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TERRACE — Foreign language
news direct from countries as

diverse as Germany, Iran and’

Victram could soon be beamed
into your television via Channel

10.

The community TY channel, in

‘partnership with Northwest Com-

munity College. and the Terrace

_ and District Multicultural Assaci-

ation, could begin rebroadcasting
the satellite-fed multilanguage

news, sports and current affairs

progtams as early as September,
according to the college’ 8 Norbert
Hartig. .

The programs come from a
Nebraska-based satcllite educa-

- tional network called SCOLA,

and. Terrace’ would be just the
third community in Canada to
pick up the service, It’s also of-

fered in Edmonton and Ottawa.
| o. Hartig predicts the. programs
"will appeal to local ethnic groups,
“foreign - language students, ‘and
“news junkies, -.
~ Those fascinated by the conflict

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BENCH DEVELOPMENTS
and Bud’s Trucking have been
exempted from the regulation
which requires the width of the
front of a lot to be at least 10 per
cent of the total perimeter.

Five of the proposed 41 lots in
the Bench Developments sub-
division off Thomas St. and three
of Bud’s Trucking’s six-lot devel-

‘opment at the head of Yeo St. did

not meet that requirement.
Rear and side yard setback re-
quirements have been relaxed and

‘the prohibition of constructing

parking/loading facilities ones in
the required front yard space has
been waived for Lawrence
Stella’s fourplex project at the

_. corner of Walsh and Eby.

Meanwhile John and Dina Mac-
Cormac want the city to drop the
requirement it put in a paved
driveway adjacent to a picture
frame shop they propose to con-

struct on their Cramer St. proper-

ty. The couple point out the 2800
block of Cramer is still gravel and

js not clear what the final level

of the street will be if and when it
is paved,

- Also seeking a variance are Eva.

Kerby and Gary Webb. They

want to position a new ga-

rage/storage shed at the back of
their lot rather than within five

going on in what’s left of Yugos-

_ lavia, for example, will be able to

tune in to news broadcasts from
Croatia, Slovenia and Beograd,
Yugoslavia. Of course not know-
ing the language will make un-
derstanding the news an added
challenge.

Most of the programs coming in
off the satellite feed are cither
live daily broadcasts or weekly
shows up to three days old. They

" would be taped here and rebroad-

cast by Skcena Cablevision, The
material would appear on Chan-
uel. 10 at: Least twice ‘or three
times per week.

The only obstacle right now,

says Hartig, is raising the $500
~ fee to pay for the programming:

Multicultural Association
spokesman Jane Dickson said it’s
-hoped interested individuals and
ethnic groups will come forward
with small‘ donations — of per-

— haps $10 or $252 tothelp: Ydise
- the money! Pee

PyE Sy one

Also ueeded are volunteers to

feet of the house as required by
the regulations. The application
points out there are a number of
large lois with outbuildings Io-
cated well back from the houses
in the 4900 block Mills neigh-
bourhood.
kKekkek
COUNCIL HAS agreed to ex-
tend closing time at the George
M. Little Park bandshell for a
Riverboat Days event, Celebra-

_ tion in the Park takes place Satur-

day, Aug. 1 and Sunday, Aug, 2
Music co-ordinator Karin Ljungh
asked the normal 9 p.m. shut

down time for entertainers be ex- .

tended to 10 p.m. on the Saturday
evening, She also promised the
music would end promptly at 10

help tape the round-the-clock
broadcasts as they come in via the
satellite feed.-

Hartig said the college already
has the satellite downlink that’s
needed — it came from the min-
istry of advanced education and
training to provide educational

and training programs at the TEC

Centre,
NWCC has ail other necessary
recording equipment, All that’s

needed are volunteers to help op-
erate it.

“Tt really depends on
volunteers,’’ he said.
Skeena Broadcasters’ com-

munity coordinator Maria Josey
said there are also plans to broad-
cast the programs in Kitimat.
Since there’s only airtime for a
-fraction of the programs that are
available, Dickson said they'll
have to decide which countries to
Fun ipeograms from. av ctive w¢iins
““We'need to know: what people
want to'see‘on;’’ she said:

Piso approved was the Terrace
Men’s Slo-Pitch League request
to hold a beer garden in conjunc-
tion with their July 31-Aug. 3 ball
tournament, The beer garden has
been a feature of this tournament
since 1987,

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THE CHILD Development
Centre, Mills Memorial Hospital
Auxiliary and Terrace and Dis-
trict Community Services Society
(TDCSS) have now submitted
their requests for exemption from
‘1993 city taxes, The auxiliary
wants an exemption for its thrift
shop on Lazelle while TDCSS
has asked for the tax break il
receives on the Lakelse Jr.

