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TERRACE — The target. date
for a library expansion project
referendum has now been revis-
ed to the spring of 1992,
That, says - library” ‘board
spokesman George’ Clark, was
one of the outcomes of an Oct.

board aid city council. -

month, he explained the
postponement reflected the time

7 in-camera. meeting of. ‘the.

Although . the: original. plan
had been. to’hold the vote next.

needed to finalize project detalls .

tions by the end of then ‘im nth.
- Armed with those figures, hi
said the city .would then: begin:
negotiations with. the ‘Kitimat: .
Stikine regional district. to deter-.
mine what: partion each ‘would:
pay towards the project cost; . ~
Clark: said’ the:::current.
estimate ‘on ‘the “cost -of'a
ground-floor. only : :expansion ~
was approximately $1.5 million,
That figure: would ‘obviously be ©
higher if either or both of the -

Flame out ©

ANDREW SMITH, a Telegraph Creek teacher, listens with
students to a talk by Al Blesch on leadership and motivation
during a youth training conference for Project Flameout last:
Thursday. Students from across the northwest are par-
ticipating in the Project, aimed at getting teens to 9 to. smo

TERRACE — The Nisga’a and
the forest service met yesterday
to begin what the latter calls the
start of more communication.
It follows critical statements
made by the Nisga’ a two: sweeks
of logging. practices in the upper
Nass region. .
’ They . ‘said: ovéicutting and
clear | cutting are, causing en

ve il damage “oHOath isi 2 een
bk

jaf fin: OR.
ground dnd ‘that efojetallon
isn't working... es

‘Although Kalum f “est
district manager Brian. Downie
last week. called the. criticisms

‘«generalizations,”* he said there

is room for more discussion.
“**J'm not sure of the intensity

of. their sampling.“ What they

call waste (wood) others. might ..

call; ‘non-merchantible. My. in-, ©

formation is that there isn’t that
kind of problem,” said Downie.

The: Nisga’a had wanted an
independent audit ‘of “logging
practices in the upper’ Nass, a
reduction in the annual: cut and
better planning.

°“]- think . that if there are
specific things, we'll follow up
on them,”’ said Downie. —

He added that more com-.

munications | would be followed

by more : discussions on the

wy pecutive:director: Rod’ Robinso:

technical aspects of. logging’
practices in the upper Nass.
Tlie Nisga’a were particularly
upset with a large clearcut in the
Bowser Lake area they
estimated at 6, 000ha in size.
. That stand contained large
amounts of decadent timber in-
fested by spruce beetle: and.was
the. target of a massive logging
tion, fooRlear it aut 80; it.
lanted.-' reg uF vied
‘Nisga’a - ~Fribal Council ex

_.who :met .with: Downie yester-
” day,-.said he was looking for-
ward to the’ talks. .

- “We thought everything was
OK. We thought. there was.
monitoring, of logging practices
in the upper reaches oF ‘the
Nass,"’. he said, © :

» “We have to protect the
forests not only for ourselves
but for others. What will, our
children be-doing in the future.
What will your children be do-
ing?”’ Robinson continued, .

“Landscape logging. We're

in favour of things like that. ‘A
tree has other purposes
necessary: ‘for: *° the
environment,” hesaid.

Robinson wouldn’ t tie the
Nisga’a statements to its land

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extra a options were re added,

and a joint decision to avoid cee
winter referendum, *7?. : e

Clark said ‘architect, : “allan we
Soutar had. brought. abasic. 5
model of the ‘proposed mews | >
look library’: “to: the” ‘Oct:.7

12,000 fa ft.
ad als

quarters

Clark said: ‘council has sake
Soutar to come up with detailed
cost estimates for all: three op-. ~

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