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- During an awards presentation held at Northwest Com-
munity College last Friday evening, Terrace resident David
Weismiller was presented with an $8,000 Canada Scholar-
‘ ship by board member John Morgan. Prior to this most re-
cent accomplishment, Weismiller graduated from
Caledonia Senior Secondary last June with an “A” average
which earned him a $1,000 Terrace District Teachers’

Association scholarship and a Northwest Community Col- |

lege entrance scholarship to the college’s University
‘Transfer science program.

Northwest College
_ Students honored
for achievement

“Terrace Review — Wednesday, October 5, 1988 15 7

| Last week’s rainfall falls
just short of 1987 record ©

Both B.C. Hydro and High-
ways crews got extra help from
Smithers staff and worked long
hours last week to repair the
damage done by Wednesday’s
high winds and record-breaking
rainfall.

‘IT was pleased with the way
the fellows conducted them-
selves, restoring services as
quickly as possible. We had

crews working all night and all .

day,’ B.C. Hydro district
manager Don Parminter said.

by Charlynn Toews

The strong winds (gusting up
to 80 kilometers an hour and
steadily up to 55 kph) uprooted
trees, blowing them across
power lines. Areas with power
outages included the Nass
Valley, small portions of Ter-
race, the Lakelese area, Jack-
pine Flats, Copperside Estates
and Usk, and central Kitimat
and Kitimaat Village.

Over a dozen workers in-
cluding line contractors from
Smithers got everything back to
normal by Thursday evening.
Some areas, including Greenville
and Cranberry Junction as well
as Kitimaat Village were dif-

ficult to service because rain-fed
flooding washed out roads, Par-
minter said.

Highways crews focused on
damage. control and bridge
repair around the area, with
bridges washed out at Kitimaat
Village, Clear Creek bridge
{north end of Kalum Lake) and
Camp Creek bridge 22 kilo-
meters north of Terrace. District
manager Peter Wightman warns
motorists to slow down at the
Camp Creek crossing — it’s

-temporarily repaired with

gravel.

Emergency modular steel
bridges were brought in from
Prince George to complement
the equipment available here in
Terrace. The temporary bridges
are put together quite quickly
“like a mechano set”’ but can re-
main in place for many years.

Other work includes extensive
repairs to Kitimaat Village road,
which suffered damage includ-
ing plugged pipes and shoulder
erosion. At Shames River, 32
kilometers west of Terrace,
flood-control rock was swept
away. The purpose of the
blasted rock along the river
banks is to keep the water within

its banks and under the bridge.
This rock is being replaced so
our next heavy rainfall won't
flood the road.

Our last major downpour for
September was just last year,
when 104 milimeters on Septem-
ber 20 broke the seven-year
record of 43.4 millimeters, This
year’s September 28 rainfall
measured 106.6 millimeters..
“You never expect to set a
record two years in a row,”
George Blakey at the Terrace
airport said, ‘‘but anamolies in
the weather always exist.”’

Blakey explained Wed-

nesday’s pouring rain continued

to douse Terrace for so long
because the weather system got

‘stuck in our mountains. “‘It

stalled for 24 to 28 hours, wait-
ing for the next push. A second
surge was the impetus to boot it
into the interior, and a ridge of
high pressure cut off the
moisture.” =

He said we also had near to
record-breaking gusts of winds,
within three kph of September,
1985°s 83 kilometers per hour.
“It was not a very pleasant even-
ing.”’

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With school back In session and the first meeting of
the local board behind us, education has once again
become a focal point for the community's attention.
The issues that will come under discussion are
familiar: what students should be offered, how it will
be paid for and by whom, the interrelationships of
students, parents, administrators, teachers ard elected
officials, and in fact what should and should not be
expected of the public education system.

These questions have all been given a departure
point by the release Inst month of the final report by

- the Royal Commissioner on Education, Barry
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‘probably better than would have been expected con-
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