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TERRACE ~ Mother. efor
Nature has a way. of blowing: 33. s-
Plans sky-high or, in the case
of the old water tower on
McConnell, into the ground,
The tower — the last of |
three in Terrace — was pull-
ed down last Friday: after the
Previous day’s. strong winds. -”
had set the water tank listing
at a 20 degree angle.
Ironically; contractors’
bids to’ dismantle the tower
were sét to close Friday at 4
‘p.m, said Peter Crompton,
maintenance superintendent
‘at Northwest Community
College — it owns.the land
on which the tower stood.
_ When the ~ tank’s
‘precarious position was spot-
led Thursday, cily crews ;
closed off that stretch of Mc-
Connell and B,C, - Hydro
crews took down. threatened

power lines, an
_ Friday morning, two
cranes from Raincoast
Cranes and Equipment wrap-
ped cables around the tank:
and hauled it off its base and.
to the ground. ;
_ Having examined the
‘debris, city operations direc-
tor John Colongard noted,
“It was suprisingly sound. lI
was expecting to see a bit of
rotinit.
The tower was erected
about twenty-five years ago
by the city for fire protection
on upper McConnell, which
at that time had no other
gravity-feed water supply.
‘ ‘At one time water on that
bench was supplied by a
relatively small $0
horsepower pump,” Col-
Ongard said, .
The land and the tower
were sold to the college
earlier this year after thé city |
-had improved the bench's

water system, ve
:_-‘*We emptied it last fall,”

olongard explained varlding: \,

ined boataane Hee
alliell, had .more..than

equalled the amount the tank

‘wis able to supply.

TERRACE — A non-smoking
policy has proved unhealthy for
an- Alcoholics Anonymous sup-
‘port group,. according to one
“member, us

But not all AA member;
agree,

The group in question Meets
Saturday-evenings at:the Mills

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Memorial Hospital, a regulated
non-smoking area, __ wo

According to one member
Most alcoholics are also
smokers when they first seek
help, so if the group doesn’t
want to lose newcomers, it has
to search. for a meeting place
that allows smoking. .

“I'm taking a new guy who's
shaking and shivering, suffering
withdrawal symptoms from
alcohol and he’s being told not
to smoke,’’ 4 member said.

“If someone had told me in
the first few days that I wasn't
allowed to smoke at a meeting I

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AA divided on
'no-smoke

would have said thank you and
goodbye," he added, . WOU
But another member said

there are ~ other ‘AA/ groups 4.

smokers could attend, although
she doesn’t: think a ‘non:
smoking policy ‘at meeting —
places turns people'away,
“I've: never known’ an’
alcoholic personally who’s gone
‘back to drinking if he can't
smoke for an hour,” she said,’
“If a person wants to get
sober, they’re going to go to any
length,”” she added, pointing
out that people can take smoke
breaks and go outside,
-. She said AA members who do
smoke but who don’t want to go

to the Mills: meeting can form !

their own group,

At the moment, the only
smoking AA meetings are held
Friday evenings at the Kermode
Friendship Centre,

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