- = - bus service
future th

“pullback service track were just someof —

am Tae February 28, 1984

! Victoria, B.C,
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| “Serving the
- Progressive
Northwest -

by RALPH RESCHKE
Herald Staff Writer

. TERRACE— Terrace’s bus service, the’.

Mohawk proposal, Kemano il and the CN

-the. items discussed-at Monday evening's

council meeting.
Because of the low number of riders in”

_ the Thornhill area, the bus service there
may be discontinued, aa

Should this oceur, thén Terrace may have .
to stop running its bus service as well.

~ According to Alderman Gellately, : he

’ ‘Terrace transit system canremain 4 ‘viable
.- operator only if the Thorabill: route stays -

Art Thora withdraiwa its: bus service,” *
“thén' ‘Terrace should review. its ‘position’
-Yegarding ‘this matter-as well,” hegaid..

“Thornhill ‘got an exceptionally: goed ‘deal

«ofits system and Terrace's is Hed in with —
. the! ‘Thornhill ran remaining in operation," -

. The matter came: ‘up in response to a
letter received by the. district from B.C.
Transit, dealing with the service review of

. the ‘Terrace transit system.

' Aahimber of recommendations veering:

busaing -were in. the: review and council: '

: ‘forwarded the information to the: ‘finance
-.. Committee for further ‘study.

‘! ‘The application by the Mohawk Ol Co.
' Ltd. to have the property at the comer af.

' Lakelse and: By rezoned Was also
. _Siscussed.

It was decided that council would follow

> the’ engineering committees . recom-

"~ medidation that the matter be put to public

: hearing for public input...

Although definite date and location for

the meeting has not been set,~ Ad.

‘ministrator Bob Halleor. estimated: that a.
; meeting wili-be held sometime towards the

® of March... Stes oa ee _
™Mfohawic pkopased tv bua gai' ata

convenience store on ‘that. property but

 gurrent zoning bylaws for that property do -
_ hot. ‘permit - “the ‘construction, af service

stations, . on

After receiving a show: of: support: from

~~ area residents at the Feb. 24 public meeting

on the Kemano comptotion project, Terrace

- Soancil will draft a letter-to Alcan ex-

pressing their interest and support for the

_ Certificates of merit were awarded at Monday evenings
council meeting. Making the presentation Is’ Terrace
. Mayor Helmut Glesbrecht to Greg Lutz (middle) of Ar- .
wid John Clift, a member of the. 4600 -
. Block Merchants ‘Association. Lutz was recognized for his

chitecture North a

Legislative Library
« Parliment Buildings

In another matter, counell agreed with

* Counell -reférred the’ matter lo the,
__Fecreatlon committee.

colin a ic iin cn Ed

Naa

A semen alle ~—

reatened

possible construction of a: smelter in the -
area. .

-‘the recommendation made: by ‘the.

“engineering | ‘committee that . further |.

discussions with CN officials should take.

“Established 1908

- place to achieve, commitments. that the f=

-Kenney Street crossing would not ‘be un-
necessarily . blocked due to shunting or
mainline ‘operations during the busy hours
Of. the day.’ ;
CN has indicated that with: the con-
_ struction of the second tracks, the crossing »
‘should be closed for.a reduced amount of

time; because it. would allow ‘twice the. . r

“movement’ presently’: ‘available.

“The Terrace : ‘Elks made‘a: ‘pequest to
“council that the Elks Agar Avenue Park he |
“ rénamed Elks Park. The reason given for -

* ‘this: is that the Elks have been receiving -
. little publicity ‘for their efforts in
developing the. park. :

The Northwest Community College was Fis

‘suceessful in ‘their bid to have the week
“beginning March. 25 declared BS: “Nor-
thwest College Week's. = ;

. Council approved the ‘request that will

see'an open house occurcing:at the college”.
‘ on Thursday, March 29, the first one in four

' years.

The purpose ‘of the open, house: will be to

familtarize the public with the educational .
> and. training - ‘services the. college has to

offer,
Council also gave approval for clerk:
administrator, Bob Hallsor to attend a -
--municipal “management development
seminar at the Banff Centre. School of
Management from Mayéto1.
_ Coat for’ ‘the course, after Schalarshipe
(pending approval) will he $1,048, re

the 4600 block revitalization program.
John Clift, a member of the 4600. Block

“Merchants. Association, and Greg: Lutz, of

Architecture: North, both received’ the
certificates; Clift for coordinating: and
organizing the revitalization program, and
Lutz for his designs of the buildings.

