THE SMASHING OF a traffic mirror on ‘the ‘top of Kalum
Hill last week doesn't reflect kindly on those who did the
deed. That's city official Charles Hansen with what's left,

Safety measure
gets shattered

A MIRROR -that was sup-
posed to help motorists sce
around the blind comer at
Munthe Ave. and Sparks St.
lasted a matter of hours.

The 48-inch convex mirror
was installed Sept. 8, said ac-
ling public works director
Charles Hansen, It was
destroyed by vandals two
nighis later, on Sept. 10.

Hausen said the $550 mirror
was made of acrylic and was
supposed to have been somc-
what break-resistant

“We're not sure yet what
was used to break it —
whether it was a pellet gun or
a rock or whatever,” he said.

Bench area residents had
given the mirror rave reviews
as soon as it was put up.

“It worked well,’? Hansen
noted, adding it made the in-
tersection much safer.

The city will be ordering an-
other mirror, he said.

“But first we're going to
look at some ways lo make it
a little more vandal-proof.”’

 Avialion

SM

The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, September 21, 1994 - A3

Aircraft makes It in

after engine failed

AN AIRCRAFT being ferried
from here to Great Britain last
weck landed safely at Glasgow
airport after one of its two
engines failed approximately 90
miles off the coast of Scotland.
The Bristol Freighter with six
people on board, including two
Terrace residents from Hawkair
Services Ltd., lost
height because of the engine fail-

ure during the evening hours of

Sept. 15.

A British armed forces helicop-
ter was placed on stand by as was
a lifeboat and emergency services
personne] at the Glasgow airport.

Local Hawkair spokesman Rod
Hayword said the Bristol dropped
in altitude from 7,500 feet to
4,000 feet.

“Tt was night. They were lying
in the dark into the airport and
needed radar vectors to avoid the
mountains. It shook them up a
bit,”’ he said.

The Bristol had been headed
toward Birmingham, England at
the time of the emergency.

Hayword said it was fortunate
that the Bristol wasn’t ying with
full tanks as the extra fuel weight
would have added to height prob-
leras,

On board the aircraft was Haw-
kair pilot Dave Menzies, Hawkair
enginecr Paul Hawkins and four
Britons.

‘Dave (Menzies) did a wonder-
ful job of bringing it in,” said
Don Vienneau, also of Hawkair.

“He’s the most experienced
and current Bristol pilot in the
world. Dave knew how to get the
most out of the (remaining)
engine,”’ he said.

The four Britons have a compa-
ny called MRS4000 Lid, It
bought the Bristo] and two others
just like it from the receiver
which handled the bankruptcy of
Trans Provincial Airlines last
year.

Hawkair brought the Bristols
back into flying condition and
delivered the one to England in
retum for gaining ownership of
one of the two other Bristols. It’s
also leasing the third.

The 1950s-era Bristols ate the
last. of their kind in the world.

“It was night. They were

flying in the dark into the

airport and needed radar
vectors to avoid the
mountains, It shook them
up a bit.’’

Their easily recognizable bulbous
Nose opens up for loading and un-
loading of cargo.

The cagine was repaired by
Paul Hawkins who replaced. a
cylinder and the Bristol touched
down at London's Heathrow Air-
port, its final destiziation, Sept.
16,

Menzies and Hawkins returned
to Terrace this week.

“Engine failures are a fact of
life with this business. I'd say
when the Bristols were with TPA,
they came in no less than 20
times on one fan,"’ said Vien-
neau.

Menzies, Hawkins and the four
Britons left Terrace Sept 10 for
what was to be a six-day journey
across Canada and the North At
lantic.

The original plan was to go to
Winnipeg the first day, to Ottawa
the second day, to Goose Bay in
Labrador the third day, to Iceland
the fourth day, and on to Scotland
the fifth day before landing near
Oxford on day six.

But bad weather delayed the
flight in Winnipeg for a day.

More bad weather, this time over
the Gulf of St, Lawrence, after
leaving Ottawa caused a diver-
sion to Rimouski, Quebec instead
of to Goose Bay, Labrador.

The Bristol did make it to
Iceland the next day, after refucl-
ing in Goose Bay prior to heading
out over the North Adantic.

After the Iceland stop, the six
decided to abandon their original
Scottish destination in favour of
Birmingham before then beading
to Oxford.

That changed, as did their final
landing spot, because of the
engine failure.

Vienneaw said the: aircraft was
performing well on earlier stages
of the flight.

“There was a bit of trouble
with the navigation equipment
but that was solved. Fuel con-
sumption was normal and oil con-
sumptign was right down,” he
said.

The Bristol Hawkair now owns
is airworthy and it now means the
company can turn its attention to
money making ventures, said
Vienneau,

He said the. company has
received inquiries from mining
companies necding transport to
and from properties up north,

Hawkair's employees used to
fly and maintain the Bristols for
Trans Provincial,

Their plan is to do the same
kind of work with the Bristols as
did Trans Provincial before it
went into bankrupicy.

Pupil numbers dip

WHILE SCHOOL enrolment is
slightly Jower than projected, as-
sistant superintendent Skip
Bergsma said this is not unusual
early in the year,

‘*There’s always a few ups and
downs as the year gets started,’’
said Bergsma. ‘‘But we're off to
a really smooth start — it’s very
stable.”’

The total district enrolment as
of September 9 was 5,281, in-
cluding students from Terrace,
Kitwanga, Hazelton, Stewart and
Meziadin.

Only one staff change has been
made to adjust to various school
enrolments in Terrace.

While the projected enrolment
of E.T. Kenney Primary was 230
students, the total as of Scptem-
ber 9 was 203.

One E.T. Kenncy teacher was
moved to Kiti K’Shan to open a
second french immersion kinder-
garden class, .

“There’s no surplus of
teachers,’’ he said. “Except at
Thornhili Primary, there’s just
barely enough,”*

News
In Brief

Walsh traffic
debated

RESIDENTS HAVE given
cily councillors conflicting
Signals about the idea of
opening up Davis and Park
Ave. to create throughstreets
from Kenney to Eby.

Davis Ave. resident Barry
Eyjolfson told council he is
“vehemently apposed’’ to the
plan, but added he supports a
taffic light st Hwy16. and
Kenney.

Opening the streets would
detract from the neighbour-
hood, he said, and there
would be no guarantee
motorists would actually use
those routes.

Walsh Ave. resident Debbie
Kuemper, however, spoke in
favour of the street-opening
scheme.

“1 think it’s really silly that
these people are making such
a fuss,’’ she said, noting that
residents’ there would: soon
gain the advantages Walsh .
residents now enjoy, such as
early snow-clearing.

Back lanes
up for buy

RECENT LANE CLOSURE
requests have prompted coun-
cillors to look at the pos-
sibility of closing up unused
lanes en masse.

Rather than continue to do
them piecemeal, council con-
cluded it may .be cheaper to
identify sl] unused laneways
and request the province deed -
them back to the city,

The laneways — many of
which are already fenced off
as part of various backyards:
— could thea be turned over.
to homeowners for the cost of
surveying.

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MOATURDAY & SUNDAY

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TRUCKS ARE
ROLLING IN...

TCH FOR THE FLYER IN THE SKEENA MARKETPLACE
ON SEPTEMBER 24, 1994