Terrace Standard, Wednesday, February 5, 1992 — Page AS YOUNG NATHAN Warthridge is one of a tiny but enthusiastic group _ that meets regularly to construct and improve an ambitious model a part of the effort are buildings marking the various towns along railway layout. The Skeena Valley Model Railway Club has set up the route. shop downstairs of a daycare centre on Agar. Its in the process of Local railway club finds | ‘itself on the right track TERRACE — Every Monday evening, a group of local residents gathers for -several hours of concentrated effort and just plain fun. The group is the Skeena Valley Model Railway Club and the objeci is to replicate the Canadian National line in the. northwest. With painstaking detail, club members build sidings, add buildings and construct hun- dreds of feet of track. They meet in the. large downstairs. room of... AL tocal daycare centre: roe dl _ And the many feet of track in an. overlapping. pattern of several different levels. On one end is the spur line leading down to Kitimat. One _ *tweathering”’ by ‘the club, the other, the route into the port city of Prince Rupert. Detail is important to club members, even down to spray- ing. dust on train cars so they simulate the real thing while winding their way on the tracks. That touch of reality is called club: members, . _“We try to make. it really realistic,’? says long time club member Willy Schneider. “We want to make it as close as pessible to the real thing.” The large room is the fifth and mastespermangnt4 lagation for the club which has been ac- tive since the early 1980s.-° = There are nearly 20 people in including Nathan. Worthridge, iv, who comes Northern cans off to Kentucky “TERRACE —There’s a good chance that aluminum soft drink can you just took back to ‘the grocery store will end up in Kentucky. Once. there it'll be melted down and.turned back into a new soft drink can. “sThe ‘distance between nor- "thern B.C. and Kentucky may _-be-great but the process. makes. . Sense ‘because of the price of aluminum, says Alcan recycling “expert Jim Dickson. Tt Works because aluminum is the most valuable commodity “in: beverage packing and in a recycling, ”* said Dickson. ‘The - --price of $600 to $800 a tonne is “far. more than it is: for card- ~ dtievols Which cari’ Be plugged im-at'dif- ferent locations” around "the track. “But even -here,: computer chips have taken their place, in replicating the CN mainline and branch lines in the northwest. Also model railroading. Henry von Pentz runs such a system, built by Marklin, a European company. His digital control centre allows him to program in a train’s operations without the use of wire-connected and hand “held controls. “You sit back and watch,” says von Pentz once the system has .received its instructions. “It’s just like programming a computer.”’ His system can be added onto in much the same fashion; ;as+:.[, boosting.a, ‘home, computer or one at work: Theoretically, the system can be expanded to control.79 trains | at Once, . : CRUSHED AND BUNDLED aluminum cans from the north are readiéd for shipment to an Alcan depot in Vancouver. From there, they are placed on rail cars for a trip to an Alcan recycling plant in Kentucky. The cans are melted down and the metal used again. od K. CITY BEAT - Deluge anticipated A RECENT council decision to buy an ad in a service club’s national magazine is inviting a deluge of similar re- quests, an alderman has warned. Danny Sheridan's comment came in response colleague © ° Rick King’s motion the city take out a one-third page, $455 ad * in the Kinsmen and Kinette publication called KIN magazine, ‘Although council has turned down the same request in years past, King argued the Kinsmen and Kinettes contributed significantly to the community and deserved support. While agreeing on the value of the groups’ work, Sheridan pointed out “There are also other very, very worthy organiza- tions." Aldermen would have to make sure there was enough ~ money included in the 1992 budget to meet similar requests, he said. Alderman Darryl. Laurent, himself a member of a local ser- vice club, was adamant such ‘groups should not get grants from the city. The motion carried by ; a three-two margin with alderman Bob Cooper joining Laurent in opposing. A further motion by Sheridan that council’s community services committee re- ' examine the city’s grant policy was also approved. Traffic solutions sought THE