B16 Terrace Review — Wednesday, May 2, 1990

A year ago

this week -

WHILE CITY COUNCIL
GRAPPLED WITH CITY PROB-
LEMS some Caledonia students
were offering a few solutions.

One council decision was very
predictable: "Dr. Joe Zucchiatti’s
$281.85 claim against the City of
Terrace for pothole damage has
been ‘regretfully’ declined." It was
almost a re-run.

Franciso Trigo wanted restricted
parking in the area of the 3300
block Kalum but council felt the
downtown parking problem was
already being dealt with through
dialogue between the city and the
Chamber of Commerce, And, on a
decision they had already made,
the council’s Stair-Trac solution to

access for the disabled handi-
capped access didn’t exactly thrill
Vancouver Plan A for Access
researcher Wayne Alexander.

CALEDONIA’S "MOCK
COUNCIL" HAD SOME OTHER
IDEAS. These Grade 11 Social
Studies students were participating
in Local Government Awareness
Week, and when they took over
council chambers for an hour or so
the following list of resolutions
emerged. Clamp down on unsight-
ly propertics, build a fountain in
George Little Memorial Park and a
Civic Centre in an undisclosed part
of town, demand that escalators or
elevators be installed in all new
commercial buildings, enforce the
' No Smoking Bylaw, build a sec-
ond railway overpass and leave
Terrace’s Sanitary Landfill just the
way it is — unlocked.

BUT A NEW CORRECTIONS
CENTRE TOPPED THE LOCAL.
NEWS. Several city residents in
the area of Northwest Community
College were beginning to get
vocal over the idea that the new
center might be in their neighbor-
hood. Objections to the proposal of
using a 32-acre piece of crown
land facing Soucie Ave. included
the potential for reduced property
values, the incompatibility of an
institution in a residential area, and
concern over possible smoke and
noise pollution from the center’s
firewood operation.

IN OTHER LOCAL NEWS, bail
had been set at $25,000 for Daniel
Bruneau, who had been charged
with second degree murder in the
death of Terrace. teenager Crystal
Hogg. The Terrace Review did a
little digging to find out what
happened to a 14-month-old feasi-
bility study on a Terrace North
water system; not much had
changed. The reply to our queries
had gone from "It doesn’t look

good,” to “It’s just too expensive.”

Playground safety was questioned
as a result of a weekend accident
at the E.T. Kenney playground.
Charity Turley ended up with a
broken leg instead of some pleas-
ant spring memories when some-

- one got on the slide behind her
* and the two wound up in a heap at
‘the bottom. The regional district
_ wrote. the Ministry of Highways
requesting street lights for the

Hwy. 37 and Old Lakelse Lake
Lodge Road intersection. And
Thornhill was ready to launch their
first ever community-wide cleanup
campaign as part of the May 1 to
13 provincial Pitch-In campaign.

AROUND THE COMMUNITY,
the Kermode Friendship Centre
announced the names of two new
staff members. Alcohol and Drug
Counsellor Benita Chapdelaine
started on Mart. 6, 1989, and Youth
Prevention worker Joe Gosnell
began work on Apr. 5, 1989, The
Terrace Branch of Canadian Par-
ents for French donated $500 to.
the Terrace Public Library for the
purchase of French language refer-
ence books.

Terrace Kinsmen Steve MclIsack

_and Barry Eyjolfson donated four

wheelchairs to Terraceview Lodge
on behalf of the Kinsmen Rehabili-
tation Foundation. And it was
announced that the Terrace Little
Theatre production, "Curse of the
Starving Class", was going to
represent the Northwest in the
provincial drama competition,
Mainstage ’89, in Kelowna.

LEAD IN THE WATER at
Cassie Hall Elementary School was
cause for concem. The lead con-
tent exceeded Ministry of Health
standards but it was determined by

School District.88 that the lead . ~

content only exceeded ministry
standards after sitting overnight.
Running the water for two minutes
every morning cleansed the system
of any lead which was coming
from Jead-based solder that had

been used in the original plumbing .

system. a
In other school news, School
District 88 spelled out specific
procedures for parents having
concern about their children’s
instruction, discipline or activity
programs. The district also set
guidelines for earthquake prepared-
ness in local schools. And working
towards the future, the district
began working towards implement-
ing a dual-entry kindergarten and
an ungraded primary system in the
1989-90 school year.
News that long time Caledonia
principal Bill Sturn was leaving for
an administrative post in Lillooet
was released, but that was only
part of the week’s Senior Second-
ary story. Under the direction of
music teacher Geoff Parr, the
21-member Caledonia Concert
band had just returned from the
prestigious Abbotsford/Matsqui
Invitational International Band
Festival with a second place finish.
The excitement at Thornhill
Junior Secondary had nothing to
do with music, though. Twenty-
five St. John, New Brunswick,
students had arrived in town and
bunked in with their Thornhill
"twins". On the agenda for their
one week stay were visits to a
number of local and not-so-local
sites as well as an afternoon per-
formance of the Skeena Theatre
Arts presentation "Squeeze". The
Thornhill students were scheduled
for a visit to their "twins" home-

MONTHS OF DETERMINATION AND GCURAGE on the part of Skeena Theatre Arts students
bore fruit a year ago this week as their original play Juice, a hard-hitting examination of teenagers
and alcohol abuse, was given its first public performance at the R.E.M. Lee Theatre.

town of St. John in late May.

TEENAGE ATHLETES rallied
to the cause a year ago this week
to raise more than $1,300 for the
B.C. Lion’s Society for Crippled
Children, The event was the annual
"Milk Run" and when it was all
over 1,342 half pints of milk were
consumed to quench the thirst of
the teenagers involved. Bonnie
Shaw’s block F Grade 8 English
class was the winner of a side bet
‘at Skeena Junior Secondary and
received front row seats at a per-
formance of Skeena Theatre Arts
"Juice",

At the same time, Skeena runners
place third in the first track and
field meet of the season with the
help of runner Ken. Osei-Tutu.
Skeena beat out five other teams,
including one from Caledonia, with
a total score of 139 points to finish
behind Smithers and Prince Rupert.
And a local Grade 6/7 Girls’ bas-
ketball tournament proved the
Uplands Elementary team to be the
best with Clarence Michiel and
Thornhill close behind. .

In minor hockey, the “Team
North’ squad included some Ter-
race talent — Davey Jones and

‘Jared Ewart — and finished sec-
ond at the B.C. Cup under-17
hockey championships in Osoyoos;
a tribute to an organization that

Memorable quotes from ’89: |
"Dr. Joe Zucchiatti’s $281.85 claim against
the City of Terrace for pothole damage has been

regretfully declined,"

—Terrace city council

was in the process of change.
Minor Hockey president Sharon
Larmour had retired and was
replaced by Sandy Marshall.
Assigned to assist Marshall in the
coming season were first vice
president Lew Larmour, second
vice president Dick Kilborn, treas-
urer Frank Gration, secretary Ellen
Smith and directors Larry Munson,
Betty-Ann Muller, Rob Gibson,

Jake DeJong, Del Robertson and.

Rod McInnes.

IN THE ADULT WORLD OF
SPORTS, the first annual season
of the Terrace mixed slo-pitch
softball league was underway and
in bowling the "Alley Cats’ were
headed for the national men’s team
championships in Ontario. The
Alley Cats won the B.C. berth at a
playoff in Duncan by 17 pins over
Port Coquitlam and Burnaby to
become the first Terrace team ever
to compete in the nationals. On the
Alley Cats roster were: Adrian
Mumford, Rene Mailloux, Blair
MacDonald, Tony Sorenson and
Roy Lincotn.

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