‘All council members: ‘attended the

meeting.

program.

"program. .

work on the desig
in the administration of the downtown revitalization
Clift was commended for his efforts In coor-
dinating and organizing: the 4600 Block revitalization

“4

“TERRACE— At
proximately 12:15 p.m., 22
members of the Prince -

Rupert Pulp Paper cand

Woodworkers Union (Local.
4). arrived dn Terrace to'set._
Up flying pickets- at. ‘the i

unemployed IWA workers,

independant loggers and.
other concerned: citizens...

who want to see the sawmill.
stay open.

A representative for the
Terrace group, . Lloyd
Kleinwachter, said that

dings and

ap .

they were only there to

-“'prevent the Prince Rupert.

Pickets from stopping in-

coming sawmill workers.
‘The pickets were pushed .
up-to one side of the’ main’

“ spokesiiati for the: PPWC.

members Said that this type
of reaction just serves to |
‘complicate . matters and
- only lengthens the time. it
-takes to get negotiations
seltled.

Jim: Cross, manager at

e role he played

‘Street,

Pohle Lumber says that the

sawmill is run by IWA

members and he- can’t
understand why the PPWC:
would! . intetfere with

.. Operations at-mill where.a*
‘eontract-has been ratified. -
“Hf the: mill is: closed. bys

the’ picketers, out -e

ese phoyees Will ‘be ‘atit7on tie”
“with, nothing,” ne, .

wages, 10 unemployment,”*

he said this morning, | Hand.

‘when [ see. 120 ‘concernéd

citizens at the gate to our

mill, keeping operations
flowing, I cannot help but be -
pleased."

Although ‘things . were
fairly quiet at the. Terrace
mills Monday residents of
other. logging-dependent
communities in: the nor-
thern interior shoved and
spat on‘locked out pulp and
paper union members who
set up picket lines Monday
in an attempt to shut down
sawmills owned by BC's.
‘forest companies, ac-:

; cording to Canadian Press.

‘AS RCMP squads looked
on, anti-picket- demon-
slrators in the recession-hit .
towns of Fort St. James, °
Mackenzie, Prince George
and Terrace screamed at
pulp and paper union,
pickets as they tried to
prevent members of the
International Woodworkers

of America from entering .

the mills,

A. group of angry
residents outside the Takla
sawmili in Fort St, James,
where union — solidarity
faced its biggest test, closed
in around Paul Bowie, a
locked-out member of the
Pulp, Paper and Wood-
workers of Canada,
chanting ''Go home! - Go

home!” .-

“Monday. was fairly quiet but today there, was some ‘pushing and shoving.

_ At other mills, non-union
independent truck loggers
roared through union lines
at Prince George, Terrace
“ and: Mackenzie; «In. moat
cages, - IWA ‘members
employed. at the sawmills —
who ratified:.a ‘three-year
‘ediittact: last fall’ did. hob.

The bitter _interunton
conflict ;'* ‘prompted’.”
_response ‘Monday: from the -

. B.C.’ Federation ‘of ‘Labor, * ;

which’ urged’ all unions to’
support the pulp union
picket lines,

“Any violation will only
undermine the hard-won
gains: unions -haye made
over the years,” said
federation president Art
Kube in a statement.

UNIONS ‘LOCKED our

The- Canadian’ Paper-
workers Union, along with
the pulp and paperworkers
‘ union, representing a total
of about 13,000. members,
were locked out at 20 mills
Feb. 2 in a company effort
to, break the log-jammed
negotiations,

Industry negotiator Dick’
Lester sald at. the con-
clusion of Monday’s talks he
was more hopefil of. a
settlement. Paperworkers?
president Art Gruntman
sald it would be wrong to
say there has been no
progress. -

Length of = contract

remains the- most con-. .

tentious issue, with the
industry insisting om a
three-year agreement,
which they say. would
provide stability in the
industry. The unions say

three-year deal.
Meantime, the B.C. Labor

Bikini- -clad | sun- -worshippers frosted by

was hit by what may be.the |
‘. worst storm in four years.’
The storm, hit Central

- Plows and sanders rolled Canada,

from Arkansas

week.

onto snow-clogged high.

ways and city streets across -

southwestern Ontario late
Monday when the region

’ after paralyding Missouri,
brought an abrupt end to -

spring-like conditions that
sent crocuses poking out of
Ottawa gardens and a few
bikini-clad sun-worshippers

to ‘Toronte beaches last

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But while the winds were.

strong and, the snow was.
falling Monday night: in | fic
most of southern Ontario, -
the worst of tlie storm was °
expected to hit in. the next 24 ©

hours.
The federal Environnient

Department expects the
_ storma to. ‘bring: up {o 30
| centimetres of snow to .
southwestern | -Ontario by.