-lend the

Programs originate from. Al-
geria, Belgium, Brazil, Chile,
China (Tai Yuan),
Czechoslovakia, Egypt, France,
Germany, Hungary, India, Iran,

Israel, Italy, Japan, Jordan,
Kenya, — Latvia, Lithuania,
Malaysia, Mexico, the Phil-

lipincs, Poland, Romania, Russia, -

Saudi Arabia, Slovenia, Spain,
Sweden, Taiwan, Turkey, Vict-
nam and Yugoslavia (Beograd).

‘We are all a little bit dis-
sappointed that they don’t have
anything from Portugal,’ Dick-
son said,

Hartig said NWCC may get the

rights to broadcast an hour-long

Portugese language — show
originating from. a

cost of about $8 a week.

_ Anyone who wants to put their
vote. in for. -Programming from.
any! [particular Guilty

at 638-1594,

Two siibdWisiang Heswe
ption from lot size

Secondary alternate school to be
continued. .
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ALDERMEN have decided to
send one of their number to this
year’s B.C, Aviation Council an-
nual conference in Penticton.
Theme of the Oct, 1-4 gathering
will be Are You Prepared and
speakers’ will include Judge
Mohansky, who reported on the
Dryden crash, and novelist Arthur
Hailey.

Tourism and economic devel-
opment officer Peter Monteith
has been given the go-ahead to at-
Union of BC.
Municipalities conference ‘in

Vernon. Estimated cost of the “tp

is $1,000.

Thieves

TERRACE — A special display
of Petrocan flags at Copperside I
in Thornhill was short-lived,
Thieves cleaned them out
within a week of the display
going up, explained store man-
ager Liz Moore.

It consisted of two, five-pole -

units placed at ground level and
at the edge of the lot.
No sooner were they up, how-

steal flag

ever, than one of the 10 flags was
stolen, Moore said, The thefts
continued at the rate of one a
night, she added.
_ Even installing clamps so the
remaining ensigns couldn’t be
-temoved without using a screw-
driver didn’ thelp.

Sometime “during ‘the night of
July 14-15 the remaining six flags
~~ clamps and all — disappeared.

display

Pointing out the store is a 24-
hour operation and: one of the
pole units. was visible to the
store’s closed circuit television
camera, Moore added, “they (the
thieves) were prelty bold.”’.. .

. Moore hoped. news of the theft
might cause Jocal patents noticing”
the recent addition of a Petrocan
flag to a child's bedroom wall to |
ask questions, :

Tarrace Standard, Wednesday, July 22, 1992 — Page A5

Croatia,

Separate -
-network in Hamilton, Ont, at a

LETTERS

TO THE TERRACE STANDARD

Strong case for
CT scan service

An openietterto:.
The Honourable .
Elizabeth Cull .-
Minister of Health
Victoria

Dear Minister: ~

from you that the decision with
respect to provision. of operat-
ing funds for a CT Scan: ser-

vice, would not be based ‘on a-

numeric view of statistical
data.

Throughout. the region;
people have demonstrated their
slong support of community
participation in health care
atd, specifically, their willing-
ness to raise the capital cost of
a CT unit. .

Since. its incorporation, the

Dr. R. E.M. Lee Hospital Foun- :

dation bas provided capital
funding of over
toward the purchase of equip-
ment “needed ‘at ‘Mills
Memorial.

program of bursaries for em-
ployees of Terrace Regional
Health Care Society, provided
finding towards ‘continuing
.aid palliative care-and, most
importantly, has significantly
raised the awareness of the

community about bealth care ©

issues,

Tlic foundation, which oper-
ates on a volunteer basis, owes
ils success io the enthusiastic
support which it receives from
the community. You can: ap-
preciate that the community,
having been intensely involved
in the CT Scan project over ihe

past three years, ‘has: - experi~
enced considerable frustration -

upon receiving _ ¢ither no

$100,000°

* scan. The. total
“Tn addition, the foundation.
“has” ‘established -an ongaing

response ‘or else the response

* that,’ statistically, the region
docs not need this service.

