This get

What to do with the pool? It
was decided a few years ago that
the weightlifting room was too
small, the roof needed repairs,
and the design in general néeded

te

some polish, So a plan to.
‘upgrade the facility was devised

‘in’ 1985 and a price tag of
$400,000 was ‘‘grabbed out of
the air’’ in order to apply for an
Expo Legacy grant. At the time,
this included a bandshell in
George Little Memorial Park.

The Expo bid was successful,
a grant of $162,900 was receiv-
ed, and the city hired an ar-

chitect to draw up formal plans.

The estimate based on these
plans came to $502,000, a little
more than expected, but tax-
payers passed a $350,000.
referendum giving the city a
total of $512,900 to work with.
And by dropping the bandshell,
which has since been built by
others, they had more than
enough... they thought. .
But after the project went to
tender, the two submissions they
received far exceeded their
wildest dreams. About a year
ago, Geisbrecht Developments
of Burns Lake said that they
would be more than happy to do
the job for $806,000 and Terrace

4. Terrace Review — Wednesisy, April 19, 1989,

$C

H&H Builders. wanted even
‘more, $836,400. .
After spending several months,

onfusing,
21 . sultation and design. There is, of
course, still the hope of receiving -

in shock, the city decided ‘it .

would ‘cut a few frivolities like -

windows and cedar walls and go

back io tender. But this time .

they would do it differently: the
expansion, and much needed
roof repairs, would be tendered
as separate jobs. This way, ifthe’
price was still too high, they

could at least repair the roof.

Three weeks ago today, these
new tenders were opened and, -
yes, those extras that were cut
did save some money — $44,638
to be exact. Seaward Construc-
tion of Surrey bid a total of
$761,362 while -Norcan Con-
struction and Wayne- Watson
Construction, both of Prince
George,
$789,891 and $913,686 re-
spectively. But while Seaward
submitted the - lowest overall
price, $635,000 for the expan-
sion and $126,362 for the roof,

a $250,000 GO B.C. grant.
Of course they can-still scrap

the expansion and just repair.the
roof, but even this option could -:
‘now become a nightmare. If.
they get the $250,000 GO B.C."
‘grant, they. could easily repair

_ the roof and have $127,449 left
over. And if they don’t, they still *

have about-$130,000 of the Expo

money which would also leave a -

little change.

- ‘The problem, however, is that

_ the Expo money is only intended

said it would cost .

Norcan bid the lowest on the

roof repairs along — $122,551.

This leaves council in
somewhat of a quandary. Of the
original $512,900 they have only
about $480,000 left. A little over

$30,000 has been spent on con-—

‘Equal rites ©

The Ministry of Education is

flaunting ‘‘Access For All’’ but
no one is doing more about it
than the Terrace Airport. It’s
only temporary, and the reviews
are mixed — but women every-
where are eyeing the Northwest
with envy. .
‘Yes, equal rights for women
have come to the Northwest.
It’s not an intentional sacri-
fice by male chauvinists. It’s just
that necessary renovations to the
Terrace Airport required the

closure of the women’s wash-.

room. And rather than send

them out in the rain, to some,
obscure Porta-Bif, ‘the men’s
washroom has been opened to.

_all

According to one airport se-
curity guard (what a job), ‘‘Ac-

_ cess For All’? has gone without a

hitch. ‘‘But,’? he says, “‘you

should see the look on their

faces when they come out.”
Airport manager Darryl Laur-
ent says the renovations should
be completed next week and,
regrettably, we'll revert to the

discriminating standards of the

rest of the world.

VERIFIED
qacuLaAnon

PAID

Terrace Review (Gcya

Established May 1, 1985
The Terrace Review Is published
each Wednesday by
Close-Up Business Services Ltd. —

, Publisher: —
_ Mark Twyford
Editor:
‘* —, Michael Kelly
. Staff.Reporter: .
Tod Strachan
Advertising Manager:
Mar] Twyford
Advertising Consultant:

Typesetting:
Garrle Olson
roduction Manager:
dim Hall
oe Broduction:
mo Alvin Stewart,
-«Gurbax Gill, Linda Mercer
Se Office:
“-: Garle Oleon
ee Accounting:
2 Mar] Twyford
“Harminder Dosanjh

Second-class mail
registration No. 6896.