TOURISM and Economic Advisory Commission wants residents to see the light as far Kalum St. i is concerned. It wants a street light on every pole on Kalum between Park and Tuck and a traffic light on the junction of Lazelle and Kalum. It also recommends partial widening of the 4600 block . stretch of Lakelse Ave. by reducing the width of sidewalks on the south side at Kalum and the north side at Eby. - Other problem areas include: ® the lack of any plan by the city to improve streets and sidewalks or fill in roadside ditches in the community; —_. -@ the need for more crosswalks on Kalum, particularly at ‘Hamer and Loen; and * the lack of sidewalks on the north side of Keith Ave. east of the Sande Overpass. ‘Commission members are scheduled to meet with.council — to discuss these and other issues Tuesday, Feb. 18 at 7: 30° p.m. ~ Beautiful budget FLOWERS AREN'T. the only thing the beautification society wants to see come up this spring. It’s also looking for an increase in its annual grant from the city. The society wants $11,325 this year, up from $10,125 in 1991. ©: Close to $10,000 would be spent on. continued employment of a two-man litter clean-up crew, a maintenance crew to take care of grass boulevards and planters in the downtown core and the purchase of a weedeater. The remaining $1,500 would cover the cost of soil mix and plants for the existing planters plus the 40 new ones the socie- ty expects to install this year. Major projects being’ taken on this year which do not re- - quire city financial aid are tree planting along Lazelle and . arenes Lovupet wsodtiv Greig. . . vagy once shad me” Lig hts word’ awaited*"’°"" ar bac THE suai traffic lights be installed on Lakelse’’' at the Sparks-Ottawa junction has not been dropped, but engineering director Stew Christensen expects no further Pro- gress:until spring. The lights proposal was made late last year by Skeena Mall manager Lynda Bretfeld. She pointed out plans to allow right ‘turns from the new Ottawa St. on to Lakelse Ave. would ‘direct potential customers away ‘from businesses at.the west end of Lakelse. ; She also suggested affected businesses could share the cost’ of installing the- lights, : estimated at $54,000. Those included. Safeway whose expansion project had led to the relocation of Ottawa. Christensen said the proposal ‘had been put to Safeway last November but the city hasn't received a reply. He suspected. the failure to complete the new Ottawa section before winter arrived “removed the urgency . from Safeway! s point. of view", However, he anticipated the matter would resurface when the spring construction season arrived. Travel plans okayed _ RECREATION OFFICER Steve Scott is going to a seminar on energy-efficient refridgeration i in Richmond Feb. 27, Scott said he will split travel costs by: going to a B. C, Recreation and Parks meeting to be held on the lower mainland two days earlier. Estimated cost for refridgeration seminar is $365, Proclamation plethora FEB. 16-23 is the week of ‘Weeks’ once again this year. Council: approved proclamation of those seven days as Guide-Scout Week, Multicultural Week, Kinsmen and Kinette Week and it’s already been declared Heritage Week. Fortunately for the city, only the Guides and Scouts want to fly their flags for. that week — it only has one flag pole available. Also proclaimed were Feb. 24-29. as Terrace Selence Fair Week, March 21 as International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, April'29-May 2 as Kids ‘Sense Week and the month of May as Multiple. ‘Sclerosis: Month. The Multiple Sclerosis society was also given permission to canvas for donations in local malls and stores May 7-9. se learning. how fo read, The Start fs for people Less crime There was less crime here last year than in 1990. Fewer people had their driving licences taken’ away at roadblocks. - Car thefts went down. -.So-did shoplifting... Police charged 78 "-people for drug crimes. That's less than in 1990. Police also picked up. 775 people for being drunk. That’s also less than in 1990, Fewer people were given tickets for speeding. The number of car ac- “cidents also. went down, Police say driving was easier because there wasn ’talot of s snow and ‘ice. Broken This eagle has a broken leg. The leg got.caught in. a leg-hold trap. ij Some fishermen found the eagle. They took the eagle to the vet. It was flown to. Van- f couver for treatment. core re GAEL My