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TERRACE — City council’s
Finance Committee has sent a
proposed bylaw regulating Sun-
day store hours back to council
for a final discussion — a deci-
sion may be made -on it next
Monday night.

The committee didn’t offer
approval for the bylaw but they
didn’t suggest any changes
either. If adopted, the bylaw
would require stores to close at

p.m, as they are now. .

The committee received
several last-minute submissions
during their Tuesday lunch hour
meeting, and one of those came

Management, property man-
. agers for Skeena Mall. MacLean

positive ‘economic perspectives
of Sunday shopping and then
pointed out that Terrace is a
community of open, friendly
people and an important
regional center serving a large

In a joint statement last Fri-
day the federal and provincial
ministers of energy, mines and
resources, Jake Epp and Jack
Davis, revealed the findings of a
consultant’s report recommend-
ing a road up the Iskut River
from Bob Quinn Lake to the
Bronson Creek airstrip as being
the soundest route to provide ac-
cess to the booming mine and

A nearby maple tree and hydro pole were burned to a height of more than two meters when

_ vandals doused this canoe with gasoline and set it ablaze last Saturday morning. The fami-
~ ly car, only a few feet away, was undamaged. In dry weather, however, the fire could have ig-
nited nearby trees, possibly destroying the home and causing the deaths of those Inside.

. _. . Police investigate bizarre fire

12 noon on Sunday rather than 5°

from Carroll MacLean of L&C ©

described what. he. called: the.

: n _ * Vandals doused a 16-foot

cance with gasoline at 4703

Straume early last Saturday and
lit .it on fire. The canoe was

destroyed and nearby trees, a
‘hydro pole and plastic garbage

can were damaged by the fire.
Had it beén a few weeks earlier
during dry weather, the blaze
could easily have ignited nearby
trees and destroyed the home of
Jose Coosemans. Because the
vandals struck early in the morn-
ing, between 3 and 6 a.m., the
fire may even have cost lives.

“That's the least of my wor--

ries,’’ said Coosemans when. ex-
amining his 16-year-old burned
out canoe. The canoe can be re-
placed for about $700, he says,
and will probably be covered by
insurance. But his family, in-
cluding his 11 and 14-year-old

daughters, were asleep in the
rear of the house when the van-:

dals struck. “If it had been a

week or. two earlier, when the

bushes were dry, it ‘would have
burned half the house before we
even new what was happening.’’

‘Coosemans says the 4700
block Straume is a quiet neigh-

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borhood and under normal cir-
cumstances his neighbor’s dog

would have barked, warning of
the intruders, The dog, which
was always chained in the back-
yard, however, went missing at
four days earlier and hasn’t been
seen since. Even checks of the
animal shelter have failed to
turn up the missing dog, and

Coosemans wonders if the two

incidents are connected. RCMP
Staff Sergeant G. Woods says a
police investigation of the fire is
continuing.

exploration area. Considera-
tions in the decision were cost,

environmental impact and
‘‘regional development
reasons’’.

The proposed route would in-
volve building 75 kilometers of
all-weather industrial road at an
estimated cost of about $12.5
million,

_ Irwin Henderson, a public af-
fairs officer with the B.C,
Ministry of Energy, Mines and
Petroleum Resources, said the
next move will be further en-
vironmental impact studies and

Battle growing over new electoral boundaries - page 23

Sunday shopping law
— this could be it .

Northwest population, His latter
comments were derived from the-
**Visitors’ Guide to Terrace’’.
available from a number of busi-
nesses in town, oe

MacLean says L&C Manage-
ment has done a two-month
survey and claim that between
3,000 and 4,800 people shop at
Skeena Mall every Sunday. The
survey is based on counts of peo-

ple entering the mall on July 30, .

Aug. 6 and 27; Sept. 24 and Oct.

8. MacLean then urged the com- .

mittee to recommend to council
that Sunday shopping should
not be regulated, but to no avail.

_ “*We strongly believe that it.
(Sunday shopping) is good for:
Terrace,” MacLean told the
Terrace. Review. following. the
meeting. ‘“We recognize the
emotional issues involved and
they will never. meet.’’ In the
meantime, says MacLean, ‘‘We
will have to wait and see which
way council will vote.”’

- Government says
_road to gold a go

The B.C. and federal governments have taken a ten-
tative first step in creating overland access to the Iskut :
River valley gold fields. The questions remaining are
when it will be built and who’s going to pay for it, .

discussions regarding who will.
pay what proportion of the road

building costs. ‘‘The private sec-

tor will probably be paying the

lion’s share,’’ he predicted.

Government involvement. will

include the federal Ministry of

Energy and Mines, its provincial

counterpart, and the Ministry of
Forests. A road into the area will .
open up new tracts of timber for

logging. .

The concept is strictly in-
dustrial. ‘It’s not envisioned as
a public road,’? Henderson ex-
plained. ‘“‘We are looking at a
single lane road with turn-outs,
designed for professional
drivers.”

Henderson said the ministry
will engineer the road-building
agreement in a way that prevents
a repeat of the Cheni resource.
road situation. Several months
ago controversy erupted north
of Smithers when the manage- .

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