2 Terrace Review — Wednesday, May 21, 1986

Local resident runs”
in byelection

TERRACE — Vic
Jolliffe, speaking on the
forthcoming municipal
by-election for Alder-
man, remarked that this
five month term seems to
be tailor-made and fits
his qualifications to a
tee.

Jolliffe went on to
outline his previous ex-

perience. He has served

the community of Ter-
race in various positions
including three years on
the Terrace Hospital
Board, two of them .as
Chairman, during the six

Transfer program
still an option

TERRACE —
publicity regarding the
University of B.C.’s pro-
posal to place limits on
the numbers of students
transferring from com-
munity colleges has caus-
ed some confusion in the
Northwest region.
Norththwest Community
College (NWCC)
registrar in Terrace,
Brian Loptson, points
out that ‘‘the Northwest
College University
Transfer Program is still
a very viable and
economic option for the
students from this
region’’.

Potential students

should note that if.

limitations are going to
have to be applied at
UEC they will be based
on the grade point
average for the courses
taken. The college has
been advised by UBC
that any student with an

Recent

overall average of C+ or
better would not be af-
fected by the limitation.
In fact, had the limita-
tion been in place for the
Fall of 1985 it would on-
ly have affected about 50
transfer students in total
from all of the colleges in
B.C.

UBC has also in-
dicated that they are well
aware that the smailer
colleges such as NWCC
are only able to offer a
full second year in a
limited number of major
programs. It is expected
that NWCC students
who are not able to com-
plete two years in their
chosen field will be given
additional consideration
on an individual basis.

“In summary,’’ said
Loptson, ‘‘the changes
in admission policies at
UBC will not have any
significant .effect on
students transferring
from NWCC,”

Council shorts

A proposal to offer
municipal equipment for
lease to the general
public has been tabled
indefinitely by Terrace
council. At the May 12
council meeting Ald.
Ruth Hallock noted that
she had received a com-
plaint from a local con-
tractor following the an-
nouncement that the
district may rent out a
large street sweeper. The
contractor, who operates
several small street
cleaners, claimed that he
had lost a major account
as a result of the an-
nouncement.

It was moved by Ald.
George Clark and
seconded by Ald. Bob

Jackman that further ac- -

tion on the rental resolu-
tion be suspended until a
detailed study is
available on the matter
from the Department of
Public Works.

Insp. Ron Evans of
the Terrace RCMP
reports that crime in the
area for the first four
months of this year in
comparison to the same
period of 1985 has re-
mained relatively stable
in terms of the number
of files opened by
members of the local
detachment. In_ his

monthly report to Ter-
race council Evans stated
that 865 files were open-
ed in April, 15 more than
the same month last
year. Crimes against per-
sons are down slightly,
he reported, crimes
against property are
nearly the same and
wilful damage is up
slightly.

According to Evans’
report, the greatest
statistical increase is in
the area of traffic en-

forcement with 41 per-—

cent more charges laid
than this time last year.
Evans attributed the in-
crease to heightened en-
forcement efforts by
local members. He also
noted that foot patrol
assignments have been
doubled in an effort to
maintain closer contact
with the public and pro-
vide better community

policing.

The Terrace Fire
Department responded
to 35 calls in the month
of April, 30 of which ac-
tually involved fires and
20 of which were outside
the municipal boun-
daries. Fire Chief Clif-

ford Best reported to
Terrace council that total
property damage came
to $121,420.

ee

million dollar building
expansion program; four
years Of, the Regional
District, 10 years on the
Terrace Municipal
Council, two of them as
Mayor, and during this
period of civic commun-
ity work, he has been a
member of all municipal
committees at various
times.

The person elected in
this by-election will only
serve for five months up
until the next round of
municipal elections,
Jolliffe noted. During
this five months Terrace
Municipal Council is go-
ing to have to solve some
peculiarly Terrace pro-
blems, some of which.
are: Our roads, which
were first paved in 1970
and °71, are literally
worn out, the paving is
so thin that you can see
the gravel base right
through the blacktop on
many of the surfaces.

Some residents will
remember that. the first
paving program for Ter-
race’s gravel streets was
instituted by Jolliffe
when he was Mayor in
1970 — the design life of
the paving was between
10 and 15 years. Now is
the time to be instituting
a major paving program
to re-cap and widen the
existing roads and pave
those roads that have yet
to receive their first layer

of blacktop.
Much has been said in .
the media, Jolliffe

noted, about the ap-
parent cost over-runs in
the Public Works
Department. Jolliffe
believes that those
responsible should give a
full explanation and the
details must be made
public. It may well be
that a good portion of
this money went into
work that was necessary,
but did not receive the
proper budgetary
authorization. However,
the community of Ter-
race will now suffer by
having to pay higher
taxes this year, and this
causes a set back in other
community projects.
Jolliffe said he would see
that a full explanation is
given to the taxpayers.

