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Page A2 — Terrace Standard, Wednesday, January 8, 1992

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The Year in Review

July

Plans to chop the number of
nurses and beds at Mills
Memorial hospital prompted

doctors and nurses to warnthe

cuts could put patients lives at
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The. hospital announced the
cuts in a bid to avoid a budget
deficit for the second year in a
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A petition. signed by 11,582
residents from across the region
‘was subsequently presented to
provincial health minister Bruce
Strachan,: who appointed a
private consultant to investigate
the situation. ;

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.Orenda Forest’ Products an-
nounced plans ‘to build a $365
million pulp and paper mill
south of Lakelse Lake.

The company -delayed the
start’of the review process after
local residents’ expressed con-

‘gern about its location and
potential — _environmental
damage: -

-Onthe same ‘day Orenda
named the Dubose industrial
estate location’ proposal, Ter-
race ‘council asked the provin-
cial ‘government toa extend its
boundaries to include the mill
site so it could collect any taxes
the development generated,

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‘Travel’ agency owner and
former alderman George Clark
was named business executive
of the year by the chamber of
commerce.

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- The city and school district
began. a months-long wrangle
over the use of trailers as tem-
porary classrooms after city
permits director Bob Lafleur
refused to okay two trailers at
Caledonia Sr. Secondary.

Eventually, it was agreed to
allow trailers on school proper-
ty provided they met B.C.

Building Code specifications.
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Having reigned as Queen of
Riverboat Days since its incep-
tion, freeman of the city Vesta
Douglas announced she was ab-
dicating.
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After a six-month closure, the
art gallery re-opened on a part-
time basis. The Dec. ’90 closure
had followed council's rejection
of a $25,000 grant request
which would have allowed the
gallery to hire a full-time co-
ordinator,
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Plans for the community’s se-
cond, local TV station were an-
nounced. A voluntary, non-
profit organization, Evergreen
Community Television was to
be a completely community-
driven -operation, said
organizers.
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Shelley O’Brien was crowned
Miss Terrace. First princess was

‘Heather Bretfeld and second

princess Nikki Schafhauser.
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Layoffs at the Kemano Com-
pletion project reached more
than 500 following Alcan’s deci-
sion to scale down the project.

Meanwhile a federal court of
appeal justice rejected Alcan’s
bid to block a federal en-
vironmental review of the pro-
ject ordered in May by federal
court Justice Allison Walsh.

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School District 88 fired Bruce’
Greenwood, its personnel direc-
tor. Greenwood had been hired
two years earlier in part to han-
dle contract talks and avoid the
need to hire negotiators.

However, school board chair-
man Edna Cooper said the
board had never had the con-
fidence in him to allow him to
lead its bargaining team.

DOWN TO EARTH. That's the way it was for Terrace s last remain-
ing water tower, located on McConnell next to the Northwest Com--

munity College grounds. After
high winds on July 25 caused
the empty wooden tank to lean
dangerously, crews moved in to
complete the demolition Mother
Nature had started, ,

MORE THAN 175 people attended the Rising Spirit healing workshop put onin late August by the Ker

mode Friendship Centre. Speakers included Chief Leonard George of the Burrad band and inland

Salish speaker Lee Brown.

A rash of break-and-enters,
acts of vandalism and incidents
‘of arson prompted the city to
look at ways to get: teens off the
street late at night.

With fines for breaking the 10
p.m,: “eurfew by-law too low to
be a deterrent, regulations
restricting the hours of opera-
tion for pool halls were being
considered. -

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Sharp Increases in sexually
in. the

region could also. signal a

‘greater risk of ‘contracting

AIDS here, -warned medical
health officer Dr. David Bower-
ing.

Bowering added he - largely
discounted official statistics
which claimed only one AIDS
case and a handful of HIV-
positive tests in the northwest.

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Tsimshian Tribal. Council
president Art Sterritt. warned
local native bands would fight
the Orenda pulp mill proposal,
He said the opposition. was
based on environmental -con-
cerns and the fact the proposed
site — 8km_south of Lakelse

Lake — fell within the Tsim-

shian land claim.
. Sterritt also wanted the pro-

vinclal government. to come up.

with $50,000 so. the tribal coun-

cil ‘could: hire,” consultants. to

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October

assess environmental and other
impacts of the project.
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Area highways were closed by
floods and washouts as heavy
rains inundated the northwest,
Highways district manager
John Newhouse put the cost of
repairing the damage at
$404),000-500,000,

The city had to rely on water
pumped from the Skeena River
after the dam at its Deep Creek

‘reservoir was put out of action

by the high waters.
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City council and the library
board agreed to postpone a
referendum on a proposed $1.5
million expansion for the facili-
ty until the spring of 1992. .
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A local hunter walking

- through a remote area near

Rosswood made an unexpected
find — a plantation of nearly
600 marijauna plants,

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New Democrat. candidate
Helmut Giesbrecht. became

Skeena’s new MLA in the Oct. -

17. provincial election.

