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By ED YUDIN
Herald Staff Writer
The new cog control officer for Terrace says he
loves animals and works best alone, qualifications
which he feels will serve him well in his new job.
David Milligan will be starting his job on Jan.1,
replacing Doris Sturko, with the knowledge a seroius

problem exists.

“T recognize the need for control,” he explained,
“They gave me the freedom to use my own

techniques.”

Milligan, who is a novice to the dog-catching
profession, said the dog control problem is related to

two speelfie facts,

“First, dogs breed like crazy and they run in
packs,” he pointed out. ‘Second, it is the respon-
sibility of dog owners to keep their pets out of that

kind of trouble.”

Most people don’t recognize the responsibility when
they get a dog," he said in noting the laxity of owners
in keeping a close watch on their pets,

Milligan says if dog owners didn’t let their pets run
loase, it would prevent the large scale breeding, so
that loose dog packs wouldn't be such a problem.

Miiiigan was formerly an optician and worked down
south ina lab. He hus lived with his wife in Terrace for

the past year and a half.

A pet owner himself (two dogs and three cats), he
thinks dogs are like children in that they are not -
responsible for themselves and require close super-

vision.

a

David Milligan, the new d

og control officer for the

District of Terrace, predicts the animal shelter will be
expanded in the future to serve an increasing need,

Harrison named

Nan Harrison, a
Terrace resident -and

local school board
trustee, has peen ap-
pointed by the federal
cabinet to serve on the
national parole! board.

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Harrison will receive a
five-year appointment to
the 26-member _ board,
which includes three B.C.
members,
Harrison. She has served
two years as a member of
the regional community

including -

panel prior to this week’s
appointment.

Harrison will be
meeting daily with
prisoners who are en-
titled to a hearing on
every anniversary of
their incarceration. The
job will force her at some
point to leave Terrace,
her home for the past 24
years.

Contacted at home, she
indicated she will be
commuting between
Terrace and Vancouver
at least until the end of

to parole board

Kitimat council
hears objections

to-club near by -

A public hearing on an
application to change the
zoning of a lat an Kuldo Blvd.
from institutional — to
recreational attracted a
crowd of 42 residents
Monday.

The Kitimat Elks Club
wants the property, occupied
by the Jehovah’s Witness
Church, rezoned for use as a
club house.

Some residents of Ochwe
and Nadina Streets adjoining
the property are opposed to
the rezoning.

Lloyd Gammel, 2 Nadina
Street, told council he is
concerned about noise and
“beer bottles through my
windows,""

“You can't sound proof a
parking lot," Gammel said.

fik member Hans Brown
said the club would close off
the sound proof windows
facing homes on Nadina and
Ochwe and the property
would be fenced in and a
hedge planted.

Victims
named

REVELSTOKE, B.C. (CP)
— RCMP in this Rogers Pass
community have identifled
the three young children who
perished in a house fire on
Tuesday.

Police said today Bobbi Jo
Whiteman, 3, and Trevor
Cecil Woodman, 2, died in
the fire which swept through
their bedroom. A neighbor
managed to rescue 11-
month-old April Dawn
Woodman, but she had
suffered burns to more than
60 per cent of her body and
died Tuesday night in
Vancouver General
Hospital.

Police said the fire is
believed to have started in a
portable electric heater.

A babysitter in the house

* wasn't injured.

Teen dance

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in planning

A Christmas Disco for
teenagers will be held
Friday at 8:30 p.m. at the
arena banquet room. The
Caledonia community
recrealion 12 class has
organized the event with lots
of special Christmas touches

ike a mini buffet, a
Christmas free and

Christmas decorations,

Council members agreed
to move the zoning by-law to
the top of the agenda for
Monday’s council meeting.

Alderman Lee Wilis op-
posed the rezoning, ‘Council
has a responsibility to look
after the rights of people who
bought homes in good faith
believing they were located
beside.a church," Ellis said.

Alderman Laurie LeBlanc
said he had talked to
residents of Nadina and Och-
we Streets and found most
are opposed to rezoning.

‘Almost 100 per cent of the
residents have signed a
petition against rezoning,”
LeBlanc said.

Council received a petition
signed by 34 residents op-
posed to rezoning.

The vote to amend the by-
law resulted in a tie with
Mayor George Thom casting
the deciding vote to defeat
the rezoning.

The municipality has
received a grant of $400,000
from the ministry of
provincial secretary and
government services to help
pay for the theatre at Mount
Elizabeth Senior Secondary
School.

A letter announcing the
grant from Provincial
Secretary Evan Wolfe
states: “the government
wishes to congratulate your
council for working together
with the school district to
accomplish this community
project.”

In other business, council
passed the townsite
waterworks improvement
by-law authorizing the
borrowing of $600,000.

The money will be used to

build a4 new infiltration
gallery and pumphouse.

Under new business,
council discussed the poor
job of snow clearing during
the weekend.

Alderman Lee Ellis said
she received numerous calls
complaining that pathways
were not cleared by Monday
morning and children had to
walk to school on the roads.

