PAID CURATOR IN THE WORKS

Volunteers not enough for museum

BY NEXT year the Terrace
Regional Museum Sacicty
could have a full-time paid
curator,

The society, which runs
the Heritage Park Museum,
operales with volunteers
right now, save for the sum-
mer when a coordinator and
students are hired.

Society president Mamie
Kerby requested to meet
with city council about
hiring a curator in Novem-
ber last year. But that meet-
‘ing, which included repre-
sentatives from the regional
district, didn’t take place till
last week.

During the meeting city
council and the regional dis-
trict agreed to share the
costs of the museum in a
70/30 split, based on popu-
lation, said councilor David
D, Hull.

The two sides agreed to
split the annual $22,000
grant the city gives the mu-
seum society, That pays for
things like wages of the
coordinator and student hel-
pers. They also agreed to
give the muscum an extra
$15,000 this year, so it
could hire a better qualified
coordinator, perhaps a grad-
uate student in museum
studies.

Hull said the extra money
this year would iead into
hiring a full time curator in
1999, But he added there
wasn’t time this year to hire
that person, because the
regional district, cily and
museum society should talk
more about what that per-
son’s job would be.

Hull said it’s possible the

role of curator could be split .

one third with that of arts
coordinator for the city, 4
position the city has been
thinking about creating.

“We have to figure out
where we want to go and
how to get there,’” said
Hull.

Museum society president
Mamie Kerby couldn’t com-
ment on council and RD’s
decision, saying she had to
take it to the museum’s
board. However, she added
the $15,000 grant was less
than the society had asked
for.

erat ae

VOLUNTEERS who run Heritage Park are hoping the city and regional dis

oa

trict will hire a full time museum

curator. They say most other comparable museums have paid curators, and because of that have an easier

time getting grant money,

able.”

Hull said the city council
recognizes the need now to
take the museum to the next
level. Kerby has been
volunteer director of the
museum for 15 ytars now,
and he said the city can’t ex-

Kerby and a group of
volunteers established the
Tauseum society in 1983.
They opened Herilage Park
in 1984 and have overseen
the growth of the muscum
since.

“Mamie Kerby and her

“Mamie Kerby and her group have done a
tremendous job.” —- city councilor David Hull
on the Heritage Park volunteers

Upae -P ee Marta Rabat

group have “done a’ pect her. to” do “the job’
tremendous job,’’ said Hull. forever.

“What's there (at the musc- ‘Three years from now
um) is absolutely remark- we could be silling with an

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abandoned heritage —vil-
lage,’’ he said.

Kerby said around the pro-
vince most cities the size of
Terrace have paid curators,
That person would take on
the job of applying for
grants, and would be more
successful in abtaining
grants than volunteers.
That's because the govern-
ment shies away from
giving grant money to
volunteers, since there’s not

as much accountability or .

long-term planning.

The curator would also
deal with the many requesis
for information which

eo-on)

Kerby gets from all over the
world. Those are from
people tracing family histor-
ies, writing books, or from
local organizations wanting
pictures or written histories.

And the curator would
also coordinate donations,
something Kerby says
sometimes strains — the
resources of volunteers.

Kitimat has a full time
curator plus three part time
assistants, Kerby pointed
out

As for her own involve-

ment, Kerby said, ‘I’m not
a bit bumed out, I’m just
petting old,”

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The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, March 25, 1998 - A3

News In Brief

Neighbours put out blaze

QUICK ACTION by neighbours in Thornhill may have
prevented a serious home fire last week.

Thornhill Fire Department members responded to a
house-fire call at about 7 p.m. March 17, but by the
time they arrived, the blaze was already extinguished.

The neighbours who had reported the fire entered the
home shortly afterwards and put out the fire,
Firefighters say their quick action kept fire damage to a
minimum, although smoke damage was extensive.

Damage is estimated at about $2,000, No injuries
were reporied.

Cocaine trafficking bust

TWO LOCAL men and two women have been charged
with possessing cocaine for the purposes of trafficking
after a police bust last week. :

Terrace RCMP raided a home on the 4700 block of
Halliwell Ave, in the early morning hours of Mar. 14,
There, they found 17 decks of cocaine, $740 in cash,
several ledgers and a stolen paper shredder. The
cocaine is valued at about $1,000.

Neil Strain, 26, and Steven Mohr, 31, face cocaine
trafficking charges, as well as a charge of possessing
stolen property, They are to appear in court Apr. 3.

The two local women arrested face the same charges.
They are to appear in court Apr. 24

City makes polluters’ list |

THE CITY of Terrace has, for the first time, been
added to a list of B.C. polluters for failing ta comply’
with environmental standards. ,

The non-compliance list put out by the environment’
ministry ciles the city for failing to maintain ils sewage’
trealment facility, which resulted in ‘‘extreme odour’
impact on area residents.’

Those residents were outraged last May and June
when odour from the facility lingered on the south side,
making some people nauscous and waking others up at
night.

A lack of oxygen in the treatment ponds was found to
be the culprit. Hydrogen peroxide was poured in as 4
temporary measure, and later pumps were installed to
force air deep into the muck.

The city was the only Terrace organization to make
the list. Other arca operations cited include Alcan,
Eurocan and Methanex in Kitimat, and the Skeena Cel-
lulose pulp mill in Prince Rupert (which is now partly
owned by the provincial government). Province-wide,
86 operations made the list.

Alcan was cited for the 11th time for exceeding al-
lowed dissolved aluminum concentratious in smelter

i) effluent. The company also received a third poor mark

for exceeding particulate emissions from their in-
cinerator.

Enrocan was cited for the cighth time for particulate
emissions, and SCI’s pulp mill was tagged for the 12th
time for particulate emissions and for the eighth time
for efflucnt emissions. Mcthanex was also cited for the
cighth time for toxic effluent emmissions.

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