AS - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, March 27, 1996

News In Brief | Way too much | Darlene’s Countr
ews In Brie +f y
Hill work goes ahead | GOVT feare Ant wes

in attempt to stablize road : |

DESIGN WORK on where to put a Lanfear Hill retain- n Cc a | mM S d eal i

ing wall will go ahead, despite a consultant’s report is CLOSING AS OF MARCH 30 1996

city officials describe as full of ‘“‘maybes”’. THERE'S JUST too much potential for bureaucratic over ?

“We're hardly any further ahead now in terms of load in the Nisga’a land claims agrcement in principle, an : We would like to

knowledge,” city councillor David Hull said recently. says the provincial Liberal party’s aboriginal affairs critic. ae |

The report basically outlined areas on the hill that had Mike De Jong says provisions to set up local govern- re hr | thank our customers

been drilled, and what type of soil was found at each. ments for each of the four villages in the Nass Valley, a for their patronage i

Concern about the ongoing erosion of Lanfear Hill central Nisga’a government and various boards and com- ;

has prompted the commissioning of a couple of reports. missions for policing and other services may be too much. over the years and

This lates! one says the soi} may perbaps be stable “This hasn’t served white society well and I have greal hope you will

cnough to support a retaining wall, concem over the ability to serve Nispa’a society,’ he said . aL:

Design work will now focus on where and how many | during.a visit to Terrace last week. - ve continue to visit this

supporting blocks called ‘lockblocks,'? would be “I’m not going to tell them how to run their house but 1 location as the new

needed to stabilize the arca in question. don’t want to pay for it cither,’? De Jong added,

Cily engineering director Stew Christensen says The Liberal MLA for the Fraser Valley also questions home of the Colour

theyre looking at a maximum stretch of 150 metres. the need to cement Nisga’a government into the Constitu- * Connection Designs

That would cost about $100,000 for the lockblocks, tion, saying it approaches semi-sovereignly.

In conjunction with this design work, city public DeJong does favour some portions of the agreement, par- a Opening soon.

works officials will also start figuring out how many licularly those relating to forest practices and environmen-

cubic metres of soil can be cut away from the top bank tal protection.

and be uscd as fill in the bottom. ° Those clauses call for the Nisga’a to meet or beat current

regulatory standards.
Renters make last stand De Jong is disappointed the agreement in principle
A group of renters in danger of losing their homes are doesn’! sct out what governments call finality — the ex-

making one last ditch effort to hang on to them. tinguishment of native claim to land that won?t form part
The five renters live in trailer homes on property of an overall treaty. _
owned by Helmut Reinert on Old Lakelse Lake Drive. And he’s concerned about the lack of provisions giving

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Early this year, the regional district told Reinert be’d non-Nisga’a residents in the Nass Valley solid participa- Nothing Says Professional

either have to move the trailers, or kick his tenants out | tion in local decision making.

because his property is zoned to allow just one home “The implications for establishing a different set of laws L ik A C y F
on il. based on ethnic differences is very troublesome in where it 1 Cc r ISD r
There are currently five; the one in which Reinert and can lead,” said De Jong. : aw
his family live, and four occupied by his tenants. “The Nisga’a clearly deserve a settlement but it’s not os ee oe
Initially, the regional district set Feb. 1 as the eviction heresy in my view to question some of the implications ee ef
date, but later bumped that up to April 1 to give both down the road.” es : ‘\¢
sides time to try and work out a compromise solution, De Jong wants the province to strike some kind of ar-
The tenants have now. written letters to the regional rangement allowing for a clause by clause examination of
district asking for another, indefinite, extension. a trealy that will come from the agreement in principle.
Lisa Lambright lives in one of the trailers with her “Whenever I put that to (aboriginal affairs minister
young son. John) Cashore, he’s cool to say the least."’
She says there’s very little rental accommodation “T think they view the agreement in principle as the vic-
available in Terrace and she has not been able to find tory and don’t want to get bogged down in a clause by Ly
anything in her price range, clause debate,’’ he said, ; oa . : -
When Al and Marilyn Sutherland, two other tenants, Despite De Jong’s criticisms be feels the Nisga’a made a bing Tralee a note ete co in tha Waativant we ghee yan ie Gon onus. yur
found out they’d have to move, they went to the bank lot of concessions in order to strike a deal with the provin- Certified Master Drycleaner, to sew that loose button back on, or remove the stain you forgo! to
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Marilyn says they’ve been tentatively approved for “I’m sure they were motivated by political considera- good,
enough to buy a trailer home, but adds there’s very few tions,’’ said De Jong.
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