B16 Terrace Review — Wednesday, September 4, 1991

| Looking back...

It was about this time in 1987 that a referendum was being prepared.

It was for a swimming pool expansion project with an estimated value. i

of around $500,000. The drawings looked great, and if the project was
approved at the polls, we were told, construction could begin in the
spring. Could this be true?

Logging plans for Kitselas were on hold in 1987. City council, finding
they couldn't effectively control logging truck traffic on Halliwell, had
put some restrictions on North Sparks instead. Anyone wanting to haul
out of Kitselas would have to prove hardship and apply for a permit
outlining the conditions under which they could haul.

Meanwhile, down on Kalum St. another controversy was brewing. A
public hearing on the pros and cons of a rezoning change that would

allow Terrace Shell to add a convenience store raised a few concerns.
The competition, Sandy’s Grocery, said it would put them out of
business, and others talked about littering, traffic, vandalism, drunks
fighting in the streets and exterior lighting that would become a
nuisance to local residents. |

One project in town that caused no controversy at all was the
widening of the approaches to Sande Overpass. The job was nearly

__ complete and the Ministry of Highways said that it would make it safer

at both ends of the overpass for vehicles and pedestrians alike.

Elsewhere around town, the regional district was almost ready for their
move to their newer and larger quarters. Project Interconnect came on
line; and the local school district was in the process of developing a
Family Life Education program for district schools.

In 1988, the Okanagan Skeena Group announced plans for a $5
million shopping centre between Safeway and the Skeena Mall while a
"war'of words" continued on a couple of other major construction jobs
in the area. Kermodei Construction continued work on the Terraceview
extended care wing under threat of action by the B.C./Yukon Building
Trades Council and the local Carpenter's Union at the same time the
winner of the airport combined services building job was announced.
The name of that company was Kermodei Construction. .

And from Kitimat came an announcement that yet another orthopaedic
surgeon was on his way to Kitimat for a tour of the hospital and
community to see if he might like to relocate there. To this point,
Kitimat had spent $15,000 trying to attract an orthopaedic surgeon, and
the hope in that community was that this would be their- man.

The pool expansion job was finally under way in 1989, at double the
price approved in the 1987 referendum. The footings were in the
ground, awaiting the walls and roof, and the new facility would be open

for business on Oct.,2, we were told. 7

A less happy story at the Twin River Estates seniors housing project.
Council turned down a request for a tax exemption on the development
because, they said, doing so would have been in contravention of the
Municipal Act. °

And there was a state of anticipation in Hazelton and Thornhill
primary ‘schools two years ago this week. They had been chosen for
pilot projects in ungraded classes; just what that would mean was
anyone’s guess. ;

A year ago this week, the B.C. Buildings Corporation continued their
search for a suitable site for a new corrections centre, saying they were
getting close. They had narrowed it down, a BCBC spokesman said, to
seven locations in the Thornhill area. '

Another containment centre of sorts was shot down in Terrace,
though. A rezoning bid to operate the King’s Castle daycare centre out
‘of a private Birch Ave. residence ran into a problem. City council

thought they could rezone the property from Ri to R2 for a year but
legal counse! said that was a bad idea.

Instead, the city planner suggested a new zone for residential areas,
"R1.1 Single Family Residential Day Child Care." Council, though,
didn’t like the idea of a new zone which allowed private business in
residential areas and decided there would be no R1.1 zone in Terrace.

In regional news, in 1987 the government announced that Terrace and
two other communities in the province would be getting one-stop
government shopping centres soon. And on the federal scene, the mail
was safe, we were told, for at least another two weeks, Negotiations
between Canada Post and CUPW weren’t going well but there wouldn’t
be a strike until at least Sept. 22.

This week in 1988, it was announced that Kentron Construction’s
North Coast Road Maintenance was the winner of the first ever three-
year privatized road maintenance contract here. Details weren't revealed
but a Ministry of Highways spokesman did say that Kentron would be
offering 33 ministry employces their current jobs at the same rate of

y:

In 1989, we had this report: "Continuing dismal returns for Skeena
and Nass River Steelhead have prompted Fish and Wildlife authorities
to extend blanket protection to the remaining fish coming up to spawn."

Away from fish, but still with water, Fairbank Engineering was the
only company that responded to a call by the Ministry of Energy, Mines
and Petroleum Resources for geothermal exploration in the Lakelse
Lake area. Work on the project, according to a ministry spokesman,

could begin as early as the spring of 1991.
And in what may have seemed a more exciting proposal. Orenda

Forest Products was working on an advanced feasibility study for a

$150 million chemi-pressurized groundwood pulp mill and were |

considering a $290 million coated paper mill to go along with it. A
company spokesman said Stewart was first the preferred location for the

mill but they were also looking at a place called Swan Lake.

