ee ae eee ae storpeeet acre . is were te eee ER Ee ero EE EE ET CT Ue Pe former som ere roe, err re reyes TERRACE LANDFILL employee Dave Smith stands by the now fa- Mmiliar sign which greets users of that facility. There'll be signs like that and an electric fence to match this week at the Thornhill dump. Bears to get shock at Thornhill dump GOING TO the Thorabill dump will soon be an electrifying experience. Or it should be for bears after the new electric fence is up and running next week, But first, Thornhill and Jackpine flats residents will get flyers warning them that bears who normally frequent the dump will be heading their way. “'The bears are conditioned to garbage,”’ said’ ministry representative Shelley Browne adding that they may now be a big- ger danger to people that don’t clean their yards of garbage and unripened fruit. The Kitimat-Stikine regional district paid $25,000 for the fence installation and is also. responsible for fence maintenance, said district works and service manager Roger Tooms. He said the fence was requested by the environment ministry because of the num- ber of bears {ured to the area. It decided to go ahead on the project this year because the increasing number of bears frequenting the landfill. The regional district is also looking at closing the dump and setting up a new site near Onion Lake or environmentally up- grading the old site. “This by no meais means that that we’re staying there,’’ said Tooms. He said the district is still determining what the ministry’s requirements will be for treated leachate. Then, they7ll develop a treatment plan and cost for development. “We're locking. at both sites right now,”’ he said. Tooms added ‘the district was hoping to have its decision by the end of the year. It's being installed in the expectation of stopping bears from rooting around in the garbage. Residents are first being warned about the fence's installation in case bears start wandering once its turned on. Refunds expand YOU WON'T be getting as much for bottle and can refunds beginning tomorrow. As of Oct. 1, two-litre pop bottles will net just 20 cents, a 10 cent reduction. And one-litre bottles and smaller containers will earn refunds of five cents, down from a dime. The changes are part of the province’s expanded deposit refund system for drink containers. Consumers now have to pay a deposit on all drink bottles and cans excluding dairy drinks. Plastic-coated juice boxes were to have been included next week. But ministry of environment officials do plan to include them by Oct. 1, 1999, The Terrace Boitle Depot will take all pop, juice, water, wine, beer and spirit bottles back for money. Grocery stores can take them back but aren't required to as long as the depot is open. Wine, beer, and hard alcohol bottles will also be Tetumable at provincial liquor store on Lazelle Ave. The change is part of the province's aim to cut gar- bage in B.C, in half by 2000. News In Brief Work-share takes effect A WORK SHARING program is now in effect for 136 employees at West Fraser’s Skceena Sawmills opera- tian. It began Saturday, Sept. 26. The program will last until March 20, the maximum 26 weeks that’s allowed, says to Human Resources De- velopment Canada manager Shirley Kimery. Under the program, the mill, which normally runs two shifts, will operate only one shift. Employees will work half-time, picking up employment insurance benefits for most of the remaining half of their pay. Without the program, West Fraser officials said they would have hired back employecs on the basis of seniority to work the one shift, resulting in layoffs to the majorily of workers, IWA local 2171 members here voted 85 per cent Aug. 30 in favour of the work-share plan, which will see them collect reduced paycheques. Man taken to hospital A 38-YEAR-OLD man was taken to Mills Memorial Hospital jate in the evening of Sept. 23 after he climbed to the top of the overhead metal structure at the Old Skeena River Bridge. The man at first refused to move but was taken to the hospital for observation afler being talked down by RCMP officers, Also at the scene was the Thornhill Fire Department acrial track and a B.C. Hydro bucket truck. A boat manned by members of the Terrace water rescuc (cam was stationed in the river under the bridge. Police thanked those who provided assistance. Hill roads too narrow A RESIDENT of the Birch HillJohnstone Road bench arca says the roads up there are too narrow for children going ta school. Maroncy Ave. resident Margaret Hampshire said there are now at least 60 school-aged children living there and it is unsafe for them to walk to school along the roads. Hampshire wants the city to do something — whether it’s improved transit service, a sidewalk or a stairway — to improve access. “There are no sidewalks and the roads are very” haz- ardous -—~ especially in the dark, in winter, on blind corners,”’ she said. Council referred the matter to two committees and plans to raise the issue with the school board, which doesn’t include the area in school bus routes because i’s not more than four kilometres fram a school. Hampshire said public school buses wouldn’t neces- sarily help, because many children go to private schools. “Tf it's unsafe to walk down there, it’s unsafe,’' added councillor Linda Hawes. ‘‘Buses won’t provide access all the time.’’ Councillor Olga Power suggested one option might be to make the Birch Hill and Park Ave. accesses up one way — one hill becomes up-only and the other be- comes down-only. Most children in the area are now y driven to ‘school, Hampshire said. FAD SERN READE EAE PSY 2 PBS PPR LY kD LSPA eT EVR OREN RTE a aes ore ere ees a That’s The Circulation Of The STANDARD freadlightiyi* LENO ACOOd Mamet © Act now, and get up to $400 in Cat Cash™ when you buy a 1999 Arctic Cat® before September 30, 1998. Purchase a new 1998 Arctic Cat before September 30, 1998 you can get up to $800 in Cat Cash™. Quantities are limited. 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