TERRACE — A company to do a study on the impacts to area ma- lives of the proposed Orenda pulp and paper mill could be chosen next week. Six companies, one of which is from uorthern. B.C. “have sub- mitted bids, says economic devel- - - Spokesmiait. opment ministry Harold Demetzer. . >: The study is ‘to also determine the possible economic. benefits to area natives’ [rom.:the | planned $400 million developrient south of Lakelse Lake. This study. is one of. the: condi- lions given when Orenda received approval in principle for its pro- ject this spring, The study was to have been started by now but. delays were bem emer experienced in setting up what it should accomplish. There’s a three-month time pe-— riod set aside for the study, plac- ing ils possible completion date at the end of December. ~The stidy divides area natives into two groups when considering impacts and benefits of the pro- ject. the Haisla of Kitumaat for. the will ‘proper and. the Nisga’a, the -Gitksan and the Gitanyow for the : area in which Orenda-wants to cut ‘wood for-its mill. shian villages are also included, Vv study is to: . provide information onthe wil to natives; They are the Tsimshian. ‘villages: of Kitselas and Kitswitkalum and * Other Tsim- | 2. determine probable impacts of the development on natives and recommend ways of dealing with the cffects; 3. identify work force require- ments for construction and opera- tion of the mill; 4, identify the: number of na- tives and job skills they have and what might be -needed for employment at the mill; 3. identify materials and: ser- vices required by the mill; 6. determine opportunities for natives to supply goods and ser- vices to the mill and how that can be done; and 9. determine what’s needed to monilor the project and how na- tives can be involved. DRESSAGE RIDER Aliceyn -Fokuhl, of Kitimat; and half-Arab mount. Sundance Kasen . demonstrate their dressage skills. Dressage was one of many events spectators were able to take in at the Labour Day weekend's horse show and gymkhana, held at the Thornhill Com- & munity Grounds during the 22nd annual Skeena Valley Fail Fair. For more on the fun of the Hm fair, s see page BI. Turn to page C1 for or phatos and bstory on the @ Loggers Sports. City hands out sprinkler fines TERRACE -- More than a dozen householders were fined and the water supply to one home was cut off during this summer's sprinkler. crack down, says the city’s engincer- ing director, For the past three months people have only been allowed to use spriniders 6-10 a.m. on alternate days. While most people had fol- lowed the regulations, Stew Christensen. sald the city had. taken action in L5 cases where costs couple » home, business. -F re | @ Thornhill blaze + homeowners had ignored them, Those individuals were in- formed they could ‘avoid hay- ing their service disrupted’’ by paying a $20 fine within 48 hours, he explained. While nearly all had paid up, ‘<7 puess one person thought we .. were kidding,’ Christensen added. Water flows in Deep Creek | having been restored hy recent rain, he said Jast Thursday was the first time. in three. months _ the creek had been able to supp- | ly all the city’s water needs. Therefure, the restrictions were being lifted, effective im- mediately. Although the city plans to add io its water sources next year by building a well at the west end of town, Christensen said that didn’t guarantee no future restrictions. He pointed to a growing atti- tude that.there are “some ad- vantages to some sort of restric- tlons for environmental rea- sons.?! ill study is coming Demetzer said the Jaller is meant to coincide with a scparate mill monitoring committee being established by the -provincial government, the regional district and natives. Costs of this study are to be shared between the provincial government and Orenda. This study is to be followed by another one estimating revenues to the province from the proposed development, That has been interpreted as.the slart of the process of dividing those revenues. between the pro- vince, local governments and the native groups who have laid claim to the land upon which Orenda wants to build. TERRACE — A former Socred aboriginal affairs minister says he’s worried about any land claims sctilement cost sharing deal struck by the NDP govem- ment. Jack Weisgerber suid the pro- vince could end up paying toa much onee land. and resource values are calculated. He was responding: ta reports last week that the — provincial goverment had reached a cost sharing agreement wilh the feder- al government. , just over 70 per cent of the cash all of the land involved in any sclilement. Aboriginal affairs — minister Andrew Peller has denied those reporls but docs say he hapes a TERRACE — The school board pliins to find’ out why the