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oy Thee come up with a method
a) gauging just how slippery it is
out there ‘on the highways and ‘
-: byways of the northwest that
“YOU. may or.may not. (especially
~ dE you just':feturned from a trip
to ICBC) find amusing. I call it
“-the Zamboni Factor. ~
: amboni Factor 5 — A good
; ~ description of this are Terrace
streets five days after a major
“snowfall. we iif accompanied by
\ warm rain for four days,
"The roads are in good shape
_-in front of the mall, the hospital
and most thoroughfares. Skid
‘ - ability centered on back alleys

“and front yards.
Zamboni Factor 4 — Salt
~ ‘and sand crews are out there for
_this-stage of the game, because
itis important to be seen spen-
“ding the tax dollars in the cause
“of public safety.
-: Intersections are in good
‘shape if-you haven't left home
before the road. crews have
“made at least one pass at it.

-. Skid ability getting closer to
where. you live, possibly
anywhere that is not within 50
feet of a stop sign.

-. Zamboni Factor 3 — You can

‘WINTER DRIVING conditions often mean motorists and. helpers
receive an aerobic workout when vehicles get stuck, Chris Spangl
of Stewart gives his personal winter driving ratings system called
the Zamboni facter.

‘not be allowed on the roads.

forget about getting your car

-undercoated next summer at
this stage because there is no
salt to eat away at the metal,

‘4a ¥ou can just be thankful that
the snow removal crews just
plowed in your driveway after

you just spent 20 minutes clear--

ing it out. You count yourself
lucky that they made it to your

street at all.
You will probably get stuck
backing out onto the street,

however, as it is a sheet of com-

pact snow,

Make your chiropractor ap-
pointments early, because you
will undoubtedly wreck your
back pushing cars out of snow

Local motorist
gets good brake

Dear Sir:
In light of ,the recent bad
press (latest Readers’ Digest)

‘regarding ,automotive,,Tepair...;

“facilities, 1 I felt compelled to
7H “relate a'short'story." ~*~
Two days after reading the
“said article, my brakes started
doing | very, peculiar things. I
“have only been in Terrace since
‘:Dec.:29 and my husband works
out of town, so you can imagine
~My trepidation as I turned to the
“Yellow Pages under ‘‘brakes’’.
Well, I took my car in to a
_- place called Cedarland Tire Ser-
:. Vice Ltd. and after much effort

on the part of mechanic Brian _

:(it said so on his overalls!) he in-
formed me that no, the brakes
a ‘were good. They just needed ad-
" “justing.
- -The cost immediately drop-
ped from over $300 to a mere
-- "$40 for a great amount of time
-,,and very hard work.
_ «> Here I: was, a dumb female
“2° and this man could have told me
: anything!
“My point is he didn’t — he
- ‘was honest. I couldn’t believe
3 any luck.
|... ‘Brian is my mechanic and no,
a have no shares in Cedarland’
= and they aren’t paying me to say

ow workers
- Sought

“Dear Sirs.
‘I am soliciting peopie who

‘participate in an oral history
f ‘silviculture in B.C. The

show and book based on
eoples stories
hotographs of tree planting,

am after stories about the.

‘have worked treeplanting to.

“project encompasses an-art ._-

and.

this! Brian, thank you and God
Bless.

Michelle Stenhouse
sons PETA, BUC. i

banks. Small animals better not
be playing on the streets because
you will not be able.to stop
unless you veer for that parked
car,

Zamboni Factor 2 —Stay off
overpasses and the Old Skeena
Bridge. In case you had not

realized, your brakes are totally -

useless to you at this stage.

Thanks to those people who
don’t know how to safely get
through an intersection (you
know the ones I mean) they
slam on the brakes and slide
around. If that were not
encugh, they then put the pedal
to the metal to add that extra
shine on the already reflective
surface.

Do not: drive downtown at

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‘chance. We can blame the

‘trails,

slippery out, you can rest

those huge piles into the middle
of the main street, Unless you _
own a huge truck, you will not
be able to see over these banks.

Whoever came up with that
idea of piling, now in the mid-
dle of the stre¢t should be shot,
I just cannot understand it.
Look at all the money the city
saves by not plowing half the
streets on the south side of the |
highway.

I like to call it the Far Side
because of the sense of humour
needed to put up with the lack

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Zamboni Factor 1 —this
classification is reserved for the
highways leading to and from
Terrace, The Zamboni Factor 1
is that time where everything
heavier than a skidoo should

Professional drivers should
question what they are doing
out there with a 20-ton loaded &
weapon. This stage has been
reached this winter on many oc-

casions. It is the stage when it
doesn’t matter how many -
wheels you have on the-road,
you wiil not beable to stop in an
emergency situation.

But we all have to get where
we are going so we take the

“unusual weather” or the road
crews, but I just wish that some
of us would have the common
sense to wait an extra day for
the roads to improve before
heading out. -

Drive defensively or stay
home.

1 now live in Stewart where it
is Zamboni Factor 2 for much
of the winter. But I love to hear
that it is snowing in Terrace
when it is not here. Happy

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