ee aa As Council. members voted ' Monday-to donate five ‘acres of their property on Graham Street to the Terrace Women's Resource Centre for their proposed transplant tree nursery. .. Mayor Dave Maroney’ said the land would be leased to them ‘meeting and thank for wv women 'S. centre for five yéars ata $1'ayear, He suggested that when the nursery starts to turn a profit perhaps it could supply the: district with some shrubs, Frances ' Bifdsell of the Women's Centre was at council's them for the land. , ; By | BRIAN © aa - Kitwanga.. dropping "to Prince Rupert. maget; It doesin _ development. groups raise such a big & -nowhere. "building ‘activity. going’ te way. ‘Wthink It is. time that “CORNER $ ‘GREGG — One ‘s, shocked when: one realizes: ‘that 2 Dib Counel nas dove nothing. 16 sépeanting that the former NDP | Was golly to Pity hmok in this area with north: west development andthe quality of life would be rulned. Today with Ronald Reagan as president of the U.S. cutting back on employ ‘ment the chances of housing starts in the U.S. are better Since communities like Terrace with its logging base industry rely on the U.S. housing market for its survival now being threatened we no longer even have a secure lumber base. We do not even have any benefits from northeast development as the products of that area will bypass this community on their way “Terrace needs an industrial development _atvategy Dut; even: when- the: Touriam ‘and : Industriat Development- Coinmittee dees dovsn't appear to o be sting anything . Whenever | re es development .is “discussed public interest = *§ . Perrace: residents can “ne longer “be. * . "reassured by council that this community has - a-bright-future. There seems to be-a lot of © government departments move their ‘offices a ints the area; but we are loosing such revenue’ | producers a3 Skeenaview Dairyland and B.C, : ° ~ Te¥ at the same time so-we. are only treading a water for a while before we finally sink. ‘Beth the mayors of Kitimat and Prince: Rupert have been lobbying for years for their™’ ‘| industries; and Smithers seems to be keeping. pace. with industrial activity in this ‘region. *”-. ‘ erface bas said nothing; done nothing; and, - apparently, § gone along for the ride hopitig “that out of f¢we might get a few crumbs along ,: standing on its cwn two feet, and begin a new *" steategy to attract industry to this area before _. the bottom falls out of the local economy. . ‘While Kitimat wants to expand its boun- - daries to Lakelse Lake so that it will have lote of industrial land to develop on Terrace . doesn’t even have any industrial land within its boundaries to discuss the possibilities of pew industry locating here. Matters Bo from . the absurd to the ridiculous. - Tt may already be too late to make inroads into real industrial development of this area; but let us hope that council wakés up in time to save what. we bave us from going under the swive of incustrial growth ‘eaten to drown uw at thie fimo. . providing that area ee a -than ever. industrial: stink nothing is.ac- _ complished. A few unsuccessful political’. of : candidates talk about the need for better -] secondary industry but such : talk Bees. on. here’ as ‘some: *, our council started in this region that “The : “Canadian Paraplegic Association has . askeil council for a $1000 to support the work of their Regictial © Rehabilitation Consultant’s Program in -nopthwest . British Columbia, The position of fehabilltation consultant for north, west B.C, has been hecessitated by the development of the Acute Spinal Cord Injury Unit in ‘Shaughnessy Hospital in _ Vanccuver. Prior to the establishment of this unit, spinal cord injuries were taking an average of two years from time of injury ‘oreturn (othe community. This time has now been reduced with the person . returning to northwest B.C, without the rehabilitation counsellor in Vancouver properly able to prepare the individual to accept and‘ " adjust to the disability, making home renovations, arrange for transporation, _ job placement or schooling. ‘Council: referred the request ‘to the’ _ Finance Comittee, : ‘Alderman Jack Tale | To the west, Prince. Rupert has its wheat alerted members port-and coal port expansions: plus a secure - hog and logging base. The south Kitimat -. has its methenol plant expansion plus a sécure ~~ “Alean and Eurocan industrial base. To the - e east Smithers bas its press board plant tne. ‘Le wool clothing manufacturing plant, expansion : “pla a secure tourism and agricultural base, Terrace is in the middie of ‘all this with [ “into the aren ; but.we are losing such revenue. | “pot that ‘secure. “The forestry -Is moving its” Glee to Salthers which shows a shift in the™* | . ‘movement of the forest industry! through’. “§- : Northwestern development will a fe », flaw through Kitwanga With growth potential while Terrace becomes “ aurell¢ of the past as the hub of the northwest.:- : To date the only, development that remotely ° “resembles industrial development is the small -activity on Ferry Island; but one wonders of . what benefit this has been to'this community. . coil caneomenaber six years ago-everyorie' was ey ry proposa ot ‘Agar, “Although - the present . zoning. of the: property . permitted that, ’ _ type. of development,:.the. Community Plan ‘denoted. the ‘area as low. density. residential. Talstra sald the billings. wy would cooly be oné.story and in considering the land ase: *. "in the surrounding Grea, he “+ did/ not. feel . that: :the ‘proposal was at variance with - the - intent "oF: .ttie . Community Plan. The spares protien on ope Mie t ides + ind mea dations ~prelinaina) fora * mutti-family unit complex "to be built.on ‘the 4900. block’ § hella Pretto, Terrace Development Centre speech therapist, recelves a cheque for $200 fram Jean - Child _ Baker, honoured royal. lady of fhe-. Order of the Royal Purple.: The centre “also recelved. $100 ‘from - ‘the © Elks. Other ‘nembers. of the Royal Purple - and ihe centre's board of directors and _ Staff look: ‘on, ees whet ERS, re EAE ° VANCOUVER ~The (CP) F taking’: action Against id em: ‘ployees who might have. sed. insider knowledge --of last November's rate. ; increases when. they cancelled their car: “insurance™ premiums.” °° ‘The corporation a Insurance’ | Corporation of B.C. is: disciplinary ‘ICBC spokesman Bev ; -'Penhall said. Tuesday . . ‘eachof the 14émployees: - : cancelled his insurance: .. a week before thé ‘rate fhe coverage at the od about-'30° agents. who. allegedly; violated regue . lations, ** 25. increase announcement was made and. renewed rates, On. an ~ average * Rate: © :. :.Penhall «said -- the; os alleged. ‘offences of the’ ©. agents‘occurred on the; * last. nigilt- thd old rates .: bigurance) and. sonie 1 werd in effect... . : _ kept signing people past o> Some: of then ‘wha’ * the mi t. deadline, ‘ran’ but of (licence: — but. backdating the ut ‘others lesued discal _for. months past the one- ‘Year: ‘period of: the averaged 38: per - “eeae mt * Be hall said.’ each’. - gm inyes: will be. ‘asked: . plate), decala kept sign- : “+ policies to the fay, be ing people up und telting ” fore. : “#y-them they'd. get their? “Be said: the: “cor: -o? decals in the next week... ‘poration has vist decided "when they got a.supply of What