Election expenses reported

_ Parker tops all candidates

“TERRACE —Dave Parker

oultspent NDP opponent
Helmut Giesbrecht 2-to-] in an
unsuccesful attempt to be re-

elected in last fall’s provincial

election.
_. Figures from the Chief Elec-
toral: Office indicate Parker,

_. first elected as the Social Credit
‘Party: candidate in 1986, spent
» 2 $65,535.60 compared to-
— ~Gieabrechts $31,137.49.

Giesbrecht received 5,472

. “yotes to Parker’s 4,503.

“Liberal Juanita Hatton spent
$983.20: and received 1,515

oe votes,

Parker’ s.total ranked ninth

-. - among Social Credit candidate
"spending.

: He spent $6,600 on paid of-

fice staff while Giesbrecht spent

$2,355, Office expenses for

‘TERRACE —A construction
“project adding 2,000 square feet
‘anda number of services to the
largest retail outlet in the Nass

Valley should be finished the
middle of February,

>, The Gitladamix Devlopment
‘Corporation, owned by the
-Gitladamix (New Aiyansh)

band, is spending just under

:$525,000 on the expansion.to

~. ithe New Aiyansh Co-op, says

Parker were listed as $11,091
while for Giesbrecht they were
$5,336.34,

_ Former Premier Rita
Johnston spent $126,531.50 in
her unsuccessful attempt to be

te-slected. while Premier Mike
- Harcourt spent $105,044.41.

In the North Coast riding
forest minister Dan Miller spent
$29,619.54 to Socred Linda
Marshall-Lutz’s $20, 100.80.

Jack Kempf, the former
Social Credit MLA in Bulkley
Valley-Stikine who ran as an in-
dependent, spent $13,905.38.

Kempf finished behind NDP
MLA Jackie Pement who spent

$26,935.08 and Liberal Alice

Maitland who spent $787.54.
Independent candidate Herb

George,- who finished last,

spent $16,488.66 in that riding,

corporation president Edmond
Wright,

Involved is renovating the ex-
isting 4,000 square foot struc-
ture, moving the village’s post
office from the band council of-
fice to the store, putting in a deli
and fast food counter and in-
stalling a Chester fried -chicken
franchise, he said.

“The development corpora-
tion is acting as its own general

Helmut Giesbrecht

Dave Parker

contractor and the sub trades
are coming from all over ‘the
place,” Wright added. ;

An added feature to the new
store will be space for the
display. and sale of arts and
crafts, he said..

- The store was opened in 1982
and the development corpora-
tion views the expansion as a
way of servicing the village
which has grown to 850 people

Lava bed park creation
could happen this spring

TERRACE — The Nisga’a
Memorial Lava) Bed Park
should, become a reality

sometime this spring.

- Nisga’a Tribal Council

‘spokesman Harry Nyce said
‘he’s expecting final details to be
"-eleared ‘up soon, opening the

‘way for: proclamation of the

:20,000ha proposed provincial

‘park. in the Tseax lava beds
north. of town,
“Tt “could _ probably be

a designated by the time of our
a convention i in April,’' he added
last week.
“> The. Nisga’a meet for their
annual convention Apr. 28 to

May | in New Aiyansh,
Nyce said a deal with the
mines ministry allows for about

’ half of the area — the actual

lava-covered area — [to go
directly to class ‘A’ provincial
park status. The remainder,
mainly the upper part of the
Crater Creek watershed and the
nearby mountain range, will
first go through a minimum
10-year waiting period in recrea-
tional area status.

Skeena Cellulose has given up
cutting. rights sto 2;900ha of
timber ‘there ‘under an agree-
ment the company reached with
parks ministry negotiators and

an 8
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killed when the lava flow buried

two Nisga’a villages in the Nass -

River valley approximately 250
years ago.

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New Aiyansh store E€XPa nds

since the opening,

Wright says the’ population
goes up on weekends and during
holidays.

The store is called the New ~

Aiyansh Co-op because original

-plans called for an affiliation

“

with the Federated Co-ops Ltd.
system.

Those plans fell: through but
the name remained, said
Wright.

The development corporation
will have a contest to choose a
new name for the store, he add-
ed, ,

Financing is in the form of a
$175,000 loan from Tricorp, 4
native-based loans organization

' with offices in Prince Rupert

and in Terrace, $75,000 from
the provincial First Citizens
Fund, $200,000 from a federal
government native development
loan program, $64,000 in equity
from the Gitladamix Develop-
ment Corporation, $6,500 from
a federal employment training
program and monies from
equipment salvage.

“We're doing OK right now

in regards to staying under
budget,’’ said Wright.

otsAmofficial cecemony'to mark

‘the expansion will be held later,

$939, 25

FOR THE PAIR

he said.

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