Government * seeks pond problem answer A solution to ponding in the Heek Brook ravine may be getting close. The regional water manager for the Ministry of Environment, Wilf Dreher, has asked Stan Kin- kead of Samson’s Pouliry Farm to come. up with an acceptably engineered plan by the end of the year which will finally eliminate the problem for good. In a letter to Kinkead dated Nov. 19, Dreher states: "In order to re-establish adequate drainage, I request that you submit to this office by December 31, 1990, a drainage plan or plans, prepared by an appropriately qualified engincer. The proposed drainage system shall have sufficient capacity to accommodate the 1:10 year (once every 10 years) instantaneous peak flow to be expected in Heek Brook." He adds to this, "The proposed drainage shall be by gravity through oven ditch or culvert and shall not cause ponding except during floods exceeding the 1 in 10 year peak flow." In a phone interview Tuesday, Dreher confirmed that fact that an existing 10-inch culvert is not sufficient to meet this 1 in 10 year peak flow, and that in consultation _with both his staff and that of the Terrace Public Works Department it has been determined that a satis- factory culvert size would be closer to three feet. Dreher says he hopes a satisfac- tory solution will be found soon, but adds that if it’s not he is pre- pared to issue an order under sec- tion 37(d) of the Water Act. Under this section of the act, the Water Management Branch has the authority to order the removal of any works capable of diverting or blocking the natural flow of water. The Residential Tenancy Branch, which resolves dis- putes between landlords and tenants, has moved to: Fourth Floor - 5021 Kingsway, Burnaby, B.C., V5H 4A5 — Phone 660-3456 Fax 660-2363 This Festive Season, don’t let your gift packages get. tied up in security For your personal safety, all parcels carried on board aircraft may be opened at the security screening checkpoint. This festive season, don’t fet your gift packages gel Lied up in security. Wrap all carry-on presents ab your destination. SEASON'S GREETINGS from your airport stalf Canad Ey ca a Transporls Canada Terrace Review — Wednesday, December 5, 1990 Al5 Doing their part for travel costs and the Peaks Gymnastics gymnasium, young gymnasts under _ the direction of head coach Pat McRoberts participated in a fundraising Flipathon last Saturday morning. The final count isn’t in, but money raised by recreational members will go towards the new gymnasium, that by competitive members towards travel. Above, Lindsay Bjorgaard, 3-1/2, gets a little help from Mom as she tries a.never-before-seen move during the early hours of the Flipathon. _ Dave Parker M.L.A. for Skeena 635-4215 THANK YOU 4 | Special Thanks to our daycare mom for the anonymous delivery of Balloon Chandeliers and Christmas Loot Balloons from Heather's Balloon Magic. Sunshine Family Daycare Children Corrections centre — continued from a13 have already died," he asks? And George adds, "If your friends are drinking that doesn’t mean you have to drink along with them." This, of course, is the message most parents offer their kids, but it’s a message, it seems, that almost never gets through. "They usually don’t believe their parents," Ray points out, and offers a possible solution. "The governments going to have io start taking responsibility for teaching those kids what alcohol does to the system," he says. And he has more advice to offer. Raise the drinking age to 25. But that won’t stop them, said Dick. "It will slow them down,” Ray _ replied. "It won’t slow them down a bit,” Dick was firm. ‘So Ray offered another solution. If you don’t know what’s going on, things go on without you. read the Terrace Review Make bootlegging just as serious a crime as trafficking drugs. Peddl- ing alcohol, in fact, should perhaps cally a more severe penalty than marijuana, he adds. After all, he says, Marijuana doesn't desroy te _body’s internal organs like alcohol does. No one really agreed on any solutions, but every one of the inmates we talked to agreed on one thing: the use of alcohol and drugs is a personal choice, and it should be an educated choice. And perhaps the best education of all is to take a look inside a correctional centre. With very few exceptions, every inmate there © began abusing alcohol or drugs at an early age. And every one of them will admit, they truly believed at the time they began, "I can handle it." We're left with the questions of how the lives of these men would have turned out if they had been Tight, of how many teenagers will be in jail five or 10 years from now to tell a reporter what went wrong and how others might avoid making the same mistakes. Who will next end up like the 16-year- old who froze to death in a snow bank while his intoxicated friends tried to remember where they had left him, and whether young people can jearn from the experi- ences of others.