Jolliffe and his wife
Kim, came to Terrace
from Toronto, Ontario
in 1956, and they have
lived and worked for the
community since that
time.

The people have an
opportunity to elect a
person with the
necessary experience and
the know-how to help
solve Terrace’s current
problems, and Jolliffe
asks the people of Ter-
race for their support in
his election as an Alder-
man for this five month
term.

Mike Hitiman of Pacific (

ngress Projects was in Terrace recently brief NCMA de legates

on progress at the Northern Development Councils offica, locatad in the World Trade

Center.

Community development
highlights convention

TERRACE-—The | heart
of the North Central
Municipal Association
function is economic
development for
northern B.C. com-
munities. Delegates to
the NCMA annual con-
vention held recently in
Terrace gained volumes
of ideas and information
on the subject from a
panel in a discussion titl-
ed ‘Marketing Your
Community”’ The
discussion was chaired
by Terrace alderman
George Clark and
featured representatives
from the federal Depart-
ment of Regional In-
dustrial Expansion, the
Economic Development
Association of B.C., the
provincial Ministry of
Municipal Affairs and
the Coriolis Consulting
Corporation.

Bob Inkpen, regional
manager for D.R.IE.,
opened the discussion by
outlining his depart-
ment’s role in assisting
community economic
development. He said
that D.R.ILE. opened a
regional office in Prince
George during 1979 with
the objective of
strengthening the
economies of disadvan-
taged areas in order to
alleviate unemployment,
Attempts to attract out-
side investment ‘and new
industries to the north,
he stated, were largely
unsuccessful in spite of
generous incentives to
developers. The program
objectives are now
directed toward expand-
ing existing industries
and encouraging better
use of natural resources
in the region.

Inkpen informed the
group that the types of
projects which qualify
for assistance include
tourism facilities and
marketing, representa-
tions to expedite interna-
tional trade, establish-
ment of small businesses,
manufacturers whose
products have export

potential or the potential
to replace import pro-
ducts, and aquaculture
enterprises. The usual
method of assistance is
loans of up to $100,000
repayable at prime rate
plus one percent over
periods of up to- five
years. Services offered
by D.R.LE. are export
counseling, trade advice
and a directory of Cana-
dian manufacturers for
product promotion.
Both Dale McMann of
the Economic Develop-

.ment Association of

B.C. and Jay
Wollenberg from Cor-
iolis Consulting strongly
emphasized the necessity
for communities to have
comprehensive, long-
term strategies for
growth. McMann sum-
marized the situation
bluntly, asserting, ‘‘It’s
grow or die - thinking:
that you can maintain
the status quo is
unrealistic. Communities
require an aggressive ap-
proach in order to com-
pete, and they have to
realize that reliance on
the upper levels of
governments is misplac-
ed because senior
governments aren’t con-
cerned with individual
communities.’’ McMann
went on to say that in
order to grow and
develop communities re-
quire a strategy, local ex-

pertise, an adequate
economic development
budget, political

cooperation on a local
level, and community
support.

McMann also em-
phasized the importance
of proper facilities such
as schools, medica! care
and social services in at-
tracting investors. He
added that an inventory
of land available for ex-
pansion is also essential,
along with a comprehen-
sive land use plan.

Jay Wollenberg’s por-
tion of the discussion
was directed toward
enlightening delegates

with regard to the right
and wrong moves in
marketing. ‘‘Marketing
is one prong in an overall
economic development
strategy,’? Wolllenberg
began. ‘Impulsive and
ad hoc marketing is the
rule rather than the ex-
ception, and it is rare to
find a two or three-year
plan among com-
munities.’”
Wollenberg charac-
terized marketing tools
as being in two cate-
gories: cheap and ex-
pensive. His. advice
favored the cheap
methods, and he said
that printed brochures,
provincial government
programs, signage and
information centres and
direct contact by mail are
examples of the most ef-
fective and least costly
means, and magazine
advertising as being far
too expensive and of
questionable value.
Wollenberg concluded
by saying that tracking
and follow-up are ab-
solutely essential to any
sort of promotional ef-
fort.

In some ways the most
impressive presentation
of the session was that of
Martin Thomas from the
B.C. Ministry of
Municipal Affairs. In
less than ten minutes the
senior-level bureaucrat
provided a refreshingly
direct and succinct sum-
mary of the entire range
of free services offered
to municipalities by the
Partners in Enterprise
program. These included
the free printing of pro-
motional brochures and
booklets, funding for
various promotional
enterprises and even
grants to assist writers in
preparing promotional
materials. ‘‘We are en-
couraging an expanding
economic role for local
governments,’ he said.
‘All the province can do
is stimulate — your
destiny is in your own
hands.””