GE TRG ee § ql “y his cighth week of the year appears to be one i; that brings things to a head. Looking back to 1988, city council received double-barreled support for Fisherman’s Park from local fisheries biologist Grant Hazelwood. At an earlier meeting, . Terrace council had been in favour of terminating the lease on this park when the landlord, CNR, hit them with an 800 percent rent increase — from $150 to $1,350 annually. The public, however, was beginning to. change its collective mind and Hazelwood’s letters tipped the scales still further. As a director of the B.C. Wildlife Federation, Hazelwood wrote: "The 40,000 members of the BCWF Support your efforts to maintain the excellence of your hospitality in the face of dinosaurial public relations attitudes as exhibited by Canadian National Railways..." And as the project manager for the Terrace Salmonid Enhancement Society, he said: "It is a great pity that CN has no social or moral conscience, nor do they have an enlightened sense of public rela- tions that allows them to interact in a generous manner with their neighbours." The Community and Recreation Services Committee was asked to consider these com- ments, as well as a few suggested solutions, and retum with an appropriate recommendation. Fishing was also the issue in 1989. Local angling guides where worried about a proposal for yet another fishing lodge, this one a few miles west of town. Among the concerns listed by local guides was the fact that the regional dis- trict had called for a moratorium on the issuance of any further fish guiding licences until more work- able rules were put in place, a request the province had apparent- ly chosen to ignore. Looking back a year ago this week, a number of stories were in the running for top billing. The roof came crashing in on Public Works. The apparent cause was an over-abundance of snow on the roof of a large, unheated shed attached to the ‘rear of the main Public Works building. Damage. was estimated at $50,000. Then there was the Public Library. Willy Schneider was te- elected board chairman at the annual general meeting, a meeting at which the library expansion projected dominated the agenda. A comment from Schneider: "I feel ° that the 90’s will be a challenge to. all of us, and assuming our plans become a reality, we will be well prepared to face them." Along with that story, wag. another, titled: "City gets ready for library referendum". City council had received a letter from Terrace: architect Alan Soutar and there seemed good cause for cptimism. For council, there didn’t appear to be a choice of referendum or no referendum. Rather, choice between a $50,000 set of working drawings or a $20,000 set of design drawings which would be a precursor to setting a referen- dum date. The matter was referred to the Committee of the Whole and according to mayor Jack Tal- it was a. [Looking back.. Wj stra it would be discussed at their March 5 meeting. Not to be outdone, the regional district board spent three hours of a six-hour meeting venting their anger at the Ministry of Forests "PA 17" pulpwood proposal. The proposal called for the harvesting of 623,000 cubic metres of pulp logs beyond the existing annual allowable cut from the Prince Rupert Forest Region every year for the next 25 years... and the regional board left no doubt as to ‘their feelings on the matter; they wanted the PA 17 proposal scrapped. A possible response was offered ‘by Hazelton director Alice Mait- land.in the form of a "Forest In- dustry Charter of Rights". This document, drawn up by the Village of Hazelton, outlined some specific guidelines for the forest industry; calling for more responsible forest management methods and a more equitable financial return to com- munities located in the area of a specific harvest. During the discussion on the "Charicr", the Forest Act was described as "antiquated" by Dan Pakula; according to Harry Nyce, "The resource is in dire need of a second look." When someone Suggested forest companies would say that "not harvesting could cost your job". blackmail. The industry "misrepre- sents" their motives and "misleads" the public, he said. On the other side. of the table, Bev Rodrigo filed a tabling motion on the "Charter" proposal, "We need all the facts on the table," she said, and John LeSage agreed. "Let’s wait," he said, adding, "I don’t like the name Charter of Rights." Andy Burton added his vote to the tabling motion, but for a different cause. Hazelton’s Stege logging had made application for an additional non-renewable forest licence in the Kispiox TSA and a month’s delay would give the board time to make a more "reasonable" decision. The discussion ended with the "Charter" tabled, a suggestion for the formation of a regional district Standing Committee on Forestry to deal with "current issues", a letter to the Ministry of Forests strongly opposing an increase in the Kis- piox Timber Supply Area annual allowable cut... and the promise of