- TERRACE — Record- -breaking

rainfall on Sept. 20 resulted ina |
lot of clean-up and repairs last’:
week for Ministry of Highways |
workers and other affected.

agencies and businesses.

by Philip Musselman:

One incident closed Highway -

16 East to traffic between Ter-
race and Kitwanga. The closure
followed the flooding of Whis-
- key Creek, 14 km. west of Kit-
wanga. The stream had been
carrying a lot of debris and gra-
_ vel due to high waters and plug-
ged a culvert under the highway.

The 12-foot diameter culvert
couldn’t handle the flow and the

creek flooded the roadway. Ac--

cording to the Ministry of
Highways manager of regional
maintenance, Joe Wrobel, the
creek also ran west and washed
out some of the shoulder down
from the main closure.

The crew was faced with a

decision of cither trying to divert |

the water or try to get it running |
-through the culvert again, Wro-

bel said.
The crew began to clear debris

: from the front of the culvert so
—— that it could wash itself out. Ac--
cording to Wrobel, the. toughest.

part of the task was keeping the

culvert’ from bending like a-

plastic straw: under’ the enor-
mous pressure. ‘‘The crew did a
wonderful job,”said Wrobel,

“if it wasn’t for their successful
efforts. we would have had ‘to
build a Bailey bridge and the

‘repairs would have taken at least.

another 24 hours.”? _

‘The highway opened again
after 15 hours and a flow of traf-
fic was restored as the crew
made sure that the culvert was
kept open. Twenty-six pieces of
equipment plus operators and an
additional 18 men had worked

to get the route open, |

In another road closure,

Bandshell — continued from page 1

the Finance Committee for more -

information, saying she was in
favor of the project but was con-
cerned over the term “forgivable
loan’” and wanted to know
where the money was coming
from and what sort of guarantee
of repayment existed.

The matter was given a second
look at last Monday’ $ council
meeting, after coming back
from the Finance Committee
with the recommendation to ap-
_prove the loan, and Hallock

repeated her concerns saying, ‘‘I

am always opposed to lending
public money. It was made clear
two years ago that the City

would have no.money involve-
ment and when I look back I
find that there have been many
service club projects in town that
have gone very well without our
money.’’

This view was supported. by
Ald. Takhar, who said, ‘‘This is

a good project but the City.is do-
ing the whole thing. I think a
service club would like this kind
of project.”’

Ald. Jackman, Smith, Cooper
and Clark spoke i in favor of ac-

cepting the recommendation,

saying that leaving the bandshell
in its present state leaves it open

to damage from vandalism and.
weather. PASS, it was noted,

has. already completed ‘‘an in-

‘credible amount of work.”

Smith said Ryan had given a
full breakdown of the estimates
and costs for the project and
that a lottery grant, if approved,

would immediately repay the’

loan.

But even if the lottery erant
was turned down, said Smith,
organizers had demonstrated the
ability to raise four to five thou-
sand dollars at a single function,
and he said he fully expected the

loan would be repaid by next

summer.

Peaks — continued from page’ 21

Games, and Provincial Division
Competitions may be done at
these meets.

We are pleased to welcome a
new member to our club. She is
Shirley Hostland, and she will be
our new part-time coach and
coach coordinator. She has a lot
to offer to our club and we hope
she will enjoy working with all
the other coaches and parents,
and executive. We'd also like to
welcome back our own coaches:
Rosanne Komlos, Eva Komlos,

Andrea Komlos, Kris Fairless,
Lee-Anne Phillips, Jenny Brady,
Shannon Skrabyc, and Tracy
Tomas,

Terrace Peaks Gymnastics
Ciub would like to welcome all
old and new members to our
new season, ,

The annual general meeting
will be held Tuesday, Oct. 6 at
Clarence Michiel School. For
further information call Irene
Kuhas at 635-3215. © ©

Offshore — continued frompage 16 -

‘positive benefits for local
residents.”

He explained that a_five-
person assessment panel, the
West Coast Offshore Explora-
tion Environmental Assessment
Panel, had held public meetings
in the fall of 1985 with a limited
mandate and funding, and on
the ‘basis of evidence gathered
the Panel made 92 recommenda-
tions to the federal government
in April, 1986.

