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the taking a year ago. this
week. Granduc Mines, Newhawk
Gold Mines and Canadian Mines
Development joined in offering a
$25,000 reward for anyone with
information leading to an arrest

and conviction of the person or

persons responsible for the Feb. 2
underground Sulphurets explosion.
The blast killed two miners and
injured three others. And the B.C.
Wildlife Federation was offering
$2,000 for information leading to
an arrest and conviction of the
person or persons responsible for
killing three grizzly bear cubs that
were found at the Terrace dump on
July 17.

Around town, the City of Terrace
had just bought a few acres of land
and handed their Community
Forests Program over to the Kiti-

mat Stikine Regional District, Ray

McCarthy bought the old provin-
cial police building, the Environ-
mental Youth Corps was cleaning

up Gruchy’s Beach, the Northwest.

Singers waiting for the results of a
national competition, and just to

top things off, a lot of old friends
were rehashing the “olden days" at:

one of several reunions held a year
ago this week.

The city’s land purchase was no
small deal. They paid $140,000 to
the province for 5.3 acres of
Crown land behind the Willows

_ Apartments and the courthouse. It

was an ideal location for what they
had in mind; a community/con-
vention centre. The terms were
$60,000 down, $40,000 on Aug.
15, 1990, and the final $40,000 on
Aug. 15, 1991. The purchase
didn’t get much atiention from one
club in town, though. The Peaks
Gymnastics Club had already cut a
deal with the regional district and
would be building their gym-
nasium beside the Thornhill Com-
munity Hall,

The city had agreed to a request
made by both the province and
Skeena Cellulose on the Commun-
ity Forestry project, only to be told

- by the province after the fact that

they weren’t allowed to sponsor
the project. It was located outside
ihe city limits. So council handed
their Community Forest Program
over to the regional district. Under
this program the province would
pay $275,000 and the regional
district would pay $90,000 (given
ihem by Skeena Cellulose). The
money would enhance 450 hec-
tares of TFL 1.

One regional district director, Les

' Walmough, -disagreed with the

plan, though. Under the normal
local government-provincial cost
sharing plan, he said, they (Skeena
Cellulose) should pay 75 percent
of the total cost, or $273,750.

fter a year of two of fruit-

less efforts to save the Pro-

vincial Police Building from
demolition it was finally sold a
ycar ago this week. Ray McCarthy
of Vancouver added the property
to his collection of downtown
Terrace real estate and told the
Terrace Review that he was "very
interested" in developing the entire
area in the vicinity of the building,
Prior to the purchasc, McCarthy

already owned a sizeable chunk of
downtown Terrace, including a
portion of the 4600 block of
Lakelse Ave. and the building
housing Danny’s Pool Hall.

He said he would give our
heritage-conscious residents a shot
at the building before he tore it
down but added this advise: "The
cost can be astronomical. A lot of
ihe time you’re belter off building
a replica, It’s a lot cheaper and the
heritage thing might be a mistake."

The Environmental Youth Corps
were accomplishing all kinds of
good things in the surrounding
area, There were four crews work-
ing in our area and among their
achievements were a clean sweep
of Gruchy’s Beach and a bil of an
upgrade al Furlong Bay, a start on
clearing the Onion Lake
cross-country ski trails, and some
salmonid enhancement work.

The work they were doing in our
community wasn’t the corps’
greatest achievement, though,
according to one project super-
visor. Terry Morton explained the
program to the Terrace Review and
described how it was training some
of our young people in a variety of
job and living skills. Some, he
said, found full time employment
after the program while others
learned the true value of a Grade
12 education and returned to
school.

nd there was a festive note
A in air. A couple of reunions

were ‘still. the talk of the
town. The Class of °69, the last
graduating class of Skeena High
School prior to the opening of
Caledonia, attracted well over a
hundred 38-year-old teenagers, and
the Class of ’79 celebrated their
10th anniversary at the Thornhill

Community Centre and Mount

Layton Hot Springs.

The Northwest singers were
playing a game of "Whistle while
you wait". The winners of a
national competition were to be
announced in less than a week and
ihey were in the running. The
group won their category in the
provincials by submitting a taped

performance in May and the same

tape, everyone hoped, would win
them the nationals as well.

And a final note on the local
scene. It seems drivers in our area
were having a little trouble aiming
their vehicles where they should a
year ago this week. A female
cyclist received facial injuries
when she took an unscheduled
flight over the car that ran into her
at the Hwy 16/Tetrault St. inter-
section. An out-of-town driver
sideswiped one of our own by
ignoring a stop sign at the Hwy
16/37 4-way stop. .

A local man suffered a shoulder
injury and put a $1,000 worth of
dents in his car when he hit a
moose on Hwy, 37 near the air-
port. And alcohol and excessive
speed were blamed for a roll-over
accident on Kalum Lake Drive
where the driver suffered head
injuries.

It seems thai the only driver who
mis-aimed his vehicle properly was
a teenager heading south on
Queensway. He drove off the road
and into the bush as an alter-

‘strike. The
contracting-out of services. The -

_ Ayear ago this week — |

native to hitting a child playing on
the road.

