A12 - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, April 9, 1997
Some sections to cost $1 1 million a kilometre

Road a major challenge

AT AN estimated $1.1
million a kilometre along
the toughest stretches, the
toad to Kincolith is going
to be one of the more

challenging highway
projects in the north in
years.

It poses a wide scale of
engineering and environ-
mental issues in addition
to the aclual construction.

Highways ministry
geotechnical engineer
Frank Maximchuk says
that of the 23km to be
constructed by the minis-
iry, just 4.6km isn’t con-
sidered difficult.

“The other 19km is in-
teresting and is divided
into two categories —
8.5km has moderate dif-
ficulties. The remaining
10.5km is very difficult.
And difficult is just an-
other word for ex-
pensive,’”’ he says.

Maximchuk is one of
several highways minis-
try people working on the
project.

Their portion leads from
Greenville in the Nass
Valley west toward Kin-
colith at the mouth of the
Nass River.

Nisga’a Economic En-

BEAUTIFUL BUT geographically daunting Nass River valley is going to task the
efforts of highways ministry engineers and contractors as they plan and then con-
struct a road from Greenville to Kincolith.

terprises, a Nass-based
development corporation,
is constructing the nearly
S5km portion from Kin-
colith east under relative-
ly easy conditions.

The ministry portion is
going through an ex-
tensive environmental as-
sessment review and
hopes are that approval
will be granted as soon as

possible.

Construction on some
stretches could start next
year with final construc-
tion taking place in 2000.

The environmental as-
sessment is examining the
ins and outs of construct-
ing along the tidal bed
portion of the Nass River
or cutting into steep
hillsides.

The idea of building on
a tidal bed is extremely
complicated, says Maxi-
mchuk, because the road
bed will have to be nearly
10 metres high. And the
bottom based will start
out at 32 metres wide.

**You won't find too
many roads built under
conditions like this,’’ he
noted,

Police cut out their red tape

THE WAY the RCMP do
business changed this
month, though no one on the
street is likely to notice the
difference.

The force has flattened its
chain of command by
eliminating a layer of man-
agement.

The result is to give
detachments more control
over — and responsibility
for — their own affairs.

At the same time, the old
subdivision structure has
been wiped and replaced
with districts, That means
an end to the northwest sub-
division headquartered in
Prince Rupert in favour of a
northem district run out of
Prince George.

This takes out a level of
bureaucracy so decisions are
made by people at the
lowest level, which means
detachment | commanders
and officers on the streets,
says Kitimat detachment
commander Staff Sergeant
Jim Howie.

He’s to be an important
part of the new system be-
cause he’s leaving his old
job for one as the new dis-
tict’s senior advisory non-
commissioned officer,
reporting to its mew com-
mander.

He'll do performance
evaluations for detachment

commanders his sank and
lower, and review those
detachments on behalf of
the district commander to
make sure policing in the
communities meets RCMP
standards,

Howie said a lange part of
his new role will be to heip
out the detachments in his
area — it stretches from
Kitimat to Telegraph Creck,
and includes New Aiyansh,
New Hazelton, Stewart and
Terrace.

Bach detachment com-
mander will report directly
to divisional headquarters in
Vancouver on administra-
tive issues like budget,
procuring equipment, and
formulating programs or
procedures, instead of hav-
ing to seek approval through

the sub-division chain of

command,
Howie noted the old struc-

Jim Howie
ture didn’t prevent detach-
ments from changing the
way they did things, but
they had to go through the
chain of command which
proved time consuming.

MIKE SCOTT

Member of Parliament

Skeena

For Assistance

1-800-661-2208
or 635-1601

modified program.

for special students.

Caroline Daniels

250/638-6395
250/638-6397

Tel:
Fax:

Coordinator, Cultural Events

Email: edaniels@emsd.bc.ca

The First Nations Education Centre presents

Parent Interaction Workshop

Saturday
June 12, 1997
8:30 am. - 4:30 p.m.
Registration Fee: $10.00 covers tea, bannock, and materials

This workshop will provide:

* What the First Nations Education Centre can offer your child.
* What resources are available for students and their families,
* What the difference is between an adapted anda

* What implications a CIRCLE, MAP and PATH have

« What you can do to help your child succeed.
* How to communicate with your child's school.
«The Path to Graduation.

For more information, contact:
Barbara Toye-Welsh

District Principal, First Nations Education
250/638-6394

Fax: 250/638-6397

Email; btoyewelsh@cmsil.be.ca

‘Tel:

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“Pil be able to offer ad-
vice from my own experi-

“ence and thal gained from

other
said

information from
sources in the force,
Howie of his new job.

‘‘Aud I'll be acting as an
advocate for detachments in
whatever dealings they have
with division,”’ he said.

It will round out a career
for Howie, which has
spanned 29 years and taken
him from Fort St. John
where he was first a con-
Stable on the street, to 13
years service in the North-
wesl Territories and detach-
ment command in Kitimat.

Howie said he will start
work in his new job some-
time in May. His replace-
ment as detachment com-
mander has already been
named and will likely take
up his new post sometime in
July.

Karen Jamieson Dance Company
presents

STONESOUP

Supported by the Kitsumkalum Dancers
and the Many Nations Dancers.

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