G called Leaders Now BC, . ‘public, adding Aleesa’s peti- Women’s wear Service provides women needing to look their best with the right duds \COMMUNITY B1 Se fong He was Bob from Pacific and he loved the little ghost town — now his spirit lives on\NEWS A16 u Outstanding Skater distinguishes herself with four goiden performances ‘\SPORTS B5 $1.00 PLUS 6¢ GST ' ($1.10 plus 7¢ GST outside of the Terrace area) oO By SARAH A. ZIMMERMAN A’ REVAMPED committee to promote ‘and . organize the 2010 B.C. Winter Games in Terrace: is expected to. take the lead on promoting the Kermode bear as the mascot for the Vancouver 2010 ‘Winter Olympics. ‘Local people have béen promoting the idea of the Kermode bear as a mascot for several years, but the push has waned i in the last year. ' Those efforts may well be revived i in _ anticipation of the Vancouver organizing committee making a decision on what the 2010 Olympic mascot should be in the coming months. George Clark, president of Kermodei . Tourism, says a reinvigorated local com- : mittee will. look at promoting the bear to. Southern girl loves our bear. TWELVE-YEAR-OLD Aleesa, Paterson wants the Kermode. bear to become the mascot for the 2010 Olympic Games so much she collected": more < than’ 600 names on a petition and submitted it to Olympic officials last week. . Aleesa, who ‘is autistic, lives in Langley, attending Langley Fine Arts School. She’s passionate about animals. and that’s what drew her to promoting the white bear. “The spirit bear is only found in Canada,” she says. “So practically it’s Canada’s. - panda bear.” She was deeply affected by the drive by environmen- ~ talists and groups looking to protect the Kermode and its habitat. . She. joined forces with Sonya Paterson, the ex- ecutive director of a group ASVEFUEREES &, we, & ¥ which helps youth to take on global issues, and together ‘they promoted Aleesa’s idea. Collecting the signatures was a snap, Aleesa says. “Well, most of the people I asked know deep down that when the plants and animals die out, then we’re next and ‘besides I’d rather picture macaws flying through rain- _bows any day, instead of tree. ‘stumps beyond what one can see,” she says. Officials are still looking for ideas submitted by the tion is the first received pro-. moting the Kermode bear. For more on Aleesa’s Kermode mascot drive, go — to www.leadersnowbc.com. the organizing committee whichi is known as VANOC. The Spirit of 2010 committee will be made up of representatives from the Ter-. ‘race and District Chamber of Commerce, . Terrace Economic Development Author- ity (TEDA) and Kermodei Tourism, ‘says Clark. - '’ The group recently met to brainstorm ideas which included the idea of continu-. ing to promote the Kermode as the mas-: cot for the Olympics, though plans on how to go about that have not yet been ironed out. ‘Carol Fielding, the executive director of Kermodei: Tourism says it’s a good idea. “Oh absolutely = we’ ve been focussed - on the Kermode bear in this region for a long time,” Fielding says, adding. if done ermode mascot drive t properly it could help bring some atten- tion to the Terrace area. ” November 1} was the ‘deadline for de- signers and artists to submit their propos- - als for the development of: the mascot, but VANOC officials say they are still “encouraging. the - public to submit their own ideas as to what, the mascot. should be. - That’s: because the Nov. 1 deadline _ for a request for proposals. did not require a final concept for the mascot, says Ali Gardiner, director of brand and ‘creative for VANOC 2010. - 8 “The mascot ‘request for proposals] is essentially requesting artists, designers arid -companies’ to provide us with their portfolio and credentials,” diner, adding designers were specifically ft explains Gar- . drawings at this point. VANOC will spend this month evalu- “ating the dozens of proposals received, to come up with a shortlist and interview prospective proponents. Between Decem-- ber of this year and summer of 2007 the successful artists, in collaboration with VANOC, will develop mascot concepts. Gardiner wouldn’t put a deadline on when people should submit mascot sug- gestions. “In terms of public input, the earlier we get it the earlier we can pass it on to the artist we select,” George Clark says the Spirit of 2010 Committee here sees other potential for Terrace and the Kermode bear relating. to the Olympics. she says, add- » ing people should not send in a finished design concept, rather a suggestion of -what the mascot should be. . The group is interested in approaching VANOC to allow Terrace to have a pres- _ence in the media centre of the Olympic Games’in 2010 where people from Ter- Terrace beyond the Olympics and sepa-_~ race can educate visitors about the Ker- mode bear. s“We think we have to have an organi- ~ zation that’s protecting the Spirit Bear for rate of the Olympics,” says Clark. “Hopefully we’ll still be doing ‘work . with the Kermode bear in 2015 and 2020 not just 2010.” Part of that includes pro- ‘tecting the city’s trademark of the ‘Ker- mode bear. Mayor Jack: Talstra says he supports ‘any efforts to promote the Kermode bear. : as the mascot for the 2010 Olympics. - “Tt’s good for Terrace and. it’s good ’ for the region,’ ” Talstra said. “a asked not. to © supply completed concept Ci \- Poppy president LEGION Branch 13 president Doug Misfeldt takes a turn selling poppies last’ week in advance of Remembrance Day Nov. 11. . DUSTIN QUEZADA PHOTO By: SARAH A. ZIMMERMAN PUTTING a shovel in the ground to kick- start the building of a new arena is some- thing mayor Jack Talstra.has wanted to do . for-many, many years: and this week t he'll be | “doing just that. A groundbreakin g ceremony ofthe second . - sheet of ice — dubbed Phase One of a larger. _ sportsplex plan — is set to take place this Fri- day, Nov. 10 at 12:30 p.m. at the arena. Talstra and city councillors will be on hand for the ceremony. “TI feel very good,” says Talstra. “At last we’ll get going, so we hope the fall weather remains fairly decent so we can get going on this.” 1 Visible signs of construction should start within the next few weeks, says Ross Miln- thorp, the city’s director of leisure services.