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Vol. 4, Issue No. 44

_ TERRACE, B. C., WEDNESDAY, November 2, 1988.

50 CENTS

Little change in four years

According to the Skeena riding. returning officer Blaine
Johnson, enumeration for the federal election has been com-.
-pleted, but all the data has not yet been correlated. With the in-
formation available at the present time however, she says there
are 39,997 registered voters in the riding at the present time, up
by about 250 from the previous federal election list.

She says there will probably be more voters registering, though

— in the last election there were 39,756 on the list prior to the
election but about 2,300 more signed up on election day.
Although it is possible to register at-the polls, an Elections
Canada spokesperson says eligible voters would be wise to - :
register at the Elections Canada office at 4913 Keith Ave. prior.
to the election. She explained that registration at the polls re-

‘quires a witness who can verify identity, and it can be time con-

. suming. .

As for campaign expenses for Skeena candidates, Johnson says -
that the level of allowable campaign funds for each federal can-
didate is directly related to the number of registered voters, Each
Skeena candidate can spend a maximum. -of $50,573.95 on his

campaign.
_ Index
Business Guide 16
Church Directory 18
‘ClassifiedAds 22—24
~ Coming Events 2B.
Comics © 20 — 214
Crossword _ 21
Dining Directory 12
Editorlal 6
Entertainment . 12
-Horoscope: . - 24
“Letters ~~ 6—7 -
~ Sports: 10
Talk of the Town a on
_Weather 2

-- DYNAMIC DUO: This
year's top business ex-
ecutives are the pair from
Northern Drugs... page 2. |
ELECTION: Follow the
candidates... page 3.

.  GHARTING THE FUTURE
OF TRASH: The provincial

Task Farce on Solid

- Waste was In town last

von week... . page 27.

A ‘municipal election will be
held, on Saturday, November 19,
and voters living within the city
will cast their ballots at the

Clarence Michiel gymnasium in
Terrace to elect three city
aldermen and three School
District 88 trustees.

So voters can better under-
stand the issues at hand and get
to know the candidates, the Ter-
race Jaycees are sponsoring an
‘*Ail Candidates Forum’? at the
R.E.M. Lee Theatre, Thursday,
Nov. 10. School Board hopefuls
will speak between 7 p.m. and
8:30 p.m., while those running
for city council will have their
opportunity from 8:30 p.m, to
10 p.m, Questions will be. taken
from the floor, Brian Champlin

will moderate the trustees’ ses-_
and Guy ‘Lynch will”

sion,

- Board to

THORNHILL — An informal
meeting between school trustee
Francis Sabine, all three Thorn-

hill school principals, and two.
board for approval at their

representatives from the Con-
cerned Parents for Safer Roads
in Thornhill, has resulted in a
tentativé solution. Many parents

have been concerned with the
_ compromise between traffic
congestion and safety in the area -

surrounding the three schools
for some time, but the situation
was brought to a head last spring
when a young student was struck
and killed by a school bus, The

first‘ reaction by the school”

board to the parents’. requests
was non-committal. : .

by Tod Strachan <<. °

Following the meeting, Sabine

oversee the municipal portion.
Following ‘is a brief introduc-
tion to each candidate:

School District 88

Two School District 88 seats
have already been won by ac-

‘clamation, Delbert Morgan will.

retain his seat representing

‘native reserves-around Kitwanga’
and board chair Val Napoleon
will retain her seat representing.
the Hazeltons. In the Terrace ©

area, there are five candidates
running. for three, two-year
seats: - .

Flip Cervo (new candidate):

Flip has lived in Terrace for the’
_past 28 years and is employed as.
Warehouseman at Northwest.
Community College. Although. |.
he has never run for an elected ©
position iti the past, he has been

Happy landing —

Investigators still haven

a

atermined the cause of an engine failure that
" made local pilot Gary Thompson execute a forced landing in this clear cut two miles south

of the Terrace Kitimat Airport last Thursday evening. Thompson was flying the Bell Jet
Ranger, owned by Okanagan Helicopters, back from Ethelda Bay when the engine quit. -

consider-road safety. issues

said he ‘would be making some

new recommendations to the

Committee of the Whole which

would then be passed on to the

meeting in Hazelton next Tues-
day. The first recommendation

.would ask for a crossing guard

on Old. Lakelse Lake Road at
Clark, and the second would ask
for-a re-evaluation of the cost of

