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Copper Mountain Elementary School in Thornhill is the second school in the
area to get an Adventure Playground constructed on the school grounds,

Sehool trustee Nan Harrison, instrumental In getting both the E.T. Kenney
and Copper Mountain playgrounds, said the school, along with concerned

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parents and neighbours, has been able to rais $2,200 insix months to get the -
necessary materials, Employees of the Youth Work Incentive Program of the estimated 300 campers
have been working on the playground in ‘past weeks, and already uelgh- evacuated from the scene
borhood youngsters are enjoying the facilities. Photo: Jo Ann Kronquist

By-Law Revoked

Midnite Madness Matter Mended

by Donna Valliere ;

Two hmportant by-laws
were. adopted ‘hy.7
eouncil Monday night which
will moke way for the
previncial courthouse and
Health and Human

Resources centre and leave |

Terrace without a shop
closing hours by-law. -

One by-law rezoned the
property at Kalum and Olson
for the courthouse and health

_ Ferrace ~: beginining- with’ the “Health

unit which. the provincial
government will construct

and Human Resources
centre this fall.

The B.C. Building Cor-
poration, the Crown com-
pany in charge of provincial
building, has agreed to pay

_ offsite servicing costs for the

two facilities.
Terrace taxpayers will not
have to contribute to cost of

constructing the courthouse, |

Keystone Condo

by Donna Viilieres

Condomini conversion
sparked a jeng,. heated
debate at Terrace council
meeting Monday night when
a motion to introduce con-
ditions for a proposed strata
title conversion was in-
troduced.

Mum on Mickey

Discussions on Land Use
Still Being Kept Closed to Press .

by Donna Vallieres

The Mickey Johnson
District of Terrace {ssue
may have reached another
conclusion in the several
years long. dispute about

gz on Lazelle Avenue,
but any details continue to be
dealt with in secrecy.

Monday night Terrace
counci] received a letter
from Johnson requesting a
land use contract for 4722
Lavelle Avenue which he
said would hopefully be
ready for occupancy on
October 1 of this year.

But immediately Mayor
Dave Maroney called for a
motion to refer the matter to
‘committee of the whole
whieh has always been
closed to the public,

When the mayor was
challenged by Ald, Helmut
Glesbrecht on moving the
discussion behind closed
doors, Maroney said that in
the past Mickey Johnson
matters have been dealt with

Micke
Recreations Ltd. have been
inconfllet with the District of
Terrace since 1974 when
council rezoned the 4700
bivck Lazelle to allow for
architectural and parking
requiremnts.

Johnaon did not meet time
linita for conforming to the

. license

Keystone Apartments has
been trying to changeover to
condominiums for several
months, and last October,
council voted to approve the
request subject to com-
pliance
Building Code standards and
municipal by-laws.

rezoning and his business
was
However, he continued
operating his store until both
sides engaged lawyers and
laid charges and counter

charges.
Johnson's lawyers and the
district's lawyer were

scheduled to meet in Van-
couver Supreme Court last
month when an out of court

settlement was signed by the —

two parties.

Detalls of the settlement
were not made public at that
tlme because Johnson's
lawyer asked for a three
month news blackout and the
district agreed to this,

Both Ald. Giesbrecht and
Ald, Vic Jollife suggested
that Johnson’s request for a
land use contract could
either be dealt with at the
council meeting or at the
planning committee level
which discusses issues of this

Proving it into committee
of the whole ‘‘implies
something fishy is going on;
Jolliffe said. :
Ald, Jack Talstra pointed
out committee of the whle is
not meant to be secretive,
and is instead a commiltee
made up of the entire
council. Items such as
personnel and property
which should not be made

with ‘ National -

revoked. °

but Terrace and Kitimat’s
joint contribution through

=pegional.. district’ cost”

sharing plan will be
proximately $238,000.

Council members all voted
in favor of rezoning the site,
except Ald, Alan Soutar,
whose firm, Soutar Condie
Associates, are architects
for the courthouse.

A by-law to rescind the
present shop closing by-law
was also adopted, leaving

apr

The list of conditions
recommended by the
planning committee in-
cluded parking, outside
storage, paving of parking
areas, traffic barriers,
ventilation and storm sewer.

. the condit!

