A10 - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, January 17, 1996

Shames debt salvation
pondered by district

THE REGIONAL DISTRICT is cooking up a plan to solve
the Shames Mountain debt problem, But it’s being kept
quiet for now and it will also be the subject of discussion
at closed municipal council meetings in the area.

District board chair Joanne Monaghan says directors put

Council Shorts

Trash freebie deal struck

SENIORS AT Twin River Estates will continue to get
free garbage pickup paid for by the city.

Councillors agreed last week to the special deal for
the seniors’ complex in which the city will issue a

They also say the company can’t afford to make a big
payment.

Shames has lost $1.4 million over the last five years.
Losses have been covered by the company’s directors.
There was some good news last year in that on-hill opera-

grant for up 10 $2,500 toward the garbage pick up cost.

David Hull was the only councillor to oppose the
move, arguing it will set a precedent for apartment
block owners who could ask for similar grants to sub-
sidize pickup lor seniors they have as tenants.

He.argued that. the city’s free garbage pickup is in
principle a nice thing for seniors, but it really only
helps those who have their own homes — not renters
who live at places other than Twin River Estates.

“We may be inundated with many other legitimate
requests,’ said Hull. A better way of helping seniors,
he said, would be to add a second HandiDart bus,

The rest of council voted to go ahead with the grant.

‘‘We created this problem ourselves, so we have
some responsibility for solving it,”’ said Val George.

The cily’s decision a year ago to get out of commer-
cial garbage pickup to cut costs meant it could no
longer give free pickup lo Twin River Estates, which
uses commercial dumpsters.

Riverside Disposal donated the service in 1995 to
Twin River and the city issued the business with a tax
receipt on a onc-off, one year arrangement,

Keep cutting CBC

TERRACE cily council will not be one of the voices
crying out lo save the CBC.

Mayor Jack Talstra broke the split vote at council’s
Jan. 8 meeting, combining with councillors David Hull,
Gordon Hull and Val George to defeat a motion that
would have called on the federal government to cease
cutting the CBC’s budget

The resolution was passed by Prince Rupert city
council, which asked Terrace council to do the same.

“T think the fact they’re cutting hundreds of millions
of dollazs should be applauded,” said David Hull, ad-
ding it would be contradictory to ask them to stap,

Val George said the CBC is a very important national
institution, but noted Prince Rupert council has a
vested interest in keeping the CBC bureau for the
northwest there,

“This is an organization that needs very severe finan-
cial trimming,’’ he said,

Councillor Ed Graydon called the decision short-
sighted. ‘The CBC is the fibre that holds the country
together,’ he said. Ruth Hallock and Rich McDaniel
also vated for the motion,

Month of giving
FEBRUARY could be a confusing month for charity
campaigns.

The B.C. Paraplegic Foundation has been given ap-
proval by the city to conduct a ‘“gold~card’’ sales
campaign in conjunction with local businesses until the
end of February.

a lot of thought into a solution during a private directors’
session over.the weckend.

“We've come up with a twist the whole world could be
happy with,” says Monaghan. I think it might be a solu-
tion, but we have to first see the legal ramifications.”’

Although Monaghan wouldn't comment further, it is
known that the plan doesn’t involve the regional district
taking shares in the ski operation. The plan also needs the
approval of the municipal affairs ministry.

Shames owes the regional district more than $300,000
oe old Kitsumkalum ski hill equipment it bought in

Shames has renegoliated the payment schedule four
times and has only made one interest payment to date.

Former Thornhill regional district director Les Wat-
mough appeared before directors Saturday morning to urge
them not to forgive the debt.

He says Shames has painted itself into a corner and it
wauld now be impossible to refinance the loan.

“There’s no way with their debt repayment record that
they could ever get any money from a bank,”’ said Wat-
mough. ,

Shames officials weren’t part of the closed session by the
regional district directors over the weekend. And it’s not
known when they'll be told of the regional district’s plan.

The last offer made by Shames Mountain would see it
pay back $85,000 over five years. The regional district’s
last demand was fora $140,000 one-time payment,

Company officials, in secking to renegotiate the loan, say
much of the old Kitsumkalum equipment was inadequate
and was condemned by lift inspectors.

' Weight Watchers’.

TERRACE

lions ran in the black,

Company directors do point the economic activity gener-
ated by Shames and estimate it brings more than $1 mil-
lion into the local economy cach year.

Joanne Monag

han

Leaks plague arena

THE TERRACE fire department was
called out twice to the arena earlier this
month; both times for ammonia leaks.

The first one happened Jan. 4 at
about 7:30 p.m. and the building was
evacuated,

Firefighters donned special pra-
lection suits before entering the struc-
ture to take air samples.

Deputy fire chief Rick Qwens says it
was not a serious Icak and adds the
samples were well below the limit for
concern.

He says the second leak involved the
same valve and firefighters received
that call just after 1 a.m. Jan. 8. That
leak, he says, was even smaller than
the first,

Arena manager Dale McFadden says
the problem has been corrected by
lightening the packing around the
valve.

He compares the problem to a leaky
faucet which occasionally needs to be
tightened.

He says the valve will be overhauted
this spring as part of the arena’s annual
maintenance program.

A new ‘chiller’ bas also been ordered
for the arena this year, That's the
cylinder that holds the ammonia, and
keeps the solution cool.

McFadden estimates the cost of the
chiller and the upgrade at more than
$30,000. The money is part ‘of the
arena’s 1996-97 budget.

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