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by Tod Strachan

TERRACE — The Ministry of
Transportation and Highways’
"Highway 16 Corridor Planning
Study" has been completed and
was the main topic of discussion at
Monday night’s Committee of the
Whole meeting of Terrace city .
council.

It would appear that the construc-
tion of a truck route and/or another
overpass or two might happen,
some day. But not for many years
to come. These options are expen-
sive — one overpass alone can
cost between $4 million and $5
million to build — and according
to Paul Lee, vice-president of
Hamilton and Associates Consult-
ing, traffic volumes don’t indicate
the need for it.

‘Perhaps in 10 or 15 years, says
Lee, but it’s much more likely that
it wilt be something like 20 years
before we can realistically expect

to consider a new overpass.

But this isn’t to say we can’t
expect some positive changes that
will make the highway corridor

According to Lee, the area of
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AMAZING GRACE. The city is permeated this week with dance, music and voice as the 26th annual Pacific
Northwest Music Festival makes it way toward the Scholarship Competition and Gala Performance this
weekend. Victoria Chemko and Angela Beaupre are both nine years of age and second year students in the
ballet program at the Northwest Academy of the Performing Arts.

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An office to coordinate the needs of community
organizations and the abilities of volunteers is

well on its way 1o becoming a reality in Terrace. .

The Terrace Community Volunteer Bureau and
Seniors’ Information Access Centre got $29,924
in funding from the Ministry of Health’s Healthy
Communities Initiative Fund last week. The
project’s full time coordinator, Terrace resident
and social services professional Angela Young,
started work Monday.

Project proponent Betty Stewart said Friday
Young will be temporarily headquartered at
Terrace and District Community Services until an
office for her is found. Her work will be to

Volunteer Bureau gets money

develop the project in detail, tailoring it to Ter-
race’s needs by examining models in other com-
munities that have established volunteer bureau
and seniors’ information programs. Stewart
expects the work to take several months.

A society will be formed to operate the pro-
grams, Stewart said, a process that will take two
or three weeks. She is currently awaiting word
from the government that the society’s registration
application has been accepted.

When that is complete, she said, a public meet-
ing will be held and people interested in the
project will be invited to sit on the board.

Port perplexity
hits regional board

by Tod Strachan

Following a discussion on the
most recent Kitimat port develop-
ment project Saturday meeting,
only one thing was clear. There are
probably no two Kitimat-Stikine
directors that agree on value of the
idea, The proposal under examina-

tion is the one found in the Kiti-’

mat Marine Terminal Development
Prospectus; ihe topic of two well-

attended and lively public meetings
in Kitimat and Terrace, Monday
and Tuesday night. But Saturday
morming in the regional district
board room in Terrace, the debate
was just as lively.

Director Les Waimough ques-

‘dons the need for a Kitimat Port

Authority. "With the exception of
the land they want to take over,
what do they have authority over?"

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