TERRACE’: — Shames Moun-
tain. Ski- ‘corporation will get a
near: $100,000- financial. break if
the:- ‘Kitlmat-Stikine ‘regional
district goes along with a new.
repayment : schedule to be put

forward by: its; ‘Tetrace direc-

years. It also forgives all interest

owed to date — that t amounted.

Pa

“ corporatioii’ 3 October,

‘TERRACE. — It began as an. ‘idea at ¢ a
‘Sacred Heart. parish’ council meeting .
: okies a year aga’: —a distinctive way of

Proposed deal ¢

to $94, 095 as of. June this year.

‘The debt is the result of the

purchase of equipment from the

district’s .old Kitsumkalum
‘Mountain. ski hill: operation,

Shames- bought the equipment

when: - that facility was shut
-down in accordance. with the
» opésult ofa June. 1986 referen-
council’ Tepproved. a plan’ which 7
will . “stretch. ‘repayment ' of the’
$313,650" the” ‘corporation owes |.
the district : over ‘the’ next‘ 15.

dumi *
“A repayment ‘schedule agreed

at’ that. time has subsequently ©
been ‘renegotiated three times.
However, with the ski hill open-"
ing’ continually put back and

-BERMANENT MEMORIAL. te the 75th anniversary of the Sacred Heart Church is this lacaily-
fade stained glass window. Father Al Noonan is seen above e admiring the end result of the many
. ‘hours: work that went into making It.

Ehses -

1986 -

provided . valuable advice,
Assembly took place at’ the Schlegel
home where the group

‘therefore no income being

generated, the corporation has
made no payments ‘beyond a

"$3,000 _ interest. instalment . in

early 1987. -
- The. proposed new: deal wipe

‘out accumulated ‘interest to date
and’sets Jan. 1, 1991 as the new —
: date for the. interest clock” to
restart at arate of: 10 per ‘cent
pet annum, However, Shames ©
will, not’. immediately have to
interest’ ‘charge. . of

pay: the
$31,365 for 1991; it ‘will instead

be added to the principal.
. The first payment Shames

spent. more than

Cc eR

mel ah oe the: recent 'weekend-long et
: celebrations c of. the anniversary, Father

that: ‘will stay'with Us,
' Particularly ‘noteworthy. is the fact

. ‘the window:was an‘ entirely local: pro--
ject. ‘Designed: by: Marion Schlegel, he -
said. the . window's message ..Come.
Follow ‘Me was based on the symbolism

of: ‘discipleship.”. |
Working with Schlegel on. the project

“Don and.

ya small, dedicated. group, - Sacred
e: the crew-wi

ed "glass window “will” be: “something ,
yo and blessed Sunday, Oct.'7 and now oc-

were Linda, day Mek ‘Anita Page and..
Audrey McKinnon. white Matt . in.

‘400 ‘hours . carefully i! piecing it all
: together. :
“Assembly: <completed, the window.
e° then “had: tobi trarisported to the
in church: . -However; :-at ’ approximately
eight: feet ‘in’ height,’ its ‘size’ presented

with.a s ‘ti ght’ ee how to
get'it: ‘out. of the house: ‘Apparently that
difficulty was quickly overcome — by
dismantling a section of. wall. ’

“The window was offi icially unveiled

cupies pride-of Place at Sacred Heart.

‘Noonan ‘says: there’is little doubt his |:
parishioners. are. well. pleased with the

commemorative. Piece. feputed to be
the largest stained glass Window outside’
, of: the lower;

ainland,

*Whoever’s. around when we have

the one hundredth, maybe they ct can Put
iother,’’-he adds

would have to make under the
suggested schedule would be

~ due Jan. 1, 1993 and be $34,502

in’ interest owed for the

“preceding 12 months, Similar
_ payments would fall due Jan: 1,
1994 and 1995.

The corporation would begin

. paying: off the .principal: one
_year later. The formula would:
require-Shames to pay off one-_

tenth of the principal plus in-
terest. on. the outstanding |

‘balance - ‘on Jan. 1 each’ year

from 1996 to 2005. f
A: fi ‘further change proposed i in

Land claims:.

the repayment rewrite is the .

district surrender its present
first-in-line: position as a
creditor so the province can
take over that spot.

Mayor Jack Talstra explained
the province required the
change béfore Shames would be

allowed to draw on the $502, 000 ©

joint federal-provincial Tourist:
Development Agreement grant,

“They can’t touch it until that -

agreement is ranked in first
place against the ski hill,” he
said. ~

TERRACE — The city ‘of Ter-
race — along with all other
third party interests — will have
to'be content with the view fromi
the sidelines of the Nisga’a land
claim talks, the federal. bovern-

ment’ 5 chief negotiator. SAYS...”

