THE NEW correctional centre will have more space for a larger and
more efficient wood cutting operation. Income from the sale of
wood helps cover a variety of costs at the institution.

Benefits —
from Jal

TERRACE — A new communi-
ty correctional centre will be
one of Terrace’s biggest new
construction projects in 1992.

And district corrections
director Rob Watts will be
greatly relieved when he can
finally move into the new jail
— hopefully sometime early
next year.

Construction tenders are ex-
pected to go out within the
next two months, he says, and
the work should begin in the
summer. ‘

The final selection of a
parcel of industrial land bet-
ween Keith Avenue and the CN
railway tracks last year ended
months of speculation and op-
position from local residents.

Now, says Watts, the centre
appears to have.a home that
meets with the approval of
everyone. A public hearing on
the proposal following the an-
nouncement of the new site at-
tracted nobody. That
“meeting” was a sharp con-
trast to earlier attempts to
locate the centre on the bench

The final selection of a
parcel of industrial land
between Keith Avenue
and the CN railway
tracks last year ended
months of speculation
and opposition from
focal residents.

or in Thornhill, which spawned
intense opposition from
residents.

“| think everybody’s happy
with it now,” Watts. said. “I

don’t think we have any unhap- .

py campers.”
He said the new centre will
be an attractive, modern
building — a big improvement
over the former motel in which
it’s currently housed, :
City officials say the project
— with a total budget of $2.3
million — will help. boost Ter-
race’s already healthy. .con-
struction Industry and will also
build to the city’s tax base,
There had been an earlier
fear that the project’ would
move out of town, taking:away
dollars from the. area. That
possibility.arose when a Prince
Rupert business. organization
tried to persuade. the. B.C.
Buildings Corporation to con-
sider an old Prince Rupert area
fish farm at Miller. Bay as a
. potential site. 9
Watts said work will be done
to cut corners: and minimize
costs wherever possible,

because costs have increased .
greatly since the search fof. a:

new correctional centre began
three years agoo

os

| Rob V/atts

“Two and a half years of in-
flation has eroded the buying
power of our initial budget,’
he explained. . 7

Located at-the north end of’
Braun St., the centre will be
surrounded by other industrial

properties and by the railway. .

tracks. ;

The new property will also —
mean a huge expansion.for the
centre’s workyard:

Inmates work on a small-
scale logging operation run out
of the correctional centre...
Right now the entire centre sits
on three acres of land. At the:
new site they'll have. seven ~

acres for the workyard alone...
“It'll more than double what:

we have right-now,” ‘Watts
said. Se

He says a five-man .crew

harvests timber that wouldn't.
be commercially operable for
regular logging companies, but
is preat for firewood, In many
cases, he says, it’s wood that
needs to be cleaned out before
being replanted — often refer-
red to as..“rehab logging.”
“It’s a full-fledged logging
operation,” he says, adding the
firewood operation has been
run out of the jail since 1985.
Back in the workyard, in-

“mates cut down the wood into

lengths and .split it for
firewood. A truckload, — in-
cluding’ delivery anywhere in
town, sells for about $150,
This year’s - projected
revenue from firewood: sales,
says Watts, Is $110,000, That
_money goes to pay the costs of
the inmate work program —.
expenses for the equipment,
repairs, fuel and the small $4
to $7 a day allowance paid'to
the inmates. _
“We've ‘got. an’ excellent
safety record,” Watts added.
“We've-only. had. one signifi-
cant. accident in several
years,” os :
_. Their smaller size skidder is

- also able to move around and —
~ log more. environmentally sen-
sitive areas with less-damage

‘than the larger companies.

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