~ embarrassment’

Exposure of dump.
abusers threatened

. TERRACE--. The city will con-
tinue to monitor the situation at the
sanitary landfill gate, and if people

continue dumping garbage on
private ‘property they may be
charged, City council was told of
the problem last month by Kalum
Lake Drive resident Bruce Freem-
an, who said that people trying to
access the city dump after hours
are dumping their refuse on private
property when they f find the gate
locked.

Following new licensing
restrictions by the Ministry of
Environment, the landfill gate has
‘been locked at 6 p.m. during
winter months and 10 p.m. in the
remaining summer months,
Alderman Ruth Hallock says the
random dumping of garbage due to
-a locked gate was one of council’s
concerns when they were
negotiating the new contract with
the ministry... but they lost.

The names of some violaters,
along with the appropriate
evidence, have already been passed

on to bylaw enforcement officer

Fern Sweeting and these people
could be charged by the RCMP if
the city feels it’s warranted.
Hallock offered another suggestion,
however. She says that the names
of people who dumped garbage
outside the designated area in the
cily dump were at one time
published in the local newspaper.
Even though they weren’t charged

- adminstration.

under the law, they were
embarrassed into conformance.

Two. other concems listed by.

Freeman will be addressed. by city
Director. of
engineering Stew Christensen says
he doesn’t believe that a drainage
ditch dug in a gravel pit at the city
dump had -anything to do with
lowering the water table in the
area, but he says the possibiltiy of
lowering water level in domestic
wells will be investigated prior to
proceeding with any future
excavations.

The other concern, unwanted pets
being abandoned at the landfill
site, is a little more difficult to
address, however. The regional
district animal control officer
doesn’t normally monitor the
Kalum Lake Drive area but a
request to. follow up on the
problem could be made. In the
meantime, the RCMP do have the
authority to call in the animal
control officer if they’re aware of
a specific incident and charges can
be laid.

Terrace Review — Wednesday, March 21, 1990 BS

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It's a new sport, and we've got a head start at it. The North Coast Ravens of Terrace came out
provincial champions in ringuette this year. The team is (back) Alex Hamer, Shawna Prest, Kara.
Myers, Cathy lilingworth, Susie Munson, (front) Dena Ferretti, Anna Graham, Jacque Scriver, Lisa
Smith and Kelly Prinz. Missing from the photo is Erin McHale.

Laneway to be closed despite objections

A bylaw to close a lane right-
of-way at the rear of the 4900
block Park Ave. received first
three readings by city council
recently in spite of a complaint
from one resident. Alderman
Ruth Hallock told council she

had been phoned-by-Vic Jolliffe, .
‘who objected to the closure

because he had asked for a
similar right-of-way closure and
it had been denied by council.

It was explained to council by
city administrator Bob Hallsor,
however, that the two cases were
not similar. In Jolliffe’s case,
the right-of-way was at the top
of the bench overlooking
Skeenaview Drive and council
had good.-reasons for wanting to
keep the land: the right-of-way
extends along the top of the
bench and may be useful as an
access route some day, and the

city may at some point want to
reduce the slope above Skeena-
view Drive and the land in ques-
tion would then cease to exist. If
council turned the land over to
the adjacent property owners, he
explained, both options would
be-closed....

The Park Ave. closure i is : dif-
ferent, though, said Hallsor.
The lane in question, as is the
case in some other parts of

town, is a dead end and never
has been probably never will be
used. One member of council,
Mayor Jack Talstra, excused
himself from any discussion on
the closure, though. He explain-
ed that the lane bordered his
own. property but. the applica-
tion for closure had been made
by his neighbor, who had found
the sale of her land was hindered
by an encroachment.

ONE SUCCESS STORY for Caledonia high school this year has been the boys’ and girls’ badminton
teams. Both groups repeated as zone champions this year, and 13 of them will be going with coach
Robert Cooper to the B.C. finals beginning March 26.

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