‘rerouting bus traffic from Clark

Road between Old Lakelse Lake
Road and Paquette,
Although parent - represen-

tatives Laurie Mitchell and Deb- -

bie Dimitrov said that the com-

promise’ between, :a ‘fulltime,

10-month ° per -year crossing
: guard ‘and one. in. the morning |
only during winter months was a °
- bare minimum, they agreed that
jt would be acceptable. Accord-

- Civic election slate ready

active in the community, At the
present time, Flip is the presi-
dent of the Men’s Soccer League
and a regional director for the
Northern B.C. Winter Games, a
position he has held since 1983.
He was also appointed: to. the

‘ferrace - Advisory’ Parks and —
_ Recreation Commission from

1978 to 1982. ,
Flip says he decided’ ta ‘seck a

trustee position because he feels . t
‘time.to serve the community as

he . has something: to .offer’ to
both ‘the: community and our
educational system. He believes
it’s time for a different perspec-
tive on the issues being discussed
+. a°fresh:perspective which is
not ° ‘directly | related to the
system,

If elected, Flip says he has one—
primary ‘objective: to ‘see the |
morale of School” District 88 ~

ing. to Mitchell, the winter mon-

ths are the worst time of the year.
. for visibility in the area of Old
_ Lakelse and Paquette in what

she describes as a “wind
tunnel’’.

During the preliminary.discus-
sion .on the busing situation,

Sabine said. that. Changing the

routes would add 1.4 kilometers .
' and about $8,000 per year to the

budget. Mitchell pointed out

however, that only five to eight

bus routes were involved, not

19, and that cost would be only

slightly. more than a quarter of
the board’s estimate.

.. Sabine then pointed out that
‘any schedule changes could
Mean that, Lakelse Lake and
“Jackpine. Flats students would

arrive about 15 minutes earlier
in the morning. Some, he said,

teachers raised. ‘‘Morale is cur-
rently at a low,’” he says. ‘‘There
seems to be a lot of infighting
and there needs to be a concen-

‘trated effort by the board,

teachers and administration to
bring it to a halt.’’
- Edna Cooper (incumbent):

.Edna moved to Terrace in 1943
- and .has been a resident ever

since. Stie. works ‘hard as a
housewife’ but has also found

an alderman from 1966 to 1972
and as a school trustee for the
past two years. Her interests are
primarily in the area of the arts

and she is currently.a member of.

the Terrace Art Association and
on the B. Cc. Arts Board.

.Edna says. she. is. seeking re--
election ‘because she has found
Hp Pisa, scontinued on page 25.

as early as 7:45 a.m. and, other
than creating a supervision

- problem, the matter would first

have to be discussed with the-
parents of those students.

But Mitchell said she had
alreddy discussed the - matter
with Farwest Bus Lines, who she
said had stated that students
would arrive only about six
minutes earlier than they do
now. Some of the parents in-
volved, she said, were willing to
make the sacrifice in order to
improve pedestrian safety, At
this point, she said that Thorn-
hill parents would be willing to
wait a “reasonable’’ amount of
time for the board to confirm
her information but re-
emphasized the fact that the
crossing guard was needed im-
mediately.

Sabine said he would also take
the parents’ requests for five ad-

" .ditional crosswalks in the area to
' the Ministry of Highways but

explained that he had already
been told that a request for four
crosswalks at the Clark/Pa-
quette intersection had been
denied under a Ministry policy -
which doesn’t permit the in-
stallation of crosswalks in a 30.
kilometer per hour school zone. |
But he said he would make.
another request for these‘four

crosswalks as well as another at

Clark parallel to Lakelse Lake -
Road.

_ A final request by the parents
for a pedestrian-controlled traf-
fic light at the Lakelse/Clark in- .
tersection, or at the very least a
flashing. amber light, was
thought to be too expensive and .
the crossing guard was a more: .
realistic solution.. The parents -
are now awaiting the board’s :
Nov, 8 decision.

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