2 Terrace Review — Wednesday, March 18, 1987

Postal rates rise

TERRACE — The cost of
using the various services
offered by. the Canada
Post Corporation will in-
crease beginning April 1,
according to Terrace
Postmaster Dale Walker. .

Walker said the cost of
mailing a standard letter
within Canada will go
from 34 to 36 cents, non-
standard mailings such as
use of postal meters will
go from 39 cents to 42
cents, the charge for send-
ing a -letter to U.S.
destinations. will go up
three cents, and overseas
mail will go.up five cents.

Bulk mail users will also
be affected, with the cost

of second and third class’

mass posting going up be-
tween .4 and .6 cents per
item, depending on rate
class and destination.

The cost of registered
mail will go from $2.46 to
$2,63, and certified mail
will rise in cost from$1.12
to $1.50.

There will be no change.

in the fee for redirection
notices (change of ad-
dress) or proof of delivery

- special

insurance,. Walker said.
Special delivery rates for
letters will remain the
same, but the charge for
delivery - -parcels
will go up to $1.34 from
the present rate of $1,25,
plus the weight charge. |
‘Parcel rates, Walker
noted, are being reduced.
He explained that the
reduction reflects lower
costs achieved by
eliminating air transfer of
packages. All parcels are
now being carried by

road, .he said. Short haul .

rates which apply to
parcels being shipped
along Highway 16 will be
canceled, and all of B.C.
will have a single zone
rate. A one-kilogram first

class parcel mailed within.

B.C, will cost $3.20, down
from the. previous rate: of
$3.39.

NO SERVICE
CUTBACKS PLANNED

The controversial
Canada Post ‘“‘superbox’’
will not make an. ap-
pearance in Terrace unless.

a..new subdivision is

- developed, ‘Walker said,
and such a development is
unlikely in the next few
years. “‘Anyone who is on
delivery now will not lose

it to superboxes,”? - he |

stated,
Walker indicated he has
put in a request. for a

‘ demonstration superbox

to be displayed in the lob-
by area of the Terrace post
office. Initial problems
with the devices, he said,
were due to flawed work-
manship and all the bugs
have now been worked out
of them.’

.

Walker said superboxes
may eventually replace the
group boxes presently in
use in some parts of the
district, and he stated the
superboxes would con-
stitute an improvement in
service for those areas.
Superboxes, he said. have
to be located within 180
meters of the user’s prop-
erty line, whereas the
green group boxes are
sometimes positioned up
to half a mile from
residents.

Beginning April 1, the cost of many postal services will increase. Caro! McDonald at the Terrace

post office will have to get acquainted with a new set of rates.

Hydro route approved

A panel of roasters recently grilled the Terrace Businessperson of the Year for 1987, Malcolm Hilcove. The award luncheon was
held by the Terrace and District Chamber of Commerce, with barbed wit supplied by (left to eight), Mayor Jack Talstra, Chamber
‘President Doug McLeod, Alderman Doug Smith, and Joe and Caral Zucchiatti.

Forest service reveals —

management plan for f

Dease River corridor &

A draft plan by the B.C.
Forest Service to designate
the entire length of the

Dease River as a recrea--

tion corridor may place
restrictions on industrial
usages and resource. ex-
traction, such as. mining
-and logging, in the im-
mediate vicinity of the
Tiver.

In a recent statement
- the forest service indicated
recreation corridor status
is being recommended for
the Dease River ‘‘to em-
phasize the recreational

significance of that area

and to formalize where
possible methods of pro-
tecting the recreational
- qualities and providing for
public recreational use’’
The draft management
plan issued by James Snet-
singer, regional recreation

officer for the Ministry of
Forests office in Smithers,
identifies 16 sequential
management unit zones
along the 300-kilometer
length of the river from
Dease Lake northward to
its confluence with the
Liard River near the
Yukon border. The basic
criteria for management
are set out in ‘visual
quality objectives’? which
consider line-of-sight
views of the landscape
from the river and other
points of established
recreational usage.

The visual quality ob-
jectives, if adopted by the
Forest Service as manage-
ment policy, would be us-
ed as guidelines for deci-
sions on timber extrac-
tion, road construction

and other activities that

would affect the ap-.

pearance of the area.
The Forest Service has
invited public comment

and recommendations on —

the proposed management
plan for the Dease River.
Briefs should be forward-
ed to the Forest Service of-
fices in either Smithers or
Dease Lake no later than
April 15.

In Court

In Terrace Provincial
Court on Friday, Feb. 6
Glaze McKay was fined a
total of $400 for two
counts under the Federal
Fisheries Act.

Lo * *
Agnes Bell was fined $400
for operating a motor
vehicle while his ability to
drive was impaired.

TERRACE — The board
of the Kitimat-Stikine
‘Regional District has

to B.C Hydro’s proposed
route for power lines to
the Mt. Klappan coal mine
site. No definite answer
has been received, how-
ever, to the regional
board’s request for in-
tegrating - -the town of
Stewart into the expanded
hydro system, : .

B.C. Hydro’ s plan i is to
run a 138-kilovolt trans-
mission line from its ex-
isting terminal in Aiyansh
northward along. Highway
37 and branch the line off
up the Bell-Irving River to
the mine site. Except for
minor deviations the line
will follow transportation
corridors, including the
proposed coal trucking

given approval in principle’

route down the Bell- -Irving

River.

Regional board mem-
bers voted approval for
the proposal as being in
line with the board’s
recommendation to use
existing corridors. .

Stewart director An-
drew Burton informed the
board he will be meeting
with B.C. Hydro represen-
tatives sometime in March
to maintain pressure on
the utility to supply
Stewart with power.
Stewart’s, present source
of electric power is a diesel
generating station.

Regional board chair-
man Les
stated, ‘‘Our position is
that if Klappan gets it
Stewart gets it too. The
line will run right past

Stewart’s front door,”? -

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