. Sept. 3:. Anarchist shoots up U.S. President McKinley (1901); Ho Chi Minh dies (1969). |

CROSS A BEAR WITH SOME LIONS...and you get charter night for the all-ladies Kermode
Lions Club, held at the Terrace Inn, There were about $5 Lions members in attendence, 30 of them
from Vancouver and Northwest points from the Charlottes to Houston. Above is the first Kermode
executive: Club president Suzanne Gleason, first vice-president Sam Collier, second vice-president

- Linda Tanner, secretary Shirly Bedard, past council chairman for Multiple District 19 Charles

Saunders, treasurer Ruth Tremblay, director Mary Ann Burdett and club member Marlee Paterson.
The Kermode Lions Club currently has 20 members and is open for more. Anyone interested can
attend one of their meetings in the Terrace Inn's Skeena Room at noon Wednesday. This offer is
open for 90 days; after that, membership will be by invitation only.

September songs ~ events in history

Compiled by Tom Taggart - special to the Terrace Review

Sept. 1: End of a species, the last Passenger Pigeon is grounded (1914), R.I.P.
Germany invades Poland, beginning WW2, 54,800,000 deaths ensue (1939).
USSR zaps KAL007 spy plane with crew of 27 over Sakhalin Island (1983).
U.S. Navy munitions train downsizes protester Brian Willson’s legs (1987).
Sept. 2: LABOUR DAY, 1991.

New York City: Electrification tums on Grand Central Station (1882).
Oh (!) Canada: Tory Power anticipates success of “Loonie” currency (1984).

Muammar Qaddafi takes Belgrade on horseback with 30 female bodyguards (1989). ae

Cubana Airline crash kills 139 humans (1989).

Sept. 5: Lynette “Squeaky” Fromm gets jail for not shooting U.S. Pres, Ford (1975).
1987: Israel bombs Beirut; Bob Dylan bombs Israel (Sept. 6).
Sept. 6: Canada: Ontario voters dismiss bourgeoisie by 57 percent in favour of NDP (1990).
Sept. 7: | INDEPENDENCE DAY, BRAZIL (1822). ; Oe
1921: First Miss America: 15-year-old Margaret Gorman (30-25-32). . -
Sept. 8: Escuela Moderna opens in Barcelona under Ferrer (1901).
WORLD LITERACY DAY. .
Sept. 9: Long March of the Great Helmsman, Mao Zedong, comes to a halt (1976).
Anchorage, Alaska: Sinead O’Conner opts for tan under Midnight Sun (1987). ..
Sept. 10: Roaring Twenties Fadtime: Hot Dog with zipper introduced in USA (1927). © ~
Canada declares war (1939). a
NATIONAL DAY, BELIZE.
Sept. 11 © Ty Cobb retires (1928)... Pete Rose gets base hit #4,192 (1985).
The Riviera: Canada’s ‘Bard of the Klondike’, Robert Service, dies (1958).
Sept. 12: England: Luddite reactionaries incite Nottingham potato riot (1812).
Voters of Anenecuito, Mexico elect Emiliano Zapata to town council (1909). .
Midnight at the Oasis: Maria Muldaur finds her voice (1942). .
Camelot/USA: Jack Kennedy and Jackie Bouvier make it legal (1953).
Sept.13: Plains of Abraham: Montcalm and Wolfe lose, England wins (1759).
USA: Star Wars (SDI) gratis of “Darth” Reagan and cast of millions (1985).
Sept.14: USA: First frontal lobotomy performed to jettison emotional baggage (1956).
Denny McLain goes primetime to win Game #30 (1968).
Grace (Kelly), Princess consort of Monaco, gives up the act (1982). _
Sept. 15: | McPolitics: Disneyland shuns Khrushchev (1959); McNewspaper: USA Today (1982).
Sept. 16: | Spain: HMS Nina, Pinta and Santa Maria depart for the western horizon (1492).
Sept.17: Like a Rolling Stone: Hunter S. Thompson meets Jann Wenner (1971).
Sept. 18: | Nevada's Mustang Ranch sex resort loses its assets (1990).
YOM KIPPUR, 1991. :
Sept. 19: Nome, Alaska: GOLD! (1898).
Bamey and Betty Hill get physical exams while on board a UFO (1961).
Mexico City earthquake, 8.1 Richter (1985). .
Sept. 20: Death of the Poet, Alexis Saint-Leger Leger, aka: St.-John Perse (1975), R.LP.
Taken by storm: Pope John Paul Hi visits Fort Simpson, NWT (1987).
Sept. 22: Death of comedian Dan Rowan (1987) and composer Irving Berlin (1989).
Sept. 23; Sarah Jane Moore gets jail for not shooting U.S. President Ford (£975).
AUTUMNAL EQUINOX/FULL MOON, 1991.
Sept. 26: | Meuse-Argonne: Final battle of The Great War commences (1918).
Sept.27: | Warren Report bombs by saying Oswald was a loner (1964), many unbelievers, °
Sept. 28: Hawaii: Fascist fugitive Ferdinand Marcos begins his Quality Time (1989).
Sept. 29: Leif Ericsson finds Vinland (1000).(((EVENT OF THE MONTH))).
Twenty-ton cocaine stash confiscated in Los Angeles ( 1989).
Sept. 30: Cinema star James Deant becomes another roadkill at age 24 (1955), RiLP,