RRO! MEE -w ee ' who were invited oy Caledonia Players ° , LEG@SLATIVE LIHAT » Ae, CcRP. 73'/78 + METAS Gu dLoldu, VICiORTA, f.C., Vay-2e4 wol . “get . ‘ pre § The one and one quarter million dollar elemen: -tary-junior secondary school.at. Kitwanga is ex- pected to bring many changes in the education lifestyle of the tiny community approximately 57 miles east on Highway 16 from Terrace. At present 192 children, mostly from the native village, from kindergarten to Grade 7 crowd into the 4 classroom elementary school at Kitwanga, with an overflow accommodated by various prefab classrooms. ~ When the new structure, now rising immediately : ($1.25 Million Kitwanga School Could Change Edu A, i Mm TM mT i z 2 ee eee | i) i | | i HEAIINERE: | FA A 7A IT Nt Ne Ht Ac i: P A ithe La | | Ht tae ey, ARIF MON =a MRT LETT most) aww = a a an : E tt See Peete ‘ ; a ; — (iF | va fpmar Abner FT aor gt NN ST coe — te at Ee DE asap will relieve tis pressure grades 4 to 7. It having to make the 30 mile trip each way to school at Hazelton, to get attendance in the village. Once the new school is‘in operation, therefore, only the | grades 11 and 12 will have to go to make the G0 mile daily roundtrip to Hazelton. . Predictions for 1979 are for 338 pupils at the ‘Kitwanga school compared to the 182 now in at- tendance. Although the contract calls for completion of . construction within an 8 month period (October), veteran administrators are not betting on it; based - on past experience, they think it will more likely to open next Easter. Before construction of the actual building could begin, it was necessary to remove a ‘small hill” of cation Patterns hundreds of thousands of cubic yards of rock and earth, As School District secretary-treasurer Ted Wells put it, With a lot of faith, a little finance, and |, community cc-operation, we have been able to move motintains to get Kitwanga the kind of schooling it needs.” Wells sees the strategic location of Kitwanga and its proximity to the Nass as indications of future importance and increased use of the schoot plant there. VOLUME 72 No. 62 ' THURSDAY, APRIL 27, 1978 { ar a _ ™‘“\ TERRACE-KITIMAT : : Serving the daily herald) ! | = Northwest . J \ a _/ 20¢ ; ; . From $11,000 to $5,000 Debt Counsellor’s Grant . by Judy Vanderguent approximately 50 cases _[ think the highlight of ut Thirty Five members attended the Semi-Annual meeting of Terrace Community Services Society.. In atlendance were,,. Chairman Toy Greening, Directors, Lyle Petch, Francis Sabine, Ron Underwood, Don McLaren,Dan '. Anonby, TAB Coordinator Melissa having been handled by the centre since its in- corporation. Some of the patients (clients?) had already returned from treatment centres. One of the members ex- pressed dismay that with the revenue from liquor sales being. in the millions, only $100,00C was available for Sharples, T.C.S. Coor- counselling. dinator Marg Langley, secretary "boul , and. Debt minutes, various directors gave their repars. Mr. Godden out - What his Programme had offered the past six months but indicated dismay that although the filling a definite need, his ade need, Funding was going to be cut from $11,000 to $5000 sometime in the near future. Mr. Godden in- dicated that along with’ the counselling service he also lectures at the High Schools to Grade 10 and 12 students. Francis Sabine said the _ Alcohol.and Drug Centre . ,,was very successful with The Terrace Answering programme. The wake- up calls, anewering calls and requests for pagers had all increased in the past year and there is na reason, on the present basis, why the T.AB. shouldn’t be a self sup- porting business in the uture. In the absence of the Social Planning and Health Committee __. director, Marg reported that Meals on eels is going strong. and in recbgnition of al services rendered by the drivers delivering the meals, a tea would be given in their honour this week. _ Caledonia Students Two Caledonia Sr. Secondary School Students, Phi] Anderson - and Matt Hepplewhite have been chosen from a total of 280 entries and have been invited to the University of ‘Victoria mposium on May 46. e occasion is the twelfth © Annual , Humanities and Science Symposium the university has sponsored. It is believed to be the ‘first: time that Terrace . . has been represented, Phil Andersen was one of 24 finalists from. throughtout the Province esent their TS. tt He ewhite. was one of another.60 students selected to observe the Symposium, As well, the gpongor teacher, Mr. brecht has been invited ‘to accompany the presenter. - The ey . of Victoria is paying the follow cost for the above three: One way (Terrace-Victoria) ; transportation, meals for two days and ac: commodation for two . nights-May 4-5. © School District No. 88 (Terrace) © received notification ‘by Top Winners Last week Caledonia Players '78 entered three plays in the Skeena. Zone ama Festival, along with plays from the Terrace Little Theatre and the Prince Rupert