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WEDNESDAY
NOVEMBER 16, 1994

Airport ‘hub’ planned

MORE AND MORE it looks like
the Terrace-Kitimat airport will
become the hub for a series of
remote weather sensing stations
at northwest airports.

The federal transport authority
is already making changes at the
Sandspit and Prince Rupert air-
ports and now Smithers is on the
list,

Moves to change the system
started about 18 months ago
when Transport Canada estab-.
lished national standards for. air
navigation requircments. .

Kiln
plan
returns

TERRACE PRE-CUT’s proposal
to build a dry kiln on its Braun St.
property is back on the table.

City councillors will examine
the mill’s application for a devcl-
opment permit at their planning
committee meeting on Thursday,
Nov. 25.

The issue is likely to again draw
‘protests from -Braun St, neigh-
bours, who argue that a dry kiln
doesn’t fit the city's definition of
light-industrial use for the proper-
ly under the Official Community
Plan,

A consultant hired by the city to
review its zoning bylaws will also
give an opinion on whether the
mill — with or without the kiln
—~ complies with the light-
industria] designation.

Bruce Anderson, of Urban Sys-
tems, arrives in town today and
will give an opinion on the issue
by the time the planning com-
mittee mects.

“We will rely on his expertise
on whetber it’s a permitted use in
the light industrial zone,”’ city ad-
ministrator Bob Hallsor said,

Anderson gets a tour this weck
of the mill and will be given
detailed plans of what is pro-
posed,

Planner Jack Hepplewhite said
the proposal calls for the kiln to
be housed in a 30x22-foot build-
ing about the size of a garage.

Terrace Precut has received onc
limber licence in 1992 on the un-
derstanding that a dry kiln be
constructed. Half of that wood
has been cul.

Forest Service district manager
Brian Downie has said the mill
nist begin construction of the
kiln before the district will ap-
prove cutling permits for the
remaining timber under that
licence.

The need for a kiln prompted
mill owner Mo Takhar to seek ex-
tra space to store lumber,

Efforts to use nearby properties
for wood storage angered neigh-
bours.

Stewart mine makes golden

WESTMIN RESOURCES, which
has a mine and mill near Stewart,
is putting in a bid for the Red
Mountain gold property near that
community.

Company vice president Bruce
McKnight and other Westmin of-
ficials were in Toronto last weck
pouring over documents prepared
by Red Mountain owners Amer-
ican Barrick.

Buying and developing the
property could be a perfect fit for
Westmin because the. mill. at its
Premier mine is. under utilized,
said McKnight.

Under those new rules, airports
with fewer than 20,000 aircraft
movements per year aren’t con-
sidered busy enough to have a
Flight Service Station, says Joba
Glover, Transport Canada’s ac-
ting flight serviccs regional direc-
tor,

He said the Terrace airport is
convenient as a regional centre
because of the level of activity
there now and because of its cen-
tral location in the northwest.

There’s also room at the airport |

for any ~ equipment additions

necded for more centralized oper-
ations.

One plan under discussion is to
move employees from other air-
ports to Terrace which would
then become one of four commu-
nication and service hubs opera-
ted by Transport Canada in B.C.

That leaves Smithers airport —
with an average of about 18,500
movements per year — on Trans-
port Canada’s hit list for flight
service station closures.

Sandspit is already duc to lose
ils Hight service station people

a Cute and cuddly
KITTENS DO make wonderful pets as demonstrated by Lynn Henry. But owning one does
come with responsibility and not all owners follow through. That story on Page A3.

and there'll be a reduction in
Prince Rupert when the flight ser-
vices station is moved from the
Digby Island airport to the Seal
Cove seaplane base,

Automated stations at those air-
ports will provide weather up-
dates for pilots, allow them to file
flight plans, and monitor the air
space for emergencies.

Those stations will include tele-

vision cameras connected to the
planned Terrace central base.

Employees in Terrace will then
be able to further monitor condi-
lions at those airports.

“In a sense we gel two tries —
one on our own and then milling
the ore if, for some reason, anoth-
er company is successful at a
bid,’"’ he said.

American Barrick became the
owner of the Red Mountain prop-
erty this fall when it took over
Lac Minerals.

American Barrick put Red
Mountain and three other former

Lac mines on the. ‘block wo.

Weeks ago.

Company. officials decided to-
keep.some of Lack’s: properties:
but said others didn’t fit Amer-

ican Barrick’s new corporate
plans.

Lac spent close to $20 million
over the past three years explor-
ing and assessing its mineral
potential.

Even then Westmin was inter-
ested in milling the ore at its
Premier operation.

McKnight said Westmin would -
have to spend money on its,
Premier mill so it could handle:

Red Mountain’s ore.

