| : . Residents question

foreshore lease

The regional district has tabled a
land referral from the Ministry of
Crown Lands pending input from

“the Lakelse Lake Community

Association. ‘The land referral is
related to an application submitted
by Larry McCowan of Lakelse Air
for a 30-year foreshore lease at the
foot of Lakelse Lake Lodge Road.

There was some controversy last -

summer when McCowan began

‘developing his property and closed

what was believed at the time to
be public access to the beach area.
That was resolved when it was
explained that a 66 foot wide

‘highways access would continue to

provide access to the beach area.
This access was later developed by
the Ministry of Highways to pro-
vide public access.

If the foreshore lease is
approved, however, it would close
all but the 66 foot wide section of
the beach where the highways
right-of-way accesses the beach.
Because of this, the regional dis-
trict wants to give the community
association time to respond before
they offer their support to the
Crown Lands application.

The beach area was once a part
of the property where Oli’s Res-
taurant is located and, although it
was private property, the beach
was open to the public and thought
by some to be a public beach.
Prior to selling the restaurant in

It was a quiet luncheon with
promising words, and out of it
could grow new economic oppor-
tunities in the area. The luncheon
was hosted by Western Economic
Diversification Canada and the key
speaker was Western Economic
Diversification assistant deputy
minister Robin Dodson.

Western Economic Diversifica-
tion Canada is in the business of
helping to develop new economic
opportunities in western Canada
and this is what the 50 or so north-
west businessmen who attended
the affair were there to learn more
about. The promise: "If your com-
pany is developing a new product,
entering a new market, introducing

-new technology to the. West,
improving productivity or replacing
imports, you may be eligible for a
repayable contribution from the
Western Diversification Fund."

Dodson described his department |

1976, however, the property owner
subdivided ihe land into two
pieces; one where the restaurant
sits and the other the beach front.
These were sold separately and
McCowan acquired the lake front
lot a few years ago.
‘McCowan began operating a
charter float plane service from the
area last year and since then his
business has grown. This means he
needs unrestricted access to the
water and the foreshore lease
would give him exclusive commer-
cial access to the Jake for the full
length of his property and a sec-
tion of the lake in front of the
property 80 metres wide extending
50 metres out into the lake on the
south side and 10 metres on the
north side.

The community association has
discussed the option of roping of
the 66 foot section of beach at the
foot of the highways right-of-way
to ensure the safety of swimmers
but some residents don’t believe
that leaves enough beach for
everyone. The association will be
meeting soon to discuss their
options but a date has not yet been
set. Their options range from find-
ing another beach to co-existing
with the float plane operation on
the present beach, or perhaps
direct opposition to the granting of
the lease.

and its purpose, the program and
its limits, and then went on to
explain the routine as an idea
progressed from a dream to reality.
The limitations of the program
were of particular interest; every
government scheme has limits, but
basically, if your idea is new and
isn’t going to put someone else out
of business, Dodson’s ministry is
interested. The goal is economic
diversity in the west to put an end
to the "boom or bust" situation that
exists with single resource econo-
mies.

if you attended the luncheon, you
probably took advantage of the
opportunity to discuss your idea
with one of Dodson’s assistants
who were there to provide some
one-on-one counselling. If you
missed the event, you may have
lost the edge to someone else’s
business dream but you can still

Terrace Review — Wednesday, July 11, 1990 A9

Airstrip maintenance queried.

by Tod Strachan

In spite of the construction of a
road into the Iskut Valley, the Bob
Quinn airstrip still promises to be
a focal point of industrial activity

~ in the area and the regional district

wants to make sure there are no
complications in its operation. The
basis to the smooth operation of
any transportation facility, though,
is maintenance. And that’s one part
of the Bob Quinn airstrip that
hasn’t been ironed out.

For this reason, the regional
district has written letters to all
those with an interest in the air-
strip suggesting that the Ministry
of Highways be the one respon-
sible for job. This is only a matter
of simple logic, according to one
regional district director; as Les
Watmough points out, they already
have the needed equipment in the
area.

