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BRRRAR.— Your body knows
about wind chill, but how about
your mind? Page A110
A celebration of animals — but
these are orphans. Residents of |
the Terrace Animal Shelter are
featured throughout this issue.
Orenda carries on — page Ad.

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 9, 1991 '

Vol. 7, Issue No. 2 :

Phone 635-7840
Fax 635-7269

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The parking situation downtown Is desperate,
RCMP spokesman Cst Don Oldham said it came loose from a tow truck's

but that isn’t what put this car on its side itr trachack lane of the Skeana Mall.
hook while being towed around the corner at the north

end of the Sande Overpass and slid down the embankment, startling a few people on the other side of the wail.

by Tod Strachan

An apartment building is. not
going to be built at Eby and Davis,
At least not in the immediate
future. A standing-room-only
crowd attended a public hearing in
city council chambers Monday
night, and when all was said and
done it was a draw.

Aldermen Ruth Hallock, Mo
Takhar and Rick King were
opposed; aldermen Bob Cooper,
Danny Sheridan and Darryl
Laurent were In favour. This left
mayor Jack Talstra with the decid-
ing ballot and he voted against the

proposal. "If a change of this im-
portance is to take place in this

community we must have a better
consensus of council," he said.

Talstra pointed out that neigh-
bouring residents had expressed
concern over increased traffic, the
vagueness of the proposal and the
quality of life in the area, But he
also indicated that if the developer,
Ray Lovstad, could "clarify or tone
down" his proposal he could bring
it back to council for a second
look.

Lovestad described his proposal
during the public hearing, saying it
would be an attractive, three-story,
27- to 30-unit apartment building
set on a nicely landscaped lot. He
said cach unit would be in the
middle to upper range witi two or
three bedrooms and self-contained
laundry. A type of rental accom-
modation, agrees city planner
Marvin Kamenz, that is rare in

Terrace.
Lovstad also said traffic woul
not be a problem: parking would
flow off Walsh Ave. and exit onto
Davis Ave. All he needed was to
have his property rezoned from R2
two family residential to R3 mul-

tiple family residential.

One thing Lovestad didn’t have,
though, was a sct of drawings to
show city aldermen and neighbour-
ing residents what his building and
landscaping would actually look
like. This caused what alderman
Rick King described as a lack of
confidence in Lovstad’s proposal;
some residents suggested that once
the property was rezoned, Lovstad
could build almost anything he
wanted.

There are other problems faci

| : City shoots down apartment plan

Lovstad if he brings a new pro-

posal back to council, however.

Besides the trust and support-of his
neighbours, Lovstad will have to
prove to everyone that an apart-
ment building is a suitable buffer
between the downtown core and
residential areas. And with this
established, will have to convince
council that his property, presently
zoned R2 and fisted as high den-
sity residential on the Official
Community Plan, should be
rezoned to accommodate a mul-
tiple family dwelling.

In suppotting Lovstad, Cooper
said he didn't believe traffic would
be a problem and added that the
dedication of a 33-foot strip of

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Wind

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by Tod Strachan

’. & number of weather records

have been broken in the last cight
months. 1990. was a year of
extremes. . ae

Last summer ws broke an old
high-temperature record. On Dec.
3 a record snowfall all but closed
roads in the area. The storm began
Sunday aftemmoon and by the time
it was.over the Terrace weather
office had recorded a total of 100.6
centimetres (39.6 inches) of snow
and 20 millimetres of rain..

On Dec. 3 alone we had. 82.8
centimetres (32.6 inches) af snow,
_and this set a new 24-hour snow-
fall record for the month of
December. The previous record
was set on Dec. 12, 1978, when
we got a 50.6 centimetre (19.9
inch) dump of wet, heavy, snow.
Even though this was a December
record, however, the all time
record is still secure. It belongs to
Jan. 17, 1974, when we gat 103.1
centimetres (40.6 inches) of the
white stuff. A close second, which 7"
‘still holds, was recorded Feb. 18,

1972, when 102.4 centimetres
(40.3 inches) of snow were
measured, .

On Dec. 5 it began to rain... and
forgot to stop. We got 162
millimetres (0.64: inches) of rain
that day, another 20.2 millimetres
(0.79 inches) the following day,
and on Friday, Dec. 7 — you
guessed it — another record fell.

We broke the all time, one-day

rainfall record for December with ae
111.4 millimetres (4.39, inches) of © "
rain. The previous record for any

month was set on Tuesday, Oct.

3i, 1978, when we got 1148
millimetres (4.52 inches) of rain.

We missed this one by just
13/100ths of an inch. .

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