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‘Vol. 