7 2. . Terrace Review — Wednesday, October 4, 1989 Cee Leading man needed | . . Anyone with aspirations to . “take to the stage, who's dreamed of playing:a rather - sleazy and roguish lead ‘character in a British :. melodrama can queue up - tomorrow night at 7:45 in the .. McColl Playhouse. It’s a - casting call for the Terrace §. Little Theatre’s production s. of Ladies in Retirement. _ The group: needs someone -to.. play:: Albert Feather, described. “ps. a “roguish young cad’’ who comes: : across a group of little old © __ ladies while on the lam from — fraud charges. He gets.in- § im volved-in another swindle, a murder, ‘and a‘mald named Lucy. If-you're young and are ef- fective: at: projecting lots of © | charm-and a black heart, try it-out. Director ;Ken Morton can provide further informa- tion at 635-7507. . ‘It’s a big, open | border up here — _ At atime when there seems to be growing concern over the North American drug trade us- ing Canada as a point of entry. into the U.S., perhaps we should ask the federal government if they’ve checked the back door. Columbia’s war against the “drug lords’? and the U.S. crackdown on the American scene have made Canada an attractive entry point for smug- glets, and there may be some easy opportunities available. “One of local concern is the Alaskan/B.C. border in. the Northwest. 7 In the past, the federal’ gov- | ernment has tried a number of : riethods of providing a form of , custom service in the Northwest. ‘They've tried seasonal customs officers, the RCMP and most recently “telephone clearance”. The problem with telephone clearance, according to Kitimat-_ Stikine. Regional District admin- istrative staff, is that it provides no. control over persons and goods entering Canada. - Customs.laws state that per- sons must ‘present themselves Kids get paid for and their goods for inspection, and this can’t be done by phone. - Telephone clearance has_ therefore been abandoned and at -the present time there are acting customs officers.in-Atlin, Stewart: and Telegraph Creek. ‘Also under this system, min- ing companies.are authorized to bring in supplies through Wran- gell, Alaska, provided they maintain records of all imports for the scrutiny of Canada Cus- toms. The district’ tnanager of Cana- da Customs for the Yukon and all of B:C., with the exception of the Lower’ Mainland, has advised the regional district that a definite customs policy should be announced by mid-October. The district manager wouldn’t discuss the content of their new proposal but did say that when their review process is complete the regional district could be asked for their comments and. support. He added that Canada Customs would be advising the general public of the new policy when it is finally adopted. highways clean-up Last summer, six Thornhill Junior Secondary students raised $1,440 to help support their school’s sports teams. It’s not unusual for schools to raise money for a variety of school activities, but finding opportu- - nities to do so isn’t easy and it often takes far more hard work and organization than is re- flected by the money raised. The Thornhill kids though, as many other local secondary schools have done in recent months, took advantage of a North Coast. Road Maintenance pro- _ gram and collected litter for dollars and feceived a fair reward for the work invested, The. North Coast program is good for everyone, Local high- way. rights-of-way become litter- free; which is good for tourism ‘and.local-business; North Coast is living up to their obligation to clean. up highway litter; and local school sports teams are "earning much needed money through their own team effort. §.a program that's so altrac- infact, that, mayor Jack as asked. ¢ cily. adminis. _ ‘carn their own way”, don't have to. totally rely on donations .or-. parental: support ‘for-trayel and. equipment. ‘tration to have a closer look with a view towards expanding the program to include wity. streets. In a story run by the Terrace Review on May 3, 1989, North Coast spokesman Earl Nygaard explained how the program evolved when they heard a local. . newscast in which Caledonia. coach Phil Letham described the difficulty of funding team _ travel. This occured at the same time North Coast officials were trying to determine how to best meet their obligation to the Ministry of Highways to keep “highways under. -their jurisdic- ~ tion litter free. As a direct result, Caledonia and Mount Elizabeth - Senior Secondary athletic teams were ‘soon collecting $6 per bag for captured highways