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Child car seats to

be checked for free

Car safety seats for children have
saved thousands of lives over the

years, but they’re ineffective if
they aren’t installed properly. The

‘Skeena Health Unit and the local
office of the Insurance Corporation

of B.C, are offering free inspection
for the devices in Terrace Sept. 7.

A similar campaign last year
brought 35 concerned parents into
the inspection clinic, and inspec-
tors found that only 15 of the seats
were installed correctly. The most
common problem was in the
harnessing of the seats, but faults
were also discovered in the size of
the seats compared to the children
who were riding in them. Inspec-
tors: are requesting that anyone
who comes to the clinic bring
along the child who rides in the
scat. A health unit representative
said, "That figure shows us the
need for an event like this."

The clinic will be held at the
ICBC claims office on Highway

16 in Terrace. There is no charge
for the inspection. Literature on
child car safety will be available,
information displays will be set up
to illustrate proper child car seat
installations, video presentations
will be made and a door prize is
being offered.

Inspections will be available
from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on the date
of the event. .

"It is hoped that this check, like
others around the province, will
make people more aware of the
dangers of improper child restrain-
ing in a motor vehicle, and the
good that a free service like this
can do," the health unit states,
Despite the benefits of car safety
seats, thousands of infants are still
injured in B.C. every year because
their seats were not installed

properly.

For more information on the
Clinic, contact Debra at 638-3310.

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The new Terrace Volunteer Bureau and Seniors Information Centre held a hamburger barbecue
outside the Skeena Mall last Friday and Saturday to raise money for furnishing and equipping the
new organization's office. Bob Goodvin served up tasty fried onions while a rotating crew of local
business people and individuals served up hamburgers and Coca Cola. The Terrace Review was
there to do their bit, with publisher Betty Barton burning burgers and sales mnanager Jack Beck
taking photos. -

Day care zoning question to be settled by public hearing

Sometimes fast-tracking may be
good, particularly when daycare is
at stake. Still, although Terrace
council has removed the committee
hurdle, Helene Harris who operates
Helene’s Play and Learn Centre at
4915 Gair will have to wait for the
outcome of a public hearing to
find out if she can increase the
centre’s capacity from 10 children

. to 20.

The problem facing Harris is the
fact that she operates a daycare
centre out of her own home. Her
operation is fully licensed under
the B.C. Community Care Facility
Act to care for up to 20 children.
But the act requires two pro-

fessionals to care for that number
of children, and because she is
licensed as a home business she is
not permitted to hire a second
employee.

The recommended solution to
council front city planner Marvin
Kamenz is a zoning amendment
that would allow child care facil-
ities with up to eight spaces to
operate in Single Family, Low
Density and Rural Suburban Resi-
dential Zones. Facilities with up to
20 spaces would be permitied in
Single and Two-Family, Multi-
Family, High Density, Medium
Density Residential and Rural

TIME TO SLOW DOWN. A resolution of Terrace city council

.

passed in July added a few special instructions under all school
zone signs within city limits that extend the hours they're in force
around the clock. The top sign is provincial law, setting a 30
kilometre per hour speed limit on school days between 8 a.m. and
§ p.m. The bottom sign Is municipal law and covers all the hours
the top sign doesn’t. The purpose is to ensure the safety of
children using school playgrounds after hours or on holidays.

zones.

On the other hand, Kamenz
advises council, it might be wise to
consider a new zone, "Child Care",
to allow for site-specific zoning.
Zoning considerations might
inciude traffic generation, parking
and drop-off zones, accessibility to
amenities and facilities frequented
by children, privacy for facility
users and adjacent neighbours,
design compatibility with neigh-
bours, economic feasibility of child
care space, and the need to pro-
mote overall safety, health and

well-being of children in care,
Council gave first two readings
to a bylaw amendment Aug. 26
that would allow child care facil-
ites with up to 20 spaces to oper-
ate in Al Rural, R2 Residential
and R3 Residential, Medium Den-
sity Residential, Medium High
Density . Residential and High
Density Residential. Centres with
up to eight spaces would be per-
mitted in R1 residential and Low
Density Residential. The city has
advertised the proposed changes
and the date for a public hearing

has been announced.

Harris had plenty of support
when a rezoning application came
before council Monday night. A
three-and-half page petition sup-
porting the facility was handed to
council and about 20 residents
gave Harris top marks for the
quality of care she provides and
pointed out that approval of her
application would provide pro-
fessional daycare in a residential
area, close to a school, and away
from primary traffic routes... a first
in Terrace, they said.

College ponders wood lot as
forestry education device

by Gregg Halfyard

At the August 10 meeting of the

board at Northwest Community
College a proposal for a woodlot

_ licence was presented by presi-

dent Don Anderson. The college
-- was consulting the Forestry Advi-
|: sory committee on a proposed
“| site near Hazelton, Anderson
“1 added,

The function of the woodlot

-|- licence would be to provide “stu-

dents with hands-on experience in
the operational work in forestry,”
according to Anderson.

"The woodlot is a cost break-
everi-or-better operation. Proper
management must be assured so
that we don‘t chop down five
years worth of trees,” he said,

However, there are specific cri-
teria to be met as well as consid-
erable controversy over the
necessity of the licence. Local
educator Bill Hayes made a sub-
mission concerning the potential
role of woodlot licences in educa-

tion to the Round Table on the
Environment and the Economy in
Terrace a few months ago. Hayes
found the Ministry of Forests’
criteria “very restrictive”.

According to this system, points
are awarded to candidates on the
basis of land or property that is
already owned, and a comprehen-
sive management and forest skills
plan. Hayes stated that a total of
100 points are needed, 40 for land
ownership, and 30 each for man-
agement and skills plans for the
proposed site. Furthermore,
Hayes says, an educational wood-
lot must contain an ecologically
diversified area for sustainable
forest use.

When Hayes spoke with Kalum
Forest district manager Brian
Downie, he was told that a key
ingredient for a “demonstration
forest” is a precise curriculum.
“We've pot to find the funding
and then develop a curriculum,”
Hayes concluded. Hayes is very

interested in sharing his knowl-
edge of this process with the col-
lege. “We should really be work-
ing together on this at all levels of
education.”

College board member Elmer

_ Derrick is cautious over the idea

of a woodlot licence. “There are
far better ways of dealing with
this issue,” he says.
“In the Hazeltons we have not
figured out a long-term forest
policy. there are other things to
look at, such as disagreement
over resource use. People haven't
fully explored the licence hold-
ers.” Derrick suggested that land-
scape logging could be looked at
as an alternative method of edu-
cational forestry use.
Board chairman Hans Wagner.
closed discussion on the item of a
woodlot licence in Hazelton by

stating thal the proposal would be
reviewed and further talks would
be needed at future board tneet-

ings.

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