teen pregnancy rate is more (han lwo and a half times the provincial average in Terrace, Trustees have voted to carry out to carry out a study ‘‘la investi- gate lifestyle differences between pregnant and. parenting teens and a matched reference group.” They werc.responding to a mo- tion by Stewart Chapman passed last June that called for a review of the dis- trict’s Family Life Education pro- gram. Chapman —_. had suggested stalistics indicale the . prograin isn’t working, The birth rate for Terrace teen mothers (aged 15-19) in 1990" was 63.8 per thousand © popula-. tion. The provinelal average ‘is 25.3 births per thousand for that age group. Those numbers, however, don’t include 13- and. 14-year-old mothers, In 1990, two babies were born to 13-year-olds in the Skeena. Health Unit arca and three were born lo 14-year-olds, “Special education director Andrew Scruton said he didn't Major upset SPORTS + C3 TERRACE — The convic- tion of a Terrace RCMP of- ficer and his hunting partner on pit-lamping charges July 31 is being appealed. Cpl. Rick Senft and Terry Drake Jr. were each fined $1,500 after being found guilty of night hunting with the aid of a light. The two men were caught by conservation officers ing ata mechanical moose decoy the officers were using in a sling operation. Defence lawyer Doug Hallyard said a tentative ap- Night hunting fines appealed ment that the decoy opera- Nov. 10, 1991, after shoot-- peal hearing has been scheduled for Dec. 7 in B.C. Supreme Court. Judge Robert Graham re- jected Halfyard’s argument that the moose decoy was an inanimate object and therefore didn’t constitute ‘wildlife.’ He also rejected the argu- tion constituted entrapment, prompting otherwise law- abiding people to commit offences, The appeal is being made on the basis of those two arguments. and the province the remainder. . But, the province would put up - trustee Kris. Fall Fair « Chase is on as Cliff goes. over the edge. COMMUN ITY « “ Bl tentative deal is in place by the end of the month. ‘Tf that’s the case, the cost to . the province could be as much as 75 per cent by losing access {o land and resources,’? said Weis- gerber. “We have, af course, i taken the position that land claims scttle- ments are a {ederal responsibility. And the federal government should put up-most if not all of the costs associated,”’ be said. While in opposition, Premier Mike Harcourt said an. NDP _ Boverinignt:s would -pay.no. more... than 25 per cent of the cash costs of land claims settlement, The danger of that is then the question of the province commit- ting to land and resources for settlements, said Weisgerber. The NDP could ‘have fallen, into the trap I suggested might be case when I was minister,’ be Board to probe pregnancy rate have any answers as to why tecnagers here get pregnant more often, but said the study might provide some answers, He plans detailed, informal in- terviews with 20 pregnant and parenting teens aged 16-18 and a similar growp of teens who aren’t pregnant “We're booking for a qualita- tive study — nal one that just deals with numbers,’’? Scruton said. “1 think the only way to get answers to these questions is to just interview these teenagers aud let them talk.’? He called it an unexplored area. The study. will go ahead as long as the district can find the money for it, They'll be approaching several . support . agencies and government ministries. - The district will’ hire someone to conduct the study, he said. kkkkk The board ' has taken. some moves to address the problem of pregnant young women. Last year it introduced a pro- gram for young mothers provid- ing day.care for their children and courses for themselves. The Terrace and District Com- - instead Ex-Socred minister worried over cost of land claims said, Cot we Weisgerber. added “that. his governinent waited to negotiate specific settlements as they arose of committing. to a blanket policy. oa He said the federal government should provide the province wilh at Jeast partial compensation for land and resources: involved in” seltlements. kak kkw The province and the federal gavernment will announce, Sept, 21 mare details of a commission, _ “being established to newotiate a claims in B.C. It’s been in the works for more Ahan a year and will result in es- tablished methods of conducting negotiations. The province and the federal governments will share equally the costs of the commission, © Andrew Scruton niunity Services Society provides ic day care component of the program. Demand exceeded expectations in the first year and this fall, there are 24 tecn mothers enrolled. - The program is: now housed on . Lazelle Ave. but there ore plans to build at Caledonia Secondary School. . The school board is secking ap: proval ta spend up to $650,000 on that project.