"Commen tary

by Les Watmough

Anyone for a little lesson: in
history? Oh, no, not ancient
history, just a little something
that started 20 or 30 years ago
and ended — well, really not
ended — last week.

- There was some logging
around Terrace in the old days,

* but in 1951, Tree Farm License
No. 1 was issued to Columbia |

Cellulose, they moved into Ter-
race, and the place was never
quite the same. -

. TFL No. 1 was a large timber.

block: all of the Kalum Valley,

_. the Nass Valley from Greenville
to where the Nass bridge on

Highway 37 crosses the river,
and the Bell-Irving Valley to
where the Bowser River joins
on. Then there was the Copper
River block, and the Scotia and
Windsor Creeks. But this history

_is of the Kalum and Nass blocks.

The name changes of this

company are legend — 16
changes in 13 years, said one.

long-time employee. From Col.
Cel. to Canadian Cel., to Twin-
river to Westar. In there some-
where, around 1967, TFL No.
40 was added to TFL No. 1. This
tree farm license contained the
‘Sustut-Bear River and upper

Skeena River. | .,
Jn the early 1980's, a manage-

o ment change came to the sawmill

in Terrace, About the same
time, Westar (then) — through
BCRIC — bought out the other
sawmill, Skeena-Price, or Price-
Skeena if you prefer, along with
the timber rights they held.

Jim Cross, the super sales-
man, was now running Westar’s
Pohle mill and Dave Parker was
Westar’s logging manager.

Then came the great lumber
recession of the eighties. From

1982 to 1985 the world of log-

ging in Terrace changed
dramatically.

Concessions of all sorts were
demanded of Tom Waterland,

Community Futures program
calls in the consultants

TERRACE — The 16-37 Com-

-munity Futures committee has

hired Dimensions Planning, a
West Vancouver consulting
firm, to help formulate a
regional ‘‘job development’’
strategy for the area.

by Tod Strachan

According to Detlef Beck,
chairman of the Community
Futures committee, Dimensions
will be writing their final report
in September to assist the pro-
gram in fulfilling their mission
statement: ‘‘to facilitate the
development of a strong and
diversified regional community-

Emily Carr

based economy by designing and
implementing strategies for full

‘and meaningful employment.”’

Developing a strategy, says
Beck, will require an economic
overview of the Futures region
using existing studies and up-

dated census data. On comple-'

tion of this overview, Beck says,
Dimensions will work with
Community Futures directors
preparing a ‘‘strategic plan’’ as
well as an ‘‘action plan’’. The
action plan will outline tactics
and determine the time required
for realizing the strategy, as well
as defining the financial and
program resources available to

art courses

open for registration

The Emily Carr College of Art
-and design is offering three fine
arts courses televised on the
Knowledge Network. These
courses can be audited for slight-
ly lower course fees ($61 to $188)

‘or for credit ($101 to $228) in

Art College or University.
Credit students receive the

“assistance of a tutor via mail and

toll-free telephone. Deadline for
registration is August 22 for
these classes starting in
September.

Contemporary Art in Canada,
a two-semester, 26-part tele-
course, is for everyone who

wants to know about Canadian -

art and artists today.

FOR SALE

— -1981- G.M.C. Pick - up (N.G.V.)*
; 1981 - Mercury Cougar (N.G.V.)*
1982 - Ford Fairmont (N.G.V.)*
1982 - Ford Pick - up _(N.3.V. )*

1982 - Ford 1% Ton Truck

*N.G.V. are dual fuel NATURAL GAS - GASOLINE.

Submit sealed bids to PACIFIC NORTHERN GAS in
Terrace up to noon JULY 25, 1988.

Highest bid not necessarily accepted.

Colour: An Introduction
covers colour theory, analysis
and interpretation through prac-
tical assignments and the study
of the works of Van Gogh,
Picasso and Matisse. The course
includes nine half-hour pro-
grams and home study mater-
ials.

The ten and a half hour
course, Mark and Image, ex-
plores new approaches to draw-
ing and communication, with
televised lectures, demonstra-
tions, and class studio work.

Registration forms are

available at the Terrace Art.
Gallery.

support job development.

“As these tactics will flow
from the strategy, they will be
tesponsive to the needs and
aspirations of the people and
communities within the region, ”’
says Beck. The 16-37 Communi-
ty Futures region includes
Kitimat, Terrace, Stewart and
Hazelton as well as adjacent
Native villages.

He says it is hoped that
various Community Futures
programs can be implemented
by November. He added that the
committee has placed top priori-
ty.on a Business Development
Centre, assistance for workers
who wish to become self-
employed, and training and re-
training programs.

