AG - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, October 5, 1994

Muted applause

Dear Sir:

IT must applaud M.P, Mr. Mike
Scott’s recent comments regard-
ing his Oct. 6 public forum on
First Nation’s Land Claims to be
held here:

“We want this to happen in a
civilized way and for nothing
ugly to happen...what we don’t
want is native-bashing or any-
thing else like it.”’

Certainly we don’t need a
repeat here of the pitiful show put
on in Smithers where Mr.
Scott’s first venture into this
debate resulted in a first Nation’s
spokesman belng vehemently
booed and cussed at when he
tried addressing the assembly.

What I find curious is Mr.
Scott’s decision to stack the
speakers’ roster for the Terrace
mecting with people generally
antagonistic to the current process -
while not extending an invitation
to First Nation’s spokesmen to
present their positions to the

Widen the

An open letter io Mike Scott,
M.P. Skeena

Dear Mr. Scott,

I am concerned about the pro-
cess for your town half meetings
regarding land claim negotiations.

You have invited speakers from
forestry, fishing, mining and
recreation but you did not invite
speakers from the federal or
provincial governments or from
First Nation organizations with
knowledge of the negotiation pro-
cess,

As my federal Member of Par-

liament I ask that you organize a

balanced and informative town
hall meeting approach that in-
volves all parties to the land
claim negotiation proccss.

Your decision only provides a

Mower
takes the
edge off

Dear Sirs,
I found a sign ona lawn ad-

vertising the sale of used lawn |

mowers.

This fine fellow maintained he _

rebuilt lawn mowers as a hobby
type thing (in fact he termed it
“his U.LC.’").

This seemed perfect as we were
thinking all we needed was a
mower to get us through this
summer then next summer would
call for one of those new fangled
shiny ones. After three or four
cuttings the '“Mower From Hell’”
died and the fellow resident
lawnmowerman refused all re-
sponsibility (despite at the time of
buying it him saying ‘‘anything
major goes wrong with it bring it
back’? — not starting? Isn’t that
pretty major asked poor, in-
nocent, naive, unsuspecting 1.)

Upon thorough investigation of
the engine I found that the com-
pression was such that it could
not cut grass, I can get it to run
but it refuses to do work (some-
thing my spouse Karen and other
friends, I’m sure, would see as
akin to myscl£ this summer).

The Jawnmowerman made it
clear to me that he get's these old
timers to where they'll start in or-
der to sell them but from then on,
you're on you own, Bubba.

So I took a bath on the mower,
“no big woop’’, but much more
important is what was taken from
me; a sense that in Terrace people
try to work and live more closely
and up front than in the big city
were I come from.

Certainly do not mistake my
sentiments as all negative, as I
still find this community of Ter-
race to be a breath of fresh air,
compared to the south.

Yours truly,
Ken Pound,
Terrace, B.C,

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gathering from the head table.

I would have thought: that .a
good Reformer like Mr.. Scott
would be anxious to practise his
party’s policy of equality of Ca-
nadians by ensuring that ithe
entire spectrum of interests and
opinions in his constituency be
equitable expressed,

Particularly at a meeting pre-
sented al tax-payer’s expense.

Dealing with First Nation’s
concems from a stacked deck is a
venerable Canadian tradition —
one which Mr, Scott seems quite
comfortable perpetraling,

But if he believes excluding the
First Nations’ perspective from
the debate can in anyway help
resolve this thorny issuc or lessen
the level of acrimony of the dis-
cussion, he’s not just dealing
from a stacked deck: he’s not
Playing with a full o one,

Pity. ;

_ John How
Terrace, B.C.

platform for the interests of

“third party’’ representatives,

Mr. Manning states that the

Reform Party will not take the
side of special interest groups.

This appears to be a reasonable

approach I would like you to take
as our Member or Parliament.

: Yours Sincerely,

Doug Foster,

Terrace BC.

CORRESPONDENCE FOR THE TERRACE STANDARD

The Mail Bag

Mill zoning queried

Dear Sir:

I would like to clarify several
points made [In your article
Sept. 21, about Terrace Pre-
Cut’s proposed dry kiln,

Mr, Takhar is in no way
being forced by the ministry of
Forests to install a dry kiln as
your article could be seen to im-
ply.

The ministry invited
proposals. for a timber sale
available under the 16.1
category In April 1992. Mr.
Takhar submitted his proposal
which included the promised
dry Kiln.

The ministry then chose what
they considered to be the best of
the submitted proposals. It is

_my understanding, from con-

versations with a forest service
official, that the idea to include
a dry kiln as part of his

proposal was entirely Mr. Tak-

har’s,

Even though Mr. Takhar sub-
mitted the proposal for the dry
kiln in April 1992, he did not
bother to make an official in-
quiry to the city as to the
permissibility of a dry kiln at
his Light Industrial zoned prop-
erty on Braun Street until Au-
gust 1994,

I believe this either an in-
credible degree of assumption

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or a tremendous lack of
foresight on Mr. Takhar's part.
He:should have checked the ap-
propriate zoning by-laws before
he made the proposal for a dry
kiln.

All the other dry kilns in this
city are located in M2 Heavy In-
dustrial zones. Literature ob-
tained from Skeena Cellulose
lists their four dry kilns as part
of their processing facilities,

Processing facilities clearly
fall under the M2 Heavy Indus-
trial category according to Sec-
Hon 10,8(1) a.(v) of Zoning By-
law No. 401-1066.

In consultations with city
planners from Smithers, Ques-
nel and Prince George, I was
told that dry kilns are not con-
sidered a permissible use in
their M1 Light Industrial zones
but would fall under M2 Heavy
Industrial.

To conclude I believe Mr.
Takhar shovld be made to
respect the by-laws of this com-
munity. The by-laws should be
read in their entire context and
interpreted according to the

spirit of their intent. They

should not be manipulated to
suit the needs of one individual,
Sincerely,

Kaeleen Foote.

Terrace, BC.

What’s the difference?

Dear Sir:

Tam having some difficulty in understanding the difference between
Terrace Precut and the new Forwest remanufacturing plant.

Both operations start with precut lumber and process or remanufac-
ture the lumber into value added products.

Both operations resemble small sawmills,

It is true that Terrace Precut is slightly smaller, but I understand that

is soon to change,

Why is it then that Forwest had to rezone it’s property from Light In-
dustry to Industrial to operate and Terrace Precut is allowed to function

in Light Industry,
I can’t see the difference.

Sharon Johastone,
Terrace, BC,

Location is problem

Dear Sir:

I am writing concerning the
Braun and Agar residents’ con-
flict with Terrace PreCut.

Mr. Takhar knew when he
bought the property that it was
the last piece of property in the
light industrial zone. The next
piece of property to him was
residential. .

He has known that he would
have to expand for a number of
years. So we neighbours are now
being told to put up and shut up,
so he can expand and put in a dry
kiln and maybe a chipper.

Why doesn’t Mr. Takhar put the
mill next to his house? I have
lived in this. neighbourhood off
and on for most of my life. It’s a
nice quict neighbourhood and

most people that move here are
here for a long term.

One of my neighbours has lived
here for 37 years and is so sick
and tired of this conflict that their
house was put up for sale. I think
it’s pathetic that home owners
have to scl] out to get any piece:
of mind.

I am not against Mr. Takhar
growing, but let’s get his mill
moved into.a heavy industrial
section without rezoning a
residential neighbourhood,

If the City of Terrace rezones
2811 Braun for Mr. Takhar’s ex-

pansion, what’s _ next? | Your
house? Where docs it stop?

Thank you,

Wayne Adams

Terrace, B.C,

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