18 Terrace Review — Wednesday, July 23, 1986

Police cordon off the yard of a home on Park Avenue.

Woman
dies"

On Wednesday, July
16 at 12 noon, the Ter-

race RCMP attended’

4723 Park Avenue, and
found the deceased
47-year-old, Gloria
Laura Price.

RCMP reported the
result of death to be
from natural causes,
however police are conti-
nuing to investigate.

The body was moved
to Mills Memorial
Hospital where an
autopsy will be perform-
ed.

Local volunteers help disabled —

TERRACE — In the
summer every year a
group known as Self
Help works to provide
services for local mental-
ly handicapped adults.

by Philip Musselman

A local services group
known as Self Help is
now operating services
for handicapped persons
in the community. The
group works with these
people to insure that they
can take care of
themselves properly
without much _ outside
aid. The group searches

Driver
charged

On Thursday, July 17

_ at 1 a.m., a single vehicle

accident occurred on
Queensway.

Terrace RCMP charg-
ed the driver with lack of
care and control of a
motor vehicle and driv-
ing with over .08 mgs of
alcohol in the operator's
blood.

Something to Sell?
Try Classifieds

Local residents provide police with Information.

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find employment

for employment oppor-
tunities for its clients
that will help provide
them with useful training
for everyday life. Some
services provided by this
group include: arts and
crafts clinics, job semi-
nars, a banking pro-
gram, a library program,
and training sessions.
With the help of Self
Help, handicapped in-
dividuals may find train-
ing and job experience
along with several op-
portunities to learn pro-
per, independent living
habits.

Rinette Lagace, vo-
cational support worker
with the group, is
a part of the Challenge
86 program and wished
to work for a non-profit
organization. There are
three such people in the
group who are working
as support workers.
Lagace enjoys this type
of work and will return
to school in September
to complete her grade 12
education. Lagace
reported that eight or
nine of the 18 mentally
handicapped adults are
presently working part-

Rinette Lagace

time for local businesses.
These clients of Self
Help learn to deal with
working with people at
the local businesses and
they are trained by their
employers with patience
and understanding.

Self Help is backed by
Human Resources and
operates under a budget
that includes both
government backing and
backing from the dona-
tions which are received.
Included in the employ-
ment opportunity pro-

gram is an incentive pro-
gram which operates
on the basis that the
employer doesn’t pay
wages, but the clients
receive a_ training
allowance once a month.
The older staff in the
group are responsible for
organization as well as
supervising the younger
support workers. Also
these people work
around the clock, at the
group’s two group
houses, to help’ the
clients learn about shop-
ping and house keeping.
Not only do the clients
for Self Help receive ser-
vices they also perform
odd jobs, and they raise
money for the group’s
well being by holding
carwashes and bottle
drives. Soon Self Help
hopes to be able to sell
the articles made by its
clients in arts and crafts
workshops and wood-
working activities in a
craft sale. The proceeds
will go to the people who
made the items.. For
more information on the
Self Help Group contact
Pam Dow, program
organizer, at 635-7863.

Fisherman
rescued
from

river

On Tuesday, July 15
at approximately 11
a.m., two local
fishermen capsized their
boat on the - Lakelse
River.

_ After a short time in
the water both Terrace
residents were rescued by
two other fishermen in a-
boat.

The Terrace RCMP
boat and personnel also
responded to the inci-
dent, Terrace RCMP
wish to remind. all
boaters “to ensure they
have suitable equipment
on board, and’ that
boaters wear approved
lifejackets.

Replanting of
cottonwood will
be studied

TERRACE — Skeena
Cellulose will study the
feasibility of replanting
some areas of Tree Farm
License 1 with cotton-
wood
usual coniferous species.
The fast-growing
broadleaf trees are nor-
mally considered a weed
in this region’s
silvicultural circles, and
growths of it in
reforested areas are
either hacked down by
standtenders or poisoned
with chemicals to pre-
vent competition with
commercially valuable
conifers.

Greg Antosz of
Skeena Cellulose
(formerly Westar
Timber) said that the
study will determine
specific areas, such as
marshy bottom lands,
where soil and terrain
conditions are far more

favorable to cottonwood -

growth than coniferous
growth. After the results
of the study are in, they
will be analyzed and a
pilot: project may be
undertaken.

Antosz said that in the

instead of the

past the company has
planted spruce and fir
seedlings in areas that
aren’t really suitable for
those species, and gone
tO great expense stand-
tending. those areas. He
pointed out that,
although cottonwood

. isn’t suited to sawmilling

it is quite acceptable for
pulp and can also be ex-

‘ported as raw logs. He

observed that cotton-
wood regrowth is
economically appealing
because there is no stan-
dingtending; it normally
overtops everything
around it in wet soil en-
vironments.

The consultants’
report will be complete
by October, he said, and
further plans will depend
on the data in the report.

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Tough Stuff

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they can deflect the teeth of an
alligator, says National Geo-
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