A12- The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, April 4, 2001

Regional- district is divided

on saddle club grant request

TAXPAYERS IN Terrace,
Thornhill, Lakelse Lake
and even Kitamaat Village
could be paying $30,000
to help the Totem Saddle
Club build an indoor arena
al the Thornhill fall fair
grounds.

But the District of Kiti-
mat won’t be contributing,
thanks to a generous offer
from Terrace mayor Jack
Talstra who also sits on
the Kitimat Stikine regio-
nal district board.

After much discussion
on whether Kitimat would
be included, the board
agreed March 24 that just
Terrace and. electoral
areas C and E would pay.

The money is condi-
tional on the saddle club
getting federal grants to
caver two-thirds of the pro-
jected $320,000 cost: for
the building, which would
be used for horse riding
events, logging trade
shows and other activities.

When Kitimat directors
Jim Thom and Joanne
Monaghan balked at Kiti-

City
agrees
to ski
lights

THE CITY will contribute
about $8,500 to an ambi-
tious $270,000 plan to
light and improve the
Onion Lake cross-country
ski trails.

City council has ap-
proved the city’s share of a
$25,000 Kitimat-Stikine
regional district contribu-
tion to the Snow Valley
Nordic Ski Club.

The club, which oper-
ates the Onion Lake trails,

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possible there by landing
an infrastructure grant that

mal’s projected 46 per
cent share of the $30,000
grant request Talstra said
Terrace will pick up Kiti-
mat’s portion.

“For the sake of
$13,000,” Talstra said,
wondering aloud as he de-
livered the motion: “Do |
dare do this? Terrace
would be prepared to pick
that up and drop Kitimat.”

Talstra had earlier
failed to-convince Thom
and Monaghan of the
club’s regional appeal.

Monaghan said she had
to check with her district
council first.

“IT can’t support this,”
director Jim Thom said “I
don’t see it as being regio-
nal.” Kitimat council has
since denied the request.

The board was under a
tight timeframe in approv-
ing the conditional grant
as it had to approve its
2001 budget the same day.

A month earlier, Ter-
race directors on the Kiti-
mat-Stikine board agreed
to pay $25,000 to the Kiti-

Joanne Monaghan

mat-based Snow Valley
Nordic Ski Club.

Talstra wanted to know
why the saddle club’s re-
quest was different.

“The cross country ski
trails are right in the mid-
dle of the two communi-
ties,” Monaghan told Tal-
stra. “This is way in
Terrace.”

Kitimat also has its own
saddle club, she added.

Jack Talstra

The Snow Valley Nor-
dic Ski Club claims a 40
per cent membership base
in Terrace,

“The Nordic Ski Ciub
has made a conscious ef-
fort to regionalize,” Thom
added.

-That club operates the
Onion Lake Ski Trail and
it also wants federal
money for lights and for a
caretaker.

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would see the federal and
provincial governments
each cover a third of pro-
ject’s costs, or $90,000
each.

The remaining one-third
would have to come from
local sources - the
$25,000 from the regional
district plus other money
the club is committed to
raising locally.

“If a person is working
daylight hours then you
only have two days a week
to ski. By having lighted
trails a person could dou-
ble their skiing time easi-
ly,” said ski club president ..
Terry Brown,

He algo said the lighted
trails will attract more
people to the sport. He
cited the Bulkley Valley
Ski Club as an example of
the popularity of night ski-
ing. That club’s member-
ship rose by 30 per cent in
the first year night skiing
was introduced.

Most city councillors

said the trail improve-
ments would be a major
contribution to quality of
life in the area.

“A facility like this will
be well used,” councillor
Val George said.

But Olga Power said
she was concerned the

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level of support from the
city is “very generous” in’
a year when virtually all
other groups are being told
to expect no more money
from the city,

And she said the cross-
country ski club has ap-
proached the city months
after the deadline imposed
on all other groups ta pitch
their grant requests to city
council.

The cross-country ski
trails have received a
steady stream of grants
from the regional district
over the years.

Between 1992 and 2000
the the cross-country ski
club has been given a total
of $96,000 by the regional
district.

If the infrastructure
grant is approved, the club
will start trail development
this summer and install 1.5
km of lighting in the fall.

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