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TERRACE —~ Gévernment
agencies ‘and companies in-

‘ terested in the building of a

road to the gold-rich Iskut
Valley north of Stewart met
here this week to review a detail-
ed study of the plan.

The $800,000 study includes
environmental affects of
building a main road and spur
road leading into the Iskut, said
a provincial mines ministry
spokesman. ..

Originally proposed in 1988,
the two sections come to 72km
in length with the main road
running to Cominco’s SNIP
mine in the western part of the
Iskut and spur running south to
Corona Corporation’s Eskay
Creek property.

A. preliminary study at the
time estimated the cost at $20
million. .

The road’s tentative route in-
to the Iskut leaves Hwy37 at
Bob Quinn Lake.

Mines ministry . spokesman
Tom Greene .said the study
under review this week probably
won't be released. for general
consumption until early next
year,

“It's still in draft form. This
is a chance for all the (govern-
ment) agencies | to review. the
coriterits and give their. com-

“"thelits back to the consultants,” de.

said Greene. ..

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TERRACE — A former teacher
who .séxually abused students
here may be facing similar
charges dating back to the
mid-1960s in Thunder Bay.

‘George Kenny stands con-
victed on eight charges of sex-
ually abusing young girls while
teaching at elementary schools
here between 1966 and 1981. He
is ta’ be sentenced Jan. 7,

The new allegations emerged
following recent publicity in
Thunder Bay about the trial
here. Kenny taught there before
moving to Terrace in 1966,

Thunder Bay RCMP issued a

Statement last week after a
woman who says she was vic-
timized by Kenny as. a girl
reported the alleged incidents to
police.
.“Thunder Bay | police are
presently carrying out an in-
vestigation. into the indecent
assault .. of - an: eight-year-old
female, *” the ‘police. statement
SaYS.: “This: offence took .place
betiveen 1965 and 1966 involv.
ing- -teacher George ‘Kenny who
taught at Franklin Street School
from 1962 to 1966. Charges: are
Pending: ae

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TERRACE — Teachers’ union
and school district negotiators
are going back to the bargaining
table after the school board last
week suggested contract talks
yesume,

The district's letter to the Ter-
race District Teachers’ Associa-
tion (TDTA) — stating ‘no set-
tlement is possible without a
resumption in negotiations’? —
was the first. movement in the
impasse since the teachers broke
off talks Nov. 24.

School district negotiators
asked the union to agree to
another round of talks in the se-
cond week of January.

“The union has said ‘No’ to
negotiations by adopting the
position that talks will not con-
tinue until the board revises its
monetary offer,” trustee Kris
Chapman said. *‘We have a
disagreement over wages, but
we also have 290 other items to
resolve, It is important that we
continue talking in order that
the union identify the real issues
in order for both sides to nar-
row the gap." ;

TDTA bargaining chairman
Frank Rowe said the union is
willing to go back to the table to
listen to whatever the board has
to say.

‘We're going there in an-
ticipation they will present a
new position,” he said. ‘‘Their
letter to us didn’t specifically
state that they have changed
anything, but that’s our hope,”

But he noted that if the board
remains inflexible on key issues
and refuses to negotiate, the
yet-to-be- scheduled mectings
may not last long.

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Frank Rowe

two weeks ago when the. union
characterized the board’s posi-
tion as an “ultimatum’’ and
declared the talks at impasse.
Wages are the main stumbl-
ing block in the present dispute.
The union wants a one-year
17 per cent salary increase,
TDTA representatives have said
that position is negotiable and
now indicate they are‘willing to
negotiate a two-year contract.
The school board’s proposed
two-year contract offers a six
per cent wage increase in the
first year and five per cent in the
second. Trustees say there isn’t
any more money than that, and

say the costs of new contract.

clauses will also have to come
out of that same pool of money.

‘We've been on strike before
— we don’t want to do-it
again,’” said TDTA president
Robert Brown. ‘‘We want to

resolve this thing this time. We

want-to shake hands."

under snowfall |

TERRACE — The city’s: snow
removal budget was exhausted
last week as crews worked
around the clock to clear the
record snowfall from local
Streets.

“That storm cost us
somewhere in the
neighbourhoad of $30,000,"
said Stew Christensen, the city’s
director of engineering. ‘‘It put
a pretty big hole in the budget.’”

Christensen has asked city
council to transfer more money
to his department's snow

removal budget. -

A heavy snowfall tast
February had already prompted
council to replenish the snow
clearing budget with an extra
$50,000 intended to last through
to the end of the calendar year.

But Christensen said 24-hour
snow clearing by city crews
from midnight Dec. 2 through
to last Wednesday morning
finished off the last of the
money in the budget.

‘We've spent basically all of
it and we still have plenty of
December left.”

Calling it an exceptional
snowstorm, Christensen said he
thought his department was ef-
fective in clearing it quickly.
Crews worked through the night
to within a day clear the graded
piles from the middle of city
streets.

The storm dumped 100.6cm
of snow on the city, with
82,.8cm of that falling on Mon-
day, Dec. 3 alone, Environment

Canada weather seivices:

specialist John How said,

That set a new -one-day

snowfall record for December,

demolishing the old record’ of °

50.6cm on Dec. 12, 1978.

How said the average total
snowfall for the month of
December. is 105.6cm. The all-
time 24-hour record remains
103.1cm on Jan, 17, 1974.

“We didn’t break the record
for all-time,’ he said. “We
scared the heck out of that one.
But we blew away the 24-hour
record for December,’’

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