week — T hose in favour of Sunday business hour restrictions outnumbered those opposed, but that made little differ- : ence when it came time for Ter- race city council to make a deci- ‘Sion. A bylaw that would have required local retailers to close no later than noon Sunday was scrapped a year ago this week. Well over 50 people jammed council chambers and dozens more lined up as far as the top of the stairs in the second-floor haliway outside.-They were all there for the same thing: to speak their minds, a process that took over an hour and a half. When it came to a vote, though, the only’ opinions that mattered where those of our city aldermen. And only two, Ruth Hallock and Dave Hull, were in favour of the bylaw. Darryl Laurent made the motion to scrap the proposed bylaw. He said he believed businessmen should be allowed to choose their operating hours. “If the people weren’t there, the stores would be closed," he reasoned. Laurent also recognized Terrace as the North- west "hub" and said, "If we don’t open Sundays, Kitlmat will.” Mo Takhar suggested that Sun- day shopping wasn’t really all that bad and noted, "Bars can do a lot more hatm." With that idea in mind he asked city council to lobby the province for Sunday closure of liquor establishments. _ "T’ve always been in favour of freedom of choice for everyone," said Bob Cooper. "It doesn’t mean " you have to shop on Sunday or open your store." Danny Sheridan said the bylaw wouldn’t work; technically a busi- ness could open midnight Saturday and close noon Sunday. He said for this reason he thought the city would soon find themselves and their bylaw in court, and he criti- cized the province for leaving municipalities to make provincial government decisions. In favouring the bylaw, Dave Hull said, "Terrace is a small town with small town values", and he didn’t believe large corporations should be allowed to toy with those values for their own financial gain. Ruth Hallock held with her belief that a 1987 plebiscite had already answered the question. The bylaw should stand. In 1987, voters were asked if they wanted Sunday shop- ping and 64 percent said "no", Mayor Jack Talstra wasn’t required to vote, bul he said if he had would have followed Hal- lock’s line of thinking. The elec- torate had already spoken and therefore the bylaw should stand. YTound town, a public meeting to discuss a . HandiDART iransii ser- vice in town had been set and the .1990 Riverboat Days executive had been. elected. ‘The commiitec would be under the direction of _ president Maria Thomsen with the | : . SUNDAY SHOPPING — An hour and a half of delegations to city council still couldn’t stop it. help of Gayle Holtom, Mary Ann Burdett, Louise Leudtke, Ruth Wright, Vesta Douglas and Milt Lindsay. _ The first recorded frost of the year came a little early. It was on Oct. 16, and according to the weatherman the average date over the last 25 years was Oct. 17. The next question, then, was, "When is it going to snow?" He wouldn't say, but the average was Oct..30 while the earliest recorded date was Sept. 27 and the latest was Nov. 24. He suggested it would likely fall somewhere within those limits. . But who needed either? The talk at Lakelse Lake was about beach access... not frost or snow. Harry McCowan had purchased a 750-foot piece of waterfront land from Oli Kroyer and a traditional beach access route had been altered. "We don’t want to cut anyone off," McCowan said a year ago this week. "There’s no problem with anyone using the beach. It’s just that it became evident that people were not going to respect our property.” He hinted, though, that if the problem continued the construction of a fence and gate might be necessary at some point in the future. ot » aia from Skylink flight D 070 had been analyzed but there was still no clue as to why the Fairchild Metro III crashed one-half mile west of the Terrace runway. According to the Canadian Aviation Safety Board, data from the recorder indicated that the pilot followed a normal approach but one minute before the crash the pilot dipped below the Minimum altitude, reduced air- speed, and then began accelerating on a downward slope. The Metro Il] hit the ground at a speed of around 200 miles per hour. In the meantime, Skylink owners Rafael Zur was appealing a Minis- try of Transport decision to cancel. his operating certificate. Zur said he was confident that he would be back in operation within weeks. One Terrace resident was having air transportation problems of another sort. Greig Houlden wrote Minister of Transport Benoit Bouchard complaining of poor service at the Terrace-Kitimat airport and asked, "What efforts are being made by your ministry to ensure the earliest possible installa- tion of an instrument landing sys- tem (of any kind) at the Terrace-- Kitimat airport?" According to Houlden, "I have booked four return flights from Terrace to Vancouver in the last month. Of these four bookings, I have been able to leave and return as scheduled on only one occasion! In any other industry or situation this level of service would be considered deplorable.” ur industrial skyline was changing. The notorious gas- and smoke-belching wood wasie beehive bumer at Skeena Cellulose was history. The "smokeless" burner had at long last been replaced by a _ hog-fuel machine. And a new sawmill was in the works, Kalum Wood Products was under construction at the old B.C. Timber site on the West Kalum logging road and was scheduled to go into operation in January, 1990. The object of this value-added mill. was to be quality rather than quan- ti ty. ~ A little further south, the Kemano Completion project was rolling along and Alcan had just released some numbers of interest. To September 1989, Alcan had awarded $171 million in contracts and Terrace, Kitimat and Prince Rupert were successfui in getting $5.6 million of the action. They said that more than half the total contract awards had gone to B.C. firms. aledonia Kermode boys and girls volleyball teams were doing well a year ago this week. They made a clean sweep in a Terrace tournament, their second to last before heading for the zone finals. Junior teams were doing well too. In girls vol- leyball action in Kitimat, Kitimat, Thornhill took the top three spats while in the boys division it Thornhill, Skeena and Kitimat, Smithers cleaned up in a Junior Secondary cross-country meet hosted by Thornhill a year ago this week, In the girls’ division Terrace runner Sandy Loptson finished second in the senior division and Meghan Reia was second in junior. In the boys senior division, David Shepherd finished third while Chad and David Edmonds finished in the fifth and sixth spot. The Skeena intercity minor hockey tep team league was down the tubes. At least for the 1989/90 season. Local officials placed the blame on Prince Rupert who decided to drop out of the rep team league and go with the house league only. . ' In other hockey news, The Ter- race Timbermen took the "B’ side of the oldtimers’ season opener “held in Prince Rupert with three straight wins, and the Detroit Red Wings moved Terrace hockey pro Jeff Sharples back to the minors for a year. Red Wings manage- ment said they favoured their veteran lineup of elderly defence- men for the coming season. ‘And finally, Terrace's Bruce Kerr took the big money in Prince Rupert's cash spiel a year ago this week. He pocketed $1,600 for his 6-4 victory over Houston’s Bob Baasc, On the local scene, teams skipped by Neil Seimans, Henry Rauter and Danny Fisher emerged as event winners in the 19-team Terrace opening mixed bonspiel in Terrace. , School tilizer will be playing fields and Thornhill during the firs _ (Terrace) NOTICE — | Beginning in May and ending in October, 1990, grass fer- District #88 applied to all in the Terrace area schools t week of each |_month.