0 if Prized nuns Terrace Little Theatre | generates laughter and praise at Mainstage 2006 | a _\COMMUNITY Bi Sick and tired Lack of available beds at Mills Memorial Hospital is an ongoing and serious © issue\NEWS A141” Sad farewell Blueback swim club coach retires to spend more time with family \SPORTS B4 "$1.00 PLUS 6¢ GST - Rochelle Patenaude © ‘July 13. " ($1.10 plus 7¢ GST outside of the Terrace area) => _ VOL. 19 NO. 15 & if] ce www.terracestanda rd.com 7 78 7 if “Wednesday, July 19, 2006 ‘Second growth vital to forest future By SARAH A. ZIMMERMAN . extracting timber in mountainous areas and the fact ITJU ST might take some time. That's. the. message from forest industry workers in the Terrace area who believe revitalization here. - “won't happen until second growth in the area’s for- est is ready to log, but it could be at least 10 or even_. 20 years before that happens. "Despite something of a kick start to the area’s” " forest industry after the Terrace Lumber Company ., began operations last year, numerous factors beyond “ local control have conspired to- stall the rebound of the forest sector here. The industry here has been hard hit bya very high ° Canadian dollar, soft international lumber prices, an oversupply of chips, rising stumpage rates and raw _ .log exports that aren’t as lucrative as some. would have hoped. ' While the forest industry throughout. the p province " has to deal with those issues, here in the Terrace area: » they are compounded even more re by the > high cost of Two face - - charges ‘in double» beating By MARGARET SPEIRS -TWO. MEN face charges - _of ‘aggravated assault and assault causing bodily harm . that timber here is generally pulp quality.” _ “When you have a fibre basket that is highly dec-~ - adent even small changes i in any: one of those will impact you,” says former minister of state for for- ; estry operations Roger Harris. _ a ~ “Put all of those things . into the equation and you have costs: going up and. ‘sale prices going down, and in this market that can be catastrophic in nature” - Local logging contrac- says. “The reality i is B. C. used to be the king ¢ of the - woods but, there are so many suppliers now in other countries we just aren *t anymore.” Many local operations are being hampered bya a number of factors including aging equipment, lack ‘ of a skilled workforce and expensive costs when . it comes to. logging road “The reality is B.C. used to be - the king of the woods but there’ are so many suppliers now ‘in | “ other countries, -we just aren’t maintenance. “In 10 to.20 years the whole method of logging in the area: will change. because we’ re into the reforested areas — we’re . and the rest. is more decadent.., While ‘old growth stands tend to be more diverse in terms of the profile of timber, the second growth sawing, Houlden says. He hopes that. as the second growth starids come on line over the coming years that companies such ing end, producing value added wood products for ‘export or North America trade, St “I think one of the problems in this area and one -of the reasons [the value added industry] is moving | 7] ii stands are expected to be more’ monoculture’ and | filled with easier. to extract trees more suitable’ for _ _as his will be able to diversify into the manufactur- tor Ken Houlden, one of” anymore, " - Ken Houlden’ "« _ back.on the valley floor,” so slow is that we’ve been hit so hard and nobody three partners in Houlden ,Houlden says. “We’ li be has the capital to do these things,” he says. Logging Ltd., says his. rr i more like the’interior, we “We wanted to get into the manufacturing end as company is essentially - willl have very ‘uniform. ‘well but with the capital it takes we can’t afford to — A holding on until the second growth i in the area is vi- size wood. ” ° get in on that. side, but it will « come about at some . able to cut. Right now the stands that are , available tend tobe point.” aI really don’ tknow that any of us in the industry old growth stands containing about 20 per cent high ° i grade timber suitable for saw logs or raw log export See _ Cont'd Page AS are looking towards a. hey day in forestry,” Houlden after a man and a woman -— - were severely beaten in a late night attack last week. ‘Mark Henry Therrien, - 27, and Andre Nicholas La- - croix, 23, both of Terrace, were charged for -allegedly assaulting a man and woman Riverside Park baseball field behind the Terrace Curl- ing Association in the early © morning hours of July 8. . A woman. is expected to”. _ also face charges of assault causing bodily harm and - public mischief, say Terrace RCMP. “The quick response by police, the assignment of additional officers and the exemplary work by inves-- tigators has-resulted in the swift arrest of three people, all from Terrace,” Terrace RCMP spokesperson Const. said - Around 3:40 a.m. July 8, _ police were called to inves- _ ‘tigate a report that a woman had been badly beaten. About one hour later, they — learned that a man had also been assaulted and was in~ need of medical assistance. Police confirmed the inci- dents were related and eight officers were assigned to in- vestigate, police say. Officers interviewed sev- eral people, executed three search warrants and fol- lowed numerous leads that “ resulted in Therrien being — arrested that same day. Patenaude would not re- “lease specific details about the victims’ injuries except to say that both were badly beaten. The female victim was sent to Mills Memorial Hospital for treatment and later released. The male victim remains™ in’ serious - condition in hospital in the . intensive care unit, say po- lice. Police are not releasing what motivate the attack on _ the two people attack. Ther- rien was remanded in cus- tody for a court appearance this week.. The woman al- leged to have also been in- volved was released and will appear in court in August. Police continue their in- vestigation. Lat COREY HALES, left, and John Warcup, co-captain of the U- 18 boys soccer team, proudly