Mate Virkor dg twee Ld tye mt Ce eee ay tt Bud deti nee WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12, 1991 Vol. 7, Issue No. 24 Phone 635-7840 Fax 635-7269 Serving the communities of Terrace, Thornhill, Usk, Cedarvale, Kitwanga, Meziadin, Stewart and the Nass Valley 75 cents plus GST Major moves planned by BCBC, Highways TERRACE — In a little over a year, the Ministry of Highways will be working out of the current B.C. Buildings Corporation prem- ises on Keith Ave. and Francisco Trigo will be looking for two-and- a-half floors’ worth of new tenants. ~ At the present time, Trigo has nearly completed a new office- retail building and he still has one full floor available for rent there. But BCBC buildings manager John Murphy told the Terrace Review in a telephone interview yesterday afternoon that several changes will be taking place over the next year. He says they have purchased the Terrace H&H Builders property on the southeast comer of S. Eby St. and Keith Ave. They will be calling tenders in about two months for the con- struction of a new building there. It will be about the same size as the current BCBC building and will become the new home for. BCBC and the Provincial Emer- | gency Program. Current plans call for the construction of footings this fall and project-completion by late summer or early fall next year. At that time, says Murphy, both the regional and district offices of the Ministry of Highways will vacate the Trigo building and ~ move into the existing BCBC ‘building. Murphy describes it as a good move — it will put the ministry’s regional and district offices in a larger space, on a single floor, next door to théir Geotechnical Services Branch. Trigo says he hasn’t been told of ihe impending ‘move yet and doesn’t agree with Murphy that it’s good move, According to Trigo, if highways need more spacc he can -—- Continued on page A3 hee CRIMINAL PRANK. Vandals rarety think about what they do, but perhaps they should. The scene above is an example of what their work can cost. No one was killed, but a 39-year-old Terrace woman was seriously injured and is in the Intensive Care Unit at Mills Memorial Hospital because someone removed a couple of stop signs at a Thomhill intersection. Car accidents take toll One man dead in van crash Three separate motor vehicle accidents over the past nine days in the Terrace area have left four people with minor injurics, two with serious injuries and one dead. The contributing factors in two of the accidents are still under inves- tigation but the third was a direct result of vandalism. On June 4 at about 9:15 a.m, Michael Gordon, 31, of Shelton, Washington, received serious arm ‘injuries when the car in which he was a passenger collided wilh a truck working on a paving project west of the Zymacord River on Highway 16. Gordon was trans- ported by ambulance to Mills Memorial Hospital and then flown to Vancouver for further treatment. Neither of the two drivers involved in the accident were injured. There was onc fatality in a single vehicle accident at about 4 p.m, on Sunday, June 9. Peter Felix White, 75, of Waglisla (old Bella Bella) died when the 1989 Ford Aerostar in’ which he and seven other people were riding went off the road on Highway 37 near Mount Layton Hot Springs and flipped end over end. Rescue 01 was calicd to the scene, and according to Terrace fire chief Bob Beckett firefighter Dean Tetreau assisted the ambu- lance crew while Bill .Warcup attended to the Icss seriously injured until a second ambulance arrived. Of the less seriously injured, a young boy suffered several fracturcs and three others had only minor injurics. Three oiher passengers in the vehicle were uninjured. Vandalism was cited as a con- tributing factor in a noon-hour motor vehicle accident in Thornhill . Monday. The accident occurred at about 12:25 p.m. when a 39-year- old woman driving on Thornhill St. failed to stop at the Old Lakelse Lake Road intersection and the 1978 Ford sedan she was driving was hit broadside by a 1990 Ford pickup truck. The women, apparently unfamiliar with the area, didn't realize weekend vandals had removed both stop signs at the intersection. A Millis Memorial Hospital spokesman said Tuesday the women was in stable condition in the Intensive Care Unil. The driver of the pickup was not injured. Chip second Terrace’s Alan Weston won the Burnaby trophy for second place in last week's Provincial Drama Festival ‘ held in Nelson. Weston performed the monologue "A Chip in the Sugar", winner of the Skeena Zonc Drama Festival held in Terrace in. April. In Nelson, his was one of 10 plays from the 10 B.C. zones competing lo go on to the Nationals. He performed for an audience of about 200 and adjudicator for the Festival, Matlin Kinch. First ptace in the provincial Festival was awarded to Theatre Kelowna for Orphans.