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JANUARY brought the first heavy snows of the winter, Tesulting in this accident on ithe § Sande Over-
pass. A loaded fuel tanker failed to negotiate the corner of the overpass leading onto Keith Ave. There
were renewed calls for an alternative to the overpass and as spring approached, the highways ministry
announced it was studying the traffic situation along the highway as it passes through the’ city.

“February

Too much of the school
board’s business is done behind
closed doors, and that makes
people suspicious, said the

board's chairman, Edna
Cooper.
‘Cooper, who hinted she

would take steps to open up the
board when she was elected,
said moving the school board
toward a more open committee
system would help reduce what
she calls the ‘public’ s fear of the
unknown. | _
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Bert Orleans reopened
negotiations with the provincial
lands branch in an effort to add
nearly i00ha to his current
holdings at Mount Layton

Hotsprings.
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Fifty-five local families
benefitted in 1989 from a new
program to collect maintenance
arrears from separated spouses,
and officials predict almost $10
million will be collected in 1990.

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Skeena Sawmills blamed a
shortage of economically priced
logs for its decision to lay off 45
employees.

The layoffs will reduce the
number of shifts from three to
two. The mill had been
operating with three shifts since
1986, ©

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Highways ministry officials
have refused to release perfor-
mance ratings of the private
companies now doing road
work, saying the rating system
is complicated and might be
misunderstood by the public.

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“Northern Native Broad-
casting had its budget cut by

almost $90,000, which is 16 per
cent of its operating budget,
when the federal budget was an-
nounced.

Municipal! taxes will be going
up an average five percent, said
mayor Jack Talstra.

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The Kitimat-Stikine regional
district was asked if it would ac-
cept shares in the Shames
Mountain Ski Corporation as

«payment for .the.Kitsumkalum
- Mountain ski hill- equipment. it

sold to the corporation in 1986.
In other efforts to finance the

_ ski project, the Shames Moun-

tain (VCC) Ski Corporation,
which is a venture capital cor-
poration offering tax credits of
up to 30 percent of an invest-
ment, increased its investors
from four to nine.

There are 50 spots open in the
corporation at $5,000 a piece.

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A government report on the
road into the Iskut Valley said
companies with mines there will
benefit most from the proposed
road, but Bill Price of Skyline
Gold said the road will also
benefit the communities servic-
ing the valley — Smithers, Ter-
race and Stewart.

Price said northwest com-
munities should support the
mining companies and start lob-
bying for the road which could
benefit logging companies, B.C.
Hydro and the tourist industry.

The report said the two min-
ing companies most heavily in-
volved in the valley — Skyline
Gold and Cominco — should
pay 75 percent of the estimated
$12.5 million cost to build the
road,

‘fired his assistant gitide-George

million dollar mark,.and the _
provincial government was ‘asks
ed to. come up with one-third of -
that amount in the form of a
GO B.C. grant for $353,100,
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Particularly. bad ‘winter
weather, which caused the three
major northwestern airports to
close at various times during the
year, played havoc with airline .
schedules
cancelled or rerouted, and peo-
ple found themselves stranded,
One man was bussed from
Terrace to Prince Rupert, back’
to Terrace, then to Smithers and
back to Terrace — all intone day
and all in. the effort to get to
Vancouver. :
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: An angling guide who hires
|” assistants ‘cannot later; revoke
1-. their licences, a Te
|. ruled last week when i's

“ted an assistant: angliy
‘| charged with illegal g

judge

~The case came ‘abo
angling guide Andrew.

Springel, giving -him notice of
the cancellation of his license.
But conservation officers

want that, ‘loophole - closed

SKEENA JUNIOR Secondary students ended a 30-hour juice 2 fast to to
raise money for third world development with healthy slices of piz-
za, That's Ryan Prinz, Neil Papais and Kevin Oates enjoying thelr

first solid food after the fast.

TERRACE COMMUNITY BAND added some musical weight to its

sound, in February with the purchase of a $2,300 double B flat
tuba. Kent Taylor demonstrates versatility on the instrument curing .

one practice session,

After another spectacular,
record-setting year with the
Simon Fraser University Clan,
Terrace’s Michelle Hendry was
one of the highest

legiate women's basketball — a
place on the All-American
team,
| SFU. head coach, Allison
‘McNeill, says Hendry ‘is the
best all-round player in our
25-year history.”

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A. group of Caledonia Senior

“Secondary. School students
~ pressured the school board into
‘* holding a public meeting on in-
a stalling . condom. machines in

schools.
“The! decision’ followed a

: presentation: from. the group

whom accused the board of

avoiding . the issue by not

‘discussing it.
~The. “school's ‘student
newspaper, BearTrap, -¢con-

ducted a survey which found: 86

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puttin, condom ma

. .chool’s or: “Progr: i

April

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A new angling guide policy,
which sets limits on the number
of guides operating on a
specified river, the number of
clients guides can take out dur-
ing the season and what it will
cost each to fish on restricted
waters, will be impossible to en-,
force, said a local advisory
board.

The board said the environ-
ment ministry must hire more
conservation officers because
the two now here can’t cover the
large amount of territory under
their jurisdiction,

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Skeena Junior Secondary"

School’s drama production on .
_ the use and. abuse: of alcohol ©

among young people, Project .
Squeeze, was ‘put’ onto video:
cassette to be used as part of a

tional efforts on alcohol abuse.

