B16. Terrace Review — Wednesday, July 10, 1991

| Looking back...

his week in 1988 the city was preparing the bottom floor of

| city hall for new tenants: Terrace and District Community

_ Services. One person who wouldn't enjoy the advantages of

the new location, though, was TDCSS founder Lorna Copeland. She

was leaving the area and the two-month-old search for a replacement
was still under way.

In 1989, North Sparks residents were told they would have to wait for
a city connection in spite of the fact some had been told by Public
Health they could no longer use their septic systems. Public Works told
council a ditch, 26 feet deep in places, would have to be blasted through
solid rock and it was just too expensive.

A year ago this week, city council named a couple of new commit-
tees. An eight-member Seniors Advisory Commission was established
to ensure proper levels of services exist. And a Forestry Committee was
named to update and advise council on forestry-related issues.

The city had to deal with a couple of water-related near-disasters. A
lighting strike knocked out a transformer... And power to the sewage
treatment plant, This in itself wasn’t a big problem, there is a back up

‘electrical generation system. But it was never intended to operate for
four days straight, and that’s how long Hydro said it would take to get
a replacement transformer. They found a replacement in Vanderhoof,
however, and the treatment plant was back to normal the next day.

The other water problem was on the east end of Halliwell St. and
became apparent when a four-foot deep lake formed on the street ina

- matter of hours. It seems the weight of heavy equipment working on the
Halliwell upgrade cracked a water line which eventually broke. The

- situation was corrected and there was no damage to private property.

The final story involving the city from a year ago this week is related
to the community-convention centre. The idea was up in the air,
somewhere, and in some circles it was causing a stir. One group liked

the idea but thought it would be better to build it closer to the arena and
put a second sheet of ice on the ground floor.

Another group wanted to book the: centre for September 1992, and
urged council to try for a November 1990 referendum on the project.
Minutes of the Recreation Committee, though, suggested the public
might not want a community-recreation centre at all; tennis courts and
accessible trails and walkways should perhaps be given a higher

ority.
A ¥ round the community in ’88, city council placed their full

support behind the Terraceview Lodge supportive housing

concept, Terrace and District Community Services proposed a

special bus service for handicapped and senior residents, and some kids

in the Parks and Recreation-summer program were shooting for a new

world record... the longest ever paper chain. The result of their effort

was a chain over 191 feet long. To find out if it was a record, they
would have to wait.

The Northmen Rugby Club’s newly-acquired building, the old nurses’

residence bought from Mills Memorial Hospital, remained homeless — -

rejected at Christy Park — so a new Northmen proposal suggested their

future clubhouse be relocated to an undeveloped park site on north Eby |

between Dairy and Gair. Council wasn't convinced it was a good idea
so it was left to the Parks and Recreation Committee to consider the
proposal.

In 1989, Youth Soccer moved E.T. Kenney practices and games to the
Skeena fields for a few weeks. The RCMP said it couldn’t be proved,
but at least one parent was convinced he heard a .22 calibre shot fired
when a raven was killed near a group of young soccer players. And

Attorney General Bud Smith was in town. In his pocket was a $15,000 .

cheque that would raise the funding of the Terrace Sexual Assault
Centre from $48,000 to $63,000.

Before we head into 1990, we should back-track a little and look at
a few recreational items from this week in our past. In 1988, the
regional district played their best hand and lost. They still owned MK
Bay Marina and it looked like it would be theirs forever more. After
four months of selling and two months of negotiation the best offer was
declined. Custom Sports Centre in Kitimat offered $305,000 for the
money loser, but said they already. owned $130,000 of it so were
prepared to write out a cheque for only $175,000. The only other offer
was for $1 and it was.declined because it was not accompanied by the
specified $5,000 deposit.

But enough about water. How about a little hiking? In 1988, Gil
Payne of the B.C. Wildlife Federation filed objections to the Seven
Sisters hiking trail proposal with the Ministry of Crown Lands.
According to Payne, if the proposal were to proceed, locals would lose
the right to use Crown land.