much more discussion to come. n 1989, there were renewed I complaints from Kalam Lake ™ Drive residents over the illegal burning of refuse at the city durnp. An in-camera Committee of the Whole recommendation was adopted by Terrace city council, allowing Britton Taxidermy to proceed with the mounting of a Kermode bear that had been donated to the city. A solution for sewage backups and. drainage problems in south Terrace was announced — all that was required was to pass it unscathed through the budgeting process. And alder- man Darryl Laurent was appointed council "whip" to help expedite matters through the committce process. Apparently, just too many things were disappearing into Gordon Sebastian — replied by calling that argument | £ Terrace Review — Wednesday, February 20, 1991 B15 A snow-clearing solution that worked for everyone was devised by North Coast Road Maintenance about this time last year. The company offered the Skeena school basketball team $350 to clear the sidewalk on the old Skeena River bridge, providing a safe walkway for - pedestrians and travel money for the athletes. Among the shovellers were Bryan Fick, Fernando Mil-Homens and Phillip Bradford. committee, never to retun. And a year ago this week council adopted their $9.4 million 1990 budget. It was “early” for the second year in a row. Public Works understandably got a lion’s share of the capital funds; $667,910 for building maintenance, sireet upgrades and water projects. This was followed by recreation with $129,000 to help fund the Northern B.C. Winter Games and a few other projects like banquet room air conditioning, washrooms in George Little Memorial Park and the initial stages of a Howe Creek linear park. The fire depart- ment trailed the list with $20,500 for a new tape recording and pag- ing system. But there were also a couple of budgetary headaches. The federal government’s 1,039 percent hike in radio communications licensing didn’t help a bit. It would cost $3,212 for public works and fire department licences. And a billing error in sewer and water taxes meant some residents were paying for only one of several adjacent city lots. "This could be a rude awakening for some people," said Jack Talstra. Ruth Hallock added, "I wonder how long we’ve been asleep." And from Dave Hull, "So much for the computer age." round the community, the A Terrace Youth Centre became a reality in 1988 and McDonald’s restaurant made the first ever donation to the Fire Safety House project. In 1989, traffic safety at a number of high- way intersections in town was being questioned. The Terrace Health Care Society was parti- cularly worried about the corner at Tetrault St. and Highway 16. Among other things, they wanted the radius of the tum accessing Tetrault St. increased to enhance emergency vehicle access. In another story that same week an RCMP report submitted to council on another intersection, Highway 16 and Kenney St. sug- gested that intersection was safe. This left Ruth Haliock with the last word; she asked administration to continue monitoring the inter- section. "The intersection seems to be getting more and more con- gested," she said, “and we want to know if we can limit the danger." On the regional scene, there was talk of a Prince Rupert port expan- sion in 1988, and native Indian organizations from Prince Rupert to the Alberta border were at odds with CNR over herbicide spraying in 1989. Also in 1989, a couple of regional district rezoning hearings both ended with a thumbs down. At stake were a new mobile home park for Thornhill and the addition of a gas bar and RV park at Mount _ Layton Hot Springs. And Interna- tional Woodworkers of America president Jack Munro visited Ter- race that year, his goal being to beat the Teamsters to the punch and unionize independent truck loggers here. In 1990, it was announced by the Ministry of Highways that they would begin negotiating an expanded North Coast Road Main- tenance contract in anticipation of their April 1 takeover of the Nass road; this would be followed by some major upgrade work. And in education, Minister of Advanced Education Bruce Strachan heard local concerns on a northern uni- versity while at the same time the winner of a contest to name that university was announced. It was to be the University of Norther B.C. -In sports, one notable event in — 1988. Kitsumkalum Mountain hosted their first annual "Shames Mountain Challenge Cup”. Among the prizes... An °88-89 Shames Mountain season pass. And a year ago this week, a team from Metla- katla, Alaska, cleaned up at the all- native basketball tournament in Prince Rupert, Terrace’s Cory Hollander set 11 of 24 new records at the Blueback’s ‘Best Time’ invitational meet, and the Valentine Spiel was an all-Terrace event with Marj Skead, Ans Hendry, Linda Kawinsky and Kim MacDougall taking the "A’ to ’D’ events. At the Skeena Valley golf club AGM, most of the talk was about 18 holes or bust; the top priority, being to find some land.