Betases _ LETTERS sedis Work | Good idea raised © Dear Sir: Wa nte The annual Mooding of Lakelse Lake properties is a problem that Dear Sir doesn’t want 1 way, Lake I, Danny Bushman, don’t a hain that ai , eon tesidents claim that Herman like the way that people in this | Creck Fan at the lake outlet is fown are treating me. Just be- blocking the water flow and caus- cause I am handicapped they | jing flooding of their properties. won't hire me to go to work. They would like it removed. T have experience. running | On - the other hand local jumping jacks and I have run | fishermen are strongly opposed to power saws and jack hammers. any dredging in the river. They T-went to Dawson Creck fora | argue that any river disturbance year and a half, I had a job | would be harmful to fish. working for the Dawson Creek Luckily for them the experts are Society for Community | on their side. Water hydrologists Living. I cut grass with a lawn | say that removing the fan will do _ mower and in the winter time I | very litle to solve the flooding went shovelling show. Then I | problem, The federal Department went to the college up there and took a course on Jandscap- =o! More education, not less help since I moved back here. I Dear Sir: applied for a job with the city Apparently the only option for. here in Terrace. They wont | the University of Northern British hire me because I haven’t got a Columbia in acquiring the operat- driver's licence. ing expenses that it requires will I am a hasd worker. I also be taken at the expense of the wrote to Mike Harcourt He | citizens in the north. wrote back to me. He told me UNBC hopes to take away the ‘o go to Manpower ard look option for northerners of obtain- on the job board. I go every | - ing the first two years of a univer- couple ‘of days. And I still | sity education at a community haven’t got a job. college and to give the colleges Danny Bushman another administrative centre, ac- Terrace, B.C. ' . cording to the Nov. 11 edition of The Terrace Standard. of Fisheries and Oceans and the provincial environment ministry recognize that any dredging would cause fish habitat damage. They will not approve any stream work that may harm the most val- uable river in the Skeena system. And so the sides line up and the confrontation continues. But does ~ ithave to? Can’t some reasonable solution be arrived at? One such solution may be to use pilings to raise flood prone . homes. Around the world, when confronted with annual flooding, this is a common solution. Rais- ing homes would stop both flood water damage and the threat to fish of dredging. In 1975, northerners were en the option of taking their first 2 years of university courses at community colleges. Prior to this | time, the only option for north- erners interested in a university education was to leave the north. _ Now UNBC is asking us to go back to the pre-1975 days, The only option open for northerners will be to take university courses at a university. So much for in- creased options, smaller classes and much Jower tuition costs. In the last few years, univer- | Panasonic. $= SOUND CHA, AGER™ PHONE oat Handsfree & PANASONIC-3860 CORDLESS q SPEAKER PHONE *10C +» Upright Design. Retractable Rubber Antenna. «Sound Charger” Sound Quality, 2297 parger’. Noise Reduction: “+ 10 Channels Remotely -Acccssible. » Retractnble Flexible Antenna. “SANYO CAS-1500 CORDLESS + Super Compander II Paging. : Compatible with BC ‘TEL’S Call Display Service, aa having to leave the north. There also could be a hidden benefit. A local piling making in- dustry could develop, And look- ing further if locals became ex- perts at flood proofing the tech- nology could be exported around the province. In the long term, some financial assistance for home owners to raise- their. houses would prove less expensive than annual flood relieve, Instead of ‘non-productively arguing, it is time for some co- operative problem solving. What do you think? Sincerely, D. Webb, Terrace, B.C. sities have started to offer courses in the north for northerners. Northerners are now starting to obtain university degrees without Perhaps it is time for the north | | to. consider having univer- U ING = Qe sity/colleges as has happened in other parts of the province. | QUT WITH the old and in with the new Is taking place on the Northerners need more op- J} oid Skeena bridge until the middle of next month. Dave portunities for a university educa- | Brandon of Yellowhead Construction of Smithers is cutting tion - not less. _ | bolt heads holding large timbers in place. They'll be replaced Yours sincerely, by new railings acting as a buffer between pedestrians and Tee Fos traffic. 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