Their high level of interest in

'.: finding local solutions to local
cee co = health care > issues: is. being ;
We were : delighted bo. hear ;

eroded by these messages.
Your advice that the decision
with respect to funding of op-
erating costs would not merely
be. based on ‘statistical data
therefore ‘comes as a breath of
fresh air,

Prior to ralsing the last
$150,000: needed ta purchase
the.CT Unil, we would like to
receive your commitment that
your ministry will provide ap-
erating costs for the service
commencing in the 1993/94
budget year.”

Jn his report last year Mr.
Malcolm. Walker estimated
that. annual operating costs
would be in. the range of
$150,000 per year plus $50 per
annual’ cost
would likely be in range of

$250,000 to $300,000. -_

This is less than the amount

currently being spent by resi-.
- dents of the region travelling to

and from the lower mainland

when they require this service.

‘As you are aware, CT. Scan

service is now considered one
of the essential diagnostic tools
of good medical practice; and
itis generally available in most
other areas of British Colum-
bia. In addition to the direct
travel costs there is the matter
of ‘personal inconvenience to
patients.and_ their families and
wages lost while away from
home. :

Yours trily,

. Dr REM. Lee Hospital

“Foundation

W.H. ‘MoRe, Chairman

Children need

“Deat sir:

‘Something Keeps - ‘worrying
nie; | wake up every morning
and it is on my mind, it won’t
go aivay. I have to-find an ans-
wer so I have put pen to paper,
and with your help perhaps we
can solve it. -

T remember las winter secinig
an article in the paper about

five tennis courts that were
going to go up on the North
end of the old Skeenaview
property.

You know the place I mean,

the place where there were ball ~

games a few years ago. There
was a back stop and afew ben-

ches. I-don’t know what hap--

pened to all that.

Before that there was the cul-
de-sac. around. the. corner of
North Eby where the kids used
to paly ball,

I remember them talking
about that at council meetings;
they sold that and houses went
up in there. I asked at the
ineeting, "What about the
kids?" and I was told, "You
don’t have to worry about the
kids, we set aside a place for
them, It’s off Skogund, on
Wilson." ;

It is still there today. The
water tank fs at the back of it.
Heavy wires hang across it to a

_ power pole with a big brace on

it, It doesn’t look like a safe
place for children to play.

I have never seen anyone in.
there except people who attend
to the water-tank. That is ‘the.

story of that paly ground. -
I went over to ‘the tennis:
court property: the other day, I

got talking to a young man ~

-a place to play .

there. He said "Did they have
to put five tennis courts there?
Wouldn’t four have been
enough? And leave. space for
_ the children’s playground?"
The Kinsmen’s playground —
was gone,. the. things from. it
were piled in'4 corner there.
I had hoped they ‘might find

rooni: at the end of the: tenuis
‘courts. ©

A mother and her child were
standing there, She said,"They
never told us they were going .
‘to do this, you’ would think
Ahey would hive fixed a place
for the kids ‘to. play first. There
Is no playground up here now;
kids come from ‘that apartment

-there, and from the East
Bench" 0
“A. child was sitting on the
ned of the wooden block and
still playing with the steering
wheel among the rubble of the
old playground equipment. - I
went over there the other day
to warn children playing on top
of those big mounds of dirt, as
it could come down and cover
them. They looked at me and I
know what they were thinking. ©

Where . will there . be a
playground for . them, - and
when?

By the way, that young man
who talked to me by the tennis
court ‘properly. said, “You

“know, [ was one of ihe kids

who played ball'in.the cul-de- |

‘sac..I know what it feels like
when “you lose. your.
playground, T. hope. they: fix.
one-here for the kids." sere
Well,sodol! - °: ~
Sincerely, a
Dorothy Smith.

The Start is for people
learning how to read.

~ Drinking

The police have a new
weapon.
It is a small machine to
- test drivers. It tells police
‘if a driver has been drink-
ings
machine. The machine
has lights. °
If there is a red light, the

".: driver can be taken to the

RCMP station. ©
They will then take a
regular breath test:

People blow into. the

Italy

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Keep your eye on Chan-
nel 10.

There soon. could be
many news shows on it...

Tle news will - come

from around the world.
And it will be in many
foreign languages, —

Countries include |

Germany, Iran, Vietnam,»

Egypt, Israel, ‘France and:

news:

Many countries - now
beam news shows to a_

Satellite,”

Those. who- have’ ‘a.dish
that can: pick up satellites
can then see the shows.

In the picture. are Nor-
bert Hartig, Jane Dickson

and Maria Josey, -

‘They are. helping to
news _Shows