_ Airshow acts ready By ANITA DOLMAN - THE TERRACE-Kitimat Airshow, July 21, is shaping up to be the most impressive yet, despite dif- ficulties raising money. ’ Brian McNair, airshow society president, says the response from pilots has been phenomenal, The show will open with the ' Navy Seals parachute team, the Leap Frogs, “This will be the first time that we've had American military up ~ here,’’ says McNair. “Highlights will include the Snow- ' birds flying team, a P3 Orion anii- submarine aircraft and a Pavehawk ~ search and rescue helicopter. ‘The Canadian military will also ' be showing a T33 Silverstar, first introduced 50 years aga. __ CFB Comox will provide both a Labrador search and rescue helicopter and a Buffalo airplane. - Bill Carter will provide entertain- ‘ ment with his Pitts Special stunt biplane while fellow civilian stunt- - pilot Ken Fowler will put on his own show, in his first tour through the airshow circuit. Other highlights will include fy- bys by an American F117 Stealth Fighter and a commercial airplane. to roar THE E SNOWBIRDS, Canada's tnp flying team, will be getting the crowd going as one eof the first acts at the Terrace-Kitimat Airshow July 21. The team will be one of the few Canadian acts on hand at show. The suow will close out with a show by two Canadian CF-18s and two American A10 Thunderbirds, who will be flying with pyrotech- nics on the ground, including a 500 foot wall of fire. “The finale for this show is just going to blow people’s minds,” says McNair, Timing has played a large part in the overwhelming response from pilots. The Victoria airshow takes place the previous weekend and many of the pilots and crew are stopping in on their way from there to the Prince George show the following weekend. McNair estimates that about 250 people, including both pilots and ground crew, will be arriving from Canada and the U.S. to help put on the event. The airshow society is still look- ing for money to sponsar the pilots, however. “Tinancially we're sort of at the balancing point,’’ says McNair. ‘We're not at the point where we're bankrupt but we're at a stage right now where we're not going to borrowed from the City of Terrace and the City of Kitimat.’’ The society is looking for businesses who will put up the money to pay for motel rooms and car rentals for individual pilots, who will be here for one or two nights each. For more information on sponsor- ship, call Brian McNair at 635- 1854. The aitshow’s gates will open at 2 pm. and flying demonstrations will be held from 4:30 p.m. ta 8:45 p.m. Tickets are available at all Copperside Foods locations, The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, July 15, 1998 - A3 News In Brief { be able to pay back the money we Alaska to fish threatened coho Lodges cry foul after salmon talks collapse By CHRISTIANA WIENS _ SPORT FISHING lodge owners say they have become the sacrificial lamb after the break down of federal fishery negotiations with Alaska. The collapse of talks Thursday means sport and commercial fisheries in Alaska will con- tinue fishing coho and sockeye while their Ca- nadian counterparts face federal restrictions, “] don’t see why we have to be the ones that, have to stop fishing,’’ said Alex Hruby of the Skeena River Fishing Lodge in Terrace. Federal regulations would lower Canada’s share of Skcena-bound coho to almost nothing, while Alaska traditionally takes 40 per cent. Canada’s goal is to increase the amount of un- caught returning adult coho back to 30 per cent of the Skeena’s annual run, But the effect can mean hard times for local ' businesses. ' Hruby’s lodge lost all of its September customers due to federal fishery restrictions an- 4 nounced two weeks ago. ‘We've been sold down the river,” he said Friday. He blames federal mismanagement of fisheries for not assuring an international agree-’ ment was ia place before slashing the livelihoods of B.C. residents, Hruby said loca] closures are pointless now, that Alaskans can fish all season long. “We're not prepared to just throw up our hands and give up.” While David EHinarson, Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) area chief, recog- nized Hruby’s frustration, he stressed conserva- tion’s importance, , “We're not prepared to just throw up our hands and give up,’’ Einarson said. He said conservation measures would take longer to show results without Alaskan coopera- tion but they still had to be done. “B.C. has taken strong medicine, and we fe- quire Alaska to do the same.’ red pre yatta fe But all Alaskan proposals — including one submitted Friday — have been unwilling to decrease Skeena river coho catches. “Alaska came in with a proposal, that if their daily troll catches of upper-Skeena coho are in the range of 1997 levels, then they would take action in their southern fisheries,’ said Les Jantz, DFO salmon biologist for the Skeena River. Jantz said the proposal was rejected because it had no dedication to upper Skeena stocks. “They would have done that anyway,” said Jantz. ‘‘It’s the natural movement of their fishery.”” Both Binarson and Jantz said the impasse is a disappointment, but fisheries operations will continue as normal, Normal to the DFC, who have been without an Alaskan agreement for five years, is a pro- cess of regular monitoring and phone calls to American fisheries officials in Ketchikan. “Alaska says they'll be mananging their fisheries in abundance,’’ said Einarson, about Aljaska’s plan to devise their own conservation programs. ‘‘We’ll just have to make sure that they do.” .. Talking fish THE PROVINCE’s new Fish Protection Act and how: it should take effect are to be the focus of 4 public. meeting here next Wednesday. The meeting — from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. July 22 in the east banquet room at the Coast Inn of the West — is aimed at gauging public opinion on the development of the act’s regulations for sensitive streams and stream- side protection. New rules will require water managers consider impact on fish and habitat before approving new licences or approvals to work in or near streams. Treaty negotiator gone THE PROVINCIAL government's lead treaty negotl- ator in the northwest is gone. Mark Stevenson is off on a one-year leave of absence and there’s no indication yet of when or if a temporary replacement willbe named. 5 Stevenson was the pro- § vince’s treaty negotiator in talks with the Tsimshian around Terrace and Prince Rupert, the Haisla in Kitimat, the Gitksan, Wet’suwet'en and the Gitanyow further east, and the Haida on the Queen Charlotte Islands, Aboriginal affairs ministry spokesman Peter Smith said Stevenson will be back and the treaty negotiations he was leading won't suffer in the meantime. “We will have full repre- Mark ‘Stevenson sentation from our ministry at those tables,’? he said. Buckile-up posse coming ICBC hired 28 students last week to see if northern drivers are wearing their seat belts this summer. ‘ The checks will be conducted at summer events,’ fairs, First Nations reserves, rodeos and the Prince Rupert ferry terminal in July and August. ICBC officials say a team of students should be in the- Terrace area within the next three weeks. The program concentrates on Northern B.C, because they believe 13 per cent fewer northern residents wear' seat belts than drivers in the Vancouver area. No pay hike for council CITY COUNCILLORS will hold off on giving them- selves a pay raise, “I don’t think right now is a good time to be doing. it,’’ councillor Ron Vauderlee said Junc 29th. The last increase — for 1.5 per cent — was passed: earlier this year but took effect in Jan. 1, 1997. Council opted to put off any further pay scale review until the end of the year, The mayor is paid up to- $20,560.14 a year, Councillors get up to $8,962.57. One third of both amounts are for expense allowances, keena Mall And ke Your Claim All you gotta do is git yourself a ‘plot’ at the | _ Skeena Mall for just one loonie, and your land could be sittin’ on a shiny | a All profits will be donated tothe | ' ‘Heart & Stroke Foundation. __ to be held August 1 at 5:30 p Land titles can be pAug 1