a The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, September 6, 2006 - A11 | TERRACE NISGA’A SOCIETY #25-4506 Lokelse Ave Terrace BC V8G-1P4 P Phone: 250-635-4422 Fax: 250-635-3090 ge Toll Free: 1-866-935-4422 Email: terracenisgoa@telus. net | Austrian | ambassador visits here fe anges ~ RAFFLE WINNERS Terrace Nisga’a Wilp Simgan Society Graduation Sterling Silver | "AUSTRIAN AMBASSADOR Otto Ditz is.visit- | | ‘ing the northwest beginning later this week and _ censef 6591 ; Raffle 7 will spend a lot of time in the Nass Valley. ee | License # TR =RG26587_ ; ‘In some ways it’s the closing of a circle in that Ist prize- Ist prize —... he will spend time with Nisga‘a artist Alver Tait MAGGIE PATSY LINDA/KELLY “who carved a totem pole that was raised at the _ 2nd prize - .GINGLES world- famous Schoenbruun Zoo in Vienna in. SIMON WALKER | — is located on the grounds’ of the __ 3rd prize - | OND WRIGHT -Schoenbrunn Palace, a ‘complex dating back to — | DOUG SANDWELL | EDM “the days of the Austro- Hungarian empire. - = = = . . The pole was started in the Nass Valley but — : | ‘finished at the zoo before being raised with the — CONGRATULATIONS! The BC Northern Real Estate Board recognized the following members. for their excellence in sales. achievement on February . 24th,. 7g : ‘assistance of members of the Viennese police and WITH NISGA'A master carver Alver Tait looking on, Austrian Army: cadets and Viennese fire- » fire departments and the Austrian army. » men and police prepare to raise the ‘People of the Nass River’ totem pole at the Shoenbrunn It's located next to enclosures containing .200 located at the Schoenbrunn Palace in the Austrian capital in 2002. PHOTO COURTESY PE- “Rocky Mountain goats, bison, prairie dogs and “TER BAIRD, CONEXUS RESEARCH GROUP , polar bears.” - - - 2006 when they were presented me ats will also pay courtesy calls to area mayors which be ean in 1974, SO 7 : ; ; ; oe R . with MLS® awards for 2005... ae “. and councils ' e ; of a series of events featuring Nisga‘a He's ‘been Austria's ambassador to Canad: a ‘Tait was named to the Order of B. C. this year representatives. which included promoting the The BC Northern Real Estate Board's 365 members. . since 2004. as part of. a foreign service career for his artistic and other contributions. . Nass’ Valley's tourism: and economic dev clop- . sold 6,344 properties worth $837, 157, 108 through The 2002 Vienna pole raising was part ment Potential, MLS® in 2005. - In Terrace, MLS® Awards were wot by: , | Cable television plant upgrade planned se es ‘Our members work in ‘the ‘communitiés from Fort Nelson to 100 Mile House and from Valemount to ‘the Queen Charlotte Islands. wos - “AN UPGRADE of ea cable i in Terrace and Thorn- we: plan to keep the money awarding the contract tfor customers to support us-be- local ‘cable _ television - hill. That contract has been in’ the--community wher- the fibre cable placement to” cause we're local, so it’s our plant formerly “owned | by awarded ‘to Terrace’s Twin ever possible, ‘starting with Twin River Power. We ask policy to do the same.” "Monarch Cable — should River Power Ltd. . 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