lahive Loitueacy , Pana vod Leds i(MVachoria Rat. , YEN 1a rye Phone 35.7800. Fax Serving the communities of Terrace, Thornhill, Usk, Cedarvale, Kitwanga, Meziadin, Stewart and the Nass Valley 75 cents plus GST "| SWEAR..." Judge Kate Schellenberg swore in 15 new Canadian citizens from nine countries in a ceremony held at Clarence Michiel Elementary School March 22. It was the first time in more than two years Citizenship Court has been held in Terrace, The event was witnessed by more than 100 local school children, who sang, danced, gave readings and presented gifts to the new Canadians after the ceremony. Hendry tops national coaches’ poll the 1990-91 basketball season with the Simon Fraser University Clan women’s team, Terrace’s Michelle Hendry got more good news on the weekend. She has been named the top female player in the entire National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics, the governing body for college and university athletics. She defeated nine others in balloting by the U.S. Women’s Coaches Association. She leaves for New Orleans this weekend to receive the award and be recognized at the NCAA women’s final four tournament. Transportation for recycled paper offered THE MAIN OBSTACLE TO A VIABLE PAPER RECYCLING PROGRAM IN THE TERRACE AREA MAY VANISH AT THE BEGINNING OF SEPTEMBER. Stuart Belkin, the president of Newstech Recycling Ltd. in Vancouver, told the Terrace Review Monday that his company intends to set up a province-wide purchasing and transportation system to feed Newstech’s newsprint de-inking plant, currently under construction in New Westminster. "We will guarantee a floor price and amange the shipping,” Belkin said. The Newstech plant, supported in part by the B.C. goverment, is intended to fill the demand for recycled fibre that recent legislation in American states requires. Similar laws, which require all paper used for printing and packaging have a percentage of recycled fibre, are also being contemplated in some Canadian provinces. ; . Belkin estimated that Newstech will be paying $50 for loose paper, which would be picked up by tractor-trailer truck and hauled to Vancouver. The community’s responsibility, he said, would be to collect the paper and provide proper storage to prevent deterioration by exposure to water and sunlight until it is picked up. When told the population of the Greater Terrace area, Belkin suggested that its size might justify purchase of a bailer to bind up the loose paper. According to Viggo Holme, head of the industrial development branch of the Ministry of Forests, Newstech will be accepting nearly any kind of printing paper, including glossy coated magazine, calendar and flyer paper. The clay coating on the glossy papers, he explained, helps precipitate the ink in the de-inking process. The ink sludge, Holme said, will be treated an sold as a soil condi- tioner through a process developed over a three-year period by a company that operates a de-inking plant in Ontario. The plant will require enough waste paper to produce 400-450 tons of recycled fibre per day, Holme said. All of it is being sold by contract to MacMillan Bloedel and Fletcher Challenge to produce paper for sale to the California market, where law requires a 35 percent recycled fibre content in new paper. "My commitment to the province is to take it all," Belkin said in reference to waste paper. “If the community sets a collection and storage system up, well take it." The price Newstech will pay, he explained, is FOB at the pick-up _ oint in the community, _~Belkin said Newstech will start buying at the beginning of July, and : 2 transportation system should be in operation by Sept. 3. The plant i: scheduled to start up Nov. 12. The Belkin family at one time operated a large fibreboard plant in Vancouver and has extensive experience with wood fibre products. Terrace city council recently started setting up the terms of reference for a Recycling Advisory Commission. Alderman Rick King said Monday he expects it will be five or sixth months before the commis- sion can have a detailed planning recommendation in place. In the pending city budget, he said, there is nothing to address recycling, "not even blue boxes". King also noted, "It’s one thing to get blue boxes, it’s another thing to get people to use thern." While the city is attempting to get a system set up, King said, council intends to concentrate on educating people to generate less garbage.