_ Giesbrecht, received. §,597 votes
to. defeat’ ‘incumbent Soored

minister Dave Parker by 831
ballots. Juanita Hatton,
Liberal, finished third with
1,629,
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Oli’s Place, the Lakelse Lake
neighbourhood pub, was allow-
ed to reopen but on condition
there were no more strip shows
and the pub was operated by the
owners.

{ts liquor licence had been
suspended Oct. 3 following an
investigation by RCMP and li-
quor licencing officers.

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Windows were smashed,
roman candles fired at passing
cars and Lakelse Ave. barricad-
ed with shopping carts
Hallowe’en night as nearly 200
youths rampaged through
downtown streets.

RCMP inspector Larry Yeske

said he had considered using
tear gas but instead decided to
monitor the situation and wait
for the crowd to disperse on its
own, |:
"As for criticism of the
police's failure - to. intervene,
Yeske sald over. reacting to the
situation could have turned into
something more serious.

August

Faced with the poorest retrun
of summer run steelhead in 10
years, Fish and Wildlife banned
the taking of those fish in the
Skeena and its tributaries.

Fisheries biologist. Colin
Spence said only an estimated
2,300 steelhead returned to the
Skeena by the beginning of
August — just over one third of
the average over the past 35
years and far below the 26,000
spawners the river can support.

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A group of investors an-
nounced plans for one of the ci-
ty’s largest sub-division
developments in years. The pro-
posal called for up to 150
residential lots to be built on 50
acres above Lanfear Hill and
extending toward Mountain
Vista Drive.

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Two of five fired or suspend-
ed Terraceview Lodge workers
were reinstated.

Union spokesman Wiho Papen-
brack said they had also receiv-
ed apologies from management
for the action taken against
them,

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A contract reached after 14
months of bargaining between
teachers and the school district
and the intervention of
mediator Vince Ready was_re-
jected by wage commissioner
Ed Lien.

Lien ruled the two-year con-
tract, which gave teachers a
seven per cent wage hike in each
of the two years, exceeded the

Compensation Fairness Act
guidelines.
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Lack of daycare ranks is one
of the biggest problems facing
women in the area, & survey
conducted by the Women’s
Resource Centre found.

The survey, the fist step ina
three-phase program to improve
women’s access to services, also
found many Terrace: area
women were unaware of ‘the
social services available to
them.

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Carolyn Clay was named wine -
ner of the residential classifica-
tion in the Terrace Beautifica-.
tion society’s annual contest to
pick the best landscaped proper-
ties in the city.

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The provincial. government
asked proponents of the Kitimat
port scheme to go back to the
drawing board.

Federal and provincial agen-
cies had recommended rejection
of the current plan saying the
site would. have an adverse im-
pact on fish and ‘wildlife
habitat. oo

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Skeena Cellulose announced
it would be closing down Aug.
31 for two weeks.

Intended to help reduce the
mill’s high inventory of cut
lumber, the shutdown effected
155 hourly-paid workers, 45
salaried staff and 150 loggers
and logging truck drivers.

Many local federal offices
and facilities found themselves
behind picket lines as members
of the Public Service Alliance of

Canada went out on strike.

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The consultant hired by the
Health ministry to look into

Mills ..Memorial hospital's

money problems. recommended
the province give the facility
another $150,000. ;
Malcolm Walker also sug-
gested the hospital could steps
on its own which would increase
its revenues by $100,000 a year.
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Cool summer weather was
blamed for. an epidemic of bear
sightings in northwestern com-
munities. More than 300
sightings had been reported to
date, even before the bears main
foraging season had begun.
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Myrna George, 19, died after
having an abortion at Mills
Memoria! hospital, George had

suffered internal bleeding: for .

three days before being

transferred to Vancouver Sept.
14.
She went into a coma and

September

died that night in St. Paul’s
hospital.
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ineumbent. Dave.-Parker. and
challengers Helmut Giesbrecht

“and Juanita Hatton set off in

pursuit of voters in the wake of
Socred premier Rita Johuson’s
setting Oct. 17 as election day in
the province.
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Skeena Sawmills’ addition of
a third shift in the planer mill
created two months work for 16
people: Manager Don Chesley
said the graveyard shift had
been added to reduce the stock
of rough cut lumber.
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Reacting to Terrace’s attemp-
ted tax money grab, Kitimat

council said any dollar benefit

‘from the proposed Orenda pulp

mill should be. split three ways
between the two communities
and the Kitimat-Stikine regional
district.

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Federal fisheries policy and
excessive commercial fishing at
the mouth of the.Skeena® Were.
‘threatening the sport fishery,
claimed the Skeena Watershed
Sportsfishermen’s Coalition.

The group urged nor-
thwesterners to write to federal
Fisheries minister John Crosbie
demanding chages,

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The two-and-a-half year
search for a location for a new
correctional centre ended when
city council okayed rezoning of
12 acres of industrial land. bet-
ween Keith Ave. and the railway
tracks. ,

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Having viewed mills in the
US. using similar technology to
that Orenda proposes to
employ, members of a local
delegation said they were im-
pressed by what they saw.

ANTI—-ABORTION demonstrators, including Pro-Life activist Isobel Brophy (in background, at eft
gave New Democrat leader Mike Harcourt a welcome he didn't expect when he made an election tour
stop here,