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Iona Campagnolo Member

of Parliament for Skeena

. and Canada’s Minister of State for Fitness and

Amateur Sport signed a series of Canada-Cuba sport

Iona Campagnolo

Meets Castro; Signs Sports

‘OTTAWA -Five groups’
of Canadian athletes
attend special sports
events In Cuba over the

next six months as a

stem sport ex-
nges with _ that
country takes effect.
_ About 50 athletes on
track and field,
fencing,
mnastics and wreatlin
ms‘will go.to: Cuba, it
was announced this week
by Yona =. Campagnolo,
inister of State for

signed the agreements
with the Cuban govern-
ment recently in Havana.
There will be 11 Cuban
teams or sport study
groups who will par-
icipate in Canadian
events throughout the
country over the next few
months. Among the first
exchange _ visits
scheduled:
_: A Cuban wrestlin
team n
compete in Alberta and
Ontario clties between

will © ‘train, ..and. will

te

exchange agreements recently. She also held a.
with leader Fidel Castro and other

series of ta

ere Eas poy

officals during her three day visit.

March 20-27.
- Cuban divers will visit
Canada between April 16-
23 and Cuban swimmers
will be in Winnipeg May
- Canadian wrestlers go
to Cuba for competition
February 10-20.
- Canadian fencers and
a junior equestrian team
will visit Cuba in March.
- In May, Canadians
will take part in the
annual Barrientos :
Memorial ‘Track- and

Exchange

Havana.

Mrs. Campagnolo said
overall, the exchange
agreements were a
‘T} us”

rison of ° 5
programs for he
isabled.

The. Skeena M.P. met

‘officials .in ¢

: _ province.

‘Lions —_ recently

with six'of ‘the <seven top. proached council with
an: eh: : ig

Council wrestles problems
of two B.C. Winter Games

A joint application sent
by Terrace and Kitimat
to host the first B.C.

. Winter Games in 1979 was

the cause of a stormy
Terrace council meeting
Monday night. -

Although the joint
application may be a sign

greater co-operation

between the two councils,
it prompted some in-
fighting among Terrace
council members.

‘Ald. Helmut Giesbrecht
said he was “boggled by
the whole process” since
the application had
already been sent to the
Council ap-
proval in this case had no
mi

Last “week, the two
councils met for an hour
and a half to finalize the

application which, if

approved by the

$10,000 Asked

- Celebrations Fu

province, would see both
towns holding the 1979
games.

Giesbrecht said he
went away from the
meeting ‘‘somewhat
overwhelmed” that the
decision was made with
so little information
available.

Municipal ad-
ministrator Bob Hallsor
admitted the application
was put together in only
four days, with figures
oblained from past hosts
of the B.C. Northern
Winter Games, but stated
the figures would
probably balance out.

Estimated host con-
tribution to the games is
$54,000 or $27,000 for both
Terrace and Kitimat.

The $54,000 deficit
figure is an “optimistic”
one, Giesbrecht said, and

cost to local taxpayers
could actually end up
being higher than that.

Giesbrecht also
mentioned the fact that
the ongoing conflict
between the B.C, Winter
Games and the Northern
B.C, Winter Games was
not brought up at the joint
council meeting.

The Northern Games is
a non-government
program largely
dependent on volunteers
while the B.C. Games is
an invention of the
provincial government.

Giesbrecht described
the B.C, Games as an
“elitist athletic event’
because of its high-
calibre competitions, and
said Terrace should host
games that encourage
more community par-
ticipation.

Mayor Dave Maroney
iwicereprimanded
Giesbrecht  for- his
comments. Maroney said
Giesbrecht was present
for the hour and a half
joint meeting and “you
(Giesbrecht) never
opened your mouth.’”

The joint application
proposed to hold 24
various sports events in
school gymnasiums in
Terrace and Kitimat as
well as the two arenas,
Lakelse Lake and Kit-
sumkalum Mountain.

The B.C. Games will be
held somewhere in the
province in March, 1979,
and aré expected to at-
tract as many as 8,000

people.

The province will make
its decision on where to
hold the games on Feb.
15.

nding Sought

By Terrace Centennial Lions

Service clubs in
Terrace may be going
ahead with plans for this
year’s anniversary

celebrations, but Terrace

council is looking at the

. situation carefully.

Centennial
ap

Terrace

Ald. Jack  Talstra
suggested council did not
want to move “‘quite that
quickly” in approving the
request,

- Besides asking council
for the $10,000 grant for
-the celebrations, the
Centennial Lions

suggested that provincial

The service club also
requested that a com-
mittee be struck under
the auspices of council
and a public meeting be
held this month to discuss
plans for the event.

According to Talstra,

chairman of the

recreation committee,
there is no intention of
‘donating $10,000 until
more discussion takes
place, but council did
decide to hold a meeting
with all interested ser-
vice clubs to further
consider the matter,

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Greening

Yes Honestly!

Woman recovers ~~
Her jewel box! = —

Honesty may or may
fot be the best policy, but
it certainly made one
local woman happy.

The woman, who asked
not to be identified, was
overjoyed yesterday
when her stolen jewelry

. box was returned to her.

Her home had been
entered about two months.
agoand thieves got away
with the jewelry box,
although they had left
other items of value
untouched,

The box contained a
number of pleces of
costume jewelry and a fe
w “good” pieces, but
mostly things that were

‘of sentimental value to

the woman. .

Although ‘she was
saddened by the lose of
the jewelry, the woman
resigned herself to the
fact it was gone forever.

