Vol. 2, Issue No, 24 _ Dust-choked residents appeal for pavement The arrival of dry summer weather has signaled the advent of the seasonal dust-control problems which plague many Terrace residents who live .on unpaved streets, At the June 9 meeting of Terrace municipal council the mayor and aldermen heard the second delega- tion this year from residents of Halliwell Ave., represented by spokesman Ben Faber. Faber repeated his previous complaint, that people residing on the section of Halliwell be- tween Thomas and Kalum Lake Drive live in a continuous haze churn- ed up by vehicles speeding down the street, and he also repeated a previous threat to take legal action against the - city through the Ministry of Municipal Affairs Organ transplants unless the problem is solved. Saying that the residents are tired of “band-aid”? solutions, Faber concluded his presentation by demand- ing that the district either lay pavement or close the street to through traffic by blocking access to Kalum Lake Drive. At his previous ap- pearance before council, Faber was informed that the municipality has con- tended for years that Halliwell is an arterial road and that, conse- quently, the Ministry of Highways is responsible for paving it. The Ministry of Highways has argued with equal determination that Halliwell is a residential street and has refused any further involvement in the issue. In the mean- time, residents have been left in the middle of a Dr. R.E.M. Lee recently outlined Milfs Memorial Hospital's capabllities as a procural station for organ and tissue transplant grafts. See story page 14. Inside Business Guide 8 Church Directory 16 Classified Ads 22,23 Coming Events 2 Comics 21 Dining Directory 14 Entertainment 20 Horoscope 10 Letters 5,23 Oplnions 4 Sports 6 Stork Report 7 Talk of the Town 5 Outside Date HI Lo Prec. June 2 20 4 00mm dune 3 24 8 0.0mm June 4 28 10 0.0mm June § 26 10 0.0mm June 6 22 13 04mm June 7 16 10 04mm June 8 17 9 tr Continued unsettldd weather. Afternoon highs will get up around 16 to 18, with overnight lows down to 7 to 10 dagrees. dusty political football field’ with no asphalt in sight. Alderman Bob Jack- man and Ruth Hallock outlined for Faber the terms of a Local Im- provement Project, in which the cost of paving is wholly or partially ab- sorbed by residents. Mayor Jack Talstra noted that sewage lines would have to be laid before any pavement is installed. It was also noted that closure of the street would have to in- volve a public notifica- tion process and ap- proval by the fire depart- “ment. The paving request was referred by council to the city’s engineering staff, joining similar petitions from residents of Graham Ave., Warner Ave. and Davis St. in the cost-analysis file of the Public Works Department. Alternate route rejected Terrace council’s search for a truck route *| through the municipality which would avoid the sharp turn onto the Sande overpass has come to a dead end, A report from the Public Works and Transportation Committee presented at the June 9 council meeting concludes that routing truck traffic off Highway 16 down Keith Ave. would create far more hazards than it would alleviate. The study was promp- ted by a recent fatal acci- dent on the overpass in- volving a loaded logging truck. The committee ex- amined the implications of sending heavy vehi- cular traffic down Keith past the Westar sawmill, but it decided that, in spite of a paving project scheduled for the street this year, Keith Ave. is presently carrying the maximum traffic load it can safely handle. The report also indicates the certainty of monumental continued on page 24 Legislative Library, Parliament Buildings, Victoria, B.C. V8V 1X4 Hospitality hi ee at it peak Terrace resident Jocelyne Harris recently visited Guyana, South America, as part of the Rosa Program. See story page 14. Train derailed _by rock slide Three locomotives and the first eight cars of a 99-car freight train were derailed by a rock slide at K winitsa, 50 kilometres west of Ter- race, in the early morn- ing hours of June 8. The train was eastbound and consisted of empty coal cars returning to northeastern B.C. from the Ridley Island bulk terminal in Prince Rupert. The train’s engineer suffered a broken collarbone in the incident, and a trainman sustained a minor shoulder injury. CN public affairs spokesman Al Minnard said that the train round- | Debt counselling Terrace resident Ruth Spear sald free counselling for individuals with financial problems is taking place this week, See story page 11. ed a curve at 3:20 a.m. on the morning of the ac- cident to discover the track buried under rub- ble from the slide. The engineer was unable to stop in time to avoid derailment, and one of the locomotives came to rest on its side across a section of Highway 16 adjacent to the tracks. Minnard said that the wreckage was cleared away and both railway and road were reopened by the following evening. The cause of the slide is not known. Minnard said that there have been no previous slope stability problems in the Kwinitsa area, but he added that the railway will be ‘“‘tak- ing a good look” at the steep cliffs next to the track. He concluded by saying that no dollar- value damage estimates will be available until after an assessment. Transport Canada’s regional accident in- vestigation officer, Glen Gallagher, confirmed that there will be an in- vestigation into the cir- cumstances of the derail- ment. The locomotive which overturned onto the highway spilled approx- imately 9,000 litres of diesel fuel into a ditch between the road and the tracks. The site of the continued on page 23 Sawmill sold to Quebec company TERRACE — One of Terrace’s largest in- dustrial operations, the Westar Sawmill, has been sold to Repap Enterprises Inc. of Mon- treal. The’ B.C. Resources Investment Corp. (BCRIC), previous owner of the mill, announced the sale June 9, Graham Dallas, manager of corporate communciations for BCRIC, stated in an in- terview that the deal has been in the works for several months, and he expects it to be finalized sometime in the first week of July. Repap, he said, is paying $100 million for a package consisting of both the Westar mill in Terrace and the Skeena pulp mill. in Prince Rupert. Dallas also confirmed that $75 million of the purchase price will consist of a loan from the B.C. Development Corpora- tion. Dallas stated that Repap will be investing in some capital im- provements to the Prince Rupert pulp operation, but he said there has. been no indication re- garding the company’s intentions for the Ter- race sawmill. In a statement to the Review, however, Repap president Joseph Kass said that the new owners’ intentions are to im- mediately upgrade and expand the Westar operation. ‘‘We are looking very hard at modernization, very quickly,’’ he com- mented. In response to inquiries about manage- ment restructuring and changes in, personnel, Kass replied, ‘‘I doubt that we'll be doing anything in that area. There are a lot of very good people there."’ Kass said that Repap is primarily a paper com- pany and that the Skeena pulp mill will be used to supply pulp to the com- pany’s coated paper mill in Wisconsin. ‘‘We use a lot of pulp,”’ he said. ‘About 150,000 tons a year.’? Repap will be starting up the disused continued on page 23