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land claims —

reach, said Weisgerber.

‘The Sechelt band will ex-
» tinguish title through a cash set-
~ Hement, a share in fishing and a
share i in resource extraction in
addition to shel et
Ona municipal model,
Welsgerber declined to give a
rsonal view on what he thinks
. Nisga’ ‘a settlement should
“consist of, but did say today’ 8
tinguished wen Beko blu: et spells o ut the proviti-
a. bia was: “greéated.” “cial position,
; “That's what: ‘the ‘negotia-
: ~ tions are all about,’ * he said of

TERRACE‘ — Native title to.
land will be the key-to any aet-
tlement of the -Nisga’a land. ‘he’
claim, says provincial native af- a
fairs: ‘minister Jack Weisgerber. :
And he said such an agree-
ment won't be easy to reach,
Weisgerber made the ‘com-: .
‘Ments before today’s signing of »'
an. agreement " between . the.
Nisga’ a.and the federal and pro: °
vincial governments. ‘outlining:
what will be negotiated and how.
the talks will take place...
“H's ‘the «first time © govern:
ments and natives have: agreed
to-try and reach a resolution'to
native land claims and to native -
Aspirations of contro! over their

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to park -

TERRACE: — Ivll soon cost
money to park at the airport.
_. Airport manager “Daryl

" Laurent said last week that fees
from paid parking will help of f-
set the federally- owned
facility’s expenses, _.

: He estimated ‘the airport now
recovers. between 44-46 percent
of its.costs’ from landing: ‘fees
and concession rentals... a

“This airport isn’t the: only one
in ‘the northwest: to. introduce
paid. fees... ‘Paid: ‘parking at
Smit ers m thi

settlement that provides certain-

7 The Nisga’ a say their tana
; claims Position is based on a

- Moral issue as, much:as-it is
on legality, That story’ On:

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Weisgerber added.

And | although the B.C.
Supreme Court decision two

the provincial position that
native, title doesn’t exist,
Weisgerber doesn’t think it will
havea significant i impact on the
Nisga’a talks.

_The provincial government
always had. ‘‘a strong belief
aboriginal title did not exist, *
he said,

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The provincial objective i is a

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TERRACE — Orenda Forest
Products officials are meeting
with provincial representatives
this week to further go over
details of the company’s plan to
build a $365. million pulp and
Paper mill south of Meziadin.

The meeting follows several
sessions over the past two weeks
in which brovincial officials are
trying ‘to decide whether they
will give tentative approval ‘to
‘the project: Or. ask. For more
detailed: studies, :.

Orenda wants to use wood its
already cutting under a licence it

said there’ be hour-
vy, dally and: ‘weekly charges. _

hourly ‘and daily parking: It’s
the ‘One. clasest’to the terminal
The ons. term lot is

x. has in the:Stewart area to pro-

= toad ahead ‘with ‘a
manual. System * for NOW, ..
Lautent: added”

He suid: paid parking will be
introdiiced as soon as envelopes
for ‘the manual .system are
‘printed. and delivered.

| Coinmissionaires - will be
. he: tots. and also be on

The wood its how logging is
either sold off-shore for timber
or sold:as pulp and timber, to
domestic mills,’;”: :

Provincial: environmental of:
ficials were reluctant to go into
detail over what is being review-
ed but did say it involves the
three major items in the project
— its technical nature, social ef:
fects and environmental effects.

Environment ministry official
David Parsons added that the
Process Orenda wants to use is
new to B.C, and so requires a
More detailed examination.

That process was developed
in Finland and uses hydrogen
peroxide as the bleaching agent
for pulp instead of the chlorine-
based system used in traditional
kraft pulp mills,

“I know technical members

Eye guy
coming

TERRACE — The city will be
the home of an ophthalmologist
covering the northwest this
summer.

That’s when Dr. Michael
Cottner, now working out of
Wrinch Memorial Hospital in
Hazelton, will be moving here,
Terrace Regional Health Care
Society official Michael Leis-
inger said last week,

‘Hazelton through the
United Church has historically
provided that kind of service,"
said Leisinger of Wrinch |

; TERRACE — - School district -
se administrator and ‘principals —
received''5.5. ‘Per cent Pay hikes :
this month.”
i The salary i increases were ap-
proved: ‘by. school trustees at a
closed-door - Meeting of ‘the
school board-on: Feb, 12...
“Tt creases: were effective -
inl; and: followed the policy :
: down after: a $75,000. salary
tudy’ of. the district's ad-
-ministrators was carried out in
989. . ‘Before ‘that study, ad-
ristration pay increases were
the: ‘same: as the contract settle- ©
m n t for'district teachers.

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‘femnace - — Letters’ ‘asking
“for: money. are being sent out

The. itrst Miss Teirace went
7 Ahis-week by a group interested “we! Dit “be

downto represent the city atthe

: “out tants would also be held,
hat Te ‘don't, “think: «we'll have

Fouble. getting. (contestant) PNE in 1984. That was 10 yearg Memorial Hospital.
keeping alive’the Miss. Ter- “sponsors: What! we need is for after the Jaycees first began ‘ap. “We're kind of excited about
aCe pageant; : ‘ _"$Ome group to: financially help plying Nee toaia the fair’s the prospect of having an
"Lynda Bretfeld of the Skéena ls. to 0 get. started,’ she said, © Miss PNE event. rat
“Mall” said. service groups, the 7 nee

"3: ophthalmologist here,’’ he said.

“Chamber of : commerce ‘and ‘its

ty for natives and for the Pro- .
vincial government on issues
such as econoniic development,

weeks ago On the Gitksan and ¢
Wet’suwet’en. claim confi rmed -

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At the samie time, Weisgerber
. said the provincial government
is committed to fi inding a
resolution to the issue of | Native
land aims through negotia-
tions. | . :

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mill

nues

of the ministry are talking. to
people in other. parts of North
America ‘ and* probably in
Finland, too, ae said Parsons,

Orenda says ‘there will be a
zero-effluent discharge from its
process because it will reeycte li-
quid in what's called a “closed
loop system.’*

The review underway | is of
Orenda’s development prospec-
tus, the first document it has to
file under the province” Ss, new

vince could ask for more-detail-

ed studies and hold public. hear-

ings.

Parsons predicted a decision
on ‘the “project. might take
another. two or three weeks to
_ Make, : .

Also under review are com-.
ments from individvals and
organizations interested in the
Orenda project.

The Kitimat-Stikine regional
district has said its worried
about secondary development
near the planned mill site while
the Nisga’a Tribal Council says
it doesn't; want any new.

development until its land claim
is settled.

Both parties have also said
they want environmental assess-
ment work done to gauge the
impact of the project.

“members and the city ar bog: sit
asked to donate t moneyie oe
And;' the - group | ‘has: been. * y
gathering names of ‘people in-
terested in’ organizing. Specific i

Pageant activities:
The. group ‘met last. week.
following news by the Terrace
Jaycees that it's ending six: year: no
” Pf sporisoring the pageant; -°""-°
i: Bretfeld said'the group plans .
to hold car washes and other
events ‘should ‘its’ other 1 requests
yturned.down, = = even
She: added ° that having a cro
ageant “is: important ~ because gona
city will lose: its spot in. the °° As"
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