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A4 - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, November 9, 2005

: Serving the Terrace and Thornhill area, Published on Wednesday of

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- Good move

CITY COUNCIL made the correct move: two.
weeks ago when it bought the old Terrace Co- -op
_ complex and lands downtown.

There may have been a few eyebrows raised
at having to borrow the $1 million for the 4.34
acres and large building on the site, particularly at
a time when the city still faces the vexing issue of
what to do about its costly sportsplex plan. But

* the purchase places under city control the most

- desirable location in the downtown core.

It is one of those defining moments in this city’s"

history in which council had to act. In doing so
council followed the old adage — buy land because
they’ re not making it anymore.

Rather than having to. worry about who might |

“eventually have bought the parcel — and for what
“reason and how it might affect the rest of the
downtown - — the city can now dictate its future.

_ Mayor Jack Talstra has invited city residents to |
“ submit ideas as to what can be done at the loca-

tion. Already the ideas are coming forward.
Those connected to the tourism industry have
quickly tied the parcel’s future to the opening this
- spring of the renovated George Little House. Very
quickly, the George Little-House has /become a
“tourism magnet, fitting within the city’s vision of

.a tourism- friendly zone. Creating more ‘tourism-.

friendly enterprises on the- Co op lands. will only
add to council’s vision. — - Be,
And: that’ ‘brings into play Mr. Talstra’ s long-

- : standing dream of a conference centre. A careful-

"ly developed plan could realize that dream on that
_ location with the city either being an active player
‘in a partnership with a private company or sell-
ing the parcel to a company or other entity which
‘could. make.a conference centre happen. |

“Also being discussed is the idea of a native
“arts and cultural centre which, if twinned with a
~ conference centre and combined with other pub-
~ lic uses, could be a definite plus in expanding the
city’s offerings to tourists and to locals.

At the very least, the purchase will make all of
us think much harder of what we want Terrace to
become. _ |

The purchase also continues city council’s track

record of activism, something which some may

argue goes against its conservative make up but

_- which has become necessary.

Its aggressive pursuit of the airport lands pro-
vides a base for industrial development made all.

the more attractive by the development of the

container port at Prince Rupert.

And council’s decision this spring to lend the

Terrace Lumber Company money to help it pur-

. Slowly and methodically, the city is taking the
right steps in assembling a balanced economic in-
frastructure.

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AS THe Telus LOCKOUT GRINDS ON, ED BEGINS Yo REGRET His MANAGEMENT | Posite on

‘Question the candidates closely ©

THE MUNICIPAL election i is

upon.us once again. ,

Although there is no race -

for the mayor’s chair, this is
an important election never

‘ the less.

In 2007 the world will start

to look a lot different for ev- |

ery community along the
Highway 16 corridor.

That is the year the con-

tainer port in Prince Rupert

is scheduled to open ‘for busi-
ness. Combined with
cruise ship facilities, expand-

. ed airport i in Terrace and ma-_

jor highway and rail upgrades
across ‘the north; our view of

~ the world — <and it’s view of
* us — will look quite different.

No: longer will the tradi-

_ tional resource industries, be
‘the only game in town.

No longer is “value added”
the term used to describe ei-
ther a sawmill or service re-

" ‘pair shop. |

Even with land values ris-

- ing in the north, the cost of
‘land for potential importers

and exporters will still be
a fraction of the cost for the
same investment in a Rich-
mond or a Surrey.

With the Prince Rupert
port fully functioning, we in
Terrace will be closer to Asia
than any business in Vancou-

Ver.

Businesses we never ever

* contemplated were possible

could now be looking to the

northwest as their next place

to invest. |
The Prince Rupert cruise
ship terminal. will be in its

fifth year of operation and ev-—

the:

_~ROGER HARRIS

ery indicator says it will have

been getting’ busier each and
every year.

So.why is that so important
. for Terrace?

Statistics continue to tell us
that people who travel into a

_Tegion on cruise ships:tend: to oe
‘ return to an area that sparked

their interest within five years
of the cruise.

We already this year have
had passengers on Via Rail,
who have,taken the cruise, re-

turn to have a second look at |

the region.

Our airport expansion will
be three years old. The role
this new piece of infrastruc-
ture will play in defining what
our community is looking like
is yet to be determined, but no
less critical. °

The Terrace Lumber Com-
pany, the community for-

est licence, the airport lands, -

sportsplex, a convention cen-
tre, First Nations forest opera-
tions, municipal/First Nations

ee,

“relations. and amalgamation

.— there is no end of significant

issues facing any new coun-
cil.

These issues are not chal-
lenges or problems, but rather
opportunities.

. Many observers would say
that managing the last couple

| __ of terms in a community that

has been struggling economi-
cally was a very difficult exer-
cise for any council.

- Tm not sure, managing
the pressure of a community

about to’ experience signifi-.
cant growth may not be even

harder.
One of the more interesting

_ dilemmas a new council will
» face is not in attracting new.

investment but in attracting
the people necessary to fill the
job vacancies these. new in-
vestments will create.

bounding whose biggest chal-

lenge is in finding people.
My generation —_ usually

moved around driven by wag-

es and benefits.All of the evi-..

dence today suggests that life-
style, not money, will drive
peoples’ decisions in where
‘they choose to live and work.