In 1990, though, the Seven Sisters project was alive and well.
Working together with the government and Gitwangak hereditary chiefs,
Seven Sisters proponents suggested we might see some development
there soon.

And if you don’t care for hiking, how about skiing? In 1988, we were
told Shames Mountain had received a half million dollar federal-
provincial low-interest loan and there just might be skiing at Shames
that fall. The loan was frozen, though, pending provincial approval for
a toad building proposal.

In 1988, it was the "day of decision for Shames". Cabinet was to rule
on-road building funds this day in °89, A lot of fingers were crossed,
but nothing happened. A year ago this week, though, the funding was
finally in place, the half million had been released, and things were
happening on the mountain. There will be skiing on Shames this winter,
Ski Corporation director Larry Krause announced... And he was right.

Osborne Home clients get

mental illnesses and a gathering
point for those of them who are
living independent lives in the
Terrace area. Goodlad is acting as
Osborne’s community liaison
worker for the summer, a position
created after Ksan House Society,
the group that operates Osborne,
received a $10,000 grant from
John Labatt Lid.

She has spent the first three
weeks on the job getting to know
‘the nine people who live at Os-
borne and another 10 or so who

new advocate for

sionally use Osborne’s counselling
services. They spent a week at the
end of June at the Kin Kamp at
Lakelse Lake, and now Goodlad is
working up an agenda for the

remainder of the summer. Most of
her efforts will go into ensuring
that each client has a suitable "care
plan" and is receiving the required
assistance with living skills —
budgeting, housekeeping, cooking
and other basics of daily life. "I’m
here to talk to them,” she says.
She also intends to create a
closer relationship between the
Osborne clients and people and

Further

Melanie Goodlad:
services required.

"People in general have to be
educated. They cope well on their
own, they just need some extra
guidance,” Melanie Goodlad says.

"They" are the clients of Osbome
Home, a shelter for people with

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businesses in the Terrace area. The
world is sometimes a bewildering |
place for people with schizo-
phrenia or other mental disorders,
but the rewards of working and
participating in community activ-
ities can do wonders for the out-
look of psychiatrically challenged
people. Goodlad says her job is to
encourage the Osborne clients to
find work and get involved with
Terrace society, and to encourage
the community in general to create
opportunities for that to happen.
Goodlad’s job under the grant
will conclude Aug. 24. She notes
that Osborne is not funded as a
drop-in centre, and although it
meets the needs of the resident
clients the program stil! falls well
short, due to funding shortages, of
meeting all the needs of the clients

in the community. "Further ser- |

vices are obviously required to
meet the ever-growing demand for
integrated socialization, recre-
ational and vocational needs of the
psychiatrically challenged adults of
this and every community,” she
SAYS.

Goodlad is a post-secon
student in sociology, criminology
and psychology. The Osborne job
works in well with her career
plans, she says.

Daycare.
subsidies
to go

up next
month

Government financial help to pay
for child care expenses of low

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special needs children will be
increased starting Aug. 1.

Subsidies from the Ministry of
Social Services and Housing for
low income families that pay for
family day care for their infants
(up to 18 months of age) will go
from $364 per month to $438 per
month. Group day care subsidies
for children 3-5 years will increase
from $312 to $350 per month.

The increases also cover several
other types of existing day care
subsidies. The provincial govern-
ment expects the program, which
includes a component for increas-
ing the day care spaces available
for special needs children, to cost
$6,960,000 over the coming year.

Carol Gran, Minister of
Women’s Programs and Govern-
ment Services, said one of the
objectives of the program is to
expand affordable day care avail-
ability. Dean Grondahl, a com-
munications officer with the Minis-
try of Social Services and Housing,
said details of the special needs
day care subsidy will be available
at a later date. One objective of
that program, he said, is to encour-
age day care spaces for special
needs children as part of integrated
day care operations.

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