Day in the woods Video and you Logging is as much about rules nowadays as it is taking wood out of the bush/NEWS A5 Seeing is believing and that’s: what will be going on at the college/COMMUNITY B1 Player heads south Jason Krug will be playing hockey at a southern Minnesota college this fall/SPORTS C1 WEDNESDAY JUNE 29, 1994 TERRACE representatives backed a Nisga’a bid on Saturday lo keep control of health care ad- ministration in the Nass. Bul the support only came after a heated discussion that spilled over into areas of land, claim ne- gotiations. Kilimat Stikine Regional Dis- irict directors were debating a proposal to creale a Nisga’a Regional Health District that would encompass the Nass and extend as far as Meziadin Lake. Right now the Nisga’a Valley Health Board administers hospital and health care finances in the Nass. Bul under the province ’s Now Directions health care strategy, the Nass would be combined with a larger Skeena regional health board. That new board will be charged with deciding how to. spend healih care dollars in the norih- west, - Nass valley director Harry Nyce said the Nisga’a proposal would merely maintain the level of con- m Poliy wanna paddie? ON THEIR way to Alaska from Minnesota, Joanne, her hus- band and their toy poodle Polly found some glass-like water trol people in the Nass now have over their health care finances. -But the plan ran into trouble be- cause it was accompanied by a map with proposed boundaries of a Nisga’a regional health district. _ Terrace mayor Jack Talstra was concemed that by supporting the boundaries proposed. for the health district, the regional dis- trict might be interfering with the ongoing negotiation of bound- aries of the Nisga’a land claim. ‘“We're not privy to that and we don’t know what those bound- aries are,’’ said Talstra. *‘If we accept this would the regional disirict be accepting boundaries that are still under negotiation?’’ Other directors were also reluc- tant to vote for the proposal without finding out more about the implications. - **T feel like we're going in blind on this thing,’ said Lakelse Lake’s Sandy Sandhals. *T resent having this lengthy document dropped on our door- step and then being told to ap- prove it,”” New Hazelton director on Lakelse Lake. Polly always goes with her kayaking, said Joanee, sitting cantentedly in the basket with a pet lifajacket. llegal sprinkling fine oosted up to $100 TERRACE RESIDENTS who water. lawns this year when they’re not supposed to face in- creased penalties. The city is only one of two muncipalities in the province given permission to bump the il- legal sprinkling fine to $100. This comes under the municipal tickel information (MTT) system being used by the city, Other fines © in other municipalities for contravening sprinkling restrictions fall in the $50 to $75 range. City by-law enforcement officer. Frank Bowsher said the request to raise the fine amount went down to the attorney-general’s ministry last year. H was processed by the ministry and then sent tothe Chief Judge of the provincial: court. for ap proval. — * Lillooet is the only other place fo have a. fine of ‘8100, th _ Said Bowshcer.. In Lillooet the. teasan was heal but here il relates lo damage done § to the city’s Deep Creek dam and reservoir several years ago which prevents it from ‘accumulating water. ‘We face a shortage of water in the summer because of Deep Creek, The ministry and the Chief Judge recognized this,’’ said Bowsher. Sprinkling restrictions come in place here July 1. Residents with even house numbers can water on-even days “while those .with odd numbers can only water on odd days. “There are no restrictions on hours at this time,’? cliy works superintendent Stew Christensen said last week. This. year’s restrictions are com- Ing in two weeks after last year’s ‘because of the wet spring. Deep Creek, from where the city. oblains a substanilal portion, of ils. water,--has.had healthy ‘flows so far ‘this. year, said _ Christensen. > Bul-the superintendent is warn- ing that there may be less low level snowpack than in previous years, That means the sooner Deep Creek flows slow down, the greater the chance there'll be more sprinkling restrictions. Christensen noted that the city’s ability to provide water runs close to the line when Deep Creek flows slow down. The creek does produce 11 mil- lion litres of water a day during - normal flows wihtile the city gets 16 million litres of water a day from the Skeena River. Thal’s . fine during winter months with consumption at 7 million litres a day. But the consumption rises to 24,000 million litres a day when there are no sprinkling restric- tions and between 16 and 18 mil- lion’ when odd and. even. day . ‘limits are in place. : “Tt doesn’t take much 10 realize _ what could said “happen,”’ ‘Chrisumsen, 2. Byes BETTER WATCH out beginning in July. City sprinkling restric- tions come in then and by-law enforcement officer Frank Bow- shar can issue $100 tickets. That's an increase over last year. 75¢ PLUS B¢ GST — VOL. 7 NO. 1 ealth issue touches on claim Peter Weeber said. “I do not feel comfortable saying yes on behalf of the taxpayer.”’ Several directors wanted to delay the decision until August. Bul Nyce maintained a decision is necessary now because the pro- vince is in the final stages of es- tablishing the regional health dis- trict boundaries. Hazelton mayor Alice Maitland backed the Nisga’a position, noting the final decision will be up fo the province. ‘'We hardly have any say in this anyway,’’ she said. “The minister hasn’t listened to us on anything else. Why should he listen to us on this?!? “T don’t see any reason why we are making a big deal about this except that we're all mad that we're not at the (land claim) ne- gotiating table,”’ In the end, Terrace directors David Hull and Jack Talstra voted in favour of the plan which passed 8-3/, Directors Andy Burton, Pete Weeber and Sandhals were op- posed. Scott invited. tour of JACOB NYCE wants to show Skeena Reform MP Mike Scott around the Nass Valley, The hereditary chief and former . Gitwinksihlkw chief councillor says he’s fed up with statements Scott is making about land claims, “T think it’s a fear tactic. He can’t do anything for his con- stituency so he’s picking on land claims,’’ said Nyce last week, “He’s a big bag of wind — no action,”’ “Tf he wants to.see concerns, we'll show him our concerns. I'll show him the high grade logging thal’s gone on here.’ “I'll show him that we got nothing for our land. That land was taken away from us," Nyce said. Scott has been saying lately that land claims settlements in B.C., if based on northem Canadian models, may amount to many millions of dollars and take in large areas of Land, He also favours voles lo determine if natives prefer direct land claims settlements or have them go through native govern- Nass ment structures. “J just _ biased,”’ sald aye. ca ee ing afer the land ie peaple iv here in the Nass ‘Valley. nol going to take it away.’ “What we want is compensa- tion for the land that’s been taken from us. It’s the government who must pay that compensation be- cause they sold it to those people in the first place,’* he said. Nyce estimates the tour will take one day, involving visits to various places in the Nass Valley. “I'd like to show him what we see — the destruction of the land and what we're doing to bring pack the salmon habitat,’’ he said. Nyce will also show him a doc- ument obtained by his grand- father ycars ago which sald he owns his traditional territory. “T'd like to see his document, or any other document, which says he has bought this land,” said Nyce. Nyce, a commercial fisherman, called the Reform party a hardline group that is redneck in nature. Logger killed THE CORONER’S OF- FICE and the Workers’ Compensation Board are continuing to investigate a June 20 accident which killed Currie Huflin, an employee of a logging company. , Huflin, 50, was working on a piece of equipment in the Nass Valley ai the time of the accident, Terrace coroner Jim Lynch said last week, The employee of Main Logging was attended to at the scene and flown to Mills Memorial but efforts to save him failed. Lynch said Huflin died of head injuries. . He sald it would be a while yet before all in- formation has —. been gathered and his repotl is. concluded,