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Scenes. from Thursday's

community centre -blaze. No
injuries luckily were reported
but damage K to Terrace’s only

indoor recreational facility was
set beyond repair at $170,000

Only two Thursday's ago-

Terrace fire fighters battled a

similar blaze when the Terrace

Hotel. burned to the ground.-
fires -

Clean up on . both
continues.

| Terrace Post

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New growth of the Terrace
community has caused ‘major
‘revision and some expansion of
present mail delivery routes.

Terrace Post Office
spokesmen say that the humber
of full time letter carriers will
be moving up from eight to ten

added to the present. fleet,’
Delivery routes are presently
being expanded to reach
approximately 140 new houses
in the Kirialdy Subdivision

and that two new. jeeps -will be’

Teenager —

nabbed

A 19 year old Washington
Stale girl was fined $35 in

Terrace Provincial Court labt

week.

Ronna_ Seiber af unknown : .

address received the fine after
being apprehended .. for
shoplifting $5 worth of
merchandise from a local food
market, .

Police say the theft occurred
around 3. pm on Wednesday,
August 18,

os growing

Since the first days of 1971 Post -

office expansion has ‘taken-in
about 209 new: calls,

Other than a few remaining
postal boxes, the door to door

delivery service in. Terrace -

proper has ‘reached the 100 per
cent mark,
The Terrace mail service ‘is

one of. the very few mobile’
assisted ‘operations in the -

country. Each mailman has a

vehcile to his or her name_and .

parcels, which normally’ are
delivered separately, also come
under the jurisdiction -of
Terrace letter carriers.

As result of the revision and .
expansion moves some Terrace .
‘residents will be recelving mail

at poinls-earliér or later, than
present times. °
“We cannot: avoid changing

delivery’ times if we are to. give :

the best. service, possibie;! a
postal supervisor said, 7
Growth ‘of the. community

became evident when: some .
letter carriers were registering |

minute: of overtime. -Each

carrier is restricted to- work -

' public at the Sunday Evening 's
“movie in which he co-starred

CINEF DAN GEORGE. was, ‘hr Terrace’ over the weekend io
participate in the frat annual alr show here, anil to speak te ‘the -
owlng of Lite ‘Big Ma .

the |
spokesmen said. Over 1000 new
calis have been added within.
. the past 3 years.

Office ;

fast

“under ‘a, maximum. time
element of 480 minutes per day.

As new houses filled‘the gap
between already - existing
houses the workload of some
carriers increased. In order to”
avoid. the overtime, post office ©
officials were forced to. expand...
the staff...

“This requires a lot of study. -
and ‘mathematical

-formulation,” a supervisor -

said, 7
The mail just does not come in-
one door and out, another, he
said, Mail service means
something more than

_alphbetical order.

Present staff at the Terrace
office includes 4 supervisors, 9
clerks, 8 full time letter
-carriers, and 1 part time.

“It is impossible to count the
tumber of hands involved in the
process of getting mail. to your
door,”: they said. It is‘hard to
sry where it begins or where it
‘ends... It. is like a _eyele, ;

Weather
the weekend: and presented
participants and enthusiasts.

or not? .

“Cloud ceilings varied between five and six thousand feet over

no restrictions for air show

The weather man today is petdictinga a continuation of cloudy
and ghowery skies however the smdiit
Alecrease aver. the next few. days. ;

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George. ar a

"there, ” the weatherman said. -

“We may even be able to tell whether or not we shave a sun up

"Temperatures: for the coming days should stay between these.
65 mark during thedays and 48-53 overnights,

Taking 2 look at last week’s weather conditions we find that"
highs and lows weré record Thursday at 61 and 56, Friday 59 and
53, and Saturday 60 and 52. ‘The highest measurement a rainfall

"was recorded on. Thursday at .76 inches,

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‘two young = travellors

Guilty

"In Terrace Provincial ' Court .
last week Edward Mernickle,

40, of no fixed address received .
‘a ‘jail term, :

Mernickle was found guilty i in
two counts. An court he was
sentenced - 6. - months”
imprisonment for one count and
3. months concurrent for the :
other,

RCMP had. "charged
Mernickle with theft over $50 |
after he had stolen a vehicle
from Prince Rupert and ‘also
some goods from within the .
vehicle.

The offense occurred. on,
August the 8. Mernickle will
serve his jail term in, n. Prince

Slams_
“rock |

: Jaswant. S$. Gill of! Terrace.

uttered minor cuts and burises’ .

last week when the vehicle in’

‘which he was driving slammed .

into a rock embankment.
RCMP estimate damage to

‘the vehicle at $800.and report

that the accident occured when
Gill was negotiating a turn on a
stretch of Highway 16, about 40
miles west of Terrace; .
While in the turn Gill
apparently lost control and sent

his car into the rock, RCMP say -
‘driving without due tare and

attention. charges. are | still

; pending.

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«Major fire. disasters usually, eome in three’s but todate the
Terrace community has only registered two.

