he Terrace Public Library _ ’ expansion "looks good"... ‘This is what we were told by library board chairman Willy Schneider a year ago this week. Schneider said the board had met with city council a few weeks earlier; although there was. still a lot of work to be done, the feeling during that meeting was generally . positive. City council seemed to reflect Schneider’s optimism a year ago this week. At their Nov. 14 meeting they agreed to discuss the library expansion project later in the month along with the economic and planning strategies of the city’s Five-Year Comprehensive Development Plan. And they went one step further, asking city trea- surer Keith Norman to determine -the percentage of rural library users so they could calculate the city’s and regional district’s pro- portions of the expansion cost. With this kind of encouragement, Schneider said, it was time to make some definite plans. He said there was a good chance for a referendum in November, 1990, and predicted the expansion project would begin in early 1991 and be completed sometime in 1992. To get things rolling, the library board made application to GO B.C. for one third of the cost and talked to one local industry who had shown an interest in making a corporate donation of some kind. new parks plan was in A the works a year ago this week. The idea came from alderman Danny Sheridan, who said he liked the way the Vancouver Parks Board had decided to encourage service Clubs to develop "neighbourhood parks". The same idea would work here, said Sheridan, and offered a vision of several small parks in the city with playgrounds, picnic areas and flower gardens, developed by service clubs and perhaps main- tained by neighbouring residents. In a sepatate project to make our city a little more attractive to everyone, council ratified a deal with Bomite Mountain Taxidermy fo mount a black bear which would be displayed in city hall. The Muks-kum-o! Housing Society was breaking new ground. A housing project on a 3.25 acre site between Pear and Sparks and halfway between Haugland and Weber was underway. When com- _ plete, 13 duplexes vajued at around $2.6 million would be added to the society’s local urban native hous- ing inventory. Icy roads and colliding vehicles kept the RCMP busy a year ago. this week. RCMP reported 10 motor vehicle accidents. One of these occurred on the old Skeena bridge when one driver decided to stop. Three vehicles behind him, though, were unable to stop on the icy bridge and the resulting four- car pile-up sent four people to _ hospital with minor injuries. On the weekend, ice wasn’t a problem at Williams . Creek. Instead’ tofrential rains put the. section of highway there under A A year ago ‘this week — three inches of water. Further south it got worse..A 15-foot wide, 250-foot long section of road shoulder near the Kitimat River bridge was undermined by the swollen river. According to North Coast Road Maintenance, a "fairly major" repair job was about to get underway. | West of town, a section of Hwy. 16 was closed for a few hours due to flooding and CNR had to repair about 300 feet of railbed.. The weather may have caused a few drivers to stay home, but it wasn’t a deterrent to a would-be thief who only succeed in commit- ting a little vandalism. Police said the vandal apparently used a winch in an effort to tear the night de- pository box out of the Terrace and District Credit Union building but only destroyed the exterior frame- work of the box. ets were in the news. Pp Puppies are cute but dogs are sometimes just plain mean. A young girl was attacked by a dog tied outside Skeena mail a year ago this week. It was an unfortunate incident, said animal control officer Frank Bowsher, but at the same time it was a warning to ali dog owners who like to take their pets for a walk. They are required to have their dogs under control at all times, and those who don’t might have to pay the price for any damage or injuries their pets cause, Other animals in the news were four orphaned bear cubs reported a year ago this week. Two of them were "rescued" and flown to a ‘game farm down south. In the business world, Petro- Canada announced the construction of a new $.5 million bulk plant to be built on Keith Ave. They had outgrown their Hwy. 16 West facility. There was peace at the Terrace Co-op. During the previous week the B.C. Northwest District Coun- cil of Carpenters and Joiners began | passing out leaflets protesting the hiring of a non-union firm for a major renovation project. It led to a minor confrontation with Co-op management. According to the union, Kermo- ‘dei Construction’s affiliation with the B.C, Workers’ Union wasn’t recognized as a true union affili- ation and the protest would con- ‘tinue, but would be kept low key. A rumour that there was to be an all-out boycott of the Co-op was premature. Co-op manager Lawrence Gos- selin didn’t express any Teal con- cern over the union’s activities. He said the renovation project was moving ahead on schedule and credited the project for increased sales. He also announced another part of the’ renovation plan, The Co-op building centre would be open for business at a new location on Molitor near Keith by mid- December, and once that move was complete the garden centre could move into the old building centre premises near the Co-op store. Hard raina fell a year ago this week, sending Williams Creek over its banks and submerging Highway 37. Nearer Kitimat sections of the road collapsed entirely. In education, Northwest Com- munity College said their financial aid program was working well. In the 1988/89 school year 43 stu- dents took advantage of the tuition reduction program based on their Grade 12 academic performance. As well, 66 Adult Basic Education students received financial aid, 20 took advantage of the work study program to earn a little extra cash, and 57 of 84 applicants were assisted through the college bursary/endowment fund to the tune of $18,246. The northern university was looking for a name and announced a $500 cash prize for the best entry. Ideas from our area were encouraged; a Northwest winner might add a western flavour to the northern university concept. Behind the scenes, the Implemen- tation Planning Group was hatd at. : work and their recommendations and ideas for establishing a univer- sity in the north were to be tabled in Victoria in about three weeks. Not to be left out, the three north- em colleges were forming a unified front and coming up with a ‘few recommendations of their own. C aledonia girls topped the sports news a year ago this week. They won the senior high school girl Northwest zone double ’AA’ volicyball cham- pionship in Kitimat for the fourth year in a row. For their win, the girls would compete in the B.C. finals starting Nov. 30. Things didn’t work out so well for Caledonia boys, however. They placed second in the provincial volleyball finals the year before but a year ago this week were defeated by Kitimat in the zone finals, John Rasmussen led the stories on the adult side of sports. Ras- mussen, a veteran Terrace five-pin bowler, topped the 84-player field in Surrey to earn a placé in the Labait’s Lite five-pin bowling — championship. 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