Cost a factor City curtails rec pass plan THE CITY is backtracking from ils plan to give out recreation passes to people on social as- sistance after a flood of applica- tions for the cards. Nearly 390 cards have been issued since the program started Jan. 18. Councillors had expected only a couple dozen, “We're still receiving two or three requests daily,” recreation director Steve Scott told council’s Tecteation committee Friday, Within the first two weeks, there were 907 access card ad- missions to the pool, he said, making up 14 per cent of total ad- missions. Recipients get free use of the pool and arena during public swim and public skate sessions. They also get a substantial dis- count for any further programs they enrol in, Councillors had hoped the pro- gram wasn’t going to cost the city any more money, But Scott said it appears there Regional board calls for pulling of Orenda licence ORENDA FOREST Products’ forest licence should be pulled immediately until it makes 4 commitment to construct a north- west processing facility, says the Kitimat-Stikine regional district. A motion outlining the district’s position was passed at its Feb, 25 board mecting and follows word that Orenda is about to be sold. A company called OFP Ac- quisition wants to buy Orenda and then use the wood to help re- open a closed newsprint mill at Gold River on Vancouver Island, ‘We don’t want the wood supply to leave our region when the original condition for a licence was that they would build some sort of rrocessing facility John Heighington Orenda ruckus pushed ‘A LOCAL businessman says | more local people should be talk-. ing about the proposed sale of Orenda Forest Products and its forest licence. The prospect of Orenda’s wood being part of a plan to re-open a closed newsprint mill on Van- couver Island deserves more comment and talk, says John Heighington, whose family owns drycleaning and laundry estab- lishments here. “Things are going faster than what. we can see happening,’ ssid Heighingion. ‘‘We neea to tind out what’s going on,” “"We deserve to know what's going on before we read about a decision in the newspaper.” Heighington said he’s opposed lo the idea of wood from the northwest going down south. “People should be phoning each other, There should be more interest,”” he said. Heighington said it would be a goad idea for Orenda and its pro- posed purchaser, a New York- based . invesiment syndicate, to come to Terrace for a public meeting. **We're being faced with a dou- - ble whammy. Already we're | being told the cut will have tobe reduced, To have the wood that’: Icft ieave is something else again,’’ he said. Heighington also wants a stop or a reduction of taw log exports to other countries when local.’ mills face shortages. Heighington said the proposed en Orenda sale comes too close for. _ comfort: after the death of the Kemano Completion Project. AND DRIED. Tobacco Kills. BRITISH COLUMBIA | LUNG ASSOCIATION ” Box 34009, Station D a ee ee ee Vancouver, B.C. V6l4M2 . \ Phone: 731-5864 . f mscur which everyone has understood would be someplace in the north- west,’’ said regional district Ter- race director and Terrace mayor Jack Talstra. . The motion is being sent to forests minister Andrew Petter who will have the final say over the transfer of Orenda’s licence. “If they are going to walk away, I suggest they leave the timber behind,’’ said Talstra of Orenda's pending sale. Talstra admitted that pulling the licence immediately would put loggers now working for Orenda out of work. “We just want this issue to come to a head before the fact. We always seem to be after the fact,’’ he said. “We want the government to address the problem now instead of later when it's too late.”” Also supporting the motion was Stewart mayor Andy Burton, “We're getting sold short’? not only by Orenda but by other com- patties and the government, said Burton. The motion was passed unani- mously. Regional district directors will get another chance to speak their minds should forests minister Pet- ter hold public meetings: over the planned sale, may be added costs resulting from hot water from the showers and paper towel and toilet paper. “Its success bas overwhelmed us,’ added councillor David Hull, Resentment from paying customers may also be a factor in the decision, however. *‘People are secing fee hikes and at the same time they’re secing a group of people access- ing the pool for free,’' Terrace Advisory Parks and Recreation Commission chairman . Grant Holkestad said, The commission recommended the city try to sell a block of bulk tickets to ihe Ministry of Social Services to distribute as they see fit. Recreation committee members decided to give that a try, If it doesn’t work, councillors Save This Coupon! suggested they will opt for the recommendation of Scolt and recteation department staff, Under that plan, any new leisure access cards would be restricted to ministry-defined hardship cases and single parent families, That would reduce the number of families eligible from about 1,900 to 650. _Also,..card-holders would. pay half the normal price, instead of getting in free. Most of the three-month passes now in circulation expire in early April. 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