A8 - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, March 14, 2001 LOCAL developing company, Rossco Ventures, has started cieating the way for a new access to the Terrace Mountain trail at the end of Munthe St. on the bench. A neighbourhood meeting regarding the developer's proposed develop- ment in that area is slated for the end of the month. Large road contract to widen highway into Nass to be let THE MOST difficult portion of a seven- year, $41 million plan to improve the highway into and in the Nass Valley is to Start this spring. Highways ministry officials this week are to grant a two and a half year contract to widen the Nass Highway as it runs be- side Lava Lake, With all costs figured in, this particu- lar project should cost about $7 million, . says highways ministry official Dave St. Thomas. The Project requires blasting rock and filling in portions of the lake for a suit- able road bed, said St. Thomas. Right now the route is very narrow and, at the south end of the lake, subject to floading during high water times. “It?s 10.72km of total reconstruction,” said St. Thomas. “It begins at the south end of Lava Lake and extends up to the north, by the {lava bed] park.” “We have 220,000 cubic metres of tock to move,” he said of the plan to widen the road. That’ A. -require extensive: blasting, en: .. ough so'that there’ Will havé'to be. toad”. closures during some phases of the ioe ject, said St. Thomas. (IF 2 EF Foundation for Foreign Study NDE ET Share your Canada with the world! Are you Interested in other culturas and working with teenagers? EF Foundation for Foretgn Study fs currantly fooking for volunteer Exchange Coordinatars whe wauld fave to work with local High schools, host familles and exchange studenis forn 26 differant countries. Joln a national and international team of volunteers. Expenses are reimbursed and raining is provided. EF High Schoo! Year ls also currently iooking for Outbound Leaders to recruit Canadian students to participate in our high schoo! year exchange program. incentives apply and expanses are reimbursed, For more information call! or visit or website: www.er.com The plan is to close the road comple- tely between 7 p.m. to 4 am. on Mon- days, Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thurs- days during peak construction times. There will also be 20-minute closures during the day. All told, blasting and roadbed building will take about two years of the two and a half year project. Also taking place this year is paving of the 4.6km stretch from Sand Lake north to Lava Lake. . The roadbed was finished last year and contractors wanted to give it a year to settle before paving, said St. Thomas. Design work will continue to fix up an- other piece of the Nisga’a Highway, from the W.D, McKay Bridge into Greenville. The $41 million program was an- nounced in 1999 and is being paid for by the B.C. Transportation Finance Author- ity, a government agency which borrows money for large capital highways pro- jects. ‘Nass River are’ also vars raised to avoid flooding problems. 1-800-263-2825 Relay For mn Friemnal Team Captains There will be a meeting of team captains for this years relay for a friend. Wednesday, March 14, 2001 8:00 p.m. * Room 324 Coast Inn of the West A620 Lakelse Avenue, Terrace For more information, phone Lynda Fagan 635-9276 Cs A Canadian Société Cancer canadienne ree Societ du cancer y ‘BAFHIN- March 14-28, 2001 All Boots 10”-40" Off | Reduce the health risks asseciated with excess weight. Live better and longer ..-lighter. up . fpanmcemacnen Fg we poriicipaction.com It also involves new bridges, measures CHRISTIAN HERITAGE National Leader Fen Gray Not long ago, I quoted Dr. Laura Schlessinger, who had written, “It’s the morality, stupid!”, her take-off on the 1992 Clinton campaign slogan, “It’s the economy, stupid!” Let me expand on that. Because a lot of people - including the Canadian Alliance - make the " mistake of thinking that moral issues are somehow peripheral, 6r merely subjective, and . that we should instead concentrate on sound economics. They’re wrong. Not just a little bit off- “base, but ‘DEAD: ‘WRONG: ‘Here’s. why. eae, Sign Hae, Wrad, sgt Buy paki ee oA decade ago, historian Gertrude Himmelfarb wrote (in the respected business magazine, Forbes) that sound morality is the very foundation of a sound economy. We cannot hope to have a good economy if we neglect the nation’s morals. A free-running, productive economy absolutely depends upon trust; and trust depends upon shared morai principles like honesty, integrity, diligence and responsibility. Moral issues. The reason Canada’s dollar is dragging in the sewer is because we have deeply indebted future generations, which is really spending other people’s money: it’s theft. And that’s a moral issue. The reason our health-care system is overburdened is that Canadians smoke too much, PARTY GY CHRETIEN COMMUNIQUE Heritage Place 155 Queen Street, Suite 200 Ottawa, ON K1IP6L1 Ph (613)788-3716 Fax (819)669-6498 Email: edechp@netcom.ca Website: www.chp.ca" This Communiqué may be copied The Only Way to a Sound Economy _ astonishing increase in serious crime (rapes - up a - than tripled in the same period) is largely because PARTI DE nr} L’HERITAGE drink too much, abuse drugs and sleep around: moral issues. And then we expect others to pay for the consequences of abusing our bodies: covetousness, Another mora! issue. The reasons crime threatens our homes, streets, playgrounds and school yards is that we have adopted a “therapeutic” view of evil: we call it “sickness” instead of sin, and instead of punishing it, we pity it. That’s lying to ourselves. And dishonesty is a moral issue. We're also corrupting justice: another moral issue. And the more than. 475%.in 40-years, murders - more’ we protect the “right” of people to feed their minds pornographic swill: lust. And we defend the right of deviants to celebrate their “pride” in perversions. More moral issues. Is Canada’s productivity down? One reason people are less willing to work for what they want is that our governments stimulate the desire to have “something for nothing” through gambling — lotteries that rob the poor, and casinos that rob the middle-class. It’s avarice: another moral issue. Asound economy is important, all right. But if we want a prosperous economy, we've gol to get the moral foundation right - FIRST. Closing our eyes to that hard reality will never make it go away. © Looking for a new job | -e Starting your own busines Ss’ e Getting access to the Internet “Lear more about the hundreds of services available. Call us and talk to an agent in person, Visit our Web site. Or drop by the. Service Canada Access Centre nearest you. 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