All material appearing In ihe Terrace Review Is
protected under Canadian copyright Reglistra-
tion No. 382775 and cannot legally be repro-
duced tor any reason without permission of the
publisher. . :

Errors and omissions. Advertising is accepted
an the condition that in the event of
typogrephical arror, that portion of the advertis-
Ing space océupled by the erroneous item will
not be charged for, but the balance of the adver:
tisement will be pald for at the applicable rate.
Advertisers must asauma fesponsibiiity for er-
rors In any classified ad which la auppliied to the
Terrace Review in handwritten form.

in compliance with the B.C, Human Rights At,
no adveriisement will be published which
discriminates against a person due to age, race,
religion, color, 86x, natlonallty, ancestry orplace

of otlgin.

4535 Grelg Avenue,
Terrace, B.C.
V8G 1M7
Phone: 635-7840 .

Fax: 635-7269

aE NRT

One year subsort
In Canada $24.00
Out of Canada §80.00- °
Seniors In Terrace and Diatriet, 612.00
Senlors out of Terrace and Distlet $18.00

A

- Letters to tha editor will be considered for publication only when signed.
Please includa your telephone number.
The editor reserves the right to condense and edit letters. Opinions

expressed are not neces

sarily those of the Tefrace Review.

to cover one-third of the project
cost. By using the leftover Expo
money, even if they were al-

lowed to keep one-third

but think about it ¢

($40,850), they would -have .to
return $122,050 to Victoria. _
Of course’ there’s ; still: the

$350,000 that’s been sitting..in
the bank since the referendum .
and. there ‘would be enough of..
that left to begin another new
‘project. And this’ brings’ in a.

whole-new set of options for. the

city to sit down and consider. -
“And OHeOr thiesé could be'to:

fix the roof and then buy several
thousand.bricks — bricks in the
gymnasium fundraising pro-
posal put forward by the com-
bined forces of the Terrace
Peaks Gymnastics Club, the
Youth Boxing Club and. the
Karate Club. _

The unofficial word is that the

anyway

clubs have already been suce
-. cessful in obtaining a $450,000 —
grant.for their. $1.4 million pro-

ject;. with the $350,000 in com-
mitted referendum money, that

“would put the Peaks’: building. -

fund up to $800,000, .

"OF course, there aré a few ifs

in this final scenario, but hasn’t
the pool project been a big IF

tight from the beginning? Given
the length of time, almost-a year

and a half since the last referen-
dum, maybe it’s time . for-
another referendum. Do we
want the pool expansion or a
gymnasium complex with two
new gymnasiums and a banquet

room? Which. would serve the _

taxpayer best?

by Bob Jackman

__ _ Perspectives

It didn’t take long for Ex-

-xon, one of the world’s most
* powerful companies, to get out

of paying for the Valdez oil
spill. Or did you think the
Coast Guard: took over because
Exxon executives were in-_
competent? ‘With the U.S. © ..:
government now firmly in con-
‘trol of the cleanup effort,
American taxpayers will get to
pay for Exxon’s fouling of
most of the Alaskan coastline
— cute, eh? -

Expect a few years of legal
hassles, with the American tax-
payers providing a few hundred

million dollars for lawyers. Ex- .

pect that Exxon will be able to
deduct the cleanup costs from
their income taxes. Don’t ex-
pect to see too much of it writ-
ten up in the papers. Don’t ex-
pect-to see many senior Exxon.
executives lose their. jobs, or
even a whole lot of sleep over
the affair.