Wednesday |- morning,
whipped by: gusting winds
up to 80 kilometres an hour.
Eastern Ontario and
southern Québec © could
recelve even.more snow.
“It will probably be the
worst winter storm we've
seen lin southwestern
Ontario) in about four

‘yeara,” meteorologist John

- Hoekstra said Monday night
atthe London weather of-

ce.

‘PREDICTS LENGTH |
“It’s a storm that’s going

to be with us for a couple of

‘days, into Wednesday. And
“the main thing will be the
wind, regardless of the
‘amount of snow?! os

The rest of: the country

was experiencing. typical
February weather, : said

Environnient Department ..
_ meteorologist Ron Huibers,

In the U.S. Midwest, the

storm blocked highways.
with two-metre drifts: and
_ disabled. cars and trucks

Monday, giving | many
schoolchildren and — office
workers a holiday, as snow

‘National Guard

spread from Texas to the
Northeast.

Missouri - officials
declared a state of
emergency and mobilized
troops.
Police reported hundreds of

_ traffic accidents as com-

muters and travelers tried

to reach safety.

In Ontario, | the. Windsor
area. waa one of the first to
feel the storm, by mid-
afternton Monday.

Some stretches of roads
looked Ilke- a demolition
derby as: poor visibility
coupled with icy conditions
sent rushtiour vehicles
smashing into cach other.

The accidents sent about
25 people to hospital with
minor injuries and had

police scrambling. .

Windsor's public works .
crews, bolstered: by extra
men and equipment,
worked all night to clear the
snow, lashed inlo calf-deep
drifis by 65-kilometre-an-
hour winds.

At a Highway 401 trick
stop near Windsor, about 75
trucks from as far away as

_the southern U.S. packed

the parking lot as thelr
drivers cursed the

‘elements. .

RISKS LIVES

“Whal can you: do?"
shouted Don
Thamesville, Ont., from the
cab of his truck. “Some of
those guys are hauling
produce and figure they

‘have to get it through

DeBore of

tonight. 1 figure there isn't
anything so important you'd
risk your life for it.” .
Areas of zero visibility
were reported on stretches
all along Highway 401 from
Windsor to Toronto and on
- Highway 402 from London to
Sarnia late Monday as the

Residents resist local pulp. picket lines

Relations Board Monday
upheld the. right of pape:
workers union members |
picket several Crown Forest

‘Industries Ltd: sawmills. As

well, the board dismissed an
application by: BC. Forest

* Products Ltd, to-stop’ pulp ;

bd; paberworker, picketing:

‘follow the trucks into work: at iaveral Of ity Dilla

The lockout. has taken $5
_jaillion a day i in wages from
“the. province's biggest in-
dustry ‘dnd: millions: more’
have. been lost in preduc-
tion, ripple effects and.
: secondary picketing.

Jim Sloan, pulp and paper
union president,’ said the
worst confrontations so far
have been in Fort St.
“James. And he said the
union had to cool off its own
members who wanted to
fight back,

We want picketers there,
not street brawlers,” ‘said
Sloan.’ “I think that town is
being worked up by -the
mayor‘and a group of truck
loggers, not by the IWA.”

Many * woodworkers
croased the pulp lines as the
nu shift started Monday at

7 Canadian “ Forest
Products’ Takla mill.
Company spokesman Jim

- Togyé said about 80 per cent

f the work force reported,

. Mickey Finnegan, pulp

and paper union local
secretary, said even the
police were frightened in

Fort St, James.

“It was pretty rough up
there,” said Finnegan.
“Our ‘people were pushed
around, spat upon, yelled
and screeched at. [t was like
being. a Negro in Selma,

- Alabama. It bottiers me to
they refuse to even look ata *.

see a mob in control at a
town in B.C. Even the police

were frightened.” "

storm

‘storm = growled into the
region,

In the London area, about
& snowplows and sanding
trucks were sent on high-
‘ways Monday night, sald an
official for the Ontarie
Ministry of Transportation
and Communications,

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