_ Far northern big blazes deliver the smoky hazes TERRACE — Thomhill, Cop- per, and Sleeping Beauty mountains could easily have been called the Misty Mountains last week. _ That’s because they were _... Shrouded in a ghostly haze that all ’ ‘but obscured the majestic monu- / oS Mentss 0 | - “Pye never seen it this bad - - ‘this kind of stuff is uncommon,” said. Kaz. Kopec, a fire manage- “ment technician at the B.C, Forest Service.in Terrace. -.-The -haze was due {to surging ‘blazes “inthe Northwest Terri- tories. -’, According to Kopec, there were “tat least four fires burning up there,” .. Kopee noted the head of one particularly large fire was 20-25 ~-miles-in length. He estimated that a fire this size would cover ap- proximately 100,000 to 150,000 hectares. - _ There was another fire strad- dling the northwest comer of Sas- katchewan and the NWT. Kopec said smoke was trans- ported here because air masses out of Alaska and, the Territorics combined and were directed southwards, ' The high amounts of smoke im- paired visibility. Kopec said a recent DC-6 air tanker Hight returning from the NWT to Smithers had to swing all the way to Mackenzie in order to continue its trip. ; “The visibility’s pretty well toast,’” he admitted. The heavy smoke also hampered patrol planes from checking possible lightning fires, From July 11-14, Kopec estimated that there had been be- tween 200-250 lightning strikes stretching from Kitimat to the _ Bell Irving River. He added the area slretching from New Hazelton to Terrace was receiving the highest amounts of smoke. That’s be- cause the adjacent valleys are ef- fective at capturing the haze. Since the fires were buming in areas of barren tundra and scrub rather than timber valleys, Kopec said they would probably be al- lowed to bum themselves out. On July 13, B.C. Environment issued a Skeena Air Quality Alert, asking people to refrain from any activities that would add to the smoky conditions, such as burning land clearing debris. Air pollution index measure- ments from Smithers Ouctuated between the low and high 30s for the first half of the week. The in- dex measures the amount of par- ticulates that people breathe into their lungs. A particulate is anything in the air that is not a gas, and is below 10 micro-meters in size. A human hair is about 20 micrometers in width. The particulates here were about 0.1 micrometers in size. A pollution index ranging from 0-25 is considered good. 25-50 is fair, 50-100 is poor, and anything higher is very poor. Normally, the index is less than 10 during the summer. On July 15, the index dropped to 21, due in part to overnight rain and a possible change in wind direction, Although the measurement was in Smithers, meteorologist Doug Johnson said that the figures app- ly for other areas in the North- west. ‘(The ‘measurement) is fairly representative as a whole - we're - assuming that the pollutants arc spread Fairly evenly.”’ Mcusuremenis were also taken in Terrace, Houston,, New Hazelton, Kitimat and Prince Rupert, but were not yet avail- able. Property owners hear story of lava park boundary plan TERRACE — Parks cificials say they’ve smoothed over the fears of some alarmed Nass Val- ley homeowners. About five homeowners on the east side of the Tseax River near Spencer’s Lake discovered their properties are within the bound- ares of the new Nisga’a Memorial Lava Beds Provincial Park. Those residents started asking questions when they saw the park boundary map in the new provin- cial park’s draft master plan thal was released Jast month. The master plan also sct out a series of options for trails —.in- cluding one on the east side of the Tseax that would go through their back yards. “We werent trying to annex their land or anything,’ parks zone manager Greg MacDonald said, **That’s just how il looked. People didn’t understand,”” The order-in-council specifying the park’s boundaries, Mac- Donald said, slates the park con- sists of only the Crown land within those boundaries. MacDonald said 40 people | iurned out for a public meeting last Thursday night in New § Aiyansh to discuss the issue. No trail will be built on the east | side of the Tseax, he said, be- cause there’s already an adequate — one on the west bank. MacDonald said them that their properties are ex- empl from the park. a —— UPHOLSTERY CLEANING _ We will gently extract ground-in'soil to help freshen": 4°" your uptiolstered furniture and Keep it'looking its best!:, Free Estimates 635-3558 i Allan Banner gyri CARTIIIEATION TERRACE ‘for volunteers. Contact: Lovina Tyler or - Mary Alice Neilly “© ‘Terrace Volunteer Bureau (Across from Totem Furniture) 638-1330 VOLUNTEER Peal OPPORTUNITIES HELP NEEDED FOR COMING EVENTS 1. July 31 & Aug. 1 Sat. & Sun. in the park, help with hamburger and pop sale to benefit Senior Games. 2. Aug. 7 Sat, Music Fest & Wild Pig Barbecue at Lakelse Lake, to benefit Child Development Centre - helpers to build stage, do set-up, direct cars, garbage duty etc. Free dinner hands. released. require to dilute it. » 8 Glasses A Day | Water Facts FLUID RETENTION ) What Is the best way to get rid of excess fluid? When the - : ~ body is deprived of fluid, it perceives this as a threat and tries .. _to store every drop. This results in swollen feet, legs and — Diuretics are only a temporary solution. The best way to overcome the problem of water retention, according to Dr. D. Robertson MS., MSc, is to give your body what it needs, - plenty of good, clean water. 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