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.”’ ATER Te _ fi Jack Taistra 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, Ou 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, product warranties. are purchased. To All Lennox Product Owners Several weeks ago there was a misleading advertisement placed by another local company regarding Lennox We would like to clarify that all Lennox products are _-@overed-under a valid warranty regardiess-of. where they 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. EK CORRECTION In our “Last Minute Gifs’ flyer the Patio Door Min! Blinds featured on page 9 ara temporarily not available due to supplier's inability to ship, Arivel is expected In January. We will honour all rainchecks. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused, Kmart Canada Limited We continue to supply and install Lennox products for commercial, industrial, and institutional applications, all “under valid warranty. 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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 tagged as the site for the ill-fated 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 Reformer declares 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 in next year’s federal clection. Scott said he had filed the necessary papers with the local . constituency executive and. they had been accepted. 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