B10 - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, February 5. 1997

A person
who brings
it all to life

ASK GAMES coordinators what
made the 1997 Northern B.C. Winter
Games possible in Terrace and they’
probably mention sponsors, donations
and months of planning.

But at the top of the list will be local
volunteers.

“Ym always amazed that these
people keep coming in to work, day
after day, no matter how crazy things
get,”’ says Games coordinator Diana
O’Brien. ‘‘And they don’t get paid a
thing.”

One of those volunteers is Linda
Perry. She has worked in the Games
office for the past two months, doing
paperwork, processing billeters and
answering phones.

Perry actually works full time at
Mills Memorial Hespital as a
switchboard operator, but when her
shift is over there, she heads to the
Games office for a few hours. And
weekends are just like any other work
day for Perry — she spends those
volunteering too.

‘I decided it was time for me to do
something for the community,’’ the
46-year-old says. “I wanted to give
something back."

Originally from Victoria, Perry has
lived in Terrace for 19 years. She’s
married and has six children, two of
whom still live at home.

“<I don’t know where she gets the
energy,’" O'Brien says. ‘“She spends
hours and hours in this office like its a
full-time job, plus she works and she
has a family.”

O’Brien also points out that Perry
goes out of her way to help lift her co-
workers’ spirits.

“She does little things like bring
over warm bagels in the morning,”
says O’Brien. ‘‘And she’s always
trying to take care of me. She brought
~f-me some. echinacea when she thought
1 {owas dritiking too much coffee and

not eating right.”’

DOING JUST about everything at the
games office is Linda Perry, one of
hundreds of volunteers who have
devoted hundreds of hours to making
this weekend a reality.

But Perry says her volunteering ef-
forts have all been worth it. And
while she admits all the work can be
pretty tiring, she says the friends she
has made in the office make the job
fun.

‘The people are all just great,’’ she
says. ‘‘Diana is always boosting us up
and making us feel good about what
we're doing.”’

Perry says she’s going to take the
weekend before the Games off from
volunteering, to catch her breath be-
fore the athletes arrive and things
really heat up.

And you can bet O’Brien will miss
her while she’s gonc.

‘Anything that needs to be done
around the office, she does,’’ says
O’Brien. ‘‘From doing paperwork to
running errands to cleaning the
bathroom, she does it all, She’s a
wonderful person.”’

emma’s Buying Trip

Good Luck to the athietes of the
B.C. Winter Games.

While your in Terrace enjoying our city, we are out of town on our annual buy-

ing trip. We hope you enjoy our stores and our city. For local customers,
there’s still a. great selection of product if you have anything special in mind,

phone one of our staff members and we'll do our best to get it in.

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PUBLIC COMMENT INVITED ON AN APPLICATION FOR THE
GREENVILLE-KINCOLITH ROAD PROJECT

The Ministry of Transportation and Highways (MoTH) has made an application for a project
approval certificate under the Environmental Assessment Act (EA ACT) for the Greenville-
Kincolith Road Project. The application is for approval for the design and construction of
approximately 23 kilometres of two lane gravel road along the north side of the Nass River
from the village of Greenville to Mill Bay. This new road wil! connect to a road being constructed

’ by Nisga'a Economic Enterprises Incorporated between Mill Bay and the Village of Kincolith

(initially for logging purposes) and will eventually become a public, low-volume highway
connecting Kincolith to the Nisga’a Highway, Highway #16 and Highway #37.

For the purpose of the EA Review, the reviewable project includes:

* construction and operations/maintenance of the entire road from Greenville to Kincolith,
excluding the construction recently undertaken by the Nisga’a First Nations for logging
purposes; a, a ; es

+ all roadvelated structures and excavations, inciuding the road bed, bridges and any
ancillary facilities associated with the road (including gravel and borrow pits, waste soil
pits and maintenance facilities);

* any required off-site facilities, such as accommodation for the construction and
operations /maintenance workforce; and

¢ any additional use of off-site services and infrastructure associated with the development
of the project (e.g. implications for the regional transportation network, and for the
linkages of jocal communities (primarily Kincolith and Greenville) with Highway #16
communities, notably Terrace and Prince Rupert).

The application may be viewed at the following satellite repositories.

* Prince Rupert Public Library, 101 6th Avenue West, Prince Rupert, BC V8J 1¥9

® Terrace Public Library, 4610 Park Avenue, Terrace, BC V8G 1V6

» Smithers Public Library, PO Box 55, Smithers, BC VOJ 2NO

* Vancouver Public Library 350 West Georgia St., Vancouver, BC (see Business and
Economics Division Librarian for assistance)

° Nisga’a Tribal Council Office, 100 Gitzyon Street, New Alyansh, BC VO) 1A0

* Laxqalts’ap (Greenville) Band Council Office, 322 Church Street, Greenville, BC VOJ 1X0

® Git-Gincolx (Kincolith) Band Council Office, 1304 Broad Street, Kincolith, BC VOV 1 BO

» LaxKw'alaams Band Council Office, 206 Shashaak Street, Port Simpson, BC VOV 1 HO

or at the Environmental Assessment Office Project Registry at 1st Floor, 836 Yates Street,
Victoria, British Columbia, V8V 1X4. ;

Information about the project, including the overview from the proponent’s application, can be
accessed on the Environmental Assessment Office Website at hitp://www.ea0.gov.be.ca-

The provincial Environmental Assessment Office invites comments on the application to
ensure that public issues and concerns are Identified and addressed as part of the
environmental assessment review process. All submissions witl be available to the general
public through the Project Registry as originally submitted and-required by the EA Act. If your
submission does not indicate that you wish your address to be treated in confidence, your
entire submission, including your address, will be filed in full-on the Registry. All comments will

. be considered as part of the review.

The public comment period officially commences on February 17, 1997. Comments on the
application for the Greenville-Kincolith Road project should be received at the Environmental
Assessment Office by April 17, 1997 at the following address:

Raymond L. Crook, Project Committee Chair
Greenville-Kincalith Road Project .
Environmental Assessment Office
2nd Floor, 836 Yates Street

_ Victoria, British Columbia V8V 1X4
Telephone: (250) 356-7492 Fax: (250) 387-2208
E-Mail: rcook@galaxy.gov.bc.ca

_BRITISH
COLUMBIA.

"MINISTRY OF TRANSPORTATION & HIGHWAYS _