Pr re

Be on the alert for a meandering moose. He:
probably won't see you.

Pholo by Grag Middleton

Drivers game
for animals -

- By Vic Parsons

FRASER LAKE, B.C.
(CP) — In some parts of
British Columbia, moose,
deer and elk wage a year-
round open season on
drivers. ° ;

Collisions with large
animals meandering: across
the highway have only
recently come under the
scrutiny of wildlife officials
and the figures are sur-
prising. A preliminary —
and conservative -- estimate
is that more than $1 milllon a
year is spent in B.C, ham-
mering moose-shaped in-
dentations out of car and
truck fenders. .. ;

Consider the example of a
lotal deiver why hit & miobed
last week and veered off the
highway. The toll was $2,000
damage to the vehicle, ane
shaken driver and one moose
fatality.

Doug Dryden of the

wildlife branch in Victoria.

says his staif is trying to put
together a firm estimate of
vehicle damage using In-
surance Corp, of B.C. figures
and reports from highway.
maintenance crews of

- animal kills.

In 1979, he says, the
provincially-run auto in-
surance company reported
1,788 accidents involving
wildlife with damage claims
above $200.

With no precise claims fig-
ures available, Dryden
believes the average
damage done to vehicles will
probably be between $600
and $800 in each encounter.
Wildlife staff have picked 200
of last year’s accidents from
the insurance company's
records and will feed them
through ‘a coniputer to iry
and get a better estimate of
the true cost.

Meanwhile, the highways
ministry says between April,
1979, and March, 1980,
employees collected the
corpses of 639 deer, 40 moose
and 72 elk from the roadways
after they had been hit by
vehicles.

That tally is well below the

opened In public at;

accepted.

INVITATION TO TENDER

Seoled tenders, marked Janitorial Services No.
80-005 Administration Buliding, Workshops
Buliding, Firat Ald Bullding, Boller Ptant
Bullding, Cafeteria Building, Dental Hygiene
Buliding and Dormitories A-F Inclusive, for
cleaning of varlovs ereas, Northwest Com-
munity College, os per task schedules, will be
recelved up to 3:00pm local time the 24th day of
July, 1980 and those avaliable at that time will be

Northwest Community College
5331 McConnell Avenue

Terrace, B.C, VaG 4C2

Tendering documents may be obtained at the
above address after 8:00 am on the 4th day of
July, 1980. Tenders must be filed on the forms
provided, In sealed clearly marked envelopes.
The lowest or any tender will not necessarily ba

Please direct all enquiries to:
Mr. Vie Waram
Maintenance Supervisor
NORTHWEST COMMUNITY COLLEGE

Phone: 635-6511

number of reported animal-

vehicle collisions. Dryden
says -the discrepancy bet-
-ween the number of accident
reports and animal bodies
recovered might be ex-
plained by a California study
which showed for every
animal found dead on the
highway after a collision,
two more crawled off into the -
woods to expire. .

The wildlife branch stud
indicates the worst time for
accidents is early evening on
unlit highways and the
highest frequency is during
the tourist months of July or
August, or October when the.
anilered beasts have their
mating’ sedsoh ‘arid tend to
move about a lot in search of
partners, .

There were no human
deaths in animai-vehicle
collisions in 1979, but “quite
a few’ injuries, The study
has not yet gone into the

seriousness of those injuries. °

Dryden says that while the
Hill cannot be completely.
eliminated,
branch is going to try a
reflector device developed in
Austria which has reduced
highway kills there by 30 per
cent. The reflectors now are
being tested in Alberta, but
no results are available,

The reflectors would be set
up on posts along the high-
way: The reflection of an
approching vehicle's
headlights sets up what
seems to be a continuous
barrier of ced light which
keeps animals from crossing
the road,

After, the vehicle has
passed, the light barrier
dissolves and animals can.
cross in safety. .

The worst area of the prov-
ince, says Dryden, is the
Chrstina Lake district near
Grand Forks in the West
Kootenays. The Prince
George area in north-central

B.C. is'second and other bad,

areas are around Princeton,
Cranbrook, Creston, Fernie,
Kimberley and Sparwood in
southern B.C., Parksville on
Vancouver Island and Fort
Si. John in the nartheast.

P.O. Bon 726
Terrace, B.C,

Local 258-274

the wildlife,

cy

. D-J CONTRACTING
Stucco and Drywall —
Contractors --
FREEESTIMATES ~
_ Phone Elza 635-3170, or Sean 635-4385
4829 Olson Ave., Terrace, B.C. ,

¢

- Custom home specialists
- round wood: construction
- timber framing - restoration
- finish carpentry - consulting -.
-blue prints cs

Evenings call 635-967

yous

ry

BONDEDS LICENSED GASFITTERS .
-NATURALGASHEATING +SHEET METAL.
INSTALLATIONS & SERVICE
“OIL TO GASCONVERSIONS

LAUNDRY
All West Centre
 4FT1-C KEITH AVE.

AND EQUIPMENT LTD. _

. x -
PIPE PLUMBING SUPPLIES PUMPS
HOSES NUTS AND BOLTS. FENCING

WATER SOFTENERS AND MORE

_-5239 Keith Avenue
< 635-7158

VANCOUVER (CP) — On
- ~one) side of . the: ‘eastern-:
‘?. boundary of the Squamish
- Indian band's Capilano |
. + veserve is the Indian village.
~~ Qn the other is the ‘North
_, . Vancouver subdivision of
_» Norgate.

LLenanp ENTERPRISES

| - ‘
391 Paquette 635-3897 _ Terrace

One is a collection of about.