Backing up the project is a
one-hour video documentary
written by the Terrace Writers
Guild and produced and edited
by Skeena Broadcasters which
also taped and edited Project
Squeeze. ; ;

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' An. area drug crackdown
‘revealed an-increase in hashish
use in Terrace, RCMP said,

“There is certainly a lot of
drug. activity in. town,’’ said
Cpl. Don Woodhouse.

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> Local teachers charged the
schioa!. board. lied when it an-
nounced. that money had been
budgeted for a slx-per cent in-
crease in teachers! dalaries and
beriefits -when they ‘arrived at

: the bargatning mi tings to find

The revised figures for the
proposed “library expansion -
pushed the costs: over) the.

as flights were

between, Terrace: arid’ Kitimat,
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January —

because’ ‘they say the. intent of
the law was that: the licence

became invalid as scon as $ the

assistant nt guide was fired.
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Revenue Canada wants,
-refunds it paid to Lakelse Lake

. residents under the northern tax.

benefits scheme returned —
with interest,

' Lakelse Lake’ residents say
they received contradictory

‘yeports of - what. areas’ were |

described as Lakelse in the nor-
thern allowance benefits guide.

In the. letters sent to .lake
residents, Revenue Canada
defined Lakelse as the railway
point along the CN railway line

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her, sail he called.the

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RCMP said their investiga-
tion into the 1989 explosion at a
gold mine project north of
Stewart is at a dead end and that .

investigators may soon be called
off the case."

Two men were killed in the
explosion at Newhawk’s
Sulphurets project. A reward of

$25,000 for’ information was

posted at one time.
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‘ Twenty-one local teachers
who refused to join the Terrace
District Teachers Association
(TDTA) must become union |
members by June 30 or lose
their jobs, ‘says TDTA.
spokesman Greig Houlden.

“They'll be expected to either
join or find employment
elsewhere,’’ he said.

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Plans “to. install .condom.
machines in. Northwest Com-.

. munity | College: ‘washrooms:
= went ofnhold because: the ‘col.
Jege’s ‘student sociely couldn't

afford them.” .
Alternately, the association .,

“was considering having. con- .

doms sold iri campus candy ven-
ding machines but became wor-
ried about its liability if the
machine ripped the, packages °S.

‘A former Terrace teacher was |
committed . for trial.'on nine.

_ counts’ of sexual. offences.
against, young ‘girls.

- The charges, which were six ‘
counts of indecent. assault, one
_count of sexual assault, and two
~ counts of. having sexual inter-

- course with a female under the

ABE of 14, involve. seven girls

° whom were under 14 at the time

of the alleged offences.
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_., Applications .. by companies ”
‘for guarantees to northwest

pulpwood were contradictory.

Two of the applicants said.
. there isn’t enough wood as it is ©

and want to protect their ex-

_ isting operations, one wanted to
, expand and the other wanted to

build a new mill,

Skeena Cellulose says it wants
the guarantee to feed a planned
$750 milion expansion of its
Port Edward pulp mill. while
Orenda Forest Products wants

to build a pulp mill near

Stewart,
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Terrace RCMP's sexual
assault case load doubled from
1989 to 1990 because of an in-
creased awareness of sexual
assaults, said police.

Crown counsel said the high
caseload doesn’t represent an
increase in actual incidents, but

. shows that more victims are

coming forward than have in
the past.
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A delegation from Terrace ci-
ty council presented a proposal
to- the RCMP  subdivision’s
superintendent to. relocate its
regional headquarters, which is
currently in Prince Rupert, to
Terrace.

The proposal was eventually

"government, . investigated.

~ Kinkead, who had been charged .
several times by’ the provincial

health officials and criticized by
his neighbours over the disposal
of chicken manure, has: found ‘a
way to tum chicken manure in
ta profit — composting. °°"

Kinkead will be recycling.

., Manure by. composting it, mix-

‘ing. it” and Selling, it as. highs,

program will probably generate.
as: much revenue as the farm: “
itself. .
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Parents of one class of.
Clarence Michiel Elementary.

School students say they don’t ae

want their children taking part.
in what the school calls
‘‘cooperative learning’, a
system whereby classes are
broken into smaller groups.

Parents said the method, .
: which is.a forerunner of the: ©:
: education ministry's Year 2000 — --

program, may work well in sup- —
‘porting students who have trou-
ble, but is being done at the ex-
pense
students.
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The newest wood processitig

facility in the area has processed’ a

its first log. :
Kalum -Wood — Products, a

partnership of . Stave River |.
Forest Products and’ Skeena ©

Cellulose, processes logs which:
although have rotten sections, _.- .
_also contains enough good

wood for timber,

The rotten sections are ship-
ped to Skeena Cellulose’s pulp
mill at Port Edward for use as
hog fuel.

; PAI BROUGHT with it the conclusion of the expansion projact at the pool. (Heguards Claudia Brand
_. and: Seétt Peden pose at one end of the nearly-completed pool addition. Construction also resulted 2.
: one Olan (9 room ‘and a sauna; The official opening to took’ place’ later. in the ‘years

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