The last two, however,

public knowledge are
discussed in camera, he
said.

Mayor Maroney, however,
refused reporters’ requests
to attend that evening’s
committee of the whole
meeting. He later added the
item would not be discussed
that night.

Council —ihas. until
November 15 to draw up a

NO PUB!

by Donna Vallieres

Terrace will not be getting
a neighborhood pub on
Halliwell Avenue or
anywhere else at least for
some years, if the decision
made at Terrace council
meeting lest night is any
criterion.

Council accepted a
committee recommendation
rejecting the pub which was
applied for last month by
Augie Geeraert,-a local hotel
owner, but was opposed by a
number of residents in the

area, '

Council planning com-
mittee had met with Tom
Liversage, a liquor in-
spector, who indicated it
would be very unlikely” for
the Halliwell pub to receive
Liquor Control Board ap-

Terrace . without any
municipal regulations
governing storé* Hous...”

Without a municipal by-
law, store hours will now be
restricted by provincial
statutes which state stores
must close by 6 p.m. four
days a week, noon one day a
week, and 9 p.m. another

y.

Enforcement of the
provincial by-law is carried
out by the RCMP, but has

have since been cleared up.
Ald. Dave Pease objected
to the motion, stating the
conversion had already been
approved by council. in
October and it was no longer
council's place to stipulate
ons tliat must be

met.

Contract

land use contract with
Mickey Johnson and hold a
public meeting, At that time
land use contracts will no
longer be valid under
provincial legislation.

Council members voted to
refer the matter to com-
mittee of the whole except
for Ald. Giesbrecht and
Jolliffe who were opposed

proval, according to Ald. Vic
Jolliffe. .

The committee also
recommended that the
matter of. future neigh-
borhood pub sites be con-
sidered in the community
plan which is not expected to
be adopted for some time.

Jolliffe stated the concept
of neighborhood pubs should
be looked into to “try and do
away with the archaic
method of dispensing liquor
inthis part of the world,” but
he added these pubs would

have to meet certain
criteria.

Although the recom-
mendation was | not

unanimously supported by
the planning committee, all
council members voted to
reject Geeraert's proposal.

been rarely enforced in other
parts of the province where

there ‘are’ nov mithicipal by-

laws.”

Council may, however,
adopt a shop closing hours
by-law to replace the
rescinded one.

Ald. Bob Cooper was op-
posed to rescinding the by-
law, but the rest of council
passed the motion. |

minium Conversion

Ald. Helmut Giesbrecht,
Vie Jolliffe and Jack Talstra
yoted In favor of the original

recommendation, but Ald, sai

Bob Cooper, Dave Pease and
Alan Soutar voted. against.
Mayor Dave Maroney broke
the tie vote by opposing the
motion.

Pease then made a motion
that district administration
proceed to bring the strata
title plan before council for
approval which was passed
by council.

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JENTIFIED

.. Truth is sometimes stranger than fiction, as Fate can, on occasion, come up with the
unexpected, Last October two men walked ints the HERALD office, having travelled
trom Prince George. One of the palr was seeking information from the HERALD for any
news that may have appeared concerning his brother, missing from a camp near Usk
since October 10, 1977. To his surprise, the first person the enquirer met, on the
HERALD staff, waa an old friend whom he had net known had moved to Terrace. The
visitor was following up Information from the RCMP who had found some belongings of
the man’s brother on the banks of the Skeena, about 12 miles above Terrace.

. .Nine months later, the “old friend”, no longer with the HERALD was out with his wife
and children on July 10th,, at the junctlon of the Skeena and Copper Rivers when his
children noticed an odour and he discovered a hody which RCMP have now revealed to
be that of Arthur Edwin Finlayson, 46, missing from Usk. It was his friends brother.

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TARRAGONA, Spain (AP)

- A runaway truck loaded
with industrial gas exploded
Mediterreanean
coasteal campsite Tuesday,
engulfing hundreds of
campers in flames, Police
said they had recovered 90

bodies and feared the death -

toll would be much higher,
Hundreds of persons were
seriously injured, police
said, and some of the victims
were blown into the sea by
the blast.
Medical sources said most

suffered extremely serious
burns and many were about
todie. They added that many
of the injured campers were
taken to hospital in Valencia,
Tarragona. Castellon and
Barcelona :
Flaming gas from the
truck set off a chain reaction
of smaller explosions of
campers cooking gas bet-
les.

