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A Terrace Review — Wednesday, December 20,1989

Ayear ago
this week —|

A year ago this week, the big
news came from the city’s
Finance Committee. The com-
mittee had just met with the
RCMP, and if their recommen-
dation was followed something
would happen to improve
pedestrian safety in the down-
town core. The final recom-.
mendation, which council would
consider at their Jan. 9, 1989
‘Meeting, was to implement a
pedestrian/driver awareness
program and to have the RCMP
monitor certain crosswalks for a
specified period of time. Any

_ violators of the rules of the road

would receive either a ticket or a
warning, —
‘Specific problem areas identi-
fied in the meeting included-thie .
crosswalk in the mid-4600 block
of Lakelse Ave. and another
crossing on Lakelse between
McDonald’s and the Skeena
Mall. A suggestion that pedes-
trian-controlled traffic lights
should be installed at these two
locations was rejected, though.
According to RCMP Staff
Sergeant Woods, pedestrian-
controlled lights would be ex-
pensive and wouldn’t prevent
accidents caused by carelessness.
Also; he said,.a traffic study
commissioned by the city was
already underway and might call
for changes which would make
this type of control unnecessary.
While. the city pondered
driver/pedestrian habits in
town, the Kititiat-Stikine
Regional District board was
questioning the moves of North-
coast Minister of State Terry
Huberts in providing ‘‘equal
representation’? on his
10-member Regional Advisory
Council. Regional district direc-
tor Gordon Sebastian pointed

board gave first reading to a
zoning bylaw amendment which
would change a 30-acre parcel of
land about five miles west of
Terrace from Low Density Rural
to Rural Resort. Before pro-
ceeding past the first reading,
though, the board asked ad-
ministration to get comments
from various government agen-
cies to insure that all technical
and licensing requirements had
been met. The rezoning applica-
tion. was filed by Pierre Lussier
of Terrace on behalf of

Wolfgang Voelker and Herman -

Sailer of West Germany who
were proposing the development
of a fishing lodge.

Thornhill resident Roger

Sheppard also had a rezoning

application before the board and
it too was given first reading.
Sheppard had proposed a

100-unit mobile home = park |

northeast of the Paquette/Em-
pire intersection and, on what
appeared to be something of a
positive note, was on his way to
a public hearing. According to
Sheppard, a 1987 regional
district’ study had. shown that
most existing mobile home parks
were full and more space was
needed. He would soon
discover, however, that residents

in the area of the proposed site .
disagreed. More mobile home ©

space wasn’t needed... at least

not in ‘their neighborhood. \

There was one other land isstie'

beforé ‘thé regional district ‘a
year ago this week, something

out that about half the 14,000 —

people living in the Kit-
wanga/Hazelton area were
Native but had no representa-
tion on Huberts’ council. And
Alice Maitland asked, ‘‘Why in-
clude the Terrace Health Care
Society and -not the Prince
Rupert Tribal. Council?’”’ She
suggested that Huberts might
want to think about dropping
college and health care rep-
resentatives in favor of two
members from the Native com-
munity.

Other comments on the value
of the Regional Advisory Coun-
cil came from Gordon Robinson
who asked, ‘With this system
what do we need an MLA for?”’
And Dan Pakula who stated,

. “This program has been on for

over a year and nothing’s hap-

pened... We should conserve the |
regional district function and do»

away with all of this.” This, of
course, was like an invitation to
Les Watmough, who said, ‘‘We
have regional districts through-
out the provirice who could have

been given this function and |
quite frankly, I think we could ©

have been doing a: better job.”
The discussion ended with a mo-
tion recommending that Huberts

| peasked-té add Gitksan Wet'su- -
- wet’an Tribal, Council president

*’snameto the.council.

4egues around. the;

Se

These Northwest Community College Adult
of Armenian earthquake victims a year ago
donation was delivered In person to the Soviet embassy

Basic Education students came to the rescue’.
this week by ralsing $2,000 in pennies. Their
in Ottawa.

‘Crown Lands. The ministry was |

selling off land with little regard
for the buyer. or the intended
use, complained Watmough. He
said the ministry was setting up
offices in Japan and Hong Kong
and described the ministry’s at-
titude as ‘‘dangerous”’. He con-
cluded that, ‘Soon the province
will be owned by others,’’ and

this sparked Alice Maitland to-

point out that much of the
crown land being sold was in the

-area of Native land claims. To

this, chairman Jack Talstra said
jokingly, ‘‘They (the Native peo-

ple) may soon have to tegotiate

with Hong Kong.”

Canadian mining giant Com-
inco in the meantime was doing

race and District Chamber of
Commerce meeting held a year
ago this week that they would be
spending $50 million in 1989 to
build a full scale gold mill and
camp at their 60 percent-owned
Snip gold and silver property
north of Stewart, When in full
operation, said Johnston, the
mine would employee 170
workers with a combined annual
wage of around $10 million and
the company would be spending
another $10 million a year on
goods and services.

Most of those dollars, though,
may never pass through Terrace,

“he added. At the time, Van-

couver labor was being flown in-
to the site via Smithers and bulk

- commodities such as fuel were

being barged into Wrangell and
then flown into the site. The cost
and weather conditions at the

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regiotral «district. ©

Terrace airport were determin-
ing factors in this, he explained,
but added one note of hope.
‘When you're in business, you

Have to look around, see what

you want and where to get it,”” -
he explained, but, “if you offer
us the best service, you get the .
business.’’
Education was in the news a

"year ago last week but the big -
_news of the day wasn’t encour-

aging. From page 22: “A
14-hour negotiating session be-

_ tween bargaining representatives

for the Terrace District Teach-
ers’ Association and the board’
of School District 88 last week-
end has left both sides feeling
more optimistic about a settle-
ment, but neither side is yet cer-
tain whether: local schools will
reopen after the holiday break.”

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