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FRIGID TRAVELLER, stumbles, ‘through muy - conditions a]

. downtown Terrace. Saturday afternoon. Cars were sliding around

‘the: slick streets ¢ and anyone outside had to bundle up against the

unusita ily lf cold weather.

‘More rain, more
‘sun, record cold

TERRACE — No major

‘records were broken .for. the":
~but; the -

month of October,
weatherman dished out’ a

decidedly mixed. _bag for local _

residents.

First Terrace received heavy, “
near-record rains in the first

half of the month’ causing
-widespread.: flooding, says En-

vironment ~Canada:, weather ....
analyst . Harry Earle; Then we |
were treated:to fair weather for

the final half-of: October. .

precipitation ‘was. .cecorded ’—
most of it in the first two weeks
of the morth, That's 137 ‘pet
cent above the monthly average,
but well short of the 1965 record
of 349.5 mm. ,

But, strange as it may sound,

ed up. being: aboveaverage,. at
62.3 hours.

cs rrr S

Earle - said... 294.6’ mm of-

the hours of sunshine also end--

_As for snow, only one

millimetre was recorded at the
airport-weather station, he said,

fell in-town. :

thly average of 6. 4c.

Cold weather on the 26th and.
27th broke some records. The
high of 1.6 on the 26th was the-
chilliest recorded on that date, :
‘replacing. the previons mark of

2:2 set in’ 71,

A record low of -2.6 was.
measured on the 26th, replacing

the -2.2 mark of 1966. And the
-7.9 reading on the 27th broke
the 1984 record low for that day
of -5,3, ;

As for historic precedents on
what this month will likely hold,
Earle says to forget it.

‘‘November can be
anything,’’ he says. ‘It can be
really mild, And it can be really
cold.”

although ‘a substantial amount:

. Temperatures averaged 5. L
, degrees, below the normal mon-.

‘oat “Ski pass

“sales climb |

Season pass sales at Shames Mountain are more than dou-
ble last. year, says manager Scott Siemens.
“It’s at least a 200 per cent increase over last season,” ‘he

(IN BRIEF J

said last week, noting more than 450 season passes have sold
to date and buyers included skiers from Prince Rupert and
Kitimat.

With sales going well, all the ski resort needs is snow.
Siemens said there was about a foot and a half of the moun-
tain as of last week, and a major dump is needed soon in
arder for Shames to make its planned mid-November open-
-ing.

“We're still on schedule,’’ he said. ‘Everything’s in place.

Halliwell land for sale.

Unable to find a buyer through the public tender process,
the Lands ministry has put a 9.5 acre parcel on Halliwell Ave.
on the open market. ;

Now being listed through the Northwest Real Estate Board,
the parcel lies between Halliwell and Twedle Aves, and Just to
the west of Benner St.

Marketing manager Ed Opal explained the ministry, ‘had
been unable ta “come to terms” with any ‘of the: potential,
buyers answering the tender call.

He also noted the price tag on the property. had. chaiged.
Although Lands had set a $125,000 minimum originally, the
price had been reduced 25 percent because of city, stipule-
tions.

Opal said the city’s layout requirements meant the property
could not be developed ‘in a cul-de-sac style as anticipated.

asked to re-evaluate the property and a new price of $95,000
had been established as a result. The land in n question is now
vacant ‘and zoned Al Rural.

University appointment made
The University of Northern B.C. last week apis} ointed a direc-

tor of international studies...
Dr. Douglas C. Nord will oversee~the- ‘creation of the

ministration, said university president Geoffroy. Weller.

nesota. He holds a B.A. from the University of Redlands and
a masters and a dociorate ‘in Political science from Duke
University,

Fulton slams nuke sub plan.

marines access to Canadian. waters is‘*ta ‘dangerous and‘
deliberate sell-out af. Canadian interests,"! charges Skeena
MP Jim-Fulton.: ; -

The NDP” ‘environinent ‘critic lashed out tast ‘week at the
move by Ottawa that will allow American subs to pass
" submerged through Canadian waters in the Dixon Enirance
én route to the U.S. Navy’s sub testing grounds near Ket-

However, Fulton ‘accused the et of. *coverts
the erecta s these vesselé a payloads’

We're just waiting for snow. It’s all up to Mother Nature _

That reduced the potential number of lots so an appraiser was. -

department within UNBC’s faculty of management. and ad: -

Nord is currently director of the Royal D. -Alworth Jr. Ins";
stitute, for: International Studies at: the University of. Min: > -

The federal government's decision to give U.S, nuclear nibs,

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