ieee ae aE STEHT er ashi ESA Ngee aT Cpe CaN SE REEL oad 2A Set ee eed aR a a Fe EE eg cig mpage cot At SgNEB CRAIC Rat gee Te and Recreation Advisory Multiplex opinions analyzed FACTORY DIRECT Consultants now sitting down to figure out what we want OPINIONS about what to pul in the city’s proposed multiplex are now being crunched into an analysis. The work is being done by consultants with Johnston Sport Architecture who hosted an open house here last week. More than 150 people tumed out to give their opinions on the project through a questionaire. “We've had a broad range of people come through,” said consultant David Roach. ‘We've had young people. We’ve had not so young: people. We’ve had students. We’ve had Ter- race,’ Roach said his firm has also been meeting with groups involved in organized sports and ac- tivities, They'll use the informa- tion from both the people at the open house and from the group meetings to put to- gether a picture of what they believe Terrace wants. That would be presented at ihe next open house, like- ly sometime in June. Refinements would be made to the plan at that stage, and work would be- gin on desigaing the facility to accomodate the selected batch of activities, A third and final open house would be to unveil the final proposal, Johnston Sport Architec- ture, based in Vancouver, are international experts in the field, having built every- thing from Olympic sport venues down to community sports complexes in small towns. They were chosen by city council to go throvgh this detailed approach to determining what should go in the multiplex. City councillors approved the recommendations last year of the Terrace Parks pane idea spreading THE: "PROVINCIAL body of school ‘trustees’ has ac- cepted: a motion by the Coast. { Mountains School Distric! ito” create. rug: free “bubble: - zones”, around schools.” School. board chair Roger Leclere Says ‘the motion was passed“at thé B.C. School Trustees ‘Association’s an- nual - general meeting two weeks‘ago and will now be forwarded. to. the’ education ministry, °° 7" “Everybody ‘packed the ided;”’ said Leclerc of the zone’). concept to create zero” ‘tolerance, drug-free areas around public schools. At the’: ‘same. time, Coast Mountains ‘(rustees will be writing judges in Kitimat, ferrace andi in the Hazeltons. fj dsking” them to impose max- imum sentences ‘on drug- related crimes. ‘Leclerc said the trustees aren’t-going as far yet as as- king for. a meeting with judges to press their point of view. ‘We'll ‘start with the let- - ters,” he sald. ‘The idea of drug-free bub- ble. zones began i in Thornhill where: % parents - began wotried : that drug sellers We re hanging around that ratty] aunity’s 's schools. " ‘ahcouver ‘civic. officials have had success in creating prostitute-free zones around in certain sections of that city. And there are zones around abortion clinics pre- venting protests or other acls designed to stop people from entering. The expectation of a drig- free zone around a school is that criminal —penaltics would be higher than other [i places. * narisit COLUMBIA LUNG ASSOCIATION 734-LUNG of 1-200-€66-LUNG Ine jerrace Standard, Wednesday, May cu, 1¥70 - AY Spring Clearance Sale on Now! rather than simply a second sheet of Ice. That single-focus is con- Sidered a main reason the proposed second sheet of ice was defeated in a teferendum in 1995. Roach says he’s seen Situations like this before where there’s a narrow com- fort zone between what a community wants and what it’s willing to pay for. “We gauge the com- UPTO. 50%. 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