Northern B.C. Winter Games students paused in the shade behind Lakelse High after a long,
hot, but successful day of recruiting host families for athletes of the Northern B.C. Winter Games
tobe hosted in Terrace Feb. 1-3, 1991.

Shames Corporation issues
update on construction

~The Shames Mountain Ski Cor-
poration reports the following
progress on construction at the end
of July:

*McElhanney Surveying has been
contracted to design and construct
both water and sewer systems for
the Shames Mountain ski area.
Engineer Eric Pettit will oversee
the project.

*Rod Allan of Mueller Lifts reports
that work on the lift towers and
sheave assemblics-is on schedule
and “looking good". The towers
and chairs will be painted Oxford
blue. Terrace, Interiors will supply -

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have been scrubbed down to rock,
by contractors Mizar and Wild-
wood Construction. Rock anchors
will be custom designed for each
tower foundation. Drilling is
required to install the rock anchors,
which will then be attached to the
concrete foundations. On July 27
Mizar had a compressor and a
bulldozer on the mountain {o start
drilling. Foundation drawings have
been finalized from John Ogilvic
of Davis Oglivic Engineering.

Karl Emst of Mueller Lifts was .

here July 30 to check progress on
lift reconstruction.

Bob Flynnoff reports that the
Shames Mountain access road is
expected to be finished by the end
of September, excluding the final
topcoat surface.

‘With that date set, Northern
Building Movers of Smithers is
looking into preparing the Kitsum-
kalum Lodge for dismantling in
anticipation of moving it to
Shames approximately mid-Sept-
ember.

*Season passes will be on sale at

leading sporting goods stores in
_ Terrace,

Kitimat. and Prince
Rupert, before the end of August

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Students rattle
doorknobs for
ames billets

Northern B.C. Winter Games
students are trekking through Terr-
ace, not in sport, but in search of
billet homes and volunteers for the
upcoming Northern B.C. Winter
Games scheduled in Terrace Feb.

1-3, 1991.
Eight students — Jessie Carroll,
Monica Rauter, Krista Soules,

Shondéell Myram, Vicki Buteau,
Daysun Wrubel, Iver Toop and
Theresa Newhouse, with
coordinator Sara Rauter — have
been hired through funding: from
both the Northern B.C. Winter
Games Society and a federal gov-
ernment Challenge "90 grant, for
eight weeks this summer. Four of
the eight students have been
through the games as athletes, so
they’re familiar with the rewards
of the Games and the camaraderie
of staying with, and often estab-
lishing continuing friendships with,
their billeting families.

Billet homes: are needed for over
1,800 athletes for the three-day
period. In pairs, the eight students
have divided Terrace, Thornhill
and area into sections as far out as
Kleanza and Gossan Creek subdiv-
isions. Alternating between the
hours of 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. and 12
noon to 7 p.m., Monday through
Friday and some Saturdays, they
have contacted householders of
2,917 homes. This has resulted in
placement for 538 billets in 228
homes,

The response has been excellent
from many householders. Daysun
Wrubel and Iver Toop recounted
that one home owner volunteered
to take in a whole hockey team,
once she determined that they
weren’t magazine salespeople
soliciting. Some people contacted
didn’t want to commit themselves
so far in advance. Others said,
"Phone us back."

The studenis say they would
really appreciate more of Terrace’s
community spirit and commitment, .
soon. The students want to let
prospective billeters to know that
they can specify the age, sex
and sport of their billets, if they
have any special preferences.

Northern B.C. Games co-
ordinator Marge Skead adds,
"Taking in billets can be a reward-
ing experience and often sparks a
new interest in a sport or activity.
Billet hosts are encouraged to
attend their billets’ events, parti-
cularly."

The students are now doing call-
backs to houses where the resi-
dents weren’t home on their first
visit. They are also leaving flyers
explaining their purpose and con-
tact number. If anyone would like
to take in billets during the North-
ern B.C. Winter Games or to vol-
unteer to help with the telethon,
first aid, security, office assistance
or phoning, they can call the
Games office at 635-1991.

Local schools get
quake check money

The Ministry of Education
announced recently that School
District 88 will be given $25,000
for seismic engineering studies to
determine how well school build-
ings would stand up in the event
of a major earthquake.

Sam Lim, a public relations
officer with the ministry, said July
16 that a pilot project conducted in
Vancouver had established stan-
dards that will be applied to dis-
tricts throughout B.C. The local
board, he said, is expected to con-
tract engineers "to look for struc-
tural things that don’t meet the
criteria" and develop a five-ycar
plan to correct any problems the
engineers find.

The five-year plan, he noted,
could be coordinated with other
renovations in the district’s overall
capital improvement plan.

The local board of irustecs has a
committee to deal with carthquake
preparedness. Superintendent Frank

Hamilton s said that over the past 7 _

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year district maintenance personnel
have examined the schools and
done minor work like atlaching
chains to overhead light fixtures,
fixing book sheives to the walls
with screws and making sure no
large objects would fall across
doorways if a quake occurred.

The board meets next in Sep-
tember.