy week... the activity

kept a lot of people warm. Outside
"Sometime in the future," it was

temperatures dropped to a low of
-14 Celsius during the week and
the warmest day was only +4. And
if the temperature didn’t make it
clear we were still in winter's grip
the snow did.

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