Ellis said council's
decision’ not ta clear path-
ways on weekends caused
the problem.

Ellis’ motion to review
snow-clearing policy was.
defeated.

Mayor George Thom had
the last word. “If the anow
blowers are on the pathways
and people can't get down
the streets, you will get just
as many complaints.

NAN HARRISON...
has to leave
the current school year.
She has a child in grade
nine. Her husband is a
logging supervisor for
Eurocan. :
As far as her mem-
bership on the board of

trustées:‘’ for;. School’
District'98,-Harrisan said”

she will “attend the next
school board meeting in
January to discuss it.”
Technically she can
remain on the board if
she altends one meeting
every three months. If
Harrison decides to
resign, threre will be a
byelection to fill the seat.
Harrison was born in
Trail, and was employed
for two years as a
psychiatric nurse at
Riverview Hospital
outside New  West-
minister. She has also
served as a general duty
nurse at Mills Memorial
Hospital in Terrace.
“I’m flattered they
picked a northerner,” she
said. “It's nice to know
they just don’t pick
people from the city,’”’
“I think it will be a very
challenging job,’’ she
added,

DENTAL
CARE
DETAILS
COMING

By VIC PARSONS

VICTORIA (CP) —
British Columbians may
know by next month the
form and timing of the
.dental -care plan
promised with fanfare at
last spring’s opening of
the provincial. legis-
lature,

Health Minister Rafe
Mair, a newcomer to the
ministry in November,
said ina recent interview
that while work is still
being done on the
proposed program, the
“style and timing will be
settled within the next
month,”

Mair rejected reports
that details of the
program, which formed
part of the Social Credit
election platform last
May, have already been
decided.

“Firstly, we haven't
@0t, 8 precise plan, and
secondly, we haven't got
the financial goahead
yet,” he said.

Mair said there is no
question that the
government is committed
to implementing a plan,
designed to cover only
persons without current
dental. programs, before
the next election.

"It will be sooner
rather than later," he
sald, giving no further
details,

“A denticare program
has serious financial
implications and
structural problems," he
said. “You just can't
throw one together.”

Mair said the program
still requires approval of
the treasury board, the
committee of ministers
with control over the
public purse, and final
sanction by aabinet.

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er confident

In order to help solve the dog problem, he intends to
take a much higher public profile than his
predecessor. Milligan will attempt to list the dog
pound number in the phone book, and leave another
number where he could be reached on off hours.

He also will try to advertise in an effort to educate
peaple on how to take better care of their animals,

He thinks mare people should have their pets spayed
or neutered, and that it is not cruel to do so,

“Spayed or neutered dogs often don't have to go
through the discomfort of heat,” he-explained. “If you
really love that animal, what is $65 to get it spayed or

neutered?”

He will try and get more co-operation from the

public.

“People don’t have valid complaints about the lack
of service unless they'll co-operate by reporting stray
ar loose dogs in the neighbourhood,” he said.

Milligan will be phoning owners to pick up their
dogs, if picked up by the municipality. He would like to
bill owners for the costs even if they choose not to
retrieve their pets. Currently it costs $50 to bail out an
unspayed dog from the municipal pound. Some owners
have decided not to pay that amount, and as a result

-the dogs

are destroyed

three days later.

_In this respect, Milligan is hoping the district
tighten up the dog control bylaw both to encourage
dog owners to keep a closer watch on their pets and to
make it easier to retrieve loose dogs from the streets

of Terrace,

Ferry Island’s
road is okayed

The District of Terrace has
received word the provincial
ministry of highways will
upgrade the stretch of High-
way 16 leading to the access
road to Perry Island,

This paves the way for the
next step for the proposed
development of Ferry Island
aS a campsite and
recreational ground.

At Monday's session of the
council, Maroney said actual
development of the tourist
project is scheduled to begin
this spring,

While the minister of high-
ways has confirmed work for
widening and paving of the
stretch leading to the access
road will be paid by the
provincial government, the
municipality will be

responsible for the
upgrading of the access road
leading to Ferry Island. The
work on Highway 16 will
allow motorists to make a
left turn onto the access road
to the site.

In other council news, D
and A Janitor Service has
been awarded the 1980
janitorial contract for the
District of Terrace. D and A
bid was the lowest submitted
of seven in total.

Terrace district council

- has also formally declared

the week of Jan. 13 to Jan. 20
as Terrace Winter Carnival
Days. The declaration came
at the request of the Terrace

- Downtown Lion's Club who is

sponsoring the festivities,
and hopes to make it an
annual event.

Fireman admits error

VANCOUVER (CP) —
Fife Captain John Graham
knew he had made a mistake

‘ when he pushed'tHe button in

an apartment elevator to a
floor on which a fire was
raging, a coroner's inquest
into Graham's death was
told Wednesday.

Graham pushed another
button but the elevator
carried him and two other
firemen to the fifth floor,
where they were confronted
by Intense heat, smoke and

gas.

Two of the firemen
managed to escape by a
slairway.

