Nisga’a 1

Murray Pezim

TERRACE — Move , over Lui
Passaglia, - here comes Alvin
McKay.

That’s right. The president. of.
the Nisga’a Tribal: Council: will:
be at B.C. Place Stadiuin Sept, 3
to kick off home’ game number
six for the B.C. Lions — against
the Ottawa Roughriders. /:-)9-:

The Nisga’a paid to sponsor the
football game, according:
George Chayka, the Lion:
porate marketing execuliv

The deal will also see Lions.”
owner
promoter Murray Pezim on-hand.
to become an honourary Nisga’ a os
native fortheday. ——

“Tt should be fun,” Pezim said
last week, ‘“We’ll try to get “Mul- ”

hro

toney out there too if he’s going

and Vancouver’ stock:

to be around.”
He said the marketing team ap-
proached: the: tribal council and

“-¢'they thought it would be a great

idea ta have a Nisga’ a night.””

: Chayka claims it's mere coin-
‘cindence that Ottawa was the
“target. the “Nisga’a hired | the
“Lions? hit team to tackle.

“- “Tt just kind. of worked ‘out that
way,” Chayka said. We: were. -

‘getting towards the end of our
booking © schedule. and
weren't very matty games ‘left.

Butl guess itis kind of ironic that
av 8 against Oltawa.’

“Yeah, thal was-sorl of an at

~ traction for us,’ admiticd Nisga'a
“ Tribal Council spokesman Nelson

there-

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Steelies

TERRACE — Better, but still
well short of the best,
Latest figures released by the

provincial fisheries branch show.

this year’s retum of summer run
stecthead to the Skeena is more
than double. the “disaster the
fishery was facing at. this point
last year. -

However, the estimated 3320
fish which had entered the river

as of July 25 are still only half the.

average for the past 10 years.

Afier a slow start at the begin-

ning of the month, the nin began

in camest the week ending: July;
i8 when . tpproximately, ee

pick up

steelhead entered the river.

A further 1100 are estimated to.

have passed the test fishery at
Tyee the following week.

Fisheries says an average of
~ 600 commercial gillnetters a day __
operated near ‘the siouth’ of the.

Skeena -for four days of that last
week,”

They reported catching a total

‘remaining 391 did not sirvive,

° That takes the total fish released.
«by: commercial - ‘fishermen 50 far

Abis seascn ‘to 0614.

of 858 steelhead in their nets, 467
of. which were later released. The

in negotiations watching B.C. and

- Ottawa = fight ~=over who's
responsible for this.”
He said the Nisga’a were

originally going to sponsor the
game in conjunction with the As-
sembly of First Nations, but that

deal fell through.

“We decided to £9. alone with,
it,’ Lecson said.

He said a-vest- is , being designed .
for. Pezim featuring the four
eresis of the Nisga’a.

- Nisga’a drummess will be on
the field in Cull regalia to drum in
the players, he said.

A number of posters have been
made featuring Nisga’a children
with B.C. Lions players. And he

TERRACE -— Acis of vandalism
dropped by more than half in:
June compared to the same month
in 1991.

Only 30 acts were reported in
the Terrace RCMP’s coverage
area last month while 70. were
reported in June of last year.

For.the downtown business core —

area, acts of vandalism declined
to six from 13 for the same peri-
od.

RCMP crime prevention officer
Constable Jamie Praticante at-
tributed some of the decline to the
chamber of commerce’s new
Vandal Watch program.

It pays rewards [or information
leading to the arrest and conyic-

i

f. porsousicrespansible fon 2 i downtown:-core.40,,Jhes reducvon!

vandalism.

-said there’s a possibility of hold-

ing a pre-game salmon barbecue.

Leeson said the Nisga’a paid
$17,000 to sponsor the game.

The package — worth consider-
ably more — includes 200 game
day seats and'75 seats to Pezim's
exclusive stadium lounge.

Tribal’ council executive mem-
bers will host a gathering of
sclect. business . peaple = and
_ politicians, he added.

‘We hope to invite the premier
and the prime minister as well,’
Leeson. said, ‘We're quile ex-
cited about this.’

