aaa ene ah et ns ee \Leqislative Library, Ste: Farliament Buildings That forest gVictoria B.C. Copper. There’s nothing yet to rule out 2PM ee ee Kitimat as the site for a $470 million smelter — page A3 Together again A Terrace resident refiects on German reunification — A15 really sometvev 1x4 OT confusing — A7 Welcome In the ~ Nass Valley they’re celebrating tomorrow — A2 January students will buoy budget, Official predicts TERRACE — With the final enrolment figures in, School Dis- trict 88 is stil! about 60 students under the estimates filed with the Ministry of Education in the spring of this year, assistant superinien- dent Skip Bergsma said yesterday. Trustees have been aware of the problem since the first board meet- ing of the school year, when they were advised by district adminis- tration that enrolments at the beginning of September fell over 100 students short of the estimates. That meant unless the enrolments came up before the final figures had to filed with the ministry Oct. — Continued on page A2 NCU TFN SPONSOR ‘ WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1990 , Vol. 6, Issue No. 41 Fax IT’S THAT TIME OF THE YEAR AGAIN, and the B.C. Forest Service is clearing logging sites of debris through the use of controlled burns. This blaze just south of the Terrace-Kitimat airport was set last Thursday aftemoon, but the Kalum District Forest office fire control crews let the rain put it out after a wind shift threatened to blanket the airfield with smoke. For a report on what Terrace city council was told recently about prescribed burning, see page A14. Vehicle and trash blazes make night’s work for firefighters The Thornhill Fire Department reports a quiet week but their Terrace counterparts were relative- ly busy. An investigation continues into a rash of fires set intentionally early last Thursday morning. The first call came at 2:14 a.m. when a- van in the 4500 block Lazelle was reported to be ablaze. The van was ‘destroyed by the fire, but three attempts at the same kind of de- struction as the night went on were foiled by Terrace firefighters. At 2:55 a.m. a fire in the dump- ster behind city hall was extin- guished, and two minutes later a second dumpster behind the Al- marlin building was ablaze. While firefighters were attending to this second dumpster fire, a Ministry of Education vehicle behind the Government Access Centre was set on fire, causing an estimated $500 to $1,000 in damage. Anyone with having information that might identify the person or persons responsible for the fires should contact the Terrace Fire Depart- . ment or the RCMP. Terrace firefighters had one other call-out Thursday morning. RCMP asked for assistance in getting a jocal man off the Sande Overpass at 2:45° am. The man was threatening to jump and it was belicved ladders might be required. Before the fire department was RCMP were able to handcuff the man to a metal standard and his attempt to end it all was foiled when he stopped short of the ground, hanging from the standard by his wrists. The only other activity reported .by the Terrace Fire Department was a house fire in the 4800 block Loen Ave. at 2:30 p.m. last Satur- day. The fire started in a gas fur- nace in the basement and firemen had to remove a portion of an interior wall to extinguish the blaze, There is currently no esti- mate of the damage caused by the fire, Phone 635-7840 - 635-7269 Highways team ready to name trouble spots The preliminary recommendations are in for upgrading the Highway 16 corridor through Terrace, but details are yet to be released. Ministry of Highways spokesman David Fisher will only say that changes are required at some city intersec- tions and he will be meeting with city officials to discuss those changes. Fisher did say, however, that changes are required to both the highway and city-owned streets. He adds that the complete corridor study will be available in carly December. Although Fisher hasn’t named specific intersections, In recent years city council has described a couple of intersect- ions, Tetrault and Kenney where the two streets meet High- way 16, as belng dangerous, and those could well be on Fisher's list. Council’s wish for a second overpass, however, hasn’t yet been mentioned and city aldermen may have to wait until December before they find out if a new overpass is included in the ministry’s plans, “i