Page A2 - The Terrace Standard. Wednesdav. December 23, 1992

New committee to focus

on city’s h

TERRACE — In the face of
children’s pleas to shelier the
homeless and seniors calling for
affordable rental accommodation,
council has formed a new com-
mittee.

Announced at Monday night's
special council meeting, the com-
mittee will deal with housing and
related social services issues, ex~-
plained mayor Jack Talstra.

The formation of the new body
cames in the wake of a public
outcry over the death of one of
the community’s homeless.

Daisy Wesiey died Nov. 28 un-
der a tarp she and her husband
Alex lived under on a vacant lot
off Greig Ave.

The death prompted a grade six
class at Thombill Elementary
school to write to the city,

In one of those letters, read out
at council’s Dec. 14 meeting,
Candice Harper told aldermen
“the city hail should have a home
for the homeless.”’

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Listing the needs of such people
and suggesting ways money
could be raised, Harper closed by
saying: ‘‘Christmas is about fam-
ily, good food. The homeless are
searching for food on Christ-
mas!”’

At that same council meeting,

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aldermen also heard a presenta-
tion from the Terrace Seniors
Housing Society calling on coun-
cil to get more involved in efforts
to build a seniors housing project
here.

“We hope ta focus on all
aspects of housing a little more
than we've done in the past,”
Talstra said.

“Well be looking al senior
citizens housing, low cost hous-
ing, even housing for the home-
less Lo some extent,’” he added.

‘However, he emphasized, the
committee will lake ‘‘a very ta-
lional approach’’ to those issues.

In terms of the homeless, that
meant finding out how many
homeless there were in Terrace,
why they were homeless and
“why they are falling through the
cracks of our social system.”

In trying to determine how
those people should be looked
after, Talstra said the committee
would also consider the question,

Council told it must help
for senior housing success

TERRACE — The drive for low
cost housing for seniors in the
community may have been stalled
this year but pfeponents haven’t
given up, says Aileen Frank.

Yet the city is going to have to
get more involved if the project is
to go ahead, she told council last
week.

Frank, a member of the Terrace
Seniors Housing. society, ex-
plained the group was formed in
April of this year following a sur-
vey of local pensioners.

That survey found 100 seniors
who had difficulties because of
their current accommodation and
would be prepared to move into a
specially. built, complex if one
were available.

The society had set a goal. of
constructing a .20-unit low cost
rental development and applied to
the B.C. Housing Management

Commission..for. financial. sup-.

port.

Noting that application had
been tured down, Frank said the
society's dealings with the com-
mission had convinced it greater
cily involvement was needed if a

have had to leave Terrace in order
io find a snilable place,’’ she
added,
_ Typical problems faced by
seniors included trying to handle
the upkeep of a large home and
garden or being located too far
from downtown, Frank said.
Noting thal another community-
based group, the Skeena Housing
Society, was pressing for an af-
fordable rental development

aimed at families, she said the
seniors group was prepared to
consider a joint project.

With that in mind, it was find-
ing out what the experience of
similar projects elsewhere in the
province had been.

The seniors housing society re-
quest was referred to the next
mecting of the finance com-
mittee, the be held at the earliest
possible date,

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sing issues

“Ts it even the city’s responsibili-
ty to look after them?”’

Pointing out programs to help
the homeless were in place in the
community, he said the com-
mittee would also try to find out
why they were not being used.

“We are going to look at itina
very reasoned way and see what
we can do,” he repeated.

The city also planned to hold
another housing forum in the
spring of next year.

Turning to the seniors’ request
to donate city land adjacent to the
arena for their proposed project,
Talstra said the property had been

purchased with long term needs

in mind.

If, for example, the second
sheet of ice project went ahead,
that land would be needed to pro-
vide adequate parking space.

And if the land was ever used

_ for the purpose for which it was

originally bought -- a communily-
convention centre -- ‘where are
you going to put it and bow are
you going to provide parking for
it?’? he wondered,

‘*Maybe the (provincial govern-
ment) are the ones who should be
doing the donating,”? he sug-
gested.

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clude having one or two aldermen
take part in society meetings.

The society also asked the city
to donate Hand located just to the
north of the arena and behind the
Willows apartments seniors com-
plex.

The land is part of a parcel near
the courthouse bought by the city
in 1989 for $140,000. It was later
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convention centre project.

Underlining the need for such a
project in the community, she
said there were long waiting lists
al the only two existing seniors
housing projects here.

“T have known seniors who

First
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TERRACE -- The first hat has
been thrown into the Reform
Party’s Skeena riding candidate
ring.

Michael Scott, Kitimat resident
and district manager for Kentron
Construction, announced — fast
Wednesday he will seck the
party’s nomination as candidate
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