Chayka said the game takes
place near the end of the PNE
season and should therefore at-
tract a sizeable crowd.

Big vandalism dip |
from the last year:

Praticante also said downtown
merchants and young people who
frequent the area al night have
been building ties to cach other.

“They: feel better,” said
Praticante of the young people.
“There's more respect tor. the
area,”

Merchants and young. people.

have been meeting as an offshoot —

of the Vandal Watch program.

“Kids don’t like to be blamed
for everything. “They’re not
responsible for everything that
happens, that’s for sure,”’ said
Praticante..

And she attributed some of the
decline of vandalism in the

“of young people dowiitown . at

At last, Orenda
gets good news

TERRACE — Details of a study
ta determine’ how the proposed
Orenda pulp and paper mill will
affect and could benefit natives
have been finalized.

And while that’s one of the re-
quirements for clearing the mill
site south of Lakelse Lake, con-
struction won’t start this year,
says company vice president
Frank Foster.

The company ~still has to raise
$410 million and other required
studies must be accepied by the
provincial government.

Foster said the study will pro-
vide a job skills inventory of
Tsimshian here and on the: coast
and the Haisla at Kitamaat:

And itll look at impacts on cur-
rem native use of fishery -and
wildlife resources thal might be
affected by the mill.

Included in the study will be ihe
Nisga’a, the Gilksan and the
Gitanyow because the wood for
the mill will come from the area
in which they live,

“A portion (of the study) will
basically give a closer look at
what opportunities there are at the
mill and employment possibilities
with service contracts and sup-
pliers, " said Foster.

: He said that kind of Information
will also be of value to other
people living in the area.

Foster said ‘‘there was nothing
explicitly stated within the terms

of reference’? regarding, the pos-
sibility of native job quotas at the
“mill.

The details of the study, called
ierms of reference, are nearly
(hree months Jate and became
complicated ‘because of conflict-
ing work demands by those in-
volved in their prepafation.

Agreement was needed by na-
tives, Orenda and the provincial
government, ,

Those terms were to have been
finalized 30 days after the pro-
vince gave conditional approval
to the mill in mid-April.’

The search has now started for a
company to do the work and the
study is expected to be finished
by late fall,

Foster said the terms did not
hald up site clearing because a
study on underground water
that'll define exactly. where the
mill should. go and where wells
should be placed has yet to be ac-
-cepted by the province.

The company helped its financ-
ing search Jast week by signing

_up a New York-based investment
company. ’

Kidder Peabody and Co. Inc.
will line. up a combination of
bank loans and share purchasers.

The water study is important
because of worries that Orenda’s
use of the water will diminish its
flow into neighbouring — fish-
bearing crecks.

Ottawa to Lions

Leeson. “J 1l be like the old days

night since the closure of
Danny’s Pool Hall, o
Kk ke kk. .

Vandal - Watch ~ spokesmat

George Clark said he was:pleased
with the decline ‘in: ‘vandalism and
in the progress of the reward ok
fort.
- We're delighted with, the im-
pact it’s having. There’s aware-
licss and it’s growing,’” he said,
Vandal Watch was given ati -ini:

“tial boost by the city which con-

tributed $1,000 for the reward
pool and a commitment by it to
set aside. the ~ interest. from
$10,000 to help sustain the pool,
-Businesses have contributed
early $2,000 4 ward the. pool:bi
Glark:

“Once: you. pay outa couple: of
$200 rewards, it doesn?t take long
until we'll nced more,’’ he added.

Vandal Watch treasurer Debbie
McIntyre said the _ program has
» paid out two rewards of $200
cach and that a third payment

-rests with the outcome of a court

case,

In the meantime the chamber is
mailing out Vandal Watch stick-
ers for display by merchants in.

‘store windows.

Those receiving the stickers are
also being asked to donate lo the
reward pool.

Those phoning the Vandal
Waich line at 635-5556 are given
a, file number which they. must

use for future Teference.

This way the identity of the per-
son or persons giving the in-
formation is kept confidential.

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