"They would be fairly minor
modifications and we're sure

there would be no problem,’’ he
said,

The advantage to Westmin is
that its Premier mill is already
running and has the appropriate
environmental permits, ~~

That would save Westmin: the
expense and time of building a
new tailings and mill site, said

McKnight. .
All of this could make for a
faster “ environmental _ approval

- ftom the provincial government if
. a new mill slte and failings pond

wasn’t required,

“Red Mountain is north and. to: ~~

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THE NUMBER of criminal
offences reported to police is
down nearly 20 per cent from
last year.

But it's only slightly below
the number of cases RCMP
handled in 1992, acearding to
an RCMP report to city coun-
cil.

The report lists total cases
up to the end of September.

Break-and-enter reports are
down from 241 cases last year
to 127 this year,

Shoplifting has declined
from 186 reports in ’92 to 123

Crime rate dips —

_ amount

so far this year.

Impaired driving cass, reg
related offences, and liquor
related offences are al] down |
from last year, according to ;
the stats.

Assaults, however, are at.
180 cases so far, up from 163.
in 793 and 136 in ’92. me

Also up and by a large
are vehicle thefts
compared to previous years. °

There have been 53 to the
end of September compared
to 35 for the same period. in
1993 and 17 in 1992.

Violence
targeted |

A GROUP of local people is
helping the provincia] Women’s
equality ministry come up with a
program io stop violence against
wonilen.-

The locals took part recently in
a focus group where individuals
are probed for attitudes and
knowledge of a particular issuc.

They -were ..selected. .by. «tele-
phone and were screened prior to
being interviewed by a company
hired by the women’s equality
ministry.

‘The groups are designed to Ict
us know how people feel about
violence against women,”’ said
women’s equality official Dar-
lene Snider. “It’s a tool for us to
figure out how we can work to
stop violence against women —
we want to find out what the gen-
cral level of information out there
is, 3

She said the findings are meant
for (he internal use of the govern-
ment and won't be released to the
public.

Nelson, North Surrey and Vic-
{oria were also chosen as sites for
focus group scssions.

Participants were scouted
through a phone campaign run by
Iris Communications, a Van-
couver consulting firm hired by
the ministry to conduct the focus
groups,

Callers randomly phoned Ter-
race residents in search of three

groups of 12 people: :
old males, 18-24 females. and a
25 and older mixed group.

“People. were asked how: they
fit into these age groups, whether
they worked .in the communica-
tions ficld or in the justice- sys-
tem, and whether they'd cver

been involved in a focus -group -
-before,”’.said-Sniders ..5...05.".

“The only screening were thes ;
questions so we got people: who
were not involved in this: subject
beyond having a personal inter-
est.”’

Because a large number of
abusers are men aged 18-24 and a
high percentage of abused women
fall into that same age category,
she said, the ministry decided to
focus on that age group.

“‘We want to know what people
of that age think about’ the
violence against women, what its
causes are and how it can be
stopped,”’ Snider said.

She said participants were

asked questions such as what the
contributing factors of violence
are, how it can be prevented, who
education programs should be

aimed at and who should be.

responsible for working ‘to stop
the violence.

B.C. has the highest rate ‘of
violence against women in Cana-
da, according to a recent Statistics

Canada survey of 12,300 Cana-

dian women.

Canopy canned.

A CANOPY over the entrance of
the library won't be built until the
city can afford it.

Administrator Bob Halisor said
the city has saved about $11,000
by not building the canopy now.

The materials have been pur-
chased and will be stored until
circumstances permit its con-
struction, Hallsor said.

Concrete foolings have been put
in for the structure, as well as
some of the other preliminary
work,

‘We've made it so it can be put
in at no additional cost,’”” Hallsor
explained,

the cast of Stewart, off of Hwy37
leading toward the Meziadin
Junction.

That makes for a journcy of ap-
proximately 50km to Westmin’s
Premier mill.

Former owners Lac wanted to

build a tamway to transport the .

ore down off ihe mountain to
roudievel. ao,
American Barrick wants to sell
the Lac properties as a package
and that means Westmin is also

looking for partners. to make a

‘combined bid. .

"We: ‘would: like. it if: Red

The city won’t know for a few
more weeks what additional costs

have developed following coun- —
cil’s decision last: month to fire

the architect who designed the
siruciure,

That happened aficr the cily
learned some of ‘the. project's -”
engineering hadn't |
been certified before construction |

structural

began,
‘The cily called

work completed, and to supervise
the project’s completion.

The project, was budgeted | ‘to
cost $1.74 million.

bid

Mountain was sold separately but | :
if not, we're looking” for other.
companies interested in the other .-

properties,” McKnight said...

American Barrick . has. put a .
middle of December. daté onits -.

plans to sell,

Westmin: opened. its Premier .

mine in the late 1980s but:soon

found out the ore {t thought was -
there didn’! meet its mill: capac:

citys.

ed

in a new ,
engincering firm to review the

Since. then. ‘the ‘company. has.
‘been looking. for: compinies with
‘smaller ore: properties. a§ contract

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