Perhaps it was our town the
Solicitor General had in mind
when he announced upcoming

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public meetings to receive sub- | gal

missions on methods of improving

traffic safety in B.C. Or, perhaps it |

wasn't. The only meeting in the
northwest was to be held in Prince
Rupert in early September.

A couple of unrelated items in

health care. Unionized ambulance |

paramedics, including 15 full and

parl time members in Terrace, |

voted 87 percent in favour of a
main issue;

union wanted contract language to
ensure there would be no further
privatization of ambulance services
in the province.

Summer weather brings picnics,
something called enteric diseases,
and a warning from our chief
medical officer to turn up the
barbecue and cook those burgers
well. Five cases of "hamburger
disease” had already been reported
‘and the culprit was undercooked
meat.

This was only a_ predictable
seasonable epidemic, though. Of
much , greater concern was the
AIDS’ threat in the northwest.
Ignorance of the disease abounded
and Dr. David Bowering recom-
mend some reading material,
"AIDS in the Workplace".

E ducation was. entering an

new era in our area, Three...

year School District 88
veteran Mary Ann Lawrence was
named as the teacher who would
be teaching teachers in the north-
west. Lawrence was named asso-
ciate professor for the teacher
training program of the Northwest
Teacher Education Consorlium.

The consortium, consisting of six
northwest schoo! districts, North-
west Community College and
Simon Fraser University, had one
goal in mind — take people with
degrees in other disciplines who
were living in the northwest and
train them to be teachers. These
new teachers, the consortium
hoped, would stay in the area,
helping to correct the high level of
teacher turnover.

And there was education for
younger minds at George Litile
Memorial Park a year ago this
week. Science World visited the
Children’s Festival and among the
games, face painting and crafts
available proved to be one of the
more popular attractions.

In sporis, Mike Christensen took
a crack at the B.C. road racing
championship at Saltspring Island.
on B.C. Day. Racing with the
country’s best was great
experience, but Christensen began
lo lag at the 130 kilometre mark of
ihe 160 kilometre race and finally
dropped out.

And there were a couple of other
disappointed lecnagers in town.
Jared Ewart and Davey Jones
missed out on carning one of 10
B.C. positions for the "best ever’
under-17 hockey team. They still
had a couple of options, though.
First the Victoria Cougars, and
failing that the Prince George
Spruce Kings.

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The five-member Japanese Chito-Ryu Karate ’A' Team was in
town a year ago this week and Terrace karate expert Miss
Terrace, Lyne Lagace, took on Chito-Ryu team captain Hiroshi

Tanaka just for fun.

In other news, Dan Rosengren
was runner-up for low gross in the
championship flight of the B.C.
Day Hirsh Creck golf tournament
while Ian Smith won the first flight
low gross. The Westpoint-Skcena
team walked away with the $1,700
top prize in the Kinsmen Riverboat
Days slo-pitch tournament.

Another slo-pitch team, though, the

SKB Wreckers, returned from a
Kamloops tournament emptly-
handed. They ended up with two
wins and two losses.

Skeena Sawmills won the $1,500
first prize in the Canyon City
Lions annual Riverboat Days soc-
cer tournament. This was the first
tournament allowing non-Native
teams to enter. And the Terrace
Northmen Rugby Club won the
season-ending action in Smithers a
year ago this week for the second
year in a row. Most valuable
player in that action was North-
men’s Willie McLeery.

The northwest was sending six
athletes to the Canada Games in
Saskatoon; included would be
Jason Haldane and Michelle
Hendry of Terrace. And speaking
of the number six, it took that
many minutes plus a few odd
seconds for the first place finisher
of the Riverboat Days Seniors’
Mile to cross the line. Winning the
various categories were Les Anna-

ndale, Bud Kirkaldy, and Rusty
Ljungh.

A lot of action in sports a year
ago this weck and it was probably
a good thing; local fishermen were
getting more satisfaction out of
wandering the rough at the golf
course than groping through devil’s
club patches at water’s edge. These

. fishermen had been saying for

years that steelhead numbers in the
Skeena were on the decline and
they even claimed to know why:
the incidental catch of the fabulous
fish by commercial fishermen at
the mouth of the Skeena.

A news item out of Fish and
Wildlife in Smithers, then, was no
revelation to these people. Fish and
Wildlife had been using radio
lagging for about 10 years to learn
more about the lifestyle of the
steelhead, but last year they tried
something new. Instead of angling
or seine netting to catch candidates
for tagging, they used a commer-
cial gillnetter.

And guess what. Out of 37
steelhead tagged more than two
weeks earlier none had reached the
Lakelse River monitoring station.
“They’re either dead or not
healthy," was the conclusion of
Fish and Wildlife biologist Bob
Hooton. "Thete’s fairly strong
evidence that gillnetting induces
severe problems."

TO ALL MY PATIENTS,

| will be leaving the Terrace/Kitimat area
the last week of August. My last office day for
Terrace will be Tuesday, August 21, 1990.

Mills Memorial Hospital is currently adver-
tising for another pediatrician. Arrangements
will be made for me to come on a visitation
consultation basis every two to three months
until a replacement is found. Dates to be set

later.

- K.O. Asante, M.D., {
CH.B., F.R.C-P. (C). °

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