Unfortunately, there are too.
many ‘company men’ around .
to even hope that Exxon might
do anything that is less than
completely self-serving. I can
imagine the damage control
meetings that have been going
on lately, and I don’t think
they’re talking about damage
to the Alaskan shoreline. Some

hotshot ‘MBA will come up... -.

with a dazzling way of .
minimizing Exxon’s liability in
the affair and probably wind
up as a senior corporate vice-
president.

| @ The ‘Grindstone Group’. of

about 200 Liberals met at —
Montebello to talk about
leadership and worry about the
ae the garty- has strayed .

patits prineiples, Wouldn’t it

#élisteresting if the provincial

feds and NDP had a similar
meeting? The Socreds, those
horrible uncaring capitalists,
have been spending ever-
increasing amounts of money
on social programs. The NDP »
leader has come out full force
for capitalism. ,

‘right people were in the right

Liberals tend to have prob-
lems deciding where they’ stand
on any issue at the best of :
times, so the Grindstone
meeting isn’t too surprising. —
But for a Socred government to
out-NDP the NDP, and for
Mike Harcourt to come.out - .
pro-business? Obviously, the

- provincial parties have come to

realize that there’s more to
politics than just playing to

your hard-core supporters.

e Locally, instead of insisting
that some of the city govern-—

ment clerical staff take |
accounting upgrading courses,
or that the Treasurer devote
‘some time to staff training,

- Council has opted to hire a

Deputy Treasurer. If they can
find someone reasonably com-
petent in the $30,000 range,

that’s six bucks extra taxes I’m

paying, for a position that
wouldn’t have to be filled if the

places. _

On the good side, Council
did reluctantly decide to fund a
manager position for Heritage
Park. Like many other good
ideas, the Park started out as a
strictly volunteer qperation and
soon became too successful.
It’s too bad it couldn’t have
paid its own way, but Heritage
Park has become a key tourist
attraction and perhaps it’s time
the City (you and me) kicked in
a few dollars. The problem —

here, and it’s been experienced ©

by other volunteer organiza-
tions like Youth Soccer and the
Bandshell group, is that it took
so long for Council to commit
the funding. You could sense
the frustration developing while
the Park people were waiting to
see if in fact they would get
any money. And this from a
Council that campaigned
against ‘the Committee
shuffle’.

@ Aren’t you glad there’s
hockey?:.As the only columnist
in Canada who even remotely
suggested the Canucks might

go six games against the
Flames, I’m feeling pretty

cocky! I expect to see at least

six Trevors enrolling in each

Grade 1 Class in 1995, just as
1974 saw kindergartens full of.

Dereks. What the Canucks
have never had, a superstar, .
has arrived. ,

But you saw the game... it’s.

already being touted as one of
the Classics of all time. Except
for Mike Vernon and some
goal posts, the Canucks would
still be playing. But in defeat,
they rose so far above the ex- —
pectations-of the public that

you have to go back to Paul.
Henderson and the first Rus-
sian series to find the intensity
that went-into that final over-
time period, Maybe the Flames
are a better team, and maybe |
this is the way it had to be, but -
I couldn’t help feeling just a
little satisfied, a little proud

and a little happier with the -

- way Vancouver performed. A -

class act. .
@ Regional politicians went a ©

' little crazy over the announce- ©
ment of a 6,000 job steel mill

last week, with justification

even if they were premature.
Although it may have been a
trial balloon, the chance that

_ BAC. is even being considered oe

makes the Northwest a poten-

- tial site — relative isolation and.

access to tidewater as wellasa -
rail line from the coal fields
certainly don’t hurt our
chances. - ; _

_ . On the subject of: premature,

don't expect to see acheque—
right away from GO BC for ~

either the wading pool or the —
gymnastics club. From what I

can gather, GO BC and Expo:
Legacy monies can’t overlap —.
there’ goes the pool. Also,
there's a big difference between.
having an application accepted ©
and having funds approved, a:
technicality that seems to have ‘
been overlooked. Of course, = -
political decisions can override -

policy. But don’t hold your... wae
breath. re