A year

this week —

by Tod Strachan

"CUSTOM TRANSIT STUDY
LAUNCHED". That was a head-
line with some promise a year ago
this week. Many local residents
had been pushing for something
akin to a HandiDART system for
months and a public meeting at
City Hall with B.C. Transit offi-
cials present might have the ball
rolling. The transit representatives
listened, offered some suggestions,
and then went back to their
Vancouver offices to see what kind
ofa package they could produce.

CANCELLATION OF A FEW
PROJECTS resulted in some sur-
plus cash for city hall a year ago
this week but it didn’t take long to
find somewhere to spend it. The
cancellation of the Pear St. drain-
age project due to an increase in
the size of a similar project on
Hall, and the Loen Ave. street
upgrade (due to a negative vote on
an LIP petition) and an adjustment
to the Weber Ave. drainage project
left the city with an extra $95,000.

Already approved, though, was a
$4,000 project to fence the east
side of the Public Works yard. On
the table were a new $6,500 com-
puter for Public Works, a $10,868
paving and storm sewer project for
Birch Ave. east of Pendrini (the
city’s share was $5,000), a $9,500
study to search for alternatives to

accessing Birch Hill, a $25,000

dust control paving project on
Thomas between Straume and
Labelle, and a $45,000 drainage
project at the rear of the govern-
ment Access Centre.

While it looked like the dust
problem on Thomas might be

solved with pavement, though, -

another solution for Hughes St.
was being considered by the city.
The Planning and Public Works
committee had recommended that
the street be closed for good and
that was a recommendation that
council would take seriously.

A problem with a more elusive
solution, though, was growing
traffic safety concerns at the Halli-
well/North Sparks intersection. The
primary reason for the concern was
the driveway to an apartment
building parking lot only a few
feet north of the intersection. Now,
"Nobody knows who’s going to do
what,” alderman Bob Cooper was
quoted as saying. A four-way stop
was suggested but council felt
there might be a better solution.
They just didn’t know what it was
at the time.

In other council news, the city’s
regulation controlling the reproduc-
tion of the Kermodei bear logo
were hurting the tourism industry,
according lo tourism and economic
development officer Peter
Monteith. Insisting that products
using the logo be produced in
Canada meant that a souvenir
baseball cap, for example, whole-
saled for $3.95 instead of only

$1.25 and that was hurting retail.

_ sales. .
And finally, the twinning with
some Japanese cliy was still.a

ago

topic of note but alderman Darryl
Laurent may have put things into
proper perspective. It might be
great for tourism, but might also
cost more than it was worth. The |
Japanese, he explained, take the
twinning seriously and that means
several exchanges every year with
city council, the Chamber of Com-
merce, sports teams and school
students. The only one to realize
any financial gain at all might be
an airline company as the benefici-
ary of all the extra traffic.

AROUND THE COMMUNITY,
Riverboat Days was getting up 2
good head of sicam; the schedule
had been published and window
paintings depicting the riverboat

era were beginning to appear. And
there would be a very special event
‘that year, separate but at the same
time a very important event. A
Skeenaview reunion was ready to
roll and could well mean record
Riverboat Days crowds in town.

HEADING THE REGIONAL
NEWS was an announcement by
then-Forest Minister Dave Parker
that an 11-member B.C. Forest
Resources Commission was to be
formed. The commission would
examine forestry issues and make
recommendations to the ministry.
There was a hitch, though. The
commission would be under the
direction of the ministry and it
would be the ministry who decided
just which issues the commission
would review. Only time would
tell how that arrangement would
work.

On the local level, the Kispigx
Forest District was about to handle

one issue on their own; the use of
herbicides in our forests. This was
to be done with a newly formed
Brushing and Weeding Advisory
Committee . that would represent
everyone from industry to envi-
ronmentalists. But the Regional
District of Kitimat-Stikine wasn’t
convinced that this committee
would really have any power and
were waiting to see who was
appointed before offering their
support. oo

But putting forestry issues aside,
Lieutenant Governor David Lam
left us with some hope for a
brighter future. Speaking to the
Terrace and District Chamber of
Commerce, Lam sald, “Terrace, to
me, is like B.C. -- unique." He
then added, "We are on the verge
of an explosion of prosperity.”
This "explosion", he predicted,
would be triggered by a change
from a resource extraction driven
economy to one geared to tourism
servicing and the development of
new technologies.

ON THE HEALTH SCENE, it
was three down (almost); there
was still one more contract to go.

A YEAR AGO THIS WEEK The Terrace Review n

ewspaper was expanding its premises. A year

ago yesterday, the first concrete was poured for the new addition, which is now completed, fully

operational and landscaped.

Members of the B.C. Nurses’
Union were scheduled to vote in a
week’s time and if that went well
the Health Sciences Association,
who had their contract tied to the
nurses’, would be back in a stable
environment as well.

But there was one more to go.
The International Union of Operat-
ing Engineers was still negotiating
with the Health Labour Relations
Association and while the nurses’
were to say "yes" to a contract, the
operating engineers might be
saying "yes" to a strike. In Terrace
this only involved four workers but

if they went on strike the other —

two unions would be obliged to

honour their picket lines. Would it

ever end?

. SPORTS, THOUGH, ADDED A
DIVERSION FROM THE REAL-
ITIES OF LIFE. For the first time
ever, a team from outside of
Vancouver or Victoria won the
junior provincial swim competition

held on the lower mainland. And it —

was the ’Points North’ crew of 53

northwest swimmers who won the

honour of that first. Medals for
Terrace competitors went to Billy
Holland, Lisa Gardiner and Garth
Coxford.

In the world of softball and base- -|

ball, the Terrace Minor Softball
"Gold Cup’ ended with Prince
Rupert taking the peewee boys’

division, Terrace Travel took the —

peewee girls’ section and Smithers
Calderwood Angels won the ban-
tam girls’ division. At the same
time, Terrace Minor Baseball’s
junior Babe Ruth reps won the
zone 8 championship in a four--
team playoff held in Houston, and
the Terrace ladies Northern Motor

Inn Stealers took second. in Haz- { |

elton tournament.

Of course sliding into home isn’t
everyone’s cup of tea. There are
some who prefer to kick the ball
around rather than stand still and

swing at it with a hardwood stick. |

And in the good old game of soc-
cer a year ago this week, the

Terace oldtimers proved their.

worth in a ‘six-tcam oldtimers

tournament. They did have a little §

help, though. Prince Rupert and
Greenville failed to show and

Hazelton and Kispiox arrived with
half-rosters. A few scheduling
changes, however, and the Terrace
oldtimers were on the road to
glory.

Terrace’s John Yasinchuk laid
claim to what appeared to be per-
manent ownership of the North-
west Seniors Golf Championship a

year ago this week. He won the.

prestigious 36-hole event in Prince
Rupert for the third year in a row.

AND AS A CLOSING NOTE,
we should mention that the Terrace
Review was making a matk of

their own a year ago this week. It
was in the form of concrete foot-
ings for an addition. Business was
good and we were running out of
room so a year ago this week we
began adding to the building. The
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ciency of the editorial and produc-
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