Vol. 4, Issue No. 31

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TERRACE, B.C., WEDNESDAY, August 3, 1988

Health Care Society recommendation
overturned by Ministry of Health

Last Friday, a special meeting
of the Terrace Health Care
Society awarded Kermodie Con-
struction a $697,345 contract to
build the Terraceview extended
care facility. This was contrary
to the board’s wishes, but the
decision was made under direc-
tions from the Ministry of
Health's Executive Director of
Facilities Planning and Con-
struction Division, Walter
MacLean who said the contract
must go to the lowest bidder.

According to MacLean, there
is nothing unusual about the
contract for the Terraceview
project. He says that the
Ministry of Health, as well as
most other ministries, follow the
guidelines of the Public Con-
struction Council of B.C. which
require that all bidders be bond-
ed and the contract goes to the
lowest bidder.

He explains that because bon-
ding companies must assume

ultimate financial responsibility
for the performance of a con-
tractor, they are careful to ascer-
tain the complete financial
status and ability to successfully
complete the project, Because of
this process, MacLean says that
it is safe to assume that any com-
pany that is able to be bonded is
able to complete the project as
required.

The project building commit-
tee met late last June and in a
two-to-one vote recommended
the contract be awarded to Ker-
modie Construction. Committee
members Ruth Hallock and Col-
lin Millard, a ministry represen-
tative, were in favor of recom-
mending the lowest bid, but Mo
Takhar disagreed.

He said following the meeting
that this was a major project and
Kermodie was a relatively new
business. He said he favored a
bid by Terrace H & H Builders

Inside this week’s. Terrace Review

RIVERBOAT DAYS: A four-
page photographic look at a
five-day party... pages 13 - 16.
‘OLDER AND BETTER: The
‘annual Terrace Oldtimers’
Reunion drew more than 140
guests this year... page 23.

WE HAVE A PLAN: The new
president of the National Ac-
tlon Gommittee on the
‘Status of Women spoke to a
group here Monday... page

Business Guide 12
Church Directory 20
ClassifiedAds 23—25
Coming Events _ 18
Comics . 22
Crossword 22
Dining Directory 10
Editorial 4
Entertainment — 6-10.
Horoscope . 2
Letters 5
Sports 8
Talk of the Town 5
Weather 2

Steelhead in Copper
River to get radios

TERRACE — The Northwest
chapter of the B.C, Steelhead
Society has received a $4,800
grant to place radio transmitters
in steelhead trout inhabiting the
Copper River. The grant comes
from the Public Conservation
Fund of the B.C. Ministry of
Environment.

Northwest regional fisheries
biologist Bob Hooton says the
transmitters will allow the
Steelhead Society and the
Ministry to gain more informa-
tion on the presence and
behavior of steelhead in the
river. Hooton estimated the
grant will purchase about 15 of
the transmitters, which are
cylinders about one-half inch in
diameter and three inches long.
They will be put in the fish by
forced ingestion, coming to rest
in the stomach. The signals can
be detected up to a mile away.

Hooton said there has been a
long-standing controversy over
whether some of the Copper
River steelhead are winter-run

fish, and the monitoring project
should settle that dispute. The
results could have an effect on
sport fishing policy in the area.

Summer-run_ steelhead,
Hooton said, need additional
protection because they come up
the Skeena at the same time as
commercially valuable sockeye

continued on page 28

Sheridan

TERRACE — Topics discussed
by city council during an in-
camera meeting with Minister of
State Terry Huberts and MLA
Dave Parker last week won’t be
known until the minutes are
released. Following the meeting,
however, Alderman Danny
Sheridan told the Terrace
Chapter of the Nisga’a Tribal
Council that Huberts was told
native land claims are the ‘‘big-
gest single issue’’ facing the
Northwest.

which was only $22,411 higher
than Kermodie’s, about three
percent, but came from a local
firm with a long standing record
of quality work. And when the
committee’s recommendation
was put before the board, they
agreed with Takhar — they
voted unanimously in favor of
Terrace H & H Builders.