litter. One of ihe great advantages, said Nygaard at the time, is that students have the opportunity to They Canadian Aviation Safety Board investigator-in-charge, Roger :Ayotte, describes the prob- able flight path of Skylink flight 070. The aircraft approached from the south and circled _over Terrace in preparation to land. Something went wrong, however, and the Metroliner Ill passed the end of the runway and crashed into bush about a kilometer west of the runway. Investigators. finished in Terrace — continued from page 1 the aircraft, will be sent out to be dismantled for a more detail- ed evaluation. With data col- lected to this point, however,. Ayotte says there is no indica- tion of any mechanical failure. He says the remaining parts will be stored in the Terrace area until the investigation has been completed. = = At the same time,. says : Ay- otte, CASB will. begin to. docu- ment information. on Skylink and the pilots, themselves. He says this involves company, air- craft and pilot documentation. Tn. most cases, . he Says, this would mean requesting specific records. from the airline. carrier itself. But in-this. case the infor- mation will have to. be obtained from Transport Canada, who has been in: possession of .all available Skylink records since they were seized and Skylink’s operating certificate - “WAS, -SUS-,. pended last Saturday. - ; According to Alex: Binkley, : _ the reporter who has been cover- “Ing the Skylink crash story for ‘Canadian Press in Ottawa, Transport: Canada suspended Skylink’s operating certificate _ until such time as- standard air carrier operating records could be produced. Binkley says these include legible aircraft logs, pi- jot’s flight training and flying records for the last 30 days, and pilots training records for the past year. Binkley says this in- formation was obtained from Transport Canada public affairs officer Rene Mercier in Ottawa. _Ayotte says the next two months will be used to collect data, after which a data report will be released. Over the next ‘four months the data_will then be evaluated to try to determine the cause of the crash, A draft of the final report will then be teleased to “interested parties”’ which would include Transport Canada, the aircraft and engine manufacturers, the airline and the families of the pilots -and passengers. Ayotte says these parties will be permitted to com- ment on the draft report and some specific details could be change before a final report is released to the public. ‘Although nothing has been ‘ruled out and the cause of the. -crash has: not yet. been deter- _ _inined, there aré. certain. facts - that tell the story of the final moments of the flight. The crash was first reported at about 8:25 a.m. by off-duty Thornhill fire- fighter, Glen Tobin. Tobin, who was working at ‘the Twin River Estates construction site, says ‘there were indications that the flight was in trouble even as it passed over. Thornhill and cir- cled over Terrace, Tobin says ‘the aircraft was lower han usual, following a much wider arc in it’s approach than normal and not flying in a normal manner, He. explains it was banking .from side to. side and at the same time the 1 nose of - the aircraft was rising and: fall- ing in an unusual manner.. - CASB: investigators have. not . released a description of. the -aircraft’s approach other than to state that it appeared to be making a ‘“‘normal’’ approach. They do, however,. describe what likely took place seconds before the crash. would - - For an unknown reason, the .aircraft apparently banked. right. - while at alow altitude and cut a — swath through | tree tops. This resulted in the loss of about eight feet of the right wing. The -section of wing was found by investigators in two pieces about 300 feet northeast of the point of impact. . The, resulting loss of lift on the right side of the aircraft - ave -caused. an even steeper bank, The plane would be extremely Mivefioult to-control . - at-this. point, “according to Ay-.- otte, and-evidence indicates that -on impact. the.stub. of the right wing struck the ground first and tthe aircraft ‘cartwheeled’ into the bush. .Some -of. the: trees . snapped. off by the impact were measured at about 12 inches in diameter. What remains to be _ determined is why the aircraft - was. flying in a right bank at... such a low altitude a half mile west of runway 15-33. * ATTENTION. * Nissan/Datsun Owners We Are Here To Serve You! 1-800-661-3966 _ -ericksen nissan Itd. 10982 - 101 St., Edmonton, Alberta “YOUR NISSAN STORE” SINCE 1967.