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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 28, 1991
Vol. 7, Issue No. 35

Phone 635-7840
Fax 635-7269

"75 cents plus GST

Serving the communities of Terrace, Thornhill, Usk, Cedarvale, Kitwanga, Meziadin, Stewart and the Nass Valley

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FREQUENT LANDER. mills Memorial Hospital does provide
a regional service. In what could be described as a more or less
routine situation, a Masset woman in premature labour was
flown to Mills Memorial Monday moming where she later gave
birth to a heaithy baby boy. Last year, 69 in-bound helicopters
used the hospital's helipad in emergency medical situations. An

independent health care consultant has told the Terrace
Regional Health Care Society he has discovered that Mills
_ Memorial Hospital provides‘a much more diverse and complex
range of services than would normally be expected in an 89-bed
hospital and the society board says that may mean increased
funding from Victoria, For more details, see page Ad.

Orenda issues prospectus,
sets public meeting dates

City officials report in from Duluth

TERRACE -— Orenda Forest
Products and Major Project

Review Process officials bowed to
public pressure yesterday and

scheduled a third public meeting to
examine the company’s pulp and
paper plant proposal planned for
the Lakelse Lake area. Bob Lang-
. ford, the MPRP coordinator for the
Ministry of Environment, said the
meeting is intended to accommo-
date Lakelse Lake residents who
expressed dissalisfaction because
an unofficial "drop-in" open house
was scheduled for their area while

Terrace and Kitimat will both be
the sites of official MPRP public
meetings.

Clive Cam, a spokesman for
Orenda’s public relations firm, said
the company will try to book the
R.E.M. Lee Theatre for the meet-
ing because there is no facility at
the lake that can accommodate the
number of people expected.

The "drop-in" open house is
scheduled to take place at the
Mount Layton Hot Springs Resort
Starting al 4 p.m. Sepi. 10, with
the public mecting at 7 p.m. Public

meetings are scheduled for Terrace
Sept. 12 and Kitimat Sept. 11.

The public meetings ate a re-
quirement of the Major Project
Review Process and the minutes
will form part of the material to be
reviewed by the steering commit-
tee. Orenda will run the meetings,
and an MPRP official will be
present at each of them.

As of late yesterday afternoon
the prospectus for the Orenda
project had still not been received
by cither the Terrace Public
Library, which was sent 10 copies,
or the City of Terrace, which was

— Continued on page A16

A HOME AT LAST

No opposition to corrections site

It was a dream come true for proponents of a new community.
corrections facility in our community. But it was a dream
preceded with a bit of a recurring nightmare. Local corrections
director Rob Watts and B.C.Buildings Corporation representative
Mike Robinson rose to face a crowd of about 30 people during a
public hearing in.Terrace council chambers Monday night to
promote their cause,

They had done the same thing twice in recent months, but both
times were tried and convicted even before they spoke. Both
presented their cases, acting mayor Ruth Hallock asked for
comments from the floor, the air tensed... But no one spoke,
There was no opposition to relocating the centre to a site between
the rear of B.C. Hydro's storage yard and the CN tracks. The
public in attendance during the hearing were there to address other
community concerns and were only observers at the hearing.

As a result, three bylaws necessary for the move went smoothly

Board to

examine
Uplands

tenders

tonight

A special meeting of the School
District 88 board of trustees has
been called tonight to look over six
bids opened last Friday for renova-
tion and addition work to Uplands
Elementary School. None of the
bids came from Terrace com-
panies. .

_ The bids are: Sees
¢Mizar Ventures Ltd., Smithers —
$1,696,000.
*Norcan Construction, Prince
George — $1,602,851.
*Seaward Construction, Surrey —
$1,827,873.
*Vector Projects Inc., Kelowna —
31,647,828.
“Wayne Watson Construction,
Prince George — $1,526,591.
“Witt Construction, Prince George
— $1,746,800.

The work will include construc-

tion of permanent buildings to

replace four portable buildings
currently housing classrooms at the
school, connecting the new build-

. -- Continued on page A2

— Continued on page A2

Re-negotiate or else —- Johnston’s message to teachers, A5