“City council decided last: week

to lobby for an active role in the :
negotiations, noting whatever.

settlement: is; reached is bound

to ‘havean impact on the city.
- and it should: therefore. be. i in-.

volved i in the talks.

Aldermen also maintained :
the city’s Tole should be one of °

birisnan a ‘Prince Raps
fail, ‘Tertace will feet ¢
to the tune of: millions of
dollars. ;

‘That was the message ‘Kelly
Williams of Wedeene «River
Contracting, owners of the mill,
delivered here last week in call-
ing on council to save the opera-
tion.

Pointing out 37 of the com-

pany’s 150 mill and woodlands . *

employees lived in Terrace,
Williams said they contributed

more than $1.8 million annually -§
to the local economy through

wages and salaries.

Add to that $1.2 millionearn- |

ed by contractors based here
‘and a further $1.2 million paid
to major suppliers and small in-
dependents and ‘‘the total
dollars in the Terrace economy
in 1989 was $4,3 million,” he
said.

Blaming the company’s
financial problems — it is now
in receivership — on increased
stumpage charges and a govern-
ment ban-on its exporting logs,
he said it had lost $3 million so
far this year because of those
changes..:

However, he maintained, the

: company was viable in the long
. tertn provided it could get short-

term’::provincial government
help.: ‘Specificially, a one-year
permit: to export logs, access to
more:timber-and a government
loan: Buarantee which would
allow, the’ bank to remove the
receiver on “a six-month trial
basis.” .

On exporting logs, ‘Williams
said ‘the company had only been

shipping out those more than

Saw - fog
the: effect

“full: membership" rather than ‘

simply that of an observer.

But federal negotiator Gay
Reardon scorned the proposal,
saying ‘‘‘we'd have to rent a
stadium’? to accomodate all in-

7 terested third parties, She: said

it’s now likely third parties will
‘be represented by the govern-

’ ments involved, and will have

no place of their. own — as
observers or anything else — at
the bargaining table.

Native affairs minister ‘Jack

. Weisgerber and Premier Bill

Vander: Zalm during last
month's visit to Terrace gave

AA AM eet HE ag > Poe ear) ae

I. Wedeene. backed

Kelly Williams
30in.
Tepresented only 10-15 per cent
of their cut. He explained they |

were. sold only because: they
were too large to be processed at ©

in diameter which

the mill. However, Wedeene
River planned to bring in equip:
ment to change that and
eliminate exports altogether,
Describing the sawmill as “a
modern operation with vision,”*

OQ McRae named, A2

Williams- emphasized, “This is
our last chance to save our com-
pany,

Aldermen agreed unanimous-
ly to lobby the ministers of
Forests and Regional Economic
Development, “'‘premiér Bill
Vander Zalm and Skeena MLA
Dave Parker to grant Wedeene
River a temporary licence-to ex-
port logs.

repayment schedule, Talstra
said Shames’- latest financial
projections indicated “the hill’s
not going to show any profit for
a. couple - of: years” and -it |
therefore made_no sense to try
and get money out of the cor-
poration until it was doing so.
However, he ddded, “They. Jo
show some black ink as: you ‘go
down the line."*..

Asked why the city-was pro-
posing forgiving the outstan-

ding interest when the ministry ©
” of Municipal. Affairs. had ‘Shot
Turning to the extended —

cont'd Az,

‘ity role unlikely

repeated assurances ‘that third
parties would be represented
and “involved in the process,”
but gave no details how that
might work.

Since then, however, the pro-
vince: made the --historic an-
nouncement that it would enter
the Nisga'a talks, marking the
first time it has ever negotiated
to settle a native land claim in
‘B.C.

Reardon said Weisgerber has
now stated it would not be
possible or practical to have
third parties at the bargaining
table.

“It’s a very sensitive issue,”?
Reardon said of the provincial
government's approach to the
third party issue. “But it’s not
one in my view. that you can
. skate around. for’ too long.” . _

She said any move to include
any. third parties. would require
agreement on all sides, as well

as changes to the framework .

agreement signed fast year.
“Our current framework agree-
ment absolutely precludes that
(third party involvement),’’
Reardon said, “‘because it talks
about the parties in negotia-
tions, and the third parties
aren’t there’? .

She ssid the number of
natural resource issues on the
table has greatly increased
because the province has joined
the talks. As a result, she said,
pressure will likely remain
strong to make some special ac-
comodation for third parties.

The next meeting in the talks
is tomorrow in Vancouver,

Turners

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Crp niet of the-century

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