after the flood.

reaction, see page 29,

The Nov. 15 flooding was the third time
and last straw for Video Stop owner Jim Wold
(right) who Is calling for the resignation of the
director of Public Works. For city council's

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_ WEDNESDAY, November 27, 1991
Vol. 7, Issue No. 48

Phone 635-7840
Fax 635-7269

75 cents plus GST

Serving the communities of Terrace, Thornhill, Usk, Cedarvale, Kitwanga, Meziadin, Stewart and the Nass Valley

HOWDY,
The elderly gentleman above, to the
right of Milis Memorial physiotherapist
Anne Leclerc, is friendly enough but no
one seems to know his name.

To correct the situation, the staff of the
physiotherapy department is running a
“Name That Skeleton" contest and the
winner will receive an R.E.M. Lee Hos-
pital Foundation Cash Calendar. The
plastic skeleton is fully articulated (all the
joints move) and displays the location of
ligament and muscle attachments, nerve

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roots, and the spine complete with discs
and spinal arteries. He is great at
explaining the nature and treatment of
specific injuries to patients... With the
help of a physiotherapist of course.

You can drop your entry off at the hospi-
tal reception desk or mail it to Mills Mem-
orial Hospital Rehabilitation Dept., 4720
Haugland Ave., Terrace, B. C., V8G 2W7,
The contest closes Dec. 18 and the win-
ner will be announced in the Dec. 23
issue of the Terrace Review.

Kilns may save
Skeena Cel from
market disaster

The people at Skeena Cellulose
these days are quietly blessing
the unidentified genius who in
late 1985 or early 1986, through
either inspiration or indifference,
decided not to destroy the kiln
driers that came with the Terrace
sawmill the company bought
from Westar.

The four drying kilns have
assumed a critical importance in
the operation because the Euro-
pean Economic Community is
apparently about to ban the
import of green lumber in all its
member states. The ban isn’t
ratified yet, but at this point it
looks inevitable. If it weren’t for
the kilns, Skeena Cellulose
would stand to lose a substantial
portion of its European export
market, a trade that accounts for
about 50 percent of the local
mill’s sales.

But as it turns out, the EEC
move could actually prove ad-
vantageous to SCI. Mill manager
Rand Menhinick says that out of
the many coastal B.C. mills that
export to Europe, only SCI and
one other mill on Vancouver
Island have their own kiln

driers. In addition, although SCI
species of

processes coastal

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wood, the timber comes to the
mill over land rather than by
water, giving it a lower moisture
content and making the drying
process briefer and considerably
cheaper.

The EEC is moving to ban

green lumber exports, its repre-
sentatives say, because foresters
there fear the spread of pine
nematodes, a destructive bug
found in pine and spruce. The
nematode is killed by tempera-
tures over 180° F, It is not com-
mon in B.C. forests, however,
and Canadian forestry and trade
authorities believe the European
move is a political one designed
to lessen competition within the
EEC for Scandinavian forest
products, or as a threat to give
negotiators an advantageous
position in some other area of
trade bargaining. The Scandina-
vians are expected to join the
economic union in Europe in the
near future.

In an interview last week Men-
hinick said he wouldn't speak to
political issues but offered some
detail on the situation. Canadian
federal and provincial lobbyists

met with EEC authorities Nov.
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