. -40 homes clustered behind-a
_ sereen of evergreens, away.
"from the revenue properties
-. further west on the reserve

that have made the band one.

_of the biggest landlords on

the North Shore’ opposite

~ Vancouver. oe,
The other is a neat grid of -

suburbia. ot 7
But there is a worlb of

difference in life on opposite

sides of the boundary..:"

, “Norgate is a fine. sub-
_. division and we consider the
‘people gaod neighbors,’
_ Says Joe Mattiias, one of four

chiefs of the Squamish band
and its housing ad-
-ministrator. ; :

“But it’s... impersonal. On

' pur side, we're all related.’ ..

The Squamish;- making it

; "in the white man’s world of
property .values,- startled a
lot of their good neighbors

five years ago when they.
stopped traffic at the north
end of the Lions'.Gate Bridge
and chanted with tom-toms

A. to demonstrate their claim to

ADSI
_ DIRECT

JOBS GLASS SHOP
LED.

WINDSHIELOS REPLACED
WINDOWS REPAIRED

SAFETY GLASSCUT & INSTALLED |

‘SEE JOE! .

56 Wren. Ave. .
Thornhill - -

. Residential
- Industrial

635-9828.

PAUL ARSENAULT
Phone 635-3959

4711 TETRAULT

o band:

“early development, « ©

‘the

TERRACE PLUMBING
S"R HEATING

Contractor

Free Estimates

RESIDENTIAL © COMMERCIAL - INDUSTRIAL
AENOVATIONS - ADDITIONS - FRAMING

_ SPECIALIZING IN QUALITY BUILT HOMES
' FREE ESTIMATES ,

Monday . Friday - 9 a.m.-9 p.m.
- Saturday - 9 a.m.-4 p.m.

ALLWEST CENTRE

mM

lands - snatched’ from . the.” ‘The band has 24 reserves
reserve in.the days of.B.C.'s ; -on the North Shore. and up

They. outraged many

others two years ago when-
they laid claim to the fiahery -

resource. of the Capilano,

. Seymour and Squamish |
Rivers, posting ‘no

trespassing’ signs. to keep - y
" ‘- million a year from the Park
- That ‘claim is before the.

sports fishermen out, ~

courts, being challenged by .

_ “federal .. fisheries
department. ~- 2
The Squamish and 14 other

of their reserves years ago.
The , paradox is that.

as .totem-carving and spirit

“gullural roots hold tight ‘on
. reserves... - ,
Traditional activities such -

dancing have hada higher .

profile since Indians began. .

pressing: theix. claims in
recent years.

“The- Squamish’ men: work 4
at jobs .on. the docks, ‘in ~”

construction and-logging. .

fishing
limited.
But much of the pride

licences were

- among the 1,300 Squamish

comes from their success at

grappling with the. white .

man’s economy. ..:

F

@35-780

- Commercial
- Renovations

- 638-1787

3145 River Drive
Terrace, B, C,

638-1645

‘They got'out of fishing a few .°
years ago when commercial - ‘

NORTHWEST PIPE [HIGH COUNTRY]

Crafts & Gifts.

Macrame suppiles, hand embroldered tablectaths,
custom erder wood crafted wall plaques

“4 Howe Sound —~ six of them
, containing | residential
“gommunities — and an

‘extensive housing program
funded largely by tease reve-
Lease revenues total $1.5

Royal shopping centre, three

“Park Royal Tower apart-—

ment. blocks, the In-
ternational Plaza Hote} and

“other.reserve lands.
_ bands also are suing the gov- “-’ Lease “revenues produce

ernment for lands carved out. .“

ee 8 ee ee et ee

* Residential
; *

Freeestimates

L non
A os

¢

Odd & LeitNicolaysen

Smooth Sailing
to the
Herald! .

'CARPET & FLOORING
INSTALLATION

~~

.
‘YOU SUPPLY / WE INSTALL |

. CALT US
TODAY

. JAMES GRAY’
Old Laketse Road

Phone: 638-1691

2510 S. Kalum

“The A&W will be taking applications
* for full time and part time employment.

Apply in person at:

SKEENA MALL

SS | | -
ORY |

 DERKSEN’S
WATCH REPAIRS.

. Watch & jewellry repair and engraving.
. Fine stock of watch bracelets & straps

7-442) Lahelse Ave... (above Northland Dell)

MONACO CONSTRUCTION

General. Contractor
Commercial
We also do brick & stanework

638-1787 TERRACE, B.C.635-3828

GLACIER

“eo? Aluminum Service

4418 Legion Avenue
— Terrace, 8.C, 7

Continental Coiffures
‘ "+ 4646 Lakelse Ave.
-For expert haircuts and

‘ ‘yp to date hairstyling.

' .dntroducing a.full line of
REDKEN products. ©
635-5727

. RK “49, quality whet ‘you want?”

WOW IS THE TIME
‘70 PAINT YOUR HOUSE

INTERIOR- EXTERIOR |

1 & L PAINTING
635-4559

VAN’S CONTRACTING
Furniture Repair
g} Restorations, Hope Chests
: ‘ cestom Made Furniture,
“General Building Contracting’
“Refinishing
Terrace 635.5585 F

twothirds of the money spent.
on maintaining reserve

services .
leaving only §1 in every 33

and projects, .

spent for the federal Indian.

affairs department to put up.
The department — and
taxpayers — Pay 68 cents of
every dollar spent to
maintain the average
reserve in B.C.

“The housing project that

gives the band most pride is .

a 120-unit townhouse which
provides a home for 600 band
members on the Mission
reserve.

Ween © tt ee

AADOoS

ete ee ee en

% Renovations:

A Complete
Glass and

ae,

41 River Dr: