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A horse with class and a rider to match lat everyone who saw the Riverboat Days parade know
that the Timberland Horse Show is a major component of Terrace’s mid-summer celebration.
Riders in the area are now gearing up for thelr next big event that comes on Labour Day weekend

with the Skeena Valley Fall Fair.

Shames seeks
mountain
manager

The Shames Mountain Ski Cor-
poration is presently in the process
of interviewing candidates for the
position of general manager for the
Shames Mountain ski facility, to
be open for business in December
1990.

Applicants are from as far away
as Labrador, New Brunswick and
as near as Prince Rupert. It is
hoped that a manager will be on
staff by early September in order
to begin staffing, organizing the
different departments and setting
up operations for this year’s grand
opening.

Tree falling is completed in both
the upper and lower parking lots of
phase one of the development and
all 11 ski runs are cut and almost
teady for snowfall on the moun-

|. tain. Slashing is continuing.on the
‘ runs. vane Peregte oo

Work on the lifts is going "fast
and furious", according to con-
struction manager Mark Grabow-
ski. Last weekend, the firm of
Doug Russell Painting began sand-
blasting the lift towers in prepara-
tion for spray painting (the final

colour of the lift towers and chairs
will be Oxford blue).

Terrace Steel is manufacturing
the last replacement and re-en-
gineered pieces for the sheave
assemblies, being rebuill to make a
smoother chairlift ride. All the lift
foundations have been dug or
drilled for ihe T-bar and chairlift.
Rock anchors are the next step.

The water system which involves
a "water draw" beneath the un-
named creek on the mountain is
being engineered by McEihanney
Surveying.

Preparations to move Kitsum-
kalum Lodge continue. Applica-
tions are being submitted to B.C.
Hydro and B.C. Telephone to have
their cabies raised or lowered the

day of the actual move from Kit-
sumkaluiit”” io” Shames. The
Smithers firm of Northern Building
Movers is still assessing the best
way to cut and move the building.

Pre-GST season ski pass applica-
tions are now available at leading
sporting goods stores in Kitimat,
Prince Rupert and Terrace.

Adoption rules to
change in spring ~

Amendments to the Adoption Act

and associated regulations that

would aliow non-profit agencies to
handle the adoption of infants will
probably take until the spring of
1991 to complete, the Terrace area
manager for the Ministry of Social
Services and Housing said last
week,

Bill Anderson stated that there
has been no activity toward private
adoption agencies in the Terrace

Terrace transit marks —
10th anniverary

The people who run the bus
service in Terrace are having a
party Friday, and everyone’s
invited.

At 12:30 p.m. in the Skeena Mall
Terrace Regional Transit officials
and staff will cut a cake. and pass
out some ireats for the kids {o
mark the 10th anniversary of pub-
lic transit service in Terrace, The
celebration wilt continue the fol-
lowing moming with two hours of

"race and B.C, Transit.

narrated by Ron Langridge on
board a roving city bus.

Terrace has been a_ground-
breaker in regional transit systems,
with B,C.’s first paratransit mini-
bus to accommodate the special
requirements of passengers with
mobility problems and the first bus

to operate on compressed natural’

gas fuel. The service is jointly

. Funded by the Regionat District of :

Kitimat-Stikine, the City of Ter-

area yet because the legislative
process is not complete. The
amendments would allow non-
profit groups to assume full infant
adoption services, including appro-
val of homes, counselling the
parents putting infants up for adop-
tion, placing the infants with adap-
tive parents, reporting to court, and
post-placement support. The
agencies would be licensed under
standards set by the Superintendent
of Family and Child Services, who
would also monitor their perfor-
mance.

Parents placing children for
adoption would. still have the
option of using the ministry’s
services rather than those of

agencies. The ministry will also .

continue to handle all adoptions of
older children and those with
special necds. Licensed agencies
will: be able to do adoption pro-

cedures for Native children, but
they will be required to follow the

ministry guidelines for those cases,
. In an announcement July 24, the

ministry indicated they are still
seeking suggestions and comment
from interested groups and the .

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