Little Theatre. The seven Festival plays were judged by a . vincial A chudicator who selected Caledonia’s - “THE EFFECT .OF GAMMA RAYS ON MAN IN THE MOON MARIGOLDS” as the best play of the Festlyal, . This wir Caledorta Players’78 will be invited to represent the ‘Northwest egion (Prince George to Prince. Rupert) at: the (Aduit) Provincial Drama Festival to be held in ° Powell River, June 5 - 10, 1978. Holly ‘Champoux, who play the leading role in “Marigolds”. was recognised as the OUTSTANDING AC- TRESS'of the Festival by the adjudicator. ; The ' _—_cast of “Marigolds” wag: Holly Champoux,Debbie, Foote, Irina Schulze, Jean ‘Wreggitt, Janet means Ziob: ro. ' Director, Stefan Cieslik Assistant Director, Brenda Reid ling; ddvantages..the “present. oth phage: a Langley” - Response by the Semi Annual Terrace Community Services Society meeting was the very genuine concern shown by about twenty staff members who at- tended the meeting, for the .. residents of Skeenaview Lodge. I was very touched by their concern they felt should the present residence be scrap for.a smaller unit down-town, and the ‘fellas’ would lose all the Mike Berman of S.P.- S.R.C. (Cocial Planning and Review Council) is in -Terrace to gain input into the proposed site of the new 60 Personal and Intermediate Care — Hospital, and was guest speaker at the meeting. The three sites proposed are, the present site, thi Willows site‘ on Kalum (next to the Senior. Citizens Residence) and the - “Mills ~~ Memorial Hospital site. Several spokesmen for the Skeenaview staff proceeded to tear down @ arguments for a downtown site as opposed to an ‘isolation’ site such as Skeenaview. It was Honored letter of the invitation and. offer by the University of Victoria to the Terrace ‘three, from Caledonia principal W. L. Sturn. In addition, Sturn asked the Board for a erant of $100 towards efraying some of the expenses as part of its recognition of the out- standing achievement of the participants, he Board was magnanimous. At Monday night’s meeting amotion to grant thesum ‘of $200, and send a letter of congratulations, was. unanimously passed. Power Outage ;.B.C. Hydro officials in the Kitimat office at- tribute a power failure in. Kitimat and surrounding. areas Tuesday afternoon te the Alcan power source. Dos . Alcan puplic relations manager Brian _ Hemingway says, “A switch failure somewhere between: the Kitimat smelter and Kemano power generator was the cause of the one-halt power failure in the area.”’ » Hemingway assured that all power was restored and things were running smoothly. ~ . ‘adopted’ a ‘followi generally agreed that the space beth inside and outside was a big factor. No-one.can argue that the Residence has a magnificent view and more than adequate grounds. The buildings are not fancy but ac- cording to spokesman Mr. - McCormick buildings were checked thoroughly five years ago. ‘All floor timbers are sound and the boiler - system has at least -opoer. fifteen years Ct Mint it UB Odie ee Tle ein ED keane SP... He proceetied to tell the - members’ present. that . previous reports. in- dicating that the buildings would require a warter of a million ollars in renovations are totally erroneous. _ ” Several staff members spoke out about the noise the level should the residence be located downtown. Also the added danger of walking on a busy thoroughfare. ' One member indicated ‘that the residents living in the Senior Citizens residence still don’t have an adequate sidewalk to enable them to walk safely on Kalum. At present there are 100 Province Slashed : people employed keenaview many of whom would lose their jobs should a smaller unit. installed. ° With 80 many people put of wor: it doesn’t make sense to add the figures. This was the concern expressed by several members present, Mr. McCormick dicated that there was a very adequate Fire Dept on the grounds whose members hold regular ‘meetings. He concluded © hisstutement™ by asking: Mike’ Berman. if a Questionaire could be circulated amongst the staff and residents to see what their feelings are in the matter. Mr. Berman indicated that this was an excellent suggestion and one he would work on. Mr, Berman thanked everyone for their input. ‘All the findings from this trip wil be correlated, hé said, and I will be. back for more information later.’ airman Greening “thinted Mr. Berman for attending the meeting and expressed hope that the right thing would be done in this matter. to Back Store Closing Hours Store hours which are restricted id municipal by-law’ will” soon’. be regulated by provincial statutes, which will essentially leave opening and closing times up to the merchants. sy Terrace council recom- mendation to repeal -the ‘existing shop closing by- law because of the dif-- - ficulties the municipality was having in enforcing the regulations. ° Recentiyseveral - merchants were charged for violating the by-law following a 4600 Block Merchants: Association “‘Midnite Madness” sale. The existing by-law “got us into some _dif- ficulty;’’ Ald. Helmut Giesbrecht said, ex- plaining that council's reasoning behind thé change was prompted by the fact that nobody seemed to want the by- aw. ’ chants The municipal by-law was morerestrictive than ‘the provincial. statutes -and was enforced by district. personnel. When store hours are controled by provincial regulations, it will be up to the RCMP to enforce them, something council members are not ex- ‘pecting local police to do. Prosecution of mer- involved in ‘Midnite Madness’ will probably ‘be dropped, ' according to Mayor Dave Maroney. . Anew by-law repealing the existing shop closing by-law will be drawn up and officially endorsed by ‘council sometime in the near future. Council also voted to draw up a by-law. to repreal a garage and service station by-law because there appears to be no need for ‘this, council was told... Teachers Quit — Kesignations of the teachers were accepted at Monday night's School Board Dist, 88 meeting in Terrace: H. Smith - Skeena Jr. Secondary Mrs. ««. Sereda - . Thornhil) Jr. Secondary .Ms...8. Spicer’ - E. T. Kenney ‘ Mrs, L. Perry - Stewart Secondary — - Ms. Gloria Benson - South Hazelton Mrs. J. Parker - District Impaired Hearing Teacher. The resignations were accepted with . a minimum of discussion. | in-: ' Aberle Ker: ¥ - atin “No Tresspassing” signs don’t stop pedestrians from risking their lives crossing the CN railway tracks to get downtown. Overpass Passed Over Although more than 100 people have said they want a pedestrian walk- way over the CNR tracks, the chances of such an overpass being built are “pretty slim,” according to Mayor Dave Maroney. Maroney made that reply following a presentation by Doug at — Terrace council meeting Monday night which included a’ petition signed by more than 100 people. Aberley and _ the titioners were asking or the walkway over the railway yards at Kalum because this route to downtown is “dangerous and should not be allowed to continue as a threat to the lives of Terrace residents.” ‘ The Kalum __ Street crossing was first abandoned when the new Little Bridge was planned and the decision was made to use Keith Avenue as a semi-bypass route for Highway 16 traffic’ This decision meant that an overpass structure would have to be built across the CN lines. According to Aberley, CNR insisted that if an -overpass was allowed over its Proper , the municipality had to give up one of its existing on- ground grade crossings, rewith © the final con- struction of the new bridge and overpass one would assume the issues of a Highway 16 semi- -bypass and improved internal traffic cir: culation for Terrace had heen resolved, ” Aberley said.“Unfortunately - this has not proven to be the case.” Said Overpass is inadequate in a number of ways, Aberley said, especially in that it restricts the mobility of By Skeenaview and Terrace Community “Services are pleased to take part in celebratin National Volunteer Wee GYMKHANA The Totem Saddle Club is having its first Gymkhana of the season April 30 at the Lions’ Park. Entries start at 12 | hoon, The event starts at 1 p.m. Membership musi be paid in advance before entries can be naccepted. | Tea April 24 - 3 and to ‘ acknowledge the splendid support of the’ volunteers and drivers of services to seniors and particularly the “Meals on Wheels” drivers and assistants by iving a tea in their honor sk at Skeenaview Lounge yesterday April 26 at 2:30 pm. Guests included senior citizens who avail themselves to the meals on wheels service. Service t 1974 and pee ete aed to deliver hot meals three about 350 month and they are still available ‘|. very! proud of the fine pedestrians. When the Kalum crossing was closed off, people living on the other side of the tracks had to detour up to a mile and a half long to get downtown. . To stop traffic across the Kalum Street grade, traffic barriers were installed, signals were removed and two small “no trespassing’ signs were put up by CNR. ‘This has not stopped pedestrians from using this crossing, Aberley stated. - “It is not uncommon to see people of all ages and. status using the: old crossing,'’’ he said, “Women pass groceries to children. under box- cars, kids drag bicycles _ ever coupled cars and the : general walking public : must negotiate six sets of - tracks from one side of : the yard to the other,” “There has been death : and serious’ injury directly caused by the . steady, and perhaps even : growing, use. of this - traditional route,’ Aberley added. He asked that council take steps to provide a safe, elevated pedestrian crossing, which estimated would cost about $100,000. Council referred Aberley's request to the planning committee, but when -questioned later about the possibility of an overpass being built, the mayor was pessimistic. Maroney claimed _ Aberley's estimate of $100,000 was not an ac- curate figure, and: the actual cost: of con- structing a pedestrian walkwa would be prohibitive.