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.bank operated from

Terrace Churches’ - Food
Bank effort received an
unexpected boost last week
— a home and a large dona-
tion of foodstuffs from a

_ northern mining camp.

The food bank will once

“again be located in the small

green and white house, own-
ed by the Evangelical Free
Church, located beside the

_ church on Sparks.

It housed the food bank
two years ago but has recent-
ly been occupied by the
Building., Healthier... Babies ...
program. Last year, the food
the

education . building of the

Evangelical Free Church but .

it had been searching for new
premises for this year.
“We had been looking at

vacant commercial space ©

downtown but we what
found was soon to be used,’*
said Micki Braid, one of the
bank’s organizers.

““We were praying about it
and then the Building
Healthier Babies program
decided to move and we
moved back. It was an
answer to prayer,”’ she said.

The foodstuffs — 2,000
pounds. — -came.-from - Inel
Management, a branch of

Gulf International Minerals, ©

FRED HISLOP lifts one of many donated boxes of food received last week as the Terrace Chur-
ches’ Food Bank prepares for another season. It'll hold monthly distributions, the first of which
takes place the week of Nov. 12.

Food bank starts again.

TERRACE — This season’s

: Phat resulted in a surplus

‘nection was made. The food

which closed its exploration
camp in the Iskut Valley
north of Stewart earlier this
year than usual due to snow,

of food and several phone
calls between the company
and its expediter, Jean Black.

Black contacted Nan Dun-
can, who works for Black
and who also volunteers with
the food bank and the con-

was flown down last week by
Trans Provincial Airlines.

There are 11 participating
churches in- the. food. -bank.:. -
The first distribution begins
the week of Nov..12. —

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Yanks ; out to save our. steelhead —

| ‘TERRACE — Charging the re-

cent history of steelhead on the

 Skeena is “‘a shocking story of

mismanagement," an American

_ angling organization wants peo-
‘ple'‘on both sides of the border

to ‘join the fight to save. the

’ species,

The call-to-arms is delivered

by Trout Unlimited vice-

president Dean Swanson in a
letter accompanying the latest
issue Of Trour, the organiza-
tion's quarterly magazine. -

That issue carries a 26-page
feature, entitled ‘Splendid
Skeena,”’ which examines the-
problems of the fishery and
focuses in particular on the ef-
fects of the commercial inciden-
tal catch of steelhead.

It also includes lengthy inter-
views with representatives of the
federal Department of Fisheries
and Oceans, provincial Fish and
Wildlife branch, commercial
fishermen
Wet’suwet'en.

“Read it and get mad,’
Swanson advises, then asks irate

. readers to send a cheque to

Trout Unlimited, All donations,

and Gitksan -

he explains, will go “toward
financing ‘‘a professional, in-
dependent economic survey of
the’ value of Skeena steelhead
angling. ”

Contacted at his Colorado of-
fice, Swanson said the survey
would try ta put a dollar-value
onthe steelhead -fishery,” It -is
hoped that information will
prove valuable in the organiza-
tion’s campaign to save what he
says is the only remaining wild
steelhead fishery in the world. .

“It’s far and away the best
steelhead fishery in the world,"
he said. “It’s an important
thing and we really feel strongly
about it.”

» While he stressed the group
was, “‘trying real hard in this
campaign not to come across as
Americans telling Canadians
what to do,” Swanson hoped
British Columbians would take
note of what had happened
south of the border,

“In the United States we've
ruined most of our steelhead
fishery,”’ Swanson he explain-
ed. “We've wiped out the wild

logging and overh

stocks” throug

proper managemen : os
that doesn't ‘happen. ro,
Canada,’* ; a

Trout: Unlimited describes ;
itself.as the leading non-profit
coldwater fisheries conservation
organization in the U.S. It hasa’”
membership of more: than’
66,000 spread across 400 local
chapters and maintains a na-
tional headquarters. in
Washington, D.C. :

Swanson said many of its
members travel to the northwest
to fish the Skeena-and have
become increasingly worried
about the decline in steelhead
runs,

In an effort to raise
awareness of its concerns, the
group is sending out com- —
plimentary copies of the
Magazine and accompanying
letter to.area fishing lodges and
government agencies. Swanson
said distribution is’being financ-
ed through a $5,000 U.S. dona-
tion from the owner of an out-
doors equipment company.

Rescue

TERRACE — Six people in-
volved in the rescue last month
of a local man from the Skeena

River will receive commenda-_

tions. .

The Royal Life Saving Socie-
ty Canada commendations will
be presented by Lt. Gov. David
Lam in a ceremony Nov, 17 at,
the Hotel Vancouver for efforts
in saving Chris Jennings.

Jennings was driving toward
Prince Rupert on Hwy16 Sept.
11 when he attempted to pass a
transport truck along a piece of
road that parallels the Skeena
River. He encountered a vehicle
coming from the opposite direc-
tion. His car lost control in
avoiding a collision,’ went off
the road and ended upside down
in about 10 feet of water.

Jennings, who had lost con-
sciopsness, was. rescued from
the. car,. givén.. CPR, ‘flown. by
medevac helicopter to Prince
Rupert and then flown to Van-
couver for treatment. He
returned to work last week.

awards coming.

- The commendations go to
Angela Schuyler of Terrace, a
passenger in the Jennings vehi-
cle, Tennessee residents Kevin
Thomas and Raymond Ward
and Bill Evans of Prince Rupert
who repeatedly dove into the
Skeena River to find Jennings,
. Greyhound bus driver Ted
Cullis of Telkwa who used a
load securing strap and his bus
to pull the Jennings vehicle
closer to shore and to Ralph
Hutley of Prince Rupert who
performed CPR on Jennings.
The first attempts ta rescue
Jennings failed and the car was
pulled closer to’ shore after it
was feared an ebb tide would
sweep it away,
; When. Jennings was
recovered, he was not
breathing. Several efforts at
reviving him failed until Hutley,
with - his, knowledge. of CPR,
made a final attempt. Jennings
did begin breathing but did not
Tegain consciousness until the
next day in a Vancouver

hospital.

Royal Life Saving Society
Canada, B.C. and Yukon
Branch, spokesman Harold
Clark in Vancouver said the
commendations from the
organization which operates
throughout the Commonwealth
were approved in Ottawa.

“The ceremony in- Vancouver
is an annual event. This is the
79th year it has taken place in
B.C, and- the Yukon,’* ‘said
Clark.

He said the commendations
highlight the need for water
safety, adding that drowning is
the third highest cause of death
in Canada.

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At the same time, Ward and
Thomas of Tennessee and
Evans of Prince Rupert are be-
ing recommended, for. bravery
awards. -for.. diving :-into.-the
Skeena River and Hutley of
Prince Rupert is being recom-
mended for a St. John’s Am-
bulance Association award.

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CONGRATULATIONS! '

>

Conrad Cachero (Left) of Safeway, presents Vicki

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Back Attached Scheper of Terrace with a giant plush squirrel that she U.S. Grown

Butk won In Safeway’s FREE prize draw. No. 1 Grade
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