show off the ' team’s trophy.and their gold medals from the squad's victory at the soccer provincials i in Prince George earlier ‘this month.. The win marked their first gold and fourth. medal from provincials. - MARGARET. SPEIRS PHOTO , They’re B.C.’s golden boys By MARGARET SPEIRS i, ‘PLAYING TOGETHER for several years- contributed to the U-18 | boys gold medal victory at soccer provincials, the peak of their long soccer careers together. - The U-18 Kermodes, most. of - whom have been on the same team for more than six years, shut out -- Kelowna 2-0 in the final to win their first gold and fourth medal at the ’ AAA Boys Soccer Provincials in _ Prince George July 6 to 9.. Team co-captains John Warcup and Corey Hales are still stoked about their victory. “Tt feels pretty crazy, pretty unre- alistic,” said Hales. “We went in thinking we were go- ~ing to win gold but in your mind you never really see it coming true. _ “We did it. We are the best team in the province in the B-Cup.” “Tt feels really good. It was kind of a shock at first,” said Warcup. r “Well, I expected we'd make the final but winning it is just kind of above my head.” Both teens said their many years of experience playing together had a significant role in their triumph a at the ‘provincials. “We definitely have real connec- tions,” said Hales. “We played as a solid team and kept getting better and \ better.” ’ “You get to ‘know’ how certain ° people play and what they’re most likely to do,” said Warcup. And both agreed the goals scored in the final game were the highlights of provincials. Jared Stephens scored the first goal putting the team on the board. in the first 10 minutes, a big.deal be- + cause the Kermodés. have never lead , in a final game before, Hales said.- Watching the second goal go into the net with three. minutes left was exciting because the boys knew then. they had won, Warcup said. Oe Coni’d Page A2 tans toi te chledite niin ath ateaie pw etn bate ie, tm ‘Second sheet | design unveiled “THE CITY’S new design for the proposed second sheet of ’ ice calls for the new arena to. be moved more to the west in: an effort to ‘reduce costs associated with excavating on the hill behind the existing building. It’s one of several design changes the city’ s new architect working on the project has tweaked with the view to reduce os the costs of building the addition... “Moving the proposed addition forward shaves $450, 000 off the costs of excavation associated with the former design, © . says director of leisure services Ross Milnthorp. Theré’ll be additional costs incurred with redirected vehicle access from _Kalum St. up to the existing and new parking areas. Other changes include the construction of a common front entrance which would allow people to enter through |” one door on the lower concourse providing access to both the existing rink and the new sheet of ice. An elevator will _ bring long awaited wheelchair access to the upper level of _the arena, providing access to the banquet room, two large - multipurpose rooms and a: viewing area. The new design ° also calls for four 600. square foot - ‘changing r rooms and a. . fifth changing room which is 930 square feet. - _ Each of those new changing rooms is. accessible by a wide _ 8°10” corridor, allowing plenty of room for athletes and their equipment to pass through, says Milnthorp: The ice surface will by a 200-foot by 85- foot NHL sized , - rink with seating for 400 people. The new design. comes courtesy of North ‘American ‘Tee Development’ s architect Bruce Carscadden. North Ameri--~ can Ice is the project management firm. hired recently by the. ~~ city to” ‘alter existing designs prepared. by. the city’ Ss. former - ~ architect.” “In my opinion this is.a far more functional design than oo » the previous one,” says Milnthorp. : Bids on the city’s previous plan designed by PBK Ar City axes money from tourism body -THE CITY. of Terrace will create’ anew tourism body with a - chitects came back last summer at a whopping $10.5 mil- .. ' lion. The city hopes new bids will come in at nearly half that | price. The city has just over $4 million left i in the fundraising . - account for the proposed Sportsplex. wy broad mandate and is pulling its roughly $75,000 in annual . funding from the Terrace Tourism Society after months of ~ ugly infighting between that group and. the city over the former’s plan to broaden the scope of what tourism dollars in Terrace are spént on. The city, will also resubmit its request to‘the Regional . District of Kitimat-Stikine to redirect money from the lu- - erative two per cent hotel. tax away from Terrace Tourism Society (TTS).to the city instead. That money is collected by area hoteliers and Tedirected | | through the. Regional District of Kitimat-Stikine to: TTS. Last year that hotel tax added up to more than $92,000 for . the purpose of external marketing and: devélopment. The - city believes that means the money can be spent ona broader | range of tourism initiatives than strict marketing purposes, | -but TTS says its understanding of the bylaw is that money is. to be spent exclusively on marketing. . “From the outset the city has: been clear that the city : wants an organization which supports a broad mandate,” _ said councillor Brian Downie at the July 10 council meeting: “We are missing opportunities we shouldn’t be missing and a new organization is needed.” * , .. | Terrace Tourism Society president Scott Miller said the. society will continue conducting business as usual. Representatives from the society are lobbying tourism in- ' dustry officials to support them in their effort to retain their rights to the two per cent tax money. They argue that with- out local hoteliers support, the tax can not be diverted to the not been adequately consulted about the ° city” s plans over the last several months. '. city. Miller and others are. perplexed by the city’s efforts to . change the structure of their | organization and argue they’ ve eset 25g 501 repan SR ROD er PEATE