NASS VALLEY | LAVA BEDS. - BECOME PARK © B,C.’s newest provincial park — was officially opened | last. week . north. of Terrace. In a ceremony just across the Nass River from the Nisga’a village of Gitwink- sihlkw (Canyon City). Minister of Environment John Cashore and Nisga’a Tribal Council president Alvin McKay pulled the covering from a sign. inscribed in English and Nisga’a that welcomes visi- tors to Anhluut’ukwsim Laxmihl Angwinga’asanskwhl Nisga’a, the Nisga’a Lava Bed Memorial Park. It is the first park in B.C. to © be under co-management of B.C. Parks. and a native group. The park will, be operated by direction of an eight-member board, four each from government and the tribal council. It is also the first park established under the pro- vincial government’s protected areas strategy, .the program struck as the result of work done by Parks and. Wilderness 90. and the Old Growth Committee. Other areas that fall under the program in the Northwest are the Khutzy- mateen River valley and the Seven Sisters area near (Cedar- vale. The striking moonscape of the lava flow is going to become the focal point for visitors to the Nass _ Valley, said Nisga’a hereditary chief and tribal council member Harry Nyce. Plans for the park include an interpretive centre and, eventually, a living culture exhibit similar to Ksan in Hazel- ton in which visitors can watch and talk to people dressed in traditional garb performing tradi- tional tasks in a setting represen- tative of Nisga’a life prior to the arrival of the first Europeans. Nyce says the park will pro-. vide a chance for people from -outside the valley to gain an un- derstanding of the Nisga’a culture and their perspective on the land moulds “streams. The park includes part of Tree Farm Licence 1, and the . Nisga’a say they have an agree- ment with Skeena Cellulose re- and their own history. They are expecting to develop a tourism . a infrastructure. around the park, oo, ‘offering’ RV parks, motels, camp. "sites, . tours, fishing, boating and guided - river rafting. sightseeing: and hiking The park is 18, 000 hectares, encompassing the lava flow and the cinder cone- -and: craters from the eruption. Its features include rough and smooth lava areas, pressure ridges, lava caves, tree and. ‘subterranean garding the visual’ impact of con- tinuing logging on the park area. The eruption occurred in the 1700's prior. to: the first contact — between the Nisga’a and Euro- peans. It diverted the course of the Nass River and destroyed two Nisga’a villages, killing several hundred people. The Nisga’a con- sider the entire area to be sacred ground. — JOINT VENTURE RECOMMENDED - FOR WESTAR — A report released last week on the: failing health of the forest ~ .industry in the Hazelton-Kit- wanga area reflects the increasing importance placed on the partici- .pation and cooperation of native people in decision on the alloca-'” tion of forest resources in the © Northwest. The report was prepared by consultant Garth Langforth and Nu Chal Nuuth tribal council _ president George Watts and was. . commissioned by the Minister of Forests. It concludes that if the . Hazelton-Kitwanga operations of | Westar Timber are to have any — chance to remain viable, the Kit-. wanga sawmill will have to be: — permanently closed. The .commissioners recom- mend that to preserve some of the 1:30 a 7 4830 Siraume Avenue | Saturday: 9:30 a.m. | Divine Service: . | Saturday: 11:00 a.m." | 3306 Griffiths 635-3232 _ 3302 Sparks Street. 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Bolstad 3229 Sparks Street 635- 5520 ° | Terrace Seventh-Day Adventist Church Sabbath School: Pastor: Ole Unruh . 635-7919 * | ~ Prayer Mating: a: “Wed. 7:00/p.m * . - Evang jelical Free Church’ Sunday School: Pastor: «© ~ - (for all a ges) 9:45am. W.E. Glasspell unday § ervices: .. © Prayer Meeting: 11:00 a.m. & 6:30 p.m. . ~ Wed, 7:00 p.m. - 635-5115 Sunday Service: 10:00 a.m. & 3p. Mm. . Pastor: Mike Rosenatt EL 3222 Munroe Street 638-8384 ‘Knox United Church Sunday Worship: -- Elizabeth . 10:30a.m. ~ Starkey = youth bru Terrace Pentecostal Assembly. : Sunday School: 9:30 am. ° Pastor: ‘ Morning Service: 10: 30 am, John canlin: Evening Service: 6:30 p.m. . a Associate Pastor: * ' Cliff Siebert : 3511 Eby Street. - + 635: 243405 The Alliance Church. . Morning Service: 9:15 &11:00 a. m Family Bible School: 6:00 p.m. = Weekly: Bible studies & Children Mouth * Activities. ~- Pastors: Jaka Thiessen & Doug Ginn 4928 Agar Ave. 635-7725 or 6 S727 » Christian Reformed Church - ” gunday Services:10:30 a.m. & 6:30 p.m.“ ... Ladies Blble Study : Coffee Break = Wed: 9:45 a.m.- 11 a.m., Thurs. 8 - “99. m.. Mens Bible Study : Coffee Break - Wednesdays 6:39 a.m. at MacDonalds - $602 Sparks © 635-4954 j Terrace Review -—- May 8, 1992