_A dozen houses ear the:

“campsite were.-destroyed
and some of the occupants
were killed, police said. The
blasts demolished about 100
camping trailers.

INQUIRY ORDERED
A Madrid propylene trans-
portation company—

Cisternas Reunidas—took
responsibility and said an
investigation has been or-
dered to find out what
happened. Officials said it
was the worst-ever campsite
disaster in Spain,

Police said the Ss-ton
propylene truck, carrying a
single tank, overturned on a
bend in the road, rolted over
the cement wall that
separated the campsite from
the Castellon-Tarragona
highway and exploded,

Witnesses said the truck
was travelling at about 64

kilometres an hour downthe .

highway next to the camp
when the driver apparently
lost control of the vehicle.

Earlier, officials said the
truck was filled with butane
gas but later said it was
propylene, a colorless gas
obtained in the refining of
petroleum.

ANTONIO Betancurt, an
officer of the paramilitary
civil guard unit said he had
many victims were ‘‘burned
beyond recognition,” and
that identification. of the

bodies ‘is gplng to be really -

ficult, even for their own
relatives,” ; .

Officials said more than
80) campers were at the site
six. kilometres from San
Carlos de Ia Rapita, just
south of here, and most of the
victims, including: entire

BLASTED

families, were French, West
Germans, Britons, Dutch
and Belgians. Tarragona is
about 20 kilometres south’ of
Barcelona.

Witnesses said the bodies of
some viehims were
recovered from the
Mediterreanean 50 metres

away.

“It has all been horrible,”
said a municipal policeman
who was at the camp when
the explosion occurred, “All
of a sudden a terrific ex-

plosion burst out and ames —

engulfed us.

“Cries came out from
everywhere in the camp.
People could be seen running
in all directions for safety.
Some were ablaze. And we
were helpless to do

anything.
"the blast, whieh occurred -

about noon as many of the
campers were having lunch,
was heard three kilometres
away.

The Spanish air ministry
dispatched a half-dozen
helicopters and the army
sent in soldiers to . help
evacuate .the...injurod . ant
medical authorities iasued
calls for blood donors
because “we are going to
need large amounts of
blood.” They also asked for
French, West German,
ENGLISH AND Dutch inter-
oreters,

9 Dead in Prison Break

By PABLO FENJVES
MONTREAL (CP)
Police were conducting an
intensive search Tuesday for
four prison escapees from
the maximumsecurity Laval
Institute after a guard and a
prisoner were killed in a wild
shootout, a prison official

id. .
Three other guards and
another prisoner sustained
gunshot wounds. They were
listed in satisfactory con-
dition, said Gerald Marino,
regional director of
operations for the federal
penitentiary service.

The escapees, all con-
sidered ‘‘extremely
dangerous” were identified

- of

as Jacques Masse, Pierre
Vincent, Andre Chartrand
and Ghislain Gaudete,

They took a hostage with
them during their escape,
but later released him
unharmed.

Marino sald at jeast three

the convicts had
previously escaped and
some were members of a
gang led by Richard Blass, a
notorious murderer who c'ed
ina Jan.-24, 975 shootout with
police after numerous

escapes.

The incident began around
‘30 p.m. on the second floor
of the prison's ad-
ministration building when
five prisoners were being led

‘to the prison’s visiting area
for a meeting with their
caseworkers, he said.

They were armed with
makeshift steel rods steel
and at least one was in
possession of a pistol which
he fired at a guard in the
-eontre! room near the en-
trance to the visiting area, 4
prison statement said.

“They forced the staff
members to admit them to
the first floor’ and as the
group neared the main en-
trance “‘the guards tried to
overpower the prisoners,”
Marino said. ‘‘Then the
prisoners started using their
arms.”

Although the HERALD keeps getting ac ised af being a
Liberal-blased newspaper, we are not heai:mg anything at
all these days from the N.D.P. or Socred or P.C, can-
didates for the nol-too-distant next federal election. Or Is

“No news « good news" the “In” thing? We managed to
catch this shot of local N.D.P. workers at the Lions’ Trade
Fair, where they had « busy booth going, Hut how about

seme news?

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