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| | Kevin McDougall’ s Terrace
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WEDNESDAY
NOVEMBER 23, 1994

m Esteem team.

THREE OLYMPIC ATHLETES were in Terrace last week talking to students about self-
Along with runner Charmaine Crooks and master of the
steeplechase Graeme Fell was wheelchair athlete Daniel Wesley. Since losing his legs in a
train accident, Wesley has gone on to win several Olympics medals in track. He is now train-
ing for tryouts for the Canadian disabled tennis team competing in the Adanta Summer
Olympics in 1998. See page C2 for more on Wesley and the esteem team.

confidence and setting goals.

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Thornhill takes first step

AMALGAMATION,
quo?

That's the question the Thornhill restructuring

study will ultimately answer.

But first the consultant wants to find out what
people there think are the issues today and
where the community is or should be headed

incorporation or status

tomorrow.

To do that, he’s holding a public meeting
Thursday, Dec. 1. It takes place at 7 p.m. in the

Thomhill Communit y Centre,

a
For a brief overview of some of the factors
Thornhill, and Terrace residents for that mat-
ter, will have to consider, turn to page AS.

Gosnell vs. Scott
on Saturday night

IT’S BEING called Conflict or

Consensus. The Land Claims fs-

sue and it'll be on TV and FM .

radia this Saturday night.

The two-hour production fea-
tures a debate between Nisga’a
Tribal Council president Joe Gos-
nell and Skecna Reform MP
Mike Scott.

The debate will last 40 minutes
after which there'll be a chance to
ask questions of the two,

It takes place in the Skecna' |”
Room of the Terrace Inn where 1

there’ll be room for an audience,
says CFIK-TV | representative
Chris Holtom.

Questions can be asked by the

audience and can also-be phoned ~~

in by those watching on TV or

listening on the radio, said
Holtom. ;
The CFIK-TV ~~ audience

stretches from Prince Rupert to
Bums Lake while the CIFW-FM
signal covers from the Qucen
Charlotte Islands to Bums Lake.

Holtom described the produc-
tion as one of the more major un-
dertaken by CFTK and CJFW-
FM in recent years.

“For radio it’s relatively easy. ,
‘But itll take a lot of work for

television because it'll be live and
out of our building we're taking
phone calls, too,” she said.

Three television cameras will

Food bank running deficit
because of huge demand

DEMAND WAS ove.whelming
at the Terrace Churches Food
Bank last week, leaving it
stripped of money and supplies.

A record 463 distributions were
made to ai Icast 1,600 people,
says food bank organizer Terry
Mahoney.

That tops the previous Novem-
ber record set last year and comes
close to January and February
figures when people are faced
with winter heating bills.

“T had tricd to order for 400
bags, but we ran short of funds,’
said Mahoney.

“Last year we cut back on
sugar and toilet paper and this
time we couldn’t afford to buy
potatoes,’” she said.

Cash costs in previous years
average $2,000 a month but now
the food bank must come up with
more than $3,000 a month to
cope, Mahoncy added,

And while she isn’t thinking

Advance

‘TODAY'S THE DAY for resi-
dents of north Terrace, Braun’s
Island and New Remo to cast
their fire protectlon referendum
vote in advance of the main vote.

The regional district offices lo-
cated at 4545 Lazelle Ave. will

remain open until 8 p.m. tonight |

for the advance poll,

The question voters are being
asked is whether they want and
are prepared to pay for a new sys-
tem which would see Tertace’s

“We're definitely going to be canvassing our churches
and raising public awareness. We have nothing for Janu-
ary,’’ says food bank organizer Terry Mahoney.

about restricting applicants,
Mahoncy said future food bank
distributions may result in cutling
more ilems from the bags that are
handed out.

“Ws hard to differentiate, it
comes down to deciding who is
more deserving,”’ she said.

“We're definitely going to be
canvassing our churches and rais-
ing public awareness. We had a
tremendous response last year
when this happened,”

“We have nothing for Janu-.
ary,’’ said Mahoney.

Single bags are given to singles
while families reccive two bags.

fire protection vote

fire department look after admin-
istration of fire protection for
thos¢ areas and provide one
pumper fire truck.

The Thornhill depariment
would provide a pumper/lanker
and tanker.

Residents would pay their share
of the cost based on the assessed
value of thelr property,

In the first year, the owner of an

$80, 000 home would pay extra -
‘taxes of $32 to cover start-up and

Large families are given extra.

The food bank operates during
the winter season by holding a
four-day distribution period each
month.

It doesn’t operate in December
because of the Salvation Army’s
Christmas hamper program and
retums in January through to the
spring.

Last week’s heavy demand
leaves Mahoney wondering about
how many people will show up In
January.