Then, Monday night,
she got a call from
Terrace RCMP < _ in-
forming her the jewelry
box had been turned in.

“Twas amazed, I never
thought I'd see my jewel
box again,” she said.

She discovered only a
few pieces of jewelry
missing, none of them of
any value. the jewelry

pparentiy the jewe
box was found near the
Anglican Church: and
turned into the police
office. °

The woman is not sure
who to thank for the
return of her jewelry. At
the time, she was so
excited about getting it
back, “I wasn’t thinking
about anything else,”’ she
sai

However, she did: say ;

she would try to trac
down the good
Samaritan.

The story was a happy
one for the women in-
volved, not only because
she got her jewelry back,
but because it made her a
little more appreciative
of her fellow man.

“There are . honest
people,’’. she said in
amazement,

Human Resources"
Outlines Policy

Dep't of _ Human
Resources Outlines
Transient Policy . -.
following is a

by Regional
er M.R, Greening

2 “Arising from an jat-
tempt bya staff member
“of the HE

RALD ‘to
rovide assistance to two
fwent -year old youths.

stranded in Terrace after

endi a month

nce Rupert’ in search -
‘of . employment, Mrs.
agreed to
Department's

outline

policy in such  cir-
cumstances. Here it is:
“Maximum
{assistance available is)
3. days reom_ and
meals,IF the applicants
are actively seeking
employment, ‘A shorter
time (of assitance) might
be issued if there Js no
evidence of seeking.

employment or © em-
ployment being ©
available. Our policy

requires that once the
basic Assistance has been
issued no further
assistance can -
granted, unless the
person has. confirmed
employment.”

_ 1s expanded,

Situation very serious

“Minister of Recreation

‘and. Conservation Sam

Bawlf will be invited to
visit Terrace to discuss
the growing problem of

.predtors in the region.

Direcotrs . on. ‘the
Kitimat-Stike REgional
board decided to protest
what one director termed
“drastic cutback” in the

rovincial wildlife

udget.

Director or Thornhill
Less Watmough urged
the board to send a leiter
similar to that of Skeena |
Mla Cyril Shelford’s
questioning _— provincial
programs for wildlife
protection.

A numberof areas in
withing the regional
district suffer from in-
cidents of livestock being
molested by wolved an
other preditors, par-
ticularly the Hazelton
and Dease Lake areas.
. Last ‘month,. Shelford
wrote a letter. to. Bawlf
questioning reported.
eutbacks in the preditor
control. program.

Livestock as well as
wildlife could be |

rotected if the program
helford

said.
‘“Te is. beyond the

imagination, how sup-
posedly knowledgable
people could allow the
mass destruction of out
ame population without
ifting a finger ,” the
Skeena MLA wrote.

Shelford said he
suspected the game
managers are not doint
their rotect

tat
wildlife because of lack of
money, If his iis the case

"the. government must
take the full blame,” he

said.

Rather than com-
mission an enquiry into
the issuance of . guide

areas as has been done. ~

during the last few years,

a serious look should be. - .

taken at mismanagment
of wildlife, Shelford
claimed. ...

This money would be
hetter spent on flying
time for northern fis
and wildlife manager,
Shelford suggested to get
them into areas where
there is little or no
hunting pressure.
_“Thw ork the
Honorable Grace Mc-
Carthy is doing. to brin
tourists in is
Shelford said,“‘but what
is there for : them to see if
we lose. cur game

Gas.Co. Hike Hearing

To be held

A public hearing on gas
rate increases. in the
northwest will be held in
Kitimat on Feb. 1...

Commissioner _ John
Ludgate, of the B.C.
‘Energy Commission, said
the hearing on the Pacific
Northérn Gas’ proposed _
increase was ‘to have
been held in Vancouver,

-but was moved to Kitimat

in response to’ requests
from several city
councils as well as the

public,
Pacific Northern Gas |s

at Kitimat
asking for an eight per
cent increase.

_ Last year the com-

pany, which services
customers from the coast

to. Prince George,
received a 33 percent rate
* increa

se.
” The public hearing will
begin at 8 p.m. at the
Chalet Inn in Kitimat.
Discussions during the
day will be concerned
with technical
arguments, | although
these. will also be open to
the public,

great,” . 7 i

population.”

gional direcotr Les
Watmough agreed with
Shelford’s comments on
northern tourism.

Because the north is
primarily a resourece
area, about 80 per cent of
the tourists who visit

B.C. tourism will suffer

come here to fish and
bunt, he said.

If the preditor problem
is not brought under
control, it will hurt the
tourist industry, Wat-
mough claimed.

‘The board voted to
invited Bawlf to Terrace
whenever he is available.

basal pes

tact fH

” —e,

It would appear that work has finally started on the Belan

Skeena Mall in Terrace. Above «breaking ground
for the long awaited shopping centre are Brian

City cost of sewer
and drain hookup

' Abacus Cities Ltd., new
owners of the proposed
Skeena Mall, will con-
tribute $25,000 toward the
cost of connecting with a
municipal storm drain
system. iH

. The company will pay
$15,000 when the con-
nection is made and the
remaining $10,000 by Dec.
31, 1978.

Mayor Dave Maroney
said the drain system will
have progressed as far
as the Mail site by -

NOON,

ey. Jefl) and Emil Froese, seen ‘TURSDA

September, when the

company is ready for.
connection. :

Close to $300,000 has:
been spent already on the:
storm drain which has:
been a municipal public :
works project for several :

years.

Council requested the :
$25,000 contribution from :
Abacus Cities at a:

meeting between the two-
groups last week. The
company agreed to the.
request, ~

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