Graham 52, and William
Edwin Bell, 72, a tenant in
the building, both died in the

fire Nov. 10 at a 12-storey

apartment building in the:

city's West End.
errata ast

Firemen Douglas Steele
and George Potter, who
accompanied Graham to the
fifth floor, both testified they
were carrying breathing
apparatus with them,
although Graham was not.

Steele said that after
Graham pushed the fifth-
floor button, he told the
captain it was the wrong
floor. Graham turned to him
and swore because he was
angry with himself for
directing the elevator to the
fire floor, Steele said.

The inquest continues,

.« Jato most cof:.-the::f
«region by early‘aftertoon as

The Herald, Thursday, Gecamber 20, 1979 Page 3

WEATHER

North and West Vancouver
Island: Overcast with
periods of rain becoming
cloudy with showers this
afternoon. Highs 10 to 12.
Lows tonight near 6. Mostly
cloudy Friday with occa-
sional showers, Highs near

Northern Mainland, Queen
Charlottes: Overcast with
periods of rain becoming
cloudy with showers over the
Charlottes near noon and
later this afternoon over the
Mainland. Highs near 9
exceept near 5 over the
mainland interior, Lowe
tonight near 4 except near
freezing over the mainland
interior. Cloudy Friday with
oceastonal showers. Highs 6

3.

Thompson, Okanagan:
Cloudy with occasional light
rain beginning this af-
ternoon. Highs 6 to 8, lows
tonight 1 to 3. Cloudy with a
few sunny periods and
isolated showers Friday.
Highs 4 to 6,

Columbia, Kootenay:
Cloudy with a few sunny
breaka and isolated showers
today. Becoming mostly
overcast with. occasional
Hght rain or mixed rain and
snow in the evening. Highs §
to 7, lowa tonight 2 to 2.
Moatly cloudy Friday with
occasional showers or raln
or snow. Highs 3 to 5,

Chilcotin, Cariboo, Central
In-terlor: Overcasts clouds
and occasional light rain in
the western sections this
morning spreading to
eastern sections by the
evening. Becoming mostly
cloudy in the western sec-
tions this evening. Highs 5 ta
7, lows tonight zero tod,
Cloudy Friday with a few
sunny breaks and isolated
showers of rain or snow.
Highs 3 ta 5.

Forecasta for the Yukon
and Northwestern B.C.
issued by Environment
Canada at 5:30 am PST for
today and Friday.

Synopsis: The Arctic front
streched across the extreme
southern Yukon this mor-
ning. North of the front
showflurries and tem-
peratures in the25 to ~35
range were r ed, Patchy
cloud and readings of aboutS
were general to the south.
The slow southward advance
of the front will halt later this
morning as a storm moves
northward into the Gulf of

Alaska. Snow will, spread
ast

the system approaches.
Above-normal temperaturea
will continue in the south
again on Friday.

Forecasts:
Northern Yukon: Cloudy
periods this morning.

Becoming overcast with
periods of light snow this
evening and overnight.
Moderate northeasterly
winds, Highs today near 25,
Lows tonight will be near2é,
Cloudy with occasional light
snow Friday. Moderate
northeasterly winda.
Temperatures steady near-
25,

Courcil

structure
outlined

The new year is rapidly
approaching, and for the
Terrace district council
aldermen it means new jobs
and new responsibilities,

The new committee
structure announced by
Mayor Dave Maroney last
week, reveals both a change
in commiltee chairmanships
and makeup’ of the cam-
mittee.

Bob Cooper, the new
chairman of the regional
district board, is also the
chairman of the publics
works commiltee. Serving
on the board is aldermen
Helmet Giesbrecht and
Molly Nattress.

Al Purschke has been
moved over to the chair-
manship of the recreation,
parks, and library com-
mittee, with Cooper and
David Pease serving as
appointees there.

Helmut Giesbrecht will
head the finance, general
government, and protective
services committee ‘ afier
two years without a chair.
Purschke and Jack Talstra
were named to that board as
weil.

Talastra, meanwhile, is
the head of planning and
transportation, Other

* aldermen on that committee

include Giesbrecht and
Pease.

Molly Nattress is heading
tourism and industrial
development during her firat
term on council. She will be
aided by Pease and Talstra.

In Tuesday Dec. 11's
Heraldit was reported Pease
was critical of the ap-
pointments of Giesbrecht
and Talstra to the planning
and transportation com-
mittee, in that they are both

edged to seek to hold the

Ine on taxes. In fact, Pease
was critical of the ap-
pointment of the two
aldermen to the finance,
general government and
protective services com-
mitiee,

Kitimat
policé ©
seeking
robber

A = Kitimat RCMP

spokesman said Wednesday
there are stil] no suspects in
custody in the robbery at the
Big John’s Corner Store last
week,
Two robbers made off with
$500 cash when they robbed
thestore on Bittern Avenue a
week ago last Wednesday
night. .

The police are continuing
their investigation,

Remember \
your friends —
at Christmas.

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