- The only indoor recréational centre of Terrace burned to the
ground Thursday and left local residents out in the pouring rain.

No injuries were reported by
Terrace Fire Department
officials. and no cause of the |
second major fire tohitour area |
has yet been determined.

Inspectors are still kicking
through the remains of the

Two share
damages

One of the few accidents being
covered by Terrace RCMP fast
week involved two local drivers’ :
and occurred on Benner Street
in Terrace.

Police say damage totalled
$200 when drivers Michel
Johnston and. Irene McSorley
met in the minor mishap.

The Johnston vehicle was

pulling out to pass when the-

MecSorley vehicle made‘ a left
hand turn and blocked the pass.

Johnston's 1970 Volkswagon
received -separate damage
figures of $125 while McSoriey’s
1969 Mazda received $75 worth.
of damages,

As a result of the accident
McSorley received a_ traffic
violation for failing to signal a
turn. |

Terrace RCMP added that the
accident scene remained
relatively quiet throughout the
week and motorists should be
congradulated.

Keep on
reading

FROM, CHILE WITH: LOVE: -

‘several miles. of jaunting ‘lead

to

Terrace......p.7.

CAMPING: . THE PIONEER -

‘WAY! the dirty. campers invade
PB.

HOROSCOPE: hy: ‘Constance

_ Sharp... 7

OUR OPINION: - editorial
~ comment on last - week's

community centre fire........p.4.
PRECIOUS TIDBITS: the
Beeseinvadeour

neighbourhood........p.4. .

building which for years housed.

sports tournaments, annual

club conventions, ‘rock and roll

and western style dances,

theatre plays, art exhibitions -
‘and numberous activities too <'

‘ many-for accurate ‘counts.
’ As the Terrace Community
Centre disintegrated in flames
the main portion of many
Terrace children’s Playground
Program also wentup in smoke.
On the day of the unexpected
fire, Playground organizers had
planned to stage a sock-hop
dance. Over. fifty youngsters
‘from playground designated: -
areas at Parkside, Uplands and
Kiti-K-Shan Schools were
* Jooking forward to meet at ‘the
dance that day.

Around midnight Wednesday -

a janitor employeed by CFTK
radio-television in Terrace
noticed flames, As he hurried to
alert radio nightime workers at

the station, the flames began to

spread.

The full Terrace fire brigade -
entailing over 30 fire fighters
were immediately summoned.

Despite their, swift ‘combat |

action the flames continued to
spread until the community

centre became totaly engulfed
by the blaze,

_ Damage to the. building. and”
its contents is presently being

determined. but. centre
spokesmen ‘say " the. $185,000
insurance policy on the building
will cover the damage costs.

At an emergency meeting of
Terrace District Council the
following day it was agreed that
the monies collected from the
insurance claim be used to
construct a brand new co-
mmunity centre. The location
would be changed to Upper
Little Park site and run
alongside the site cf Terrace’s .
propesed arena. :

A committee to look into the
matter was ‘formed .and -
members named to compose —
the committee were Alderman
E. .Cooper, Alderman L.
Johnston and Alderman G.
Rowland. ..

Playground programs ‘will
continue through to the end of
this week. Children involved in
the program will then be
heading back to school.

The community centre fire is
a repeated story in Terrace
history. The original centre
located at Riverside Park burnt
to the ground in. 1950. Today's
tennis court at the park is the
centre’s former foundation.

Stoney is
coming back

Terrace is closer than

Vancouver. for any musicians

inlerested in publishing or

- recording their work:
Productions, :

Stoney:
established ‘in-Terrace this
“year, is returning ‘from Prince”
Rupert in September and will be

serving this area for two |

months.

Word came. “from ° company.
-originator. Pete Crowder who
over ‘the past six months has
recorded artists at ‘studios. set
up in the ‘Prince Rupert’ Hotel.

He says the Terrace studios‘.

-will be installed at CFTK Radio «
_ Statiog and provide facilities -

comparable to any -in

affiliated. with BMI publishing:
house in Vancouver, is already”
serving: copyrights to Tetrace
song-writers.. -

_ The Terrace duo Lennan and

tein “publications, - ;

Larkin who recently won semi-
final competition in the
province’s Search for Talent
series have ; ‘recorded with
Stoney.

Mr. Crowder says ‘there is.

. high potential in this area and
* that “loéal: recording’: acalitnes* ao

are needed,

The -company runs. into

‘difficulty. when it ‘comes to.

supplying local’ artists ° with

“back-up musicians ‘and . other

studio affects used in putting
finishing , touches’ .on: records.

-A-more. complete <‘studio is
planned for Vancouver but

* business offices will remain in

Terrace and a further. studio

‘dikely set-up’ in "Prince George,

he said. -. ;
Stoney. productions. is.
affiliated with Land Records of
Vancouver and-. due to:
enthusiastic local - ‘response is

_ expected’ to be a suecessful

business.

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