A2 - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, May 7, 2003

End free camping in city,
RV park owner urges

By JEFF NAGEL
“THERE'S ONE simple way for city
council to aid campground operators
-crack down on free camping in
local parking lots.

That’s what Wild Duck RV park
owner Yvonne Danroth is pushing for
and it’s an idea the city is now con-
templating.

Danroth wants a firm policy
against parking lot camping before
Wal-Mart opens. so

“Wal-Mart is notorious for. free
parking,” she said. "That’s what they
advertise. That's what people use.”

City officials have admitted the
site may become a problem because
it’s adjacent to the river and just
across from Ferry Island.

Campground and motel operators

From front

say they’re facing one of their bleak-
est seasons ever thanks to American
skittishness over the dangers of war,
terrorism and SARS,

“Wal-Mart could be the death
knell of us ail,” Danroth said, adding
there’s an entire sub-culture of
American motorized tourists who
stay only at Wal-Mart parking lots.

The Wild Duck has long com-
plained about free parking in places
like-the Safeway parking Jot. It’s one
of the locations that has signs posted
encouraging free overnight parking.

Danroth sees that as taking
money directly from her operation.

Council has asked staff to ex-
amine the issue and bring back a re-
commendation,

Councillor David Hull says he

supports a bylaw banning overnight
camping in parking lots.

Even if it’s not vigorously en-
forced, he said, it could at least be
used to force stores like Safeway to
take down the signs that encourage
the practise.

Councillor Marylin Davies soun-
ded a more cautionary note.

“T think we’re walking a fine line
here,” Davies said. “We don’t want
to drive out of town people who
might buy a few things in the
morning.”

Danroth said she has no beef with
late night arrivals in town who have
trouble finding RV parks.

But she said many campers set up
in mid-afternoon in parking lots and
stay for days.

City to consult more before Alcan decision

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“The province has a
duty to vigorously defend
and maximize the resource
for the people,” Hull said.

“My personal gut feel-
ing is the provincial gov-
ernment has to take a big-
ger role in this.”

He also suggested the
District of Kitimat, which
has historically been very
accommodating to Alcan,
would not lightly embark

“What would possess a
town to head down this
path?” Hull asked.

“There must be some-
thing wrong here.”

A deal, not 4 court bat-
tle, is preferred, he added.

“We don’t want Alcan
to be nothing but a power
producer in five years
time,” Hull said. “And we
don't want them to say
‘We can't work here,
we're out of here.’ Some-

where in the middle there
has to be a win-win.”

Terrace council has put
off taking a stand on the
issue for most of a year,
since Kitimat began its
campaign last summer.

In recent weeks the
mayor has said council
was waiting to hear the
Kitimat presentation.

That has now happened,
but Davies said council
has now invited Alcan of-

commerce reps to make
separate additional presen-
tations to council.

Any decision will wait
until those meetings take
place, she said.

“We need to have a
balanced approach to
this,” she said. "If we
make a decision I'm sure
it will be a much softer
decision than some people
would like.”

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Paper
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TWO TERRACE STAN-
DARD writers have won
awards for editorials writ-
ten in 2002,

Senior reporter Jeff
Nagel placed first for an
editorial last March on im-
pending forest policy re-
forms and Victoria's un-
derlying shift away from
guaranteed job protection
and community stability.

Editor Rod Link placed *
third’ in ‘the ‘same’ category"
for an editorial calling for
an Olympic referendum.

The awards were pre-
sented April 26 in Wil-
liams Lake by Cariboo
Press, the newspaper’s
parent company.

As well, Nagel is also a
finalist for two national
writing awards.

One is for best business
story and the other is for
best historical story in the
newspaper's circulation
category as part of the Ca-
nadian Community News-
paper Association’s 2002
writing awards.

The best business nomi-
nation was for an article
on changes to ‘the pro-
vince’s system of selling
timber to small business
users and the best histori-
cal nomination was for a
feature on Pacific, a ghost
town east of Terrace.

The Terrace Standard
itself, now in its 15th year
of publication, also won a
Blue Ribbon Award for
overall look and preseata-
tion of news articles,
photographs and advertise-
ments by the association,

The national awards
will be announced at the
association’s annual gen-
eral meeting in Vancouver
the end of May. It repre-
sents 670 community pa-
pers across the country.

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tion representing B.C.

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