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_Lyneli has recommended snow-

: mobile “club. members undergo

“vavalanche safety courses - and

. “ensure they carry rescue beacons
ewhen out in avalanche areas,

Those, are. among the. findings
ofa report. released last week-on

~ Peter, Dobie.

The’ pair died ‘of asphyxiation

When they were caught in a Jan. 3

_ avalanche on Thornhill Mountain,
> Turner: and Dobie were among

a “group of Skeena Valley Snow:

he deaths. carlier this year of Ter- ©
face residents Perric Turner and

training, beacons ©

‘TERRACE -- Local coroner Jim

mobile Association menibers who
were up on Copper and Thornhill
Mountains that day. _

The tragedy occured in al area
on the latter mountain known to
area snowmobilers as: “The Big
Lake”.

Lynch said the. snowmobilers
spent the day racing their ma-
chines up the steep slopes of the,

800ft, deep basin before turning

and. heading. back down at high

- speed, -

He said the accident occured at

approximately 3 pam.; just as the

Group. was about to’ head for

Marina contract let

TERRACE — Work is now un-
der way which. will finally see’
completion of the $3 willion-plus
MK Bay Marina. upgrade,

Being constructed is a-.1,500
5q.fl., two-storey building which
will include an office, storage
space and. public washrooms on
‘the = ground © floor
carelaker’s residence above.

That building is ‘expected to be
completed by the end of October,
more than two. and a half: years
after work first began to expand
ihe facility: °

LDH Construction of Kitimat
has been awarded. the -$88,000
contract to build the lower level
while Quality Mobile Homes: of
Chilliwack got the $109,000 can-
tract for- the residence.
~The... federal, - government,
through its Small Craft Harbours
branch, coughed up $1.1 million
af the cost, a GO B.C. grant pro-

Banner .
ban in
place

aster, says Susan Henycez, acting
-area manager for B,C, Hydro.

‘Organizers forthe last blood
“donor clinie put up a banner be-
tween Hydro poles on Eby Street,
near the.-palice. station, - During
high winds all: but’ ‘one of the sup-
port ropes were “pulled free, creat-
ing'a potential hazard,

_ *What-happened was the, ban-
ner was {lying from the top of the
(power) Hines lo the ground. The
‘only” support ropes were on the
one side,”’ said Henycez.-

If the banner had flown up and
wrapped. itself around ‘the line,
leaving «the -support rope dau-
_gling,-.a: passerby. could easily
liave: come by and grabbed that
rape, explained Henycez: ;
Tfanyone had ‘been touching -
the- rope. at the ‘appropriate time,
there’ sa: ‘tremendous possibility if
they. weren't killed they could
have ; ‘hid very scrious injuries,”
she said.-

No: one. was injured in the inci-
dent; ‘but: the “banner did blow
down ‘on. top Of car, windshields,

momentarily. obstructing, drivers’ :

vision:

-In the past, B.C. Hydro has put. .
‘community ©: |.
now people. are ® 34

for
groups, ‘but
climbing, the poles themselves to.

put up banners, not realizing they

should call Hydro personnel.

Tn order to prevent an accident,
the power company bas informed -

city” council it: will nat ‘allow
anymore banners to contact ils
‘power poles, Instead it has asked
‘the: cily’s help in finding a new

. location for this type of advertis-

inge 00 “
Although . ‘there are few ‘Loca-
tions in Terrace with underground

wiring; engineering ¢ director Stew .

* Christensen: subsequently told a
council, .commiltec-: there were
potentially safe. siles- near the
Sande Overpass;

The council:::-has- now asked
Christensen to find out how much
it would cost to install special
poles to display banners and sale
locations for those poles,

te he te keke

concern ‘for BC.
Hydro is posters which are nailed
or stapled to pawer poles. .

‘They are very dangerous to,

our line men-when they climb up
and down, ”” said Henycez, ©:
* One: of: the ways..the company

keeps the community informed of

» possible salety. hazards is by’ nin-

“ning ;educational prograitis” for.

‘children in: grades four. and: five,
and grade: 10 students. :

‘with’ | a

vided a: further million and the .
Kilimat Stikine regional district
covered the remainder of the cost.

__mountain,:

home. Turner and Dobler were
maikng one last run when the
snow above them broke loose and
the avalanche enveloped them.

Battling freezing temperatures
and white-oul conditions on-the
searchers. eventually
found Dobler’s body at 10:20
p.m, and Turner's about an hour
later.

Other recommendations made
by Lynch include:

* the Canadian Avalanche As-
sociation include snowmobiles as
a potential avalanche ‘‘trigger’’

in its publications;

* the Provincial Emergency

_ Program (PEP) standardize res-
/ cue equipment for their ‘search

and rescue teams; and
* PEP also standardize training

-for groups located in areas where

recreationalists | frequent avalan-

che terrain. -

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