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Page AB ~ -Tarae Standart Wednesday, November 6 1991

Rick King

Six declare for
school board race

TERRACE — Voters . will
choose between three can-
didates when they go to the
polls to fill two vacancies on
school board Nov. 16.
_Ineumbent.. schoo! trustee
Stew Christensen is up against
two newcomers — welder Ken
Hansen and contractor Jacques
Leblanc — for the vacant
Terrace-Thornhill seat.
Christensen was appointed by
Victoria a year ago after school
board elections failed to attract
enough candidates to fill all the

. seats. His one-year term has ex-
- pired,

‘There are things we’ve been

: working on 1’d like to see finish-
' ed,’’ Christensen said of his
. decision to run, pointing to the
- Year 2000 educational reforms

and to labour relations. ‘There
must be some way we can work
in a more harmonious manner
with the teachers — especially in
terms of negotiations.”

In Hazelton, appointee Mary
Spooner’s term is also up. The
New Hazelton housewife is run-
ning again, opposed by two
other candidates —- Cedarvale
forestry technician William Fell
and New. Hazelton retiree James

TERRACE — Th city will take
another stab this week at settl-
ing the touchy issue of where to
build washrooms at the Christy
Park soccer fields,

Aldermen on the parks and
recreation committee met with
neighbours last Wednesday but
couldn’t come to a decision on
where to allow Terrace Youth
Soccer to build a 24x43 ft.con-
crete block building housing
washrooms and changerooms.

“We'll have to make a hard
decision and go with what's go-
ing to have the minimum impact
on the most people,”' alderman
Rick King predicted.

They’ve now discounted any
possibility of building it on the
west side of the park. The 4 ea

No candidates filed to repre- .
sent the native reserves of Git-
wangak, Kitsegucla and Kit-
wancool. Government ap-
pointee Terry Brown currently
holds that seat, but a new ap-
pointment by Victoria is ex-
pected following the election.

A contested school board
election is a novelty for this
district. Many school board
seats have been filled by ac-
clamation in recent years, in-
cluding the entire board in the
election a year ago.

An advance poll will be held
Friday from 9 a.m. to’8 p.m. in
Terrace at the School District 88
board offices at 3211 Kenney
St. in Terrace. A second ad-
vance poll is set for Nov. 15
from 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. at Mills
Memorial Hospital.

Election day is Saturday,
Nov. 16 from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Clarence Michiel Elementary

“and Thornhill Elementary

Schools are the polling places
for Terrace voters. Outlying
residents can vote at the Cedar-
vale museum, the Parmenter
home in Rosswood, the Early
home in Usk‘and the Lloyd

Johnstone home at Lakelse :

Lake.

Shelter is fast
going to the dogs

TERRACE — It will likely be
years before the Terrace Animal
Shelter gets a new, custom-built
home.

But, in the meantime, council
is prepared to look at better,
temporary quarters for the
facility.

The problem facing the city

: is, while it remains embroiled in

negotiations about a new facili-
ty, the present building is turn-

: ing into a money pit.

Permits director Bob Lafleur
told aldermen ali but $90 of this
year’s maintenance budget of
$3,000 for the shelter had been
exhausted.

Pointing out that money had
been spent on what he described
as ‘‘bandaid treatment'’,
Lafleur said there was an urgent
need for another $3,600 had to
be similarly spent, He also
warned the city could find itself
having to spend up to $10,000 a
year on the old building just to
keep it up te “minimum
operating standards’’, |

Echoing Lafleur’s concerns,
engineering director Stew
Christensen said the $3,600 only
covered ‘“'things that are ab-
solutely necessary’’.

Agreeing little work had been

done on the shelter because of
the prospect of a new facility
being built, he added, ‘“We’re
getting to the point where we're
going to have to make a deci-
sion one way or another.’

Any decision to put up a new
building has been put on hold
pending the results of city and
regional district negotiations on
cost-sharing issues. The
possibility of a joint facility has
been touted,

Alderman Danny Sheridan
suggested a short term solution
might be to rehouse the shelter
in leased premises, perhaps ina
light industrial zoned area:

A five-year lease would give
the city ‘‘breathing space’ for
negotiations with the district
and allow it to bulldoze the ex-

isting building and rezone the ©

property high density residen-

. tial.

Council agreed to transfer
$3,600 to the shelter’s
maintenance from its capital
budget to allow the outlined

work to be done. Administra- .

tion was also asked to in-
vestigate whether
premises
available. .

for lease were

Regional district
mulls land grab

TERRACE — Before the
Kitimat-Stikine regional district
gives up a chunk of its coastal
jurisdiction, :it.:wants to hear
from residents of two of the ef-
fected communities,

Directors decided at their last

meeting to invite — and pay the

expenses of — representatives

of Hartley: Bay and. Kitkatla to.
atiend its Nov, 16 meeting.
invitation came ‘in:

The.
response to a letter from’ the

Skeena-Queen. Charlottes:
regional district: which’ claimed‘
Hartley Bay and Kitkatla had
:-" vote from three to two votes,
« Directors. '
: (welghted) votes. based. on. |

asked for the-change,:...">..

agree to the change,

a
counterpart pointed out “the a

area in question was within the
boundaries of its school district

and residents of those com- .

munities used Prince Rupert's
hospital, social, health and
business services,

Kitkatla is approximately
“60k from Prince Rupert while
Hartley Bay is slightly closer
(85kms) to Kitimat than Prince

- Rupert.
‘In its report, the Kitimat.

. Stikine administration. pointed
out the loss of the communities’

- 635 population would. reduce

the Area‘C director's weighted
get multiple

population.

suitable |

of constructing the washrooms
as an add-on to Parkside school
drew fire from the school board
and Parkside principal
Christine Eide, It’s also too far
away from the majority of the
soccer fields.

It will: now likely ‘be con-
structed on the east edge of the
park, in the parking lot at the
end of Sparks St. But exactly
-where is the problem,

’- Residents on McConnell at
the southern edge of the park
want it built as far away from
‘them as possible.

. “You're talking about put-
ting up a public facility 20 feet
from our property line,”’ resi-
dent Frank Gration told the
committee. ‘“‘The closer it
‘comes down’ towards that
southeast corner, the more op-
posed I am to it.’’

_ “I'm not happy at being the

‘one guy who sacrifices so

everybody can enjoy this facili-
ty, oe:

But the further south it’s
located, the cheaper it will be
for the city to hook up sewer
and water. Estimates for servic-

ing the building range from
$1,300 in the southeast corner
of the park. 10 more than
$11,000 in the northwest corner.

Placing it further north could
be a problem as well, because it

would end up right in front ofa

Sparks St. house immediately
east of the soccer fields. The ci-
ty had inadvertently neglected
notify that homeowner of the
committee meeting, noted
alderman Mo Takhar. :

The committee decided to

hold another meeting — set for
today — and invite the absent
homeowner. Staff is also to
determine how far north the
building can be placed and still
make grade to connect with the
city’s water and sewer system. |

Neighbour Ken Beddie called
the dilemma a symptom of poor
planning, adding the eventual
need for the washrooms should
have been incorporated in the
original plan for the park.

“We're doing things very
much -backwards,”’ he said.
‘This seems to me to be the way
some of the decisions are being
made -in’ this city and that’s
regrettable.’*

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