B12 | Terrace Review — Wednesday, January 24, 1990 »

A year ago
this week —

The teachers’ strike was still a
hot issue a year ago this week,
but other events pushed the
topic off the front page. Phase
IL of the Christy Park youth soc-
cer field development was given
a conditional go-ahead by city
council. After more than a year
of presentations, negotiations,
opposition and support, council
said the construction of two
more fields could proceed, pro-
vided a suitable development
agreement could be arranged.
The only opposition to the mo-
tion was the recorded vote of
alderman Dave Hull.

Also on the recreation scene,
‘in spite of opposition from
‘directors Les Watmough and
Gordon Robinson, the regional
district strengthened its support
for the Onion Lake cross-
country ski trails proposal. Part
of this new support was the
result of a letter from Northwest
Trappers’ Association president
Otto Lindstrom giving the pro-
ject. conditional support. Ac-
cording to Lindstrom, they had
reached a consensus at their
December general meeting, but
he added that ‘‘it’s only fair and
reasonable’ that the cost of
compensation, either in cash or
alternate trapline assignments,
should be borne jointly by the
ski club and the Ministry of
Forests.

Education, though, hadn’t
been pushed out of the limelight.
Mediator Vince Ready had en-
tered the picture and, for a
while, the process of negotiation
seemed to gain a little speed. On
Jan. 23, however, after three
days of non-stop bargaining, the
negotiations ceased. The follow-
ing day board vice-chairman
Lavern Hislop said they had
given the TDTA their ‘‘final of-
fer’? and it was not negotiable.
TDTA president Helmut Gies-
brecht said they had only re-
ceived the offer verbally from
Ready, though, and they were
still waiting for clarification in
writing. Issues still to be settled
at that point were salaries, class
size, professional development,
benefits, TDTA membership

‘and substitute teachers.

In the meantime, students
were carrying on a debate of
their own. It was a year ago this
week that Grade 12 students at
Caledonia high school began
writing government exams, but
while the question of their
dilemma had been temporarily
overshadowed by academic
endeavors, there was still quict
murmuring in the halls. When

_asked if the inconvenience of the
dispute would result in long term

improvements to the quality of ©

education here, one student
‘said, ‘“‘No. The only thing it
could improve is class size,”’
while another said, ‘‘If they get
what they want right away it
might help, but. waiting around
will decrease the benefits.”

". Potholes, butts and bears.

" ‘Many coffee shop debates in
Terrace a year. ago. this. week,
__ though, were not about teachers
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were more interested in pot-
holes, smoking and a now-
famous bear. That bear, of
course, could only be our famed
Kermode. The one illegally kill-
ed and turned over to Bornite
Mountain Taxidermy for
mounting. Bornite proprietor
Peter Martinson did the right
thing and turned the misguided
hunter in, but he did more... he
suggested the bear be turned
over to the city to replace the
dusty, deflated speciman they
had. He even offered to mount
the bear at no cost to the city if
he were allowed to attach a brass
plate acknowledging his work.

The city administrator,
though, saw things in a different
way. Bornite did stand to benefit
through the advertising carried
on the brass plate, and the job of
mounting the bear should be of-
fered to all taxidermists in the
area. You can’t put-out a tender
ona job that is free, however, so
instead names were drawn from
‘ta hat’’, The winner as you
might remember was Bornite’s
rival, Britton Taxidermy, and
that now-famous hat draw
began many months of heated
debate.

A year ago this week, though,
council finally decided to end
the matter. Following a Finance
Committee recommendation,

they decided they should honor -

administration’s commitment to
Britton and let him proceed with
mounting the bear. This left a
rather cool Bornite Mountain
out in the cold, however, and a
year ago this week council was
told by Bornite that the matter
wasn’t over yet. It just might
end up in court.

Workers at the Public Works

Department were busy contem-
plating their potholes a year ago
this week. Three city residents
had just lost around a hundred
dollars worth of rubber and rims
each in pothole encounters and |
the complaints were running
thick and heavy. ‘‘It shook the
heck out of us,’’ one driver com-
plained, but director of opera-
tions John Colongard said they
were doing the best they could.
A two-man crew was out at 9
p.m. the night the damage oc-
curred and used up 1,500
‘ pounds of patching materia!

It wasn’t all that cold a year ago this week. Temperatures hung around the
zero mark, but it snowed... a total of 43 inches for the week. The worst day

was Jan. 19 when 16 inches fell.

from Hwy. 16 onto Tetrault and
concerns related to home oc-
cupations. |

‘On the Community and Rec-
reation Committee list were
monitoring progress on the pool
expansion project, Christy
Park’s drainage problem and
adjacent resident complaints in
general, another lock at rec-
reational user fees and discus-

sion on a full service tourist .

facility for Ferry Island.
Finance, Personnel and Ad-
ministration were delegated the
job of dealing with the ongoing
(stuffed) Kermode bear pro-
blem, assessing whether to hire a
computer analyst to review the

before they were done. Because « city system, and — closely

the potholes were filled with
water though, said Colongard at

related to the Kermode bear —
reviewing the city’s policy on ac-

the time, ‘‘They’re almost im- cepting gifts. The Tourism and
possible to find.’’ Some Terrace Economic Development Com-
drivers disagreed with that state- mittee was given only one item:
ment, though, as they sank in a complete review of the city’ s

despair on our city streets.

And there was little con-

solation for these drivers .

council’s committee priority lists
a year ago this week. Not .a
single pothole was named and
the only paving job was on east
The Planning and
Public Words Committee were
given five main priorities to.con-
sider in 1989: a traffic study .
related to the Okanagan-Skeena.
shopping center project, traffic .
safety at Hwy. 16. and Kenney
St., cost sharing on the Halliwell
upgrade,’ the turning “ radius:

Halliwell.

- tourism function.

The Committee of the Whole ‘

was given a list. of more regional
as well as’ local issues. These
“ were a review of the Interior
University proposal and the pos-
sibility of offering land for its
development; scrutiny of the
city’s economic planning, and
development- plans: and the

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