The weather in Terrace since the beginning of the year appears to have been imported from the prairies. Outflow winds weve particularly intense near the Skeena River, as this scene on Molitor St. shows. Extreme wind chill has caused cases of frostbite, power interruptions and problems with electronic office equipme flying hasn't been great either — snow storms in Vancouver have the next couple of days. Ue te mee Terrace Review — Wednesday, January 9, 1991 A3 nt due to accumulating static electricity. Despite clear weather the disrupted flight schedules. The weather is expected to break within School board committees set TERRACE — Members and chairmen of the five standing committees for the board of School District 88 have been appointed by board chairman. Edna Cooper. per also , announced the appointments of trustees as the board’s representatives to several local organizations at the board’s monthly public mecting last night. She said Jan. 4 that the appointees had been informed in December and as far as she knew all appointments had been accepted. The composition of the commit- tees for the coming year is: “Education and Personnel — Stew Christensen, chairman; Wayne Braid, Terry Brown, Mary Spooner. *Finance — John Pousette, chair- man; Laurie Mitchell, Stew Chris- tensen, Mary Spooner. *Facllities — Wayne Braid, chair- man; Gordon Sebastian, Terry Brown, John Pouseite. Contract Management — Kir- sten Chapman, chairman; Laurie Mitchell, Gordon Sebastian, Stew Christensen. *Negotiating Resource Commit- tee — Wayne Braid, Edna Cooper. External appointment assign- ments for the trustees are: Kirsten Chapman — Skeena Union Board of Health, North West Labour Relations Council, B.C.S.T.A. Provincial Council. 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V6E 2R1 (604) 681-9192 800-1199 West Pender Street de/TM Licensed tradmarks oF Uniglobe Travel (international) Inc. Each agency Independently owned and operated alternate, Edna Cooper — Northwest Com- munity College management liaison, R.E.M. Lee Theatre, B.CS.T.A. Provincial Council altemate, B.C.S.T.A. Provincial Intermediate Steering Committee. John Pousette — Northwest 88 Education Foundation (scholar- ships). Laurie Mitchell — Terrace- Thormhili Recreation Advisory Commission. Terry Brown — Native Advisory Committee. Cooper also struck three ad hoc committees. Mary Spooner was appointed to work with primary supervisor Jan Iverson on the primary program implementation for the Year 2000 curiculum; Edna Cooper will work with Paul Axelson on the intermediate pro- gram - committee; and John ’ Pousette will work with director of instruction Harold Cox on the graduation program. Each trustee was also assigned individual schools in the dis for which he or she will act a&. board liaison. ; A sweating-in ceremony was scheduled at the meeting last night for the three trustees — Stew Christensen, Terry Brown and Mary Spooner — appointed last month by the Minister of Educa- tion. Runway blowouts add excitement to flight by Tod Strachan It was a bit of a rough landing, says Terrace resident Caroline Daniels. "We hit quite hard." Daniels was one of seven chaperons and coaches accompany- ing 13 seven-year-old soccer players on an AirBC flight from Vancouver to Terrace Monday moming when a normal approach ended in a somewhat unusual landing. According to Ross Minaker, vice president of Air B.C. Operations in Vancouver, the BAe 146 jet air- craft took off from Vancouver in wet, slushy weather and it appears as though some of that slush froze inside the two right brake drums during the flight; when the aircraft landed at Terrace the two right wheels refused to turn, causing blowouts in both right tires. Daniels describes the landing as “eventful” but not frightening. Although it was a litite rough and the aircraft sloped to one side, it ran straight on the runway. When it came to a halt at the end of runway 33, however, it simply sat there. It took about a half hour before a bus arrived and the 45 passengers deplaned for their ride to the terminal. Airport manager Darryl Laurent says the aircraft was latcr moved to runway 09 to await a repair crew from Vancouver. This wasn’t a simple matter, says Minaker. As a result of snow, slush, plowing and periods of de-icer shortages at the Vancouver airport, it wasn’t until Morday evening that they arrived iu Terrace, replaced the wheels aad rescued their aircraft. Minaker said the incident posed no danger to the passengers — aircraft are designed with this sort of emergency situation in mind and normally travel a straight line down the runway. Utilities holding up well under weather stress The past week has seen three widespread power outages, two of them in Thornhill. The worst occurred Monday, with electric power failing in nearly all of Thornhill and out as far as Usk for about three hours during the mom- ing. Ail schools were closed in Thornhill as a result. B.C. Hydro Terrace area manager Roy Staveley says he’s surprised it hasn’t been worse, considering the length of the cold snap and the consistent severity of the winds. Most of Hydro’s troubles have been caused by falling trees strik- ing transmission lines. Staveley said he thinks the cold makes the trees brittle and more susceptible to wind throw. One of the power failures was caused by what Staveley described as a “spindly little tree" falling laterally across a line in Thornhill and then bouncing and hitting the line again. The first strike took out a local fuse, but when the tree rebounded power surged back through the line. The tree hit again, but the local fuse was already blown and the second strike took out a fuse at a feeder station, making the outage much more widespread. “You wouldn’t think a tree that size could do that much damage," he remarked. Hydro crews are taking the blunt end of the weather, having to work outside for extended periods of time in temperatures verging on - 50°C with the wind chill factored in. One Hydro lineman, Ed Wrubel, spent nearly five con- tinuous hours doing outside line work with only short breaks in a truck cab Monday morning, Staveley said. “It’s the side of Hydro people don’t generally see," he said. Staveley attributes the overall stability of power supply during the adverse conditions to mainte- nance measures taken last year. "It’s been a lot worse in the past two years,” he said. "We spent a lot of money last year, and now it’s paying off." The cold has been pushing home heat resources to the limit, and Ron Murphy of the Pacific North- em Gas Terrace office says the region has been setting daily con- sumption records for the past week. All natural gas users from Vanderhoof to Prince Rupert have used a combined average of 106 million cubic feet of gas per day during the cold snap, and Murphy said supplies of what is termed "interruptible gas" — surplus gas sold at a discount to industrial users — have been curtailed. The previous daily pumping record was set in February 1990. Murphy said the company has experienced no maintenance prob- lems as a direct result of the weather, ad