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~ In one of the lightest voter turn-outs ever
récorded in*a-tocal election, Stewart
Christensen was elected to a Terrace-area
seat on the board of trustees for School Dis-
trict 88. Christensen got 282 votesinthe -
election, defeating rivals Ken Hansen, who

got 134, and Jacques LeBlanc, who got 112. percent and as low as two percent.
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ballots were rejected, and the total number of.
' yotes-cast came'to 539, about five percent of
eligible voters. "About $10 a vote," she
remarked, referring to the cost of holding the.
election. In past local elections, she said,
voter participation has been as high as 28

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WEDNESDAY, November 20, 1991

uo TFN Vol. 7, Issue No. 47

Phone 635-7840
Fax 635-7269

Serving the communities of Terrace, Thornhill, Usk, Cedarvale, Kitwanga, Meziadin, Stewart and the Nass Valley

75 cents plus GST

LIKE A LONESOME GONDOLIER, Terrace Review sales consultant
Jack Beck paddles the canal that once was Greig Ave, Wet feet, a certain
sense of anxiety and a few missed phone calls were the main problems
caused by last Friday’s record-breaking 97.2 millimetre (3.82 inch) rainfall.
But there were a few. areas. that suffered more than most. Like the 4500
block Greig Ave. for example, where cars were banned and canoes
roamed free. The primary cause of the flooding, says a city official, was

wn ponders grant
~ while recyclers wait

‘TERRACE — The Skeena_

Valley Recycling Society is

_ waiting in limbo, thousands of

dollars in back rent owing, while
city council considers a motion
from an alderman to grant them

‘$14,000 in financial assistance.

- The minutes of the Nov. 5
meeting of the city’s Recycling
Advisory Commission don’t
indicate an emergency situation
in town. True, there is mention
of the fact that Overwaitea and
the Terrace Co-op have not yet
joined the ranks of Skeena Val-
ley Recycling Society customers.

And there is mention of a
"request" from the society’s
landlord, Dave McKeown for
payment of six months’ worth of
back rent.

But the situation seems under
control. As far as the rent is
concerned, the minutes point out
that the society would be meet-
ing Nov. 13 "to determine what
is to be done" and that a bottle
depot operation would be con-
sidered as a possible solution.
Also, there was a recommienda-
tion that advisory commission
chairman Rick King, a_ city

alderman, contact Victoria to get
information on grants, and
another that asked city council
to consider offering a tax break
to landlords renting to non-profit
recycling operations in order to
bring rental rates down.

On Nov. 12, the night before
the society was to meet "to
determine what is to be done",
Recycling Advisory Commission
King presented the idea of tax
exemptions to a meeting of city
council. It was suggested,

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gravel that was washed into and plugged the Park Ave. storm sewer inlet,
setting rainwater free to find the lowest elevation. Studies are underway
to prevent a reoccurence of the flooding and it’s possible a short langth
of secondary drain line may be ail that's required. The city’s Public Works
Committee meets today to review a similar recurring problem in the 4600
block Lakelse Ave. For more covering on periodic flooding in the city and
what can be done to correct it, see next week's Terrace Review.

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