Throughout their work,
Dimensions Planning will be
seeking public input in their
search for innovative ideas and
alternate methods of stimulating
the regional economy.

then Forest Minister. Conces-
sions of all kinds were granted.
One thing that the manage-
ment of Westar wanted very
much was to have the upper
Nass, from the Cranberry north
and from Canyon City. on the
north shore of:the Nass up to the
Bell Il. They’ wanted them cut
off and given to some. other
logging companies. This cut off
was arranged, and a part of the

cut off lands was the Shumal

River, just upstream from Can-
yon City, near the site of Old
Aiyansh, Remember this timber
block and that it once belonged
to Westar. The Cranberry and

the Bell-Irving blocks were also
cut off and are now being logged
~ by two companies in the log ex-

port business. When these
licenses were granted there were
no stipulations that mills be
built, or that logs be sent to ex-

__ isting facilities.

In 1986 Westar sold, or rather
gave away, the pulp mill in
Prince Rupert, the sawmill in
Terrace and all the timber they
still held in the Skeena (up to
Cedarvale), and in the Kalum
Valley and the Nass Valley.
Someone in upper (Vancouver)

management wanted a sawmill —

at Carnaby, ‘and in order to
finance it they sold off most of
their holdings.

There once was a farmer who
did the same thing. He wanted
another cow so bad he sold all
his pasture to buy it. The cow,
of course, starved.

Westar built their Carnaby
mill, and tried to live up to their

promise of keeping the Hazelton

(Rim) operation open and
employing people. In order to

‘do this they applied for the

Sustut block, timber they once
had owned but had lost in the
late 1970’s. The government
took it back because Westar

Terrace Review -

Al lesson in the history of timber licenses

— Wednesday. ‘July 20: 198

never cut timber there. Log it or
lose it. The government then
gave it to some Prince George
interests -- who did not log it
either,

“TFL } No. 1... was
eight and one half
million acres, but they
managed to lose or
dispose of all of it.’’

Westar lost out in its bid for

the Sustut timber, and promptly
closed the Rim Sawmill. No
timber. TFL No. |, formerly
held by Westar, was eight. and
one half million acres, but they
managed to lose or dispose of all
of it.

Remember that block of
timber near Canyon City, the
Shumal River block? It was put
up for bid this spring. There

were two bidders for this timber.

The Nisga’a, who operate a
small mill in Canyon City, were
one of the bidders.

Guess what — Wester was the
other.

The Nisga’a, with a mill on.

site, and with unemployment at

80 percent in the villages, need -

that timber.

Westar, who once owned that
timber, but with now only two
mills left, and both of them over
100 miles from the Shumal,
wants, or maybe needs, that
timber.

The announcement last week
says that Westar lost out again.

The B.C. Forest Service this
time recognized the facts — that
it is cheaper to haul timber 10
miles than to haul it 100, and
that unemployment is unem-
ployment no matter what town
it’s in.

The Sustut facts and numbers
were the same, but the decision
was different.

Why?

Thanks to:

Berts Deli

_ Elks’ Hall
' -Houlden Logging

-- Kalum Staff
. Mr. Mike’s
‘Mohawk Oil

"Northern Drugs

~~ < -Overwaitea Foods
‘Pizza Hut

Spee-Dee Printers
Skeena Sawmills
-. Skeena Beverages

Terrace Air
-Terrace Hotel
Tillicum Lodge
Terrace. Builders

- Thornhill Grocery
Twin City Meats

Terrace Air

All Seasons Sporting Goods
Cassiar Forest District . dl

. - Independent Industrial Supply
. KDM Forest Services Ltd.

.- Northern Mountain Helicopters

\. Orenda Forest Products

-.. Rain Coast Signworks

- Vancouver Island Helicopters:
_ Williams Moving & Storage.
~The winners of the raffle for aircraft rides gre:

’ Northern Mountain Helicopters _
Okanagan Helicopters

The Staff of the Kalum District, on behalf of the Kalum District Employees
Benevolent Association would like to express thanks to the following whose
contributions made our benefit dance a success.

nn

Thanks also to all of those who contributed and supported us in our efforts to
aid the staff and families in their time of need.

— BCGEU

_ - Carmen’s Kitchen
Don Diego’s
Golden Razor

' Tce Age lice .
J & F Distributors
K-Mart roreee
Little Oliver Contracting”

en - McEwan Motors

| Northern Motor Inn

- Northland Deli .
Nissan
Okanagan Helicopters
Peg-Rin Enterprises

. RJA Forest Services Ltd.
Safeway
Stewart Field Office
Skeena Cellulose Inc.

’ §keena Hotel
Tillicum Theatre _
Trans Provincial Airlines’

_. Terrace Review

TT & C Contracting
Thornhill Public Market
Terrace Co-op
West Point Rentals
Bruce Yeast Ltd.

Ina Nelson
Lorraine Bjornson |
John Ricketts

7