Can ban not very pleasing |News A LOCAL BOTTLE drive volunteer still isn’t happy with a change in the way the local Coke warehouse takes back its cans, ‘Up until three months ago, the Coke warehouse wouldn’t take back iis cans at all. Now it will, but only if they come from a bottle drive which has made prior arrangements, Karen Birkedal fcels the Coke -- distributor. should take. back. ils cans regardless of how they were collected. “You can talk to any volunteer organization and it’s the same song,”’ said Birkedal who helps out on various bottle drives, “I don’t see why it all has to be such a production, Randy Mullock, the northern B.C. sales manager for Coca- Cola, explained how the policy has been changed. “Up until about three months ago, we did have a policy not to take back retums because we’re not a depot,’’ said Mullock of the Cake’s warehouse in Terrace. Coca-Cola will now take returns for full refund for bottle drives only. “IE we had a bottle drive that separated out Coke products and made atrangements with us ahead of time, we would take them,” Mullock said. Until! December 1993, added Mullock, Coke wasn’t even tak- ing back cans from bottle depots. “We were getting a lot of cans Water rates raised WOODLANDS ~— UTILITIES has received approval to increase domestic water rates in Thorn- heights by 80 per cent. Residents there will see their quarterly water bills go from $30 io $54 under a new system, ap- proved by Jack Farrell, the provincial deputy comptroller of water rights. Farrell said .ihe increases are needed to put money into a re- placement reserve trust fund to eventually pay for repairs and re- placement of system components, The water rate had remained at $10 per month since 1976, when |<< taken from landfills,” he said, “They were filthy to handle and to reuse,” Grocery stores do take back cans and give a full five cent refund but usually limit each per- son to returning 24 cans at a time. Birkedal is also unhappy that the local bottle depot at Riverside Grocery will take back an un- limited number of cans but pay only three cents for each one. “This sends a message to the kids that their work is not valued?’ she said. ‘*Who’s making the two cents?”’ In Terrace, no one is making the two cents. ‘We offer the depot as a ser- vice to the community,”’ said Laurie Redden, manager of. Riverside Grocery. ‘‘I’ve never had a profit from ihe depot yet.” The two cents the depot keeps covers the costs of bagging the returns, rent and wages, said Red- den. Because she operates both a grocery and a depot, she does not get paid for the returns. Instead, Redden gets the valuc of the containers collected in her depot deducted from the’ annual bill for soft-drinks bought for sale in the grocery store, “If I was only a depot, I'd receive a monthly cheque for the containers,’’ said Redden. “The only way you can get your full five cents back is to go toa place with a 24-can limit.”’ the water system was built. Fifteen per cent of rates col- lected will now go into the trust fund, All metered customers will pay $1.17 per 1,000 gallons — up from $1 ~— under the new plan. Farrell rejected the utility’s plan to charge domestic metered users a lower rate of 80 cents per 1,000 gallons for water over the 46,125 gallons included in the base rate of $54 per quarter. In multiple “ unit residential The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, June 29, 1994- A3 In Brief Local named LOCAL RESIDENT Judy Chrysler has been named to a new provincial body charged with increasing public knowledge of librar- ies and to help with finding money for them, A tormer member of the Terrace Public Library bourd, Chrysler is one of 11 people named to the new body. She’s one of two rep- rescnilatives from northern B.C, Stewart revitalized STEWART HAS received a $15,000 grant to help spliff up (he facades of businesses iis downtown core. The grant covers one-third of store front improvements lo a maximum of $350 per meter and a lesser amount for sides and backs of build- ings. Student money THE B.C, government is ad- ding $2 million this year for post secondary student financial assistance. It'll result in an increase in weekly limits — to $235 a week from $216 a week for students withoul dependents and to $360 a week from $331 a weekly for students wilh dependents. Thre quarters of the increase will be in the form of grants. Space-age prescription MEMBERS OF a provincial goverment committee looking into PharmaNet, a buildings, additional units will be deemed equivalent ta two-thirds KATIE PARR points to the pile of cans her mother Karen Birkedal hopes to be able to return some- where fox a ful five cents. 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