° Unlike ‘a traditional building project where a general contractor oversees the work, the city hired Wayne Aussem of North American Ice: Development to act as a proj- ect manager in an effort to get lower prices on different components of the project. Going that route shaved roughly $5, mil- - lion off the planned construction costs of the _projects compared to a $10.5 million esti- mate garnered last year from.a request: for . ; Proposals. Toddler inquest planned — AN INQUEST into the death of a Terrace — toddler more than four years ago will be held here sometime next year. Rowen Von: Niederhausern \ was : months old when he died ‘suddenly in his ‘Queensway Drive home Aug. 16, 2002.’ _An inquest is a public hearing of the facts . “. involving a sudden death. It is presided over by a full-time coroner and a jury of five peo- - ple: who determine the facts surrounding a death and make recommendations to prevent ~ sucha death i in the future. Inquests are: mandatory in the ¢ case of a person who dies in police custody, and are otherwise rarely held. . Burnaby-based coroner Marj Paonessa is remaining tight lipped about why an inquest 14. y to break ground for new rink Friday | _ While this new method may save money it also means more work for city staff who are working closely with Aussem and his ar- . . chitects on design modifications and plans. “4 think it is a little more work intensive for city staff but the benefit is the difference between a $5 million building and a'$10 mil- lion building,” says Milnthorp. “It is more work for city staff but the overall savings we’ve seen has been substantial.” City officials have decided to move ahead © with beginning construction on the building now rather than waiting for the spring, says Milnthorp. That means the parking lot on. the north ‘side of the existing building will be out of use for much of the winter skating season. The plan is to open up an area of land im-. mediately north of the skate park where city . crews dump snow during the winter. _. “The snow dump area is ready for park- ; ‘ing’ now, it’s not paved, but it’s ready for parking, so there is going to be some disrup- tion in terms of parking and a bit of disrup- tion in terms of access from the northwest entrance, but we're going to do everything we can to minimize those disruptions,” Says , Milnthorp. “. “We'll be putting up signage and we may put in some sort of foot access from the: snow dump to the existing site.” us is being held in this case. “In this particular case, for a number of reasons, it was the most appropriate way of completing,” she said. “It’s a decision made at headquarters and it’s always done i in conjunction with the re- _gtonal coroner.” Paonessa hopes to conduct the hearing i in Terrace in the first half of next year. “We are still undergoing some investiga- ‘tion at this time,” needs to collect more information before she said, adding she still proceeding with the inquest. Police. had deemed the. Von Nieder-- hausern death suspicious at the time of his - 2002 death. Cont'd Page A a2 or) re Dozens of workers strip sawmill ‘He expects it will take him and his crew five to six weeks to remove the roughly 20-25 kilometres of cable from the mill. ; Removed in ‘smaller segments, the wire will all be re- wrapped and used again, he says. “Most of it we'll put on - cable reels and re-use it,” Huxtable says. ° He’s living in a hotel here and says there are dozens of out-of-town workers at the mill who are doing the same thing. . ot _ “What’s nice is that there are lots of people staying here,” Huxtable says. “They’re staying at hotels, eating out, - shop- ping here.” ; Finding labourers to help dismantle the mill was a snap he says, adding a newspaper advertisement generated more than 20 calls per day from interested local applicants in the fo days afterit appeared. ‘He said at.$15 per hour he thought: ‘the pay was on the’ low side and was surprised by the qualifications of some of the people who expressed interest, including millwrights and electricians. By SARAH A. ZIMMERMAN PIECE BY PIECE, what’s left of what was once Terrace’s dominant employer is being carted away. Electrical companies, construction companies and salvag- ing outfits have been at the Terrace Lumber Company saw- mill since it went on the auction block Oct. 25-26, slowly starting the lengthy task of taking the mill apart before’ major equipment and buildings are removed. ' People working for AC Nelson, an electrical company -based out of Langley, BC, were removing in the range of $40,000 worth of electrical related items. Everett Lilly, who works for AC Nelson, says he’s spent the past eight years travelling to various sawmills and other industrial sites to remove parts after auctions. “The boss buys it and I strip it out,” Lilly says. “We-take out all the small stuff first and once the power goes down we take out the big stuff.” Gary Huxtable, owner of B. c Electric in Smithers, bought up all the industrial electrical cables in the sawmill. EVERETT LILLY « of AC Nelson of Langley | is one of a group of workers from a num- ber of companies dismantling the former. Terrace Lumber Company sawmill. It was sold off at auction Oct. 25-26. SARAH A. ZIMMERMAN PHOTO .