In a press release, Terrace
Health Care Society chairman
David Lane said that board
members expressed ‘‘con-
siderable disappointment’’ with
respect to the following issues:
the lack of technical support,
with bid analysis provided by
project architects David-
son/Yuen Partners and Royce
Condie Associates; a 50-day
delay in receiving advice as to
the ministry’s position; and,
‘““The somewhat dictatorial posi-
tion taken by the Ministry of
Health, which tends to make a
mockery out of the ministry’s
much promoted theme of local
community involvement in the
delivery of health care.’”

Lane points out, however,
that the mandate of the Terrace
Health Care Society is to pro-
vide for ‘‘the delivery of an in-
tegrated, comprehensive con-
tinuum of health care to the
residents of the community”
and therefore, ‘‘The board views
the matters noted above as being
past history and is committed to
development of the much need-
ed extended care facility. In this
regard the board extends its
welcome to Kermodie Construc-
tion and looks forward to com-
pletion of the project without
further delay.”’

Takhar says his position is un-
changed and as far as their deci-
sion to go with the lowest bidder
is concerned, ‘‘There is nothing
we can do about it.’’ He points
out that Millard assured the
building committee in June that
Kermodie Construction would
be required to build according to
approved specifications and
would have to post a perfor-
mance bond to guarantee
meeting these specifications.

says land

by Tod Strachan

In a brief presentation during
the Nisga’a Princess Pageant
last week, Sheridan said that
through organizations such as
the Nisga’a Tribal Council, Ker-
mode Friendship Centre and
Northern Native Broadcasting,
city council ‘‘understands their
heeds and demands’’.

Because of this, said
Sheridan, ‘‘What we tried to say
to these two cabinet ministers is

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Gladys Oliver of the Terrace Chapter of the B.C. Old Age
Pensioners Organization received a special hug from River-
boat Queen, Vesta Douglas, when she announced that the
B.C.0.A.P.0 float won first place in the Non-Commercial
Riverboat Days Parade category. For some visual
highlights of this year's Riverboat Days, see pages 13 - 16.

Riverboat Days
parade winners

It was a tough job for the judging panel, but with a valiant effort
they decided on the prize winners immediately after the conclusion
of Saturday’s Riverboat Days parade.

Best Overall: Kitsumkalum Band Council.

Non-Commercial Floats: First prize - B.C. Old Age Pensioners
Organziation Branch 73; Second prize - Kermode Friendship Cen-
tre: Third prize - Royal Canadian Legion Branch 13.

Commercial Floats: First prize - Mills Memorial Hospital; Sec-

ond prize - Bytown Diesel.

Honorable Mention: Terrace Co-op, SpeeDee Printers.

Groups: Totem Saddle Club.

Other Vehicles: Skeena Horseshoe Club, J&J Stables. |

Special Prizes: went to 10 young Terrace residents who made ex-
ceptional contributions to the parade - Rachel Nadeau, Dustin and
Benjamin Haigh, Suzanne Stone, Darlene and Natalie Wolfe, Jason
Warner, Kerri Maroney and Melanie Mayner.

claims top priority

‘hat the biggest single issue go-
ing on in the Northwest is the
native land claims. And we ask-
ed them to, please, do something
to solve this for alwavs so we can
all work together for the
economic development of the
Northwest.’

Sheridan said they explained
to Parker and Huberts that
council recognizes the fact that
natives living in the city are ‘‘all
people of Terrace’, who are ‘‘a
very strong driving force’’ and

‘a very large segment of the
economic viability of Terrace’.

“So that was the message that
council gave to the cabinet
ministers,’’ he concluded. ‘‘And

we hope that message will get

through to cabinet. We hope
that the provincial government
will attempt, with the federal
government, to start listening,
and to negotiate some of these
land claims so that we can all get
on with the business of pro-
moting the Northwest.”

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