AG -Th Terrace Standard, Wednesday, Jily 5, 1995

News In Brief

Artists want to paint hydrants

WHEN DOGGIES do what they do to fire hydrants, they could,

soon have a colourful choice of leg-lift targets.
(AL -pair of local artista wait to paint various images on local fire
hydrants, ae

-Jeante Keating and Joanne Thomson want city council 10 relax the
bylaw that sets out bright yellow | as the only permitted fire hydrant

colour. °°

“TE they ast the go shead, ihey't be painting a Yogger, kermodei’
Dear, a fisherman, a pioneer woman, a hockey Player and‘ a salmon

on fire hydrants downtown. |

Artists from the Kitselas band have agreed, to join in and depict al]

‘| toteni: pole, a dancer, or a chief on hydiants,

‘In“front of the’ fire hall; they would paint a firefighter on a
‘hydrant; And in front of clty hail, they’d depict city freeman Vesta

Douglas in a ted dress holding the key to the city.: :

They'd use strong enamet paint that would be resistant to any, er,
stains; Thomson and Keating say volunteer labour and donation of
‘supplics mean the project will cost the city nothing. :

"The idea is being debated at today’s public. works, commits

meeting | at Boon, in council chambers.

“NDP plan ners plot < cam npaign
' ABOUT 20 of the NDP’s key. organizers in Skéena met two Sun-

days ago in Terrace’ to ‘begin preparing for the next provincial elec-.

tion, 2."

-So far there’s, Ro date: chosen for. a. sicmninitiog mectng, mainly

because they’re no longer. expecting a vote until-1996,.
“Everyone is hoping — and assuming — the election. will be next
spring,”’ said constituency association president Rob.Goffinet;
“But we would like to have an early rather than late nominating

- convention to highlight our candidate,”’ he said. ‘We would like o

do it before. Christmas ia, this’ calendar year,”” eS

Lighting up. their lives

NEW. REMO. residenty a are: going to get street lighting at the corner
of Hwy 16 and: ‘Gagnon | Road.

“Nearly. three qiiarters of the 59 property owners in the area signed.
a petition calling for the lights to be installed and agreeing to paya
share of the cost.

Three standards equipped with high pressure sodium lights will be.
erected at the interesection. _

The total estimated cost of the project is $10, 000 with the High-:
ways ministry paying two-thirds. The remainder will be covered by.
residents through a regional district parcel tax of $79, Ongoing op-
erating costs for residents will amount to an estimated | $7 per year.

Riverside lots can be rebuilt

_ ANYONE’ whose" house burns down on Skeena St will be al-
lowed to rebuild it, an environment ministry official promises.
- Homeowners there Were alarmed when the city tabled its new
zoning bylaw atid included a section that prohibited construction
within 60 metres of the Skeena River. ~~

That’ encompasses most or all of many riverfront lots: along
Skeena and Kerr streets.

The requirement, was’ direcied by the énvironment ministry’s »
water management branch, but engineering head Reid White says °
‘| it's aimed-at preventing new construction there: — not preventing

someone from rebuilding.

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' down drastically this year be- §
cause of the bridge re-decking —

- normal day, we'd have as many

- not impossible for tourists to stop

said,

' open a temporary office in a

- Mounted past what the chamber

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Tourism numbers dip

STOPS AT the chamber of com-
merce’s Hwyl6 infocentre are’

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Laundromat |
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work, says chamber / Manager
Bobbie Phillips. oe

‘And. that in tum has cut the
number of hours the. Infocentre i is
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“Tn June. of last. year, ona

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now available: 5

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as 45 parties, The first Tuesday of
the work we had 22. Then itwent

down to 21 to'19. to 13, 7 sald 5
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“On one: ‘Friday we had nine your 4
parties stop — in the 11 hours we fe)
were “open. With those kinds of clothes a
‘ numbers, it just doesn’t pay to”
stay, open.” for $5. 008
" Instead of the normal 11 hours per, a
_ during summer months, the in-
| focentre is down to an eight-hour d ouble &
- shift.
Phillips sald the routing ofone- | load.
way traffic during bridge redeck- .
ing work makes it inconvenient if 4711-€

Terrace, B.C..

in for information. :
(situated near hospital)

Tourists will either. get routed
through and miss the infocentre
or not want to tisk further delays
by getting out of lineups to visit
the infocentre and then have to
wait to get back into a lineup, she

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“City hall: ‘has offered to take
some literature and act as- a
temporary infocentre. That might
help,’ said Phillips.

The chamber did have a plan to

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mobile unit in Thornhill to attract
tourist traffic before it was routed
over the old bridge.

But that stalled when costs

IT'S MORE difficult to fill the guestbook pages of the Terrace and
District Chamber of Commerce infocentre nowadays. Vicki Cor-
rela and other chamber travel counsellors say business is down
because the Dudley bridges’ redecking work makes tourists
reluctant to drop in. Hours of opening have also been cut,

| CBC Radio cutting back

CBC RADIO is cutting the num-. Last year the CBC mergws

s 16 km south of Terrace

f+ Marina, launch ramp
and moorage
* Gas & oil sales
S + Boat, paddle boat and
canoe rentals
» Fully furnished
cottages
* Winter storage

could afford, said Paillips.

reductions in the federal broa‘ .

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fo EE “The logs: of the sixth: ‘position is

That'll leave five -jobs, likely

is being shifted elsewhere:

thrée in Prince George and two in
Prince Rupert.
Prince Rupert CBC producer

caster’s: budget maade the job shift

__ Mecessary.

- “fT do know we'll be at five
‘people for the morning show, ” he
Said.

; the latest in cuts for CBC's north-
emt radio presence.

A seventh position, vacant for

some time, is also set to disappear

- That happened when there were

_ stories.

what was two moming shows —
one based in Prince Rupert forthe =f
northwest and the other in Prince . §
George for the northeast, and cen-
tral north — into one show.

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Terrace, BC
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seven employees and the corpora- -
tion said a merger would reduce
on-air workloads aud put more
people in the field gathering

Mark Harvey said continuing because of budget cuts,

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