a on a — inde eaieimen + aptmmrne mmennaene 1h transit fare hike and had placed the Mills Ave. ditch on their hit list; if it made it through budget delibera- tions, the ditch would be gone before Skylar was one. The Terrace library had unveiled their expansion plans only a week or two before Skylar’s entry into the world and the regional district expressed concern over an expan- sion of another kind. This invalved pressure in southeast Alaska to break their dependence on ferry travel. A road into the Iskut valley would offer better access to ser- vices and might even aid the ex- pansion of Alaskan businesses § serving B.C.s northwestern gold & fields. We had to get-onto the | bandwagon, said the regional | board, and build a road into the gold fields before the Alaskans did. The mining industry, though, didn’t really care one way or the other... as long as there was a way they could get the equipment and § supplies that were required. Another northwest gold discovery had been made, Cominco had i made a production announcement fim on their Snip property, and no matter which way the workers : came or the gold went, the miners introduction to 1989 was filled & with nothing but optimism. Health care in Terrace began one more move towards establishing a regional centre. The ‘Terrace Health Care Society had decided to investigate the possibilities of acquiring a $1 million piece of diagnostic equipment — a CT scanner — but the Ministry of Health wasn't a lot of help. As far as they were concemed, the society was on their own. Hospital administrator Norm Carelius said the board decision came as a result of a lobby effort by medical staff from every hospiial in the north- west. ¥ 7 RF. ) Strikes In the public services profeesions were a prominent feature of 1989, Terrace was hit with picket lines in front of district Terrace Review — Wednesday, January 2, 1991 Al15 an meee —— schools and Mills Memorial Hospital. As the students above show, people on either side of the bargaining table weren't the only ones affected by the disputes. _ would be a fow days before he was headed outdoors to play. 1990 he world was no less i confusing when Kierra entered the world of 1990. Cancellation of a public hearing in December had placed the planned relocation of the high- ways yard in jeopardy, we were esides the teachers’ strike, B educational news included the northern university; Northwood Pulp and Timber of Prince George made a $300,000 commitment to its development. And local students got a boost from the Bluebacks Swim Club. Not only did they donate $10,500 to the Grade 3 swimming program but they also offered two $1,000 scholarships and invested another $2,000 in the beginnings of a perpetual scholarship base. Skylar may not have noticed, but the grads of 1987-88 won the mens J side of the annual grad tourney while, surprise, surprise, Michelle Hendry led the 1987-88 women to victory. For the up-and-coming grads of ’89, the Kermode boys showed everyone how it’s done. They came home with the gold following a 16-team tournament in Coquitlam. The weather was milder than the year before, but not near a3 nice. Temperatures on New Year's day rose to +1°C and fell to -7°C over- night. What we got with the day’s warm temperature was 82 millimetres of mixed rain and snow. Still, Skylar didn’t care. It told. A local paper didn’t run an ad (not us), and according to a North Coast Road Maintenance official the maintenance yard might never move from Park Ave. to Hwy. 16 East. A new date for a public hearing might sort this one out, A preliminary report was out on the Skylink crash; one thing it uncovered were flaws in local emergency response. Specifically, matters. Government Regional January 15, 1991. PROVINCE OF BRITISH COLUMBIA MINISTRY OF LABOUR & CONSUMER SERVICES The Workers’ Advisers’ of the WCB and provides free and confidential assistance in Workers’ A Workers’ Adviser will be in Terrace at the 3220 Eby Street, Terrace, B.C., V8G 5K8, on Injured workers or dependents experiencing claims problems can call 638-3200 to arrange for a personal interview. Kamloops ambiilance dispatch wasn’t immediately notified by. the local RCMP, and even when they: were, they went to the airport rather than the crash site anyway. The net result: the first ambulance didn’t arrive at the scene until 45 minutes after the crash. Probiems of this sort might be ironed out, however. It was a year ago this week that city council offered moral and financial support for a large scale emergency exer- cise. Large scale meant involving more than the emergency teams, it meant a city-wide exercise that would involve local residents as well. No date was set, but the exercise was expected to take place sometime in 1992, The regional district board had just voted themselves a 10 percent raise and during the same meeting endorsed a $100,000 Go B.C. application from ’Ksan Village and okayed the removal of just under six hectares of land from the agri- cultural reserve. The site, a few miles north of Hwy. 16 near the Kalum River, would be the site of the Kalum Wood Products mill. In another logging-zelated issue Office is independent Compensation claims Access Centre, 101 - ithe board was far less supportive. Pulpwood Agreement 17 had been proposed and the regional district joined many others in protest. Native blockades of logging roads in the Kispiox area had only begun ‘to heat up, we were told, and the ' Village of Hazelton said they wouldn’t support any new initiative in the area until the Minister of Forests addressed the many exist- ing concems. The deadline for PA17 submissions was Feb. 15 and a public hearing was scheduled in Smithers for May 9. ffering greater optimism O was an announcement by Skyline that equipment upgrades at their Johnny Mountain gold mine had increased milling capacity and extraction perfor- mance, and a proposal by a Vancouver engineering company that they were considering a $7.5 million hydroelectric project in the Ecstall Valley 100 kilometres southwest of Terrace. More hydro capacity might mean more industry in the area, and there was nothing bad about that. The health care community wamed of an impending whooping cough outbreak. There was only one reported case at the time but epidemics had been reported by Manitoba, Alberta and the Yukon. Parents were told to have their children vaccinated. And some- thing Kierra may not have noticed, the emergency mom at Mills Memorial was experiencing some- thing akin to a traflic jam. This was a resull of the government removing a $10 visitation fee in 1986, we were told, and Mills asked cveryone to resirict emer- gency visits to true emergencies only. A new school act was still con- fusing for many; those who under- stood it were trying to explain it to those who didn’t. "The Year 2000: a Curriculum and Assessment Framework for the Future" was the subject of workshops, discussion groups and position papers. Naturally there was a segment of the population who didn’t really care. Among them might have been a few of our younger students too busy on school projects to— notice. For some though, their efforis were worth a prize. Kid K’Shan won first prize in the primary division of the Skeena Cellulose Christmas mural contest and the Seventh Day Adventist School topped the elementary division. . Experience proved to be the prime factor in the outcome of the annual Caledonia grads basketball tourncy. On the mens side, the grads of 1977-83 were victorious while the women of 1984-86 dumped Michelle Hendry and her team of 1987-89 grads. In minor hockey, Terrace midgets lost their bid for a B.C. Winter Games berth during a Smithers play-off, and the atom’s Christmas tourney was renamed the "Tod Killoran Memorial". The tournament kept the "let them have fun" theme. In rep team action, Kitimat came out on top. All in all, the first year of the last decade of the 20th century wasn’t too bad. It had its highs, and it had its lows. And for Kierra it may hold a little confusion as well. Kierra’s time of birth was recorded as 7:30 a.m. Or was it 7:30:01 a.m? She may never know for sure. The problem is a glitch in time. The last minute of the last hour of 1989 was 61 seconds long... not the standard 60. This happens three or four times every second year. Those who like to set their watches to the second have to compensate for the slowing of the earth’s rotation due to changes In the tides.