Ironing out the maintenance
question was one of the primary
goals of a June meeting in Terrace.
The meeting was organized by the
Air Policy Branch of the Ministry
of Transportation and Highways as
part of a tour of regional airstrips
and there were about 25 people in
atiendance who represented air
carriers, expeditors and govern-
ment agencies. In the end, though,

‘the matter of maintenance was left

for the future consideration of
concemed industries. Suggestions
were that operators may want to

Economic opportunities abound

call toll free for more information.
The number is 1-800-663-2008.

This is one of the unique things
about this program; there aren’t
any application forms per se. You
simply discuss your idea with a
Western Diversification staff mem-
ber and in all likelihood mold it to
fit their basic criteria. From there,
who knows? You may be on your
way to economic growth and fi-
nancial independence. And that’s
not only good for you. It’s good
for western Canada as a whole
according to Dodson.

The scope of Western Economic
Diversification is broad, says Dod-
son. His ministry is involved in
international development opport-
unities, small business, tourism,
mineral resource development,
agriculture, science and technology
and the Forest Resource Develop-
ment Agreement (FRDA). The
FRDA I agreement has expired, of
course, but according to Dodson,
the FRDA II money is there; it’s
just that all the players involved
haven’t yet agreed on how much
of the overall Western Diversifica-
tion budget should go into FRDA
projects.

Another budgetary item probably
not missed by mayor Jack Talstra
and alderman Danny Sheridan,
both of whom attended the
luncheon, is the fact that last year
Western Economic Diversification
Canada loaned $14.5 million for
the construction of the Victoria
Convention Cenire. But don’t be
intimidated by the size of that
project or the apparent complexity
_of this ministry’s interests. Dodson
says his ministry has made loans
as small as $5,000.

form a society or other entity to
maintain the airstrip. Apparently,
the ministry didn’t want to take on
the job themselves.

There is, however, still a little
time to sort things out. The Bob
Quinn airstrip project began a little
over a year ago and was to be
completed in September, 1989.
Wet weather delayed the project,
and construction is just now get-
ting underway with a 40,000 cubic
metre excavation which will be
followed by a gravelling operation.
If conditions are right, the airstrip

‘may then be sealcoated: and a

completion date of mid-August has
been set.

According to a regional district
memo summarizing the outcome of
last June’s ‘meeting, it was indi-
cated that the airstrip will be well
used in spite of the Iskut road
alternative and it will probably be
written into airline schedules a3 a
planned stop on the Bronson Creek
run.

Helicopter companies are inter-
ested in using Bob Quinn as a
staging area as well. Vancouver .

cont’d on All

Sewage plant
poops out

Lightning played havoc with
one of the big transformers at
the city’s sewage treatment plant
June 30. A lightning strike
caused a massive power surge
about 2 p.m. that blew the trans-
former.

The entire alarm system — in-
trusion, fire, gas and electronic
control was knocked out. The
alarm system normally sounds at
the fire hall if there is a problem
at the plant, but they were un-
aware of any difficulties because
all systems appeared okay from
their end.

A transistor inside the elec-
tronic panel (Relcon Variable
Speed Control) that keeps the
pumps continuously pumping
literally blew apart. To replace
the panel, which is only two
years old, will cost between
$3,000 to $5,000. Ts

The system is designed with a
backup generator that kicks on
in three minutes in case of a
power failure. City employees
were able to get the alarm system
back on line through the co-
operation of B.C, Tel, but B.C.
Hydro were having problems
locating another transformer.

They cited Wednesday as the
earliest they could hope to find a
replacement, but when the city
informed them of the serious-

managed to track one down at
Vanderhoof and installed it the
next day.

Stew Christensen, director of
engineering for the city, said
running the Sewage Treatment
Plant on just the back-up system
is not an ideal situation for two
reasons:

It causes more wear and tear
on the three pumps, The Relcon
Variable Speed Control keeps
the pumps running continuously
at varying speeds which extends
pump life and saves power, but
running off the generator each
of the pumps must start and
then stop when they reach 100
percent, then the next one kicks
in and so on.

And instead of traveling
through. the lines and into the
lagoons, if the back-up system
‘were to fail for some reason, the
sewage would eventually back
up and spill over into the Brauns
Island slough. And Christensen
said that’s the last thing they
want to see happen, ‘‘The back-
up system is designed to be just
that — a back-up system only.”’

A city employee saw the
lightning strike while on
business in the downtown area,
and said that for a moment it
looked as though the entire sky
had split apart.

ness of the situation, they
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