So in a marketplace where
the whole province is experi-
encing significant economic
growth, the challenge will

“be in how we get people to ©

choose Terrace over a Cran-
brook, Dawson Creek -or a
Kamloops.

It’s no easy task.

‘Along the same lines, our

local population is getting

ulation ages,

-» Already. there are sectors, of.
‘oilr local economy that are re-

older, and this is not just an
issue for: senior housing and
health care.

As the community’s pop-
how are we
changing the: design, layout
and zoning of our city to build
a community, that is senior.
friendly?

It’s something, no commu- |
nity in this province has ever
faced before.

The community that does |
this right may well be able to

. attract seniors from across the
_region to retire in their town.

By being in front of the

: pack, we can ensure that as
‘our demographics change, se-

niors are.an economic driver
in the community and are not
a viewed as a liability.

The world is changing dra- —
matically and no where more
than here in the northwest.

:. When-you look at the inven- ~
tory of physical assets, no re-
gion of the province has more.

So when you consider this.
month’s election, more than at
any other time in our history,
a clear vision for our commu-
nity going to be required.

-We need to hear from the
candidates how they see Ter-
race fitting into this new world.
We need to hear what their
priorities are in approaching
the many. opportunities that
are in front of us.

“The mayor’s position may

be filled but the council will — .

be no less important.
Maybe the most important

.piece in this election, is will

we as a public, be there to ask
those questions.

way of Straight razors. Obso-

_ Tete.

Unless a.man works as a

_lawyer, a politician, or an air-
- line pilot (or some other line of

work demanding a spiffy uni-
form) he may not know how to
tie one on.

I’ve even: heard tell of
armed forces personnel who |
- Jaunder their ties with the
knot in place. Otherwise they

would report for duty, tie in

~ hand, looking for an officer to «
- tie them in knots. 7
’. There was a time when ev- '

ery father taught his son to tie
a necktie and every mother

~ ‘taught her children table man-

‘ners. No more.
We live so casually in

jeans, tee shirts and sneakers
. men don’t own a tie and our
table manners stop. at swiping .

ketchup from our chin with a
takeout napkin. —

In an episode of the TV
show Trading Spouses, an
Alabama truck driver traded
homes with a New York cor-
porate lawyer.

The truck driver found him-
self about to accompany his
“son” to the lad’s bar mitzvah;

Men getting alll t

MEN’S TIES have gone the.

THROUGH BIFOCALS

CLAUDETTE SANDECKI -

he was expected to wear a suit
and tie. Normally ‘the truck

driver wore a tee shirt. How .
‘was he to tie a necktie?

Fortunately, he was both
humble and observant. He re-
called upon his arrival at the

high-rise apartment, a .valet .
' wearing a uniform with tie had

parked his car.

Being also practical, the
truck driver made his way
down to the parkade and asked
the valet to tie his tie for him.
The valet willingly obliged.

Esquire magazine has noted
this casual trend. Over the past
year it has devoted a page ev-

ied up in knots

ery month to restoring men’s

sartorial splendour.
Its lessons have included

- how much shirt cuff should .

show below the. jacket sleeve;
where the pant cuff should
break on the shoe; how to lock

_ trousers so they don’t slip off a

hanger on to the floor; and how
to fold a tee shirt so no wrinkle
creases the front or sleeves.

The September. issue de-—

votes. page 126 to a series of

_ drawings showing how to tie
both the Windsor knot and the .
Four-In-Hand. I. intend prac-’

‘tising both knots as soon as I
can find a tie.

I don’t know which now
my father favoured. I do re-
member watching him knot
his tie in short order whenever
he wore his only suit, a navy
double breasted.

Though a farmer who lived

in GWG overalls, he dressed —

nattily for any special occa-
sion — weddings, graduations,
funerals.

. With the suit he wore what
we kids called his police boots,
medium high top black leather.
He laced the boots precisely

after I polished them to a mili- |

tary shine.

Women, too, have gone ca-
sual. During the last provincial .
election, | noticed a woman
wearing a long skirt with a
deep slit up one thigh. . .
_\ It wasn’t the slit that held
my attention; it was her white
slip barely visible as she
moved. Hers was the first slip I
had seen evidence of in years.

.Today if women wear a skirt

or dress, they are most likely
to omit the. slip.

That omission puzzles me.
A slip not only gives the dress

- asmoother fit, it prevents a re-

vealing silhouette such as the
one that made Princess Diana
famous when, as a nanny, she
was photographed in a diapha- ©
nous dress standing with her

. back to the sun..

Girls these days may not
know what a slip is. A petti-
coat? Sure. The petticoat fea-
tured in Little House on the’
Prairie. and. Anne of Green
Gables.

Chatting with my teenage
granddaughters about the. fu-
ture graduation — years hence,
thank goodness — they insisted
I wear a dress. I’d have to buy
a slip, I said. “What’s a slip?”

_ one asked. —