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TERRACE. — The last.
weekend in February
marked the end. of a

decade of troubled opera-

tions for.the Kitsumkalum
Ski Hill.

After the final skier slid
_ down the. mountain on

March 1, the slopes, rope
tows, chairlift, T-bar and
lodge closed down for
good, The equipment and
facilities will be removed
to the new development at
Shames Mountain this
summer, leaving behind a
blank landscape popu-
lated by the good and bad
memories of many local
residents who have skim-
med over powder and
shuddered through ice and
slush down its spectacular
but undependable ski
runs.

was. initially picked for
development in a study
commissioned by the

Kitimat-Stikine Regional -

District -in 1972. A

resource use permit was.

signed with the.B.C. Parks
Branch in 1973, and the
newly: built resort opened
for business in the winter
of..1975 sporting, a two-

story lodge, rental shop, .

rope tow and a double
chairlift. Despite a history
of suitable snow’ condi-
tions on the 750-meter
peak, however, the
resort’s operations. were
hindered almost from the
beginning by inadequate
snowfall and .warm
temperatures. During
several seasons the slopes

_ were opened only spor-

adically and during others
failed to operate at all.
In mid-1986.

Kitsumkalum Mountain

-Dennis

_the

Community :
hill slides ©
‘Into history

Kitimat-Stikine Regional
District, distressed over
the grim financial burden
the mountain represented
to taxpayers, called a
referendum. Asa result
tenders were invited for

. disposition of the resort’s

assets and. the. regional
district got out of the ski-

ing business. A new local .
_ company,
. Mountain - Ski ‘Corpora-

_the Shames

tion, bought everything

that could be moved off
the mountain for use in a
new development west of
Terrace.

According ‘to Lucy
Wood, treasurer for the
regional: district, Kit-

sumkalum Mountain clos- |
ed down with an outstand- -

ing capital debt of
$576,917 and an operating
deficit. for 1986. of.

$111,012, Following the ~
regional . district?s 1986:
decision to pull out of the-

business, it-was estimated

the debt will require about: .

twelve years to-retire,
The ski hill was

operated during. its. final

season. by the Shames

_Mountain Ski. Corpora-

tion. Company: president
‘Lissimore | re-
ported, “It wasn’t a bad
season for snow, but. we
didn’t get record crowds, I
think people are just fed
up with Kitsumkalum no
matter what the snow con-
ditions are.”

Lissimore stated the
removal of equipment
from the mountain will re-
quire several months and
will proceed throughout
-the. summer, Lift towers
not accessible by road will

On the job

Gurbax Gilt does some bindery Nod at Close Up Publishingin
Terrace, home of the Terrace Review and the Northwest Star
newspapers, and Close Up magazine.

be airlifted: by helicopter
to the base area, where.

they will be loaded on
trucks and. taken to the
new development at
Shames Mountain. . The
lodge building. will be
divided into two parts and
transported by road, .
Purchase. ptice for the
Kitsumkalum ‘assets was
$306,000, Lissimore said. -

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Terrace Review — Wednesday, March 4, 1987 1S+

te Ser -

Confirmation of of a B.C. Lotteries grant for $20,000 recently gave Mamie Kerby of the Regional
Museum Society cause to smite. The grant notification, delivered by Skeena MLA Dave Parker,
will allow completion of the building in the background for storage and repair of large exhibits

-at Terrace's Heritage Park.

Unemployed Action Centre
may close |

TERRACE — After four

years. of helping low in-
come Terrace residents ©

cope with. government
‘bureaucracies,
‘Unemployed Action Cen-
tre is in. danger of closing.

Bill Goodacre, coordin-
-ator: for the center, recent-
ly confirmed an announ-

cement by the B.C, Feder-. -
_ation of Labour that

unless funding contribu-
tions. from the. organiza-
tion’s member unions .in-

creases about half the 20°

Group
to plan
reading

agenda

TERRACE. — A local
literary discussion. group

will establish its summer |

reading agenda at an'even-
ing session April 5 in Don

. Diego’s Restaurant in Ter-

race.

Monthly meetings have

been taking place this year
to give local people an op-
portunity to have casual
discussions about recently
published new works of
fiction in English. The
meetings are organized by
the English and French
Humanities Department
of Northwest Community
College and are held in
conjunction with Cafe

- Conversation, a-forum for

the exercise and improve-
ment of skills in speaking
French.

Jo Patterson, an Eng-

‘lish instructor at NWCC,
stated recently a summer:

reading list for discussions
beginning in the fall of
this year will be drawn up
at the group’s April 5
meeting, The Bone Peo-
ple, a novel by New Zea-
land author Keri Hulme,
will also be discussed at
the meeting. Interested
members of the public are
invited to attend, and no-
host refreshment will be
served,

For further information
contact Jo Patterson at
Northwest Community
College. -

the local.

centers in B.C. will liave
to fold. Goodacre said he
has not yet been told if the
Terrace center will be
among those forced ‘to
close.

* The Terrace Unemploy-.

ed Action Centre began its

counselling and advocacy -
the center’ s coordinator
hé stillsees.an average of

services in January 1983.
It joined a network of sim-
ilar centers across the pro-
vince started-by the. B.C:

Federation of Labour to

assist increasing ‘numbers
of unemployed: people

find their way through the - :
complex maze of regula- |

tions associated with in-
come assistance programs
such as unemployment in-
surance, welfare and
workers’ compensation.
Despite evidence of
recovering economies in
other areas of Canada,

Dennis G, Nicoll, P.Eng.

Area General Manager Kenneth
A. McLean, announces the appoint-
mentof DennisG. Nicoll os Area
Network Manager,

Inhis new position, Mr. Nicoll
will be responsible for the opera-
tion and maintenance of the switching
and transmission network extend-
ing from 100 Mile House in the
south to Atlin in the north, the
Queen Charlotte Islands in the west
to the Alberta border in the east.

Mr. Nicoll has 15 years experi-
ence in engineering management
and network staff positions. Prior
to his most recent position as Area
Pianning and Transmission
Engineering Manager, Mr. Nicoll
served as Engineering Manager
with Telecom Canada in Ottawa.

Mz, Nicoll has a Bachelor of
Applied Science degree in Electri-
cal Engineering from U.B.C. andis
a member of the Association of
Professional Engineers of B.C. In
addition, Mr. Nicolt isa member of
the Engineering Institute of Canada
and the Institule of Electrical and
Electronics Engineers.

@) AGTeL

B.C,’s northwest. contin- |

ues to suffer from chronic

‘unemployment. Goodacre

stated that demand for
services. available at the
Terrace center has not
abated’ since it- opened,
and he estimated that ‘as

200 to 250 clients month-
ly. He. noted that the

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K’san House Society, ‘the
Terrace. Women’s —Re-
source Centre, the -Ker-
mode Friendship’ Center -
and some of the Terrace
union locals provide lim-
ited advocacy services for
special interest. groups,

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