Grade 12 students at Caledonia Senlor Secondary School began writing government exams a
year ago this week while negotiations between the board and teachers of School District 88
ground to a halt. Other than class size, many students said there wasn’t much in the strike for

them and the longer it continued the less they would benefit.

Year ago —

plication of city policies. Did
anyone keep score on any of
these lists? a .

Slow-moving targets

In the meantime, Terrace.

RCMP were. apparently taking
. care of another of council’s con-
cerns — pedestrian and traffic
safety in the downtown core.
This was an interim measure, ac-
cording to council, until the

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results of a full scale traffic safe-

ty study were known. Reports
from. both tthe Finance and-

Public Works committees in-
dicated that. the RCMP felt that
both pedestrians and drivers
needed to be educated and learn

to hold great respect for one —

another. Areas of major concern
according io the committees

‘were the crosswalk between

McDonald’s and Skeena Mall

-“Hank the Kermode”, the immobilized denizen of Terrace
city council chambers, had lost weight over the years and
council was looking for something a little. more attractive a

year ago this week. With the heat generated by a donated -

bear, though, Hank may not have been all that bad. °

and the center of the 4600 block
Lakelse Ave.

Training and enterprise
In other community news,

‘both the city and the regional
district offered support for the

Training and Enterprise center

proposed by Minister of Ad-

vanced Education and Training

Stan Hagen. Under Hagen’s

plan, the Terrace office, one of

‘12-in the province to be estab-

lished at a total cost of $2.5
million over two years, would
serve branch offices in Kitimat
and Prince Rupert through a
computer link. Services to be in-
cluded in the center — according
to last year’s list — were the
Ministry of Advanced Educa-
tion and Job Training. North-
west Community College, Ter-
race and District Chamber of
Commerce, 16-37 Community
Futures and Skeena Labour
Market Development Commit-
tee. No date was given for the
official opening of the center.

Sunday, Sunday

In the busines world, local
politicians and businessmen had
been debating the virutes of Sun-
day shopping for some time
before the Supreme Court of
B.C. took the decision out of
their hands. A year ago this
week, Attorney General Bud
Smith announced that the last
avenue or recourse, an appeal of
the Supreme Court's decision,
had been closed. The province
wouldn’t be taking any further
action. This put many Skeena
Mall merchants in an uproar;
those who had opposed Sunday
shopping said they were now at
the mercy of their landlord and
were left with only two choices
— open on Sundays, or face
eviction or landlord-imposed
fines.” ,
Blitz of letters —

_ On the education scene a year
ago. this. week, the Interior

time,

University Society was calling
for-a letter-writing blitz in sup-
port of a northern university.
According to the society,
Minister of Advanced Ecuation
Stan Hagen was ‘‘still ignoring’’
the society’s. feasibility study
and an Angus Reid poll of
public support. ‘‘Simply say you
demand this government get off
its duff and grant a Charter for
the University of the North,”
said society media relations of-
ficer Ron East. At the same
the NWCC board of
trustees were making some
moves in advanced education of
their own. A year go this week
they approved, in principle, a
proposal for a three-year Cer-
tified Forestry Technicians pro-
gram at their Hazelton campus.
The program was tentatively
slated to begin later in the year.

Sports

Look back a year and you will
find there was a lot going on in
sports in our area. Terrace teams
didn’t fair too well in the annual
Terrace Minor Hockey bantam
house league tournament, but
fourth-place [ronworks won the
most inspirational trophy and
last-place Skeena Cellulose was
selected as the most sportsman-
like team. Terrace Inland Ken-
worth travelled to Burns Lake
that same weekend and placed
fourth in a tournament there.

A year ago this week the
Peaks Gymnastics Club cele-
brated their 20th anniversary
during an open house at the
Thornhill Community Hall...

another indication of how badly:

they needed a place of their own.
In youth soccer, president Don
Highe was also looking towards
bigger and better things. He had
just returned from a trip to
Holland and the talk was about
sending a local team to the 1990
Haarlem Cup Tournament to be
held in Haarlem, Hotland. The
trip. would cost about $1,500 per

player, though, and the competi-
tion would be tough. The Haar-
tem Cup uses 80 playing fields in
a playdown consisting of about
500 teams ranging from
Under-10 youth teams to adults.

Also in soccer, the B.C.
Chiropractic Association put —

what might be called a com-. —

petitive crimp in youth soccer
training a little over a year ago
when they announced ‘‘head-
ing’? could be harmful to the
future health of young players.
“The young spine is very vul-
nerable to shocks and sudden
impacts,”’ said Dr. Chris Martin
of Vancouver, and soccer
players might be wise to forget
about heading until, they are at
least 18 years old.

And snow

Finally, the weather wasn’t
too bad a year ago this week... if
-you like shovelling snow. Tem-
‘peratures were moderate; rang-
ing between 0 and +2 degrees
Centigrade and dropping off to
lows of —5 and —7 by Jan. 22.
During the week, though, we got
a total of about one inch of rain
and 43 inches of snow. The
worst day was Thursday, Jan.
19, when we received about 9/10
of an inch of rain by day and 16
inches of snow by night. The
following day, theré was seven
inches of snow. The forecast was
for cooler temperatures and con-
tinuing unsettled conditions.

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