The food bank opens a week
earlicr in January and Jan. 9 is
tentatively been set as the first

another $194 for operating costs.
On the other side of the equa-
lion the regional district estimates
the same homeowner could save
approximately $340 on fire insur-
ance,
The main vote is scheduled for

Saturday, Dec. 3 at ‘Clarence ©

Michiel elementary school.
That's also from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m,
If the referendum passes, the
owner of an $80,000 home would
have to pay extra taxes - $32 in

day.

The food bank is supported by
11 area churches and is supple-
mented by donor boxes at Terrace
Co-op, Overwaitea and Safeway.

Donations are welcome at any
of the participating churches in
the food bank. They are the
Evangelical Free Church, the
Sacred Heart Catholic church,
Knox Uniled Church, St. Mat-
thew's Anglican Church, the Sal-

vation Army, the Alliance
Church, Zion Baptist, the
Lutheran church, Terrace

Pentecostal Assembly, the Chris-
tlan Reformed Church and the
Seventh Day Adventist Church.

For donations during the week,
Sacred Heart is open from 9 a.m.
to 4 p.m., the United Church from
9 a.m. to noon Tuesday to Friday
and the Evangelical Free Church
from 9 a.m. fo noon Monday,
Wednesday, Thursday and Fri-
day. .

today.

the firsl.year lo cover start up and
$194 for operating costs.

On the olher side of the equa-
lion, however, the regional dis-
frict estimates |. that same
homeowner could save approxi-
mately $340 on fire insuratice. .

But residents are being advised
to check with their insurance
companies to determine the exact
cost implications and cxact

changes to coverage Ahat are: :
: anticipated. : =:

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” Joe Gosnell
be used during the debate and
question and answer period. -

_Moderator for the evening is
Rick Webber, a former TK news
anchor and mow anchor with
CHBC-TV in Kelowaa. |

The debate grew out of a chal-
lenge issued by Gosnell to Scott
at the latter’s Oct, 5 public forum
on land claims.

That forum was one of four
held by Scott throughout the
northwest to gather opinions on
land claims, '

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In a move ticd to land claims,
Terrace mayor Jack Talstra is the

~ Mike Scott
city’s representative on «the
Skeena Treaty Advisory Com-
mittee.

The committee is being formed
to monitor progress in native land

claim negotiations in the region.

As soon as it is formed it is ex-
pected to appoint a representative
who will become a member of the
provincial negotiating team in the
Nisga’a talks,

Councillor Val George -was
designated Talstra’s alternate to
that committee.

The committee will also take i in
Stewart, Kitimat and. Prince
Rupert. ,

A LOSS OF 106 jobs over the
next 20 years.

That, says a report released
last week, will be the impact if
the Chief Forester reduces the
annual allowable cut (AAC) in
the Kalum South to the extent
suggested by a timber supply
analysis for the area.

The analysis was released in
June of this year. Based on
estimates of the number of
trees out there now and likely
second growth patterns, it
came up with a long term
sustainable harvest.

That means the volume of
wood that can be cut in the
Kalum South so as to ensure a
stable wood supply for the next
250 years.

Its conclusion was the AAC

- had to be reduced by 16.7 per

to 400,000 cu.m. and even then
there would be a minor short-
fall at the 140 year mark,
' The document put. forward a
base case which suggested an
immediate 3.3 per cent reduc-
tion in harvesting, a further cut
of 10 per cent in year 10 and a
final, small reduction 20 years
from now.

The latest report, called the
Kalum South Socio-Economic
Analysis, assessed: the implica-
tions of following that base
case, | ;

It set current direct forestry

Report predicts
lost forest jobs

‘the 10 per cent AAC cut oc-

“outside the Kalum South: The

employment at 403 person-
‘years which created an addi-
tlonal 235: indirect jobs. In-
come from those jobs was
cslimated at $17.9 millioa.

If the harvest was cut Im-
mediately by 3.3 per cent’ as
suggested in the base case, 21
of those jobs and $600,000 of
income would disappear.

The greatest Impact would be
felt after the first decade when —

curred. That would mean the
end of another 61 jobs. 7
And by the time the target -
400,000 cum, figure” was
reached ‘after 20 years, 106
jobs generating $2.2 million in
income: would have | -dis-
“appeared, .
Of those jobs, 67 would be in:
the Kalum South area ilself
with Terrace, consultant Randy -
Sunderman concluded, fcellng. ;
the greatest impact. .
But the effects will be felt |

report pointed out 193 of 517 |
person-years employment cre-
ated elsewhere in B.C. by. har-
vesting here would end taking -
with them almost $4 milllon in
camings, —

For copies of the study. ‘and
the Kalum South timber supply.
discussion paper, also released
Friday, contact the Forest. Ser-
vice at 638-5100. as

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