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WEDNESDAY, MAY 8, 1991 -
Vol. 7, Issue No. 19

Phone 635-7840
Fax 635-7269

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- ° Serving the communities of Terrace, Thornhill, Usk, Cedarvale, Kitwanga, Meziadin, Stewart and the Nass Valley 75 cents plus GST

TE ACHERS SERVE STRI

Schools
could
close

Monday |

by Michael Kelly

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TERRACE — More than 300
teachers could be out walking the
picket tines in School ‘District 88
Monday untess the Terrace District
Teachers’ Association and the
school board can come to an
understanding in the next few days
on a mass of outstanding contract
issues.

TDTA president Rob Brown said
yesterday the union’s executive
voted to serve 72 hour strike
notice on the board after receiving
the board's response to their latest
package of contract proposals.
Brown said the TDTA moved in
"13 or 14 different areas" but were
told their demands were "excessive
and ran counter to other settle-
ments in the province".

Brown said the teachers will go
out Monday unless they receive a
more favourable response from the
board,

A strike would put over 5,000
students out of school.

In an interview yesterday mom-
ing prior to the strike notice an-
nouncement, school board chair-

' man Edna Cooper said the board
has beer trying to get the TDTA
to identify key issues. for negoti-
ation to make the bargaining some-
what more manageable. "Every-
thing on the table is the teachers’
demands and the board’s answers...

We're very willing to negotiate if

they will identify the key issues,"

she said.

Cooper indicated the two sides
ate "not that far apart" on salary
issues but an agreement on class
sizes continues to be a problem.

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THIS ONE’LL NEVER ROLL AGAIN. Thomhil! Junior
- Secondary School students were recently visible by the side of

Highway 16 around the Copper River bridge, cleaning up the

side of the road for North Coast

Road Maintenance. This group |
needs to raise money for an exchange trip to Yellowknife they
recently took. Among the debris was a tire beyond retreading.

Heritage Park officials to meet with
city today over Halliwell clear-cut

by Tod Strachan

It appears the city may have got
a little carried away in their rush
to clearcut, the trees bordering the
north and east boundaries of Heri-
tage Park. And this has caused a
bit of a rift between groups who
have always got along famously,
the Terrace Regional Museum
Society and the City of Terrace.

As a result, the city’s logging
aspirations have come to an abrupt
halt. There are apparently a few
rather important details to be
sorted out and this should happen
today over the noon hour when the
Planning and Public Works Com-
mittee meet with representatives of
the museum society at city hall.

The Public Works logging adven-
ture began on Monday, April 29,

when they began falling a row of
Sitka spruce on Halliwell at the
northern edge of Skeenaview Park.
This seemed legitimate. A tree on
North Sparks blown down by wind
last January was the first indicator
the trees were sick.

In February a preliminary survey
had been done, a number of sus-
pect trees had been tagged with
red flagging tape, and ihere was

fear all the trees might have to go.
But that hadn’t yet been con-
firmed. A more intensive investiga-
tion was needed to decide how
many of the spruce were really
dangerous.

In March, nothing happened. In
late April a couple of local pro-
fessionals examined the trees and
reported on their condition. On

— Continued on page A14

Average property taxes to drop: city budget, page A3

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