According to Fulton, many of
the more important recommen-
dations were rejected by both
the provincial and federal
governments, raising some ser-
ious concerns,

He said funding for further
public hearings had been placed
on hold and the government
proposed the establishement of a
‘petroleum regulator’? which

may include public representa-
tion, but they failed to guarantee
local jobs.or community funding
to provide ‘‘assistance to mon-

itor the socio-economic effects
of offshore activity d initiate |
programs to deal these ef-

fects,’? ~

Fulton also added that the —

goverament had failed to ad-
dress native land claims, con-
cerns expressed by the fishing in-

dustry and, although they ac- -

cepted the recommendation for

a 20-kilometer buffer zone bet-.

ween the shoreline and drilling
activity during the initial phase,
they ignored environmental con-

cerns by saying, ‘This will be

followed by site specific reduc-
tions.’

According to Fulton, recom-
mendations regarding these con-
cerns were to be addressed prior
to allowing any offshore ex-

ploration, and while they had .

responded favorably to some
points, others of real concern
had been ignored. ‘‘At best, the
governments’ response is a dis-
appointment,”’ said Fulton.

ARRAS vey ANS on

” Massive c clean. UD follows: record rainfall

Williams Creek ‘on Highway 37
to Kitimat was limited ‘to trans-
port truck use only. Lighter ve-

hicles had: to take’ a detour: on.

Old Lakelse. Lake Road while a
grader and three people worked
to make-sure the culverts were
onen .so- that. Williams. Creak

“could drain away from the high-

way. A minimum amount of
damage-resulted. Within 6 hours
the highway was again open to
all traffic. .

Another flood-related _inci-
dent closed the railway to
Kitimat when: the CNR Kitimat
bridge abutment was washed out

- by high waters. The weakening

of the bridge has interrupted the
use of the line,

. According to CN spokesper-

son. Cecil Gordey, diversion of

water and the hauling of mater-
ials occupied many CN work-
men.

The bridge should be restored
in about four weeks.

A Pacific Northern Gas
(PNG) pipeline was damaged by
the floods in the Copper River
Valley. A temporary. interrup-
tion to industrial customers was
necessary so that the company
could divert the flow of gas to a
backup 10-inch line. The 8-inch
pipe will be repaired and be put

‘back into service.

A further. result of the rains is
causing concern about. resident
fish in the streams which rose so
suddenly.

Not only did the water-go up.

and change: the banks of each

stream, said’ local Conservation
Officer Terry McGunigle, but:
spawning grounds were all but
washed out by tremendous flows
of water.

Concern about eggs and en-
dangered fry is matched by a

possibility af a poorc coho cannan

we WIR OWE

for sports anglers,

“Thete was nothing: we could ee
do,’' McGunigle explained, “the
force of the rains was just:too
strong and sudden; it hit right —

when it shouldn't have,”’
Meanwhile after a week of
recovering, Terrace is still ex-

pected to see showers through: |

the weekend.

Decentralize “= continued from page 1

Asked about the future of
regional districts in the province,
Cooper said, ‘“We won't know
until we get all the details"?

According to Talstra, Terrace
may. have a logistical advantage
in becoming the administrative’
base of the new region. ‘‘We
represent the centre of the most
concentrated population in the
region,’’ he said, and expressed
the intent to seek Kitimat coun-
cil’s support to that argument.

Teachers —

to a binding agreement with the
TDTA because, according to ad-
vice from lawyers and profes-
sional negotiators, such an
agreement could create prob-
lems for the yet-to-be-determin-
ed new bargaining agent for the
teachers. Cooper also claimed
that under the terms of the In-
dustrial Relations Act, which
would apply to bargaining pro-
cedures if the teachers form a
union, the board will not have
the right.to'strip the contracts. .

Giesbrecht stated in an: earlier
interview, however, that there is
no legal obstacle to prevent a
bridging agreement. ‘‘We’ve re-
futed all those arguments,’? he
said. ‘It’s not binding anybody;

_ Talstra said that’
nouncements made by Vander
Zalm at the same time, and
possibly affecting the City, also

-needed more clarification.

According to Talstra, the

premier announced a $10 million .

‘“Downtown Revitalization Pro-

gram’’ but didn’t elaborate on

the details of the plan.
“I don’t know if this is a new

Program or a re-creation of the

old program,’ he said.

continued from page 1

‘it just continues until another

representative body begins nego-

tiations, ”

At the Monday rally Cooper,
a member of the board’s negoti- .

ating committee, agreed to

another meeting with the TDTA.

negotiators in order to avert the

possibility of a teachers’ strike...
The two committees will meet _
today, and the strike vote is:
scheduled to take place tomor-:

row.

Giesbrecht said that if ther ma--

jority votes for ‘‘withdrawal of
services’? the action will be

-delayed to allow parents suffi-

cient time to make alternate ar-
Tangements for child care.

rs

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