Vol. 2, Issue No. 30

Council

Supports
fishery —

proposal

TERRACE — A munici-
pal council Committee
of the Whole has recom-
mended the endorsement
in principal of a revised

Skeena River fisheries

.Management board.
Gary Miltenberger,
chairman of the Skeena
Watershed Sports
Fishermen’s Coalition,
addressed the committee
July 21, expressing the
Coalition’s concern over
the depletion of several
‘salmon stocks by over-
fishing in the Skeena
estuary.

The Coalition’s draft
proposal calls for a
reformed management
board which would
represent recreational,
native and commercial

_ fishing interests equally,
as opposed to the present
arrangement

of the commercial
marine fishermen. Mil-
tenberger said that the
Coalition favors a board

with greater authority -

than the existing ad-
visory body, but he add-

ed that the Fisheries Act

should be retained in its
present form and act as
the final term of
-reference for regulation
of the fish resource.
The committee’s re-
commendation to sup-
continued on page 23

| Inspired artist

Lynne Niesner, a local
graphic artist, has been do-
Ing window paintings for
Terrace businesses in their
preparations for Riverboat

TERRACE — A process
which began with a com-
prehensive re-assessment
of the academic division
recently culminated for
Northwest Community

College in the launching

of a new era in education
technology. § The
college’s audio  tele-
conferencing system is
now complete and ready
to begin delivery of pro-
grams tp branch cam-
puses commencing in
September.

by Michuel Kelly

Days. See story page 15.

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July 15 19 11 «O8mm
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July 17 22 12 tr
July 18 23°13 7.2mm
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Forecast: Mainly sunny
throughout the week,
with afternoon highs
reaching 28 to.29, and
overnight lows of 13.

Inside

Business Guide 14
Church Directory 10
Classified Ads 22

Coming Events 8
Comics 21
Crossword 21
Dining Directory 19
Entertainment 7
Horoscope 20
Letters 4,5
Opinions 4
Sports 6
Stork Report 17

Talk of the Town 5

Garbage dump reopened

. enable

The new system will
instructors to
conduct lectures and
discussions with students
in all of the college’s
northwest centres
simultaneously. Al-
though the system’s
main studio is in
NWCC’s Terrace cam-
pus, programming can
originate from any of the
college’s branches in
Prince Rupert, the
Queen Charlotte Islands,
Kitimat,
Smithers, Houston or
Aiyansh. The finished
network is the result of
months of effort by the
college’s new
technological team,
headed by media services
director Norbert Hartig.

During a recent inter-
view Hartig . expressed
unqualified enthusiasm
for the possibilities in-
herent in the new facili-
ty, saying that the
electro-technical support

Hazelton, |

TERRACE, B.C., WEDNESDAY, July 23, 1986

Northwest College enters.

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Legislative Library ,
Parliament Buildings,
Victoria, B.C,

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new era |

system contains nearly
unlimited potential as a
teaching tool. He also
said that. this is a
pioneering effort by the

local college, being the

first program of its kind
to offer first-year univer-
sity transfer courses.

“This is something very
original, it is unexplored
territory, experimental,”
Hartig said. ‘‘We will be
looking for ways to
make the courses more
exciting; the students
and instructors appear to
be very open to new

AO en etait a

-. Electronic command post

learning technology.”
The heart of the audio
teleconferencing system
is a studio on the second
floor of the Terrace cam-
pus. In a soundproof
broadcast booth the in-
structor will lecture,
answer students’ ques-
tions, moderate discus-
sions, and perform all
continned om page 3

Norbert Hartig, director of media services for Northwest Community College, headed the
academic and technical team that put together the college's new leap into education

technology — audio teleconferencing.

This electronic command post will be occupied by

a technician working in tandem with course instructors. On the tight of Hartig is the

“bridge”, a master switching
ing from the college's regional
used to provide supplementary

device which controls the flow of signals going to and com-
i centers. In back are audio cassette and videotape players
teaching materials to the Instructional format. See story

page 3.

Editor’s Quote Book

We are not satisfied to be
right, unless we can prave
others to be quite wrong.

William Hazlitt

The threat of serious environmental contamination caused a two-day closure of the Thornhill dump last week. The

suspect area was covered with organic fill after laboratory tesis proved Ii to be safe.

See atory page 2.

ization.

Paving projects

go over

TERRACE — The mu-
nicipal Public Works
Department continues to
suffer cost overruns
despite committee pro-
bes, new reporting pro-
cedures, and an ad-
ministrative reorgan-
At a_ council
Committee of the Whole
meeting July 21, city
engineer Ralph Keen
presented a request for
additional funding to
finish two of the three
major paving projects
called for in this year’s
budget.

The portion of Keith
Ave. between the en-
trance to the Skeena
Cellulose sawmill and
the intersection of Ken-
ney St. was slated for
paving because of sur-
face deterioration due to
heavy truck traffic. Keen
stated that the cost
estimate incorporated in-
to the May 30 budget
allowed for excavation
to a depth of three and

budget

one-half feet to lay down
a firm roadbed; in fact,
he said, it was necessary
to go down nearly five
feet to find a strata with
suitable drainage and
compaction character-
istics. Keen pointed out
that the original paving,
laid in 1978, didn’t last
because it was laid over a
base composed primarily
of silt and mud. He also
stated that the new pave-
ment was laid at a width
of 32 feet instead of the
planned 24 feet to pre-
vent shoulder erotion
from the passage of
heavy vehicles near the
edges of the road.
Despite the extra width,
he concluded, the project
would have remained
within budget if the addi-
tional excavation had
not been necessary.
After a brief discus-
sion,
agreed to

continued om page 23

council members
transfer
$10,000 from the crack-

Be.

ALA ERPS