TERRACE — The provincial.
government isn’t going to ap-
prove.a request by the Shames
Mountain Ski Corporation that,

@ $313,000. debt it owes: the. .
regioiial district ‘be converted i in-
to: ‘shares, says district - ad."

ministrator Bob’ Marcellin.

. Marcettin, sald he:was told of : i
the decision by phone last week .

and is waiting ‘this week: fora
letter giving more details. ;
“Reading. between: the lines,:

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we're expecting a ‘letter: saying: ¢
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the Municipal Act that we asked: district the money from’ ‘a 1986
for’.anopinion on,’ Said
Marcellin last’ week.
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"paid by the reg
$94,000 in. “heer payments

is not Prepared to approve: the’. Sham

Fewer _
students |
fewer

dollars”

TERRACE _ An “unexpected

shortfall in the. number of
students enrolling in area
schools: this fall could force
trustees to. cut the school
district's budget. 4;
Enrolment is below what was
projected. at-more than three-
quarters. of the schools in the
district; resulting i in a net short-
fall of 108 students,. assistant
Schools - superintendent Mar-
shalt Bergsma’ said last ‘week,
The’ decrease in ; ‘enrolment
could’ cast School. District 88
more than. $250,000, because
the money it. receives: ‘from: the
province. is

ident 3

lling education

student enrolled;;:

; : Because. schoal trustees drew
upt ‘the budget ‘tast spring based
on ‘enrolment. projections, : any
shortfall - in:.enrolment:. now
could spell: more budget cuts in
area. ‘schools. ' ne

to cut teachers as a result of the
decline i iin enrolment, Bergsma
warned trustees.could be facing
some: ‘tough. decisions. “When
the dust settles, we will be down
. in. “populations,”-and down. in
“Tevenue as well,’? Bergsma said.
“We're still’ discussing the
finainciat impact of this.”

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‘the hook

TERRACE A Terrace
‘motorist has lost her. lawsuit
“against the city for damages
‘resulting from a car “accident
-. last winter...
Betty: Barton claimed the
blic works. department ’ “Was
‘Hegligent i in allowing:snow to be
piled ‘in, the ‘middle ‘of. Lakelse
‘Avenue, She:said the snow piles

abstructed visibility, causing the
‘Rccident between -herself.at the
epruer. of'L
‘n Dec. 23,1989.
: Judge: ‘Pau: Lawrence ruled

‘Bidhi p park

TERRACE

“with: parking::.
nd The pefmitted time orn:
king areas being the m st

irectly: tied to ‘the ©

“apiralt nl oats the’
district: receives’ “$3, 826. 87: per ?

Although ° ‘there are t no. plans

“Lakelse: ‘and ‘A wood -

ers nabbed

‘The first week of. had been ‘a‘dramatic- improve...
enforcement’ “of: city parking”
' Tegulations r resulted in 26 ti tickets

on. -Btreets i‘ the.

om of her own desig

tO tae ttle aM i et

ok clude the ‘$8,000 in insurance
. premiums. -

‘ISLANDS resident Joarine Hayward | poses with: “Do Yau Dare to Question
dis on display with those of other residents of. the Charlot

The corporation made the
shares-for-debt swap proposal:
to the regional district . -earlier
this year, Conversion would in-

- Shames has also ‘asked the

district to forgive. the $94,000

interest debt but that alsowon't -

- be approved : ‘by: the municipal
affairs ministry, said Marcellin. . -
district can call in the debenture

The swap“ ‘proposal is ‘the

. latest ina series of financial

discussions ‘to. take’ place bets”
ween the: regional district and

‘the ski corporation. Debt repay:

,

ment schedules have already
been re-negotiated three times,

K successful debt for shares
swap . would see the regional .

: district become the ‘second.
; largest. shareholder -(the largest

is a group of private investors)
in the ski corporation and give it
a seat on its board of directors,

-Marcellin said the regional

arising from the debi, or extend :
or defer the repayment schedule
without municipal affairs
ministry approval,

Approval in principle of the

share proposal has already been: -
given by the City of Terrace and:
the District of. Kitimat: which:
have representation’ .on - the «
regional district. co

Taxpayers”. in’. - those
municipalities and in the rural °-
area surrounding: Terrace ‘are.
still. paying for the :“Kit-"-

-sumkalum: lift. equipment. :

bought by the regional district.
Approximately * $457,000 “in:
capital debt remains’: and: that
won't be paid off until the year :
2000.: ae

| Drug sales

TERRACE — “Recent “drug
busts by undercover police in
Terrace point to older‘ dealers
and younger customers, local
RCMP say.

A dozen local people were ar-

rested here following a six-day.

undercover RCMP sting’ opera-
tion in late July. Ten men: and

two women face charges of traf :

ficking in-narcotics.
Police conducting the opera-

tion noted. an alarming trend.

toward younger teens buying

drugs from adult traffickers,

said Terrace RCMP Cpl. Don
Woodhouse last week.

He said officers bought small ..

amounts of drugs from people
they.’ ‘identified as street-level
dealers:in Terrace, .

“All these people were, adults

— all of them over. 25° years.
old,”” Woodhouse said. ‘‘None.

of them were kids, . but they

Were dealing to Kids, and that's.

“ something-that worries us.”
And while, youths i in the past

Loggers
fined

TERRACE — Two logging
companies have been fined for
dumping raw sewage into the
Douglas Channel iast year,

Wedeene River Contracting
Lid. was fined $5,000,° and
Douglas Channel Resources
Ltd, was fined $3,000 for the
pollution violations in Terrace
provincial court Sept. 11.

Both companies pleaded guil-
ty to introducing waste into the
environment, contrary to the
terms of their dumping permits
under the Waste Management
Act, Floating logging camp
barges, operated in ihe channel
by the two Prince Rupert-based
companies, had no septic tanks
and. were: dumping human
sewagé directly into the water.

Crown prosecutor Elizabeth
Bayliff said Wedeene was hand-
ed a heavier fine because the
violation.-was their second er-
vironmental ‘offence.

She: said the company was
convicted: in :1985 under the
federal! ‘isheries Act of altering
fi sheries | ‘habitat in logging
operations. onthe Queen
Charlotte Islands. .

“The:‘new: conviction against
bres \ Involves: a. greater

sai Hartley
se for shellfish-

have. tended to buy. at. places
such as pool halls and- arcades,
Woodhouse said officers: this
time found teens are tow going

' to the adult dealers’ homes’ to

get drugs.

He ‘said police information
that ‘more older dealers were
getting involved in the locat
drug trade was a maj or factor i in

' the: ‘decision. to.‘ conduct. the
undercover operation.’

/“Qur goal was to go after
known traffickers in the area,
and try to shut them down,”
Wocdhouse said, ‘‘and that’s

what we did.”
He said the younge! ages of
kids | involved | something

parents and students returning

to school should be aware of.-
“Tt does seem to indicate that

the drug. problem here in Ter-'

Face. is worsening,”? he said.

“There also. seems to be more
_-atound.”
The undercover. offi cers: “en

“ -countered substantial amounts

of hashish’ and- cocaine,
Woodhouse said. They went to
local dealers and bought quarter
ounces of marijuana and
hashish, and grams of cocaine

— the three main drugs officers
encounter here, ©

“Coke and hash are the big-
gest twa,” he said. “We con-
tinue to see lots of hash in town,
and there’s now a substantial
amount of coke around as
well.’” :

He compared the busts this
summer to @ similar undercover
buying operation three years
ago, in which charges were laid.
against roughly the same
number of dealers: ‘This time
we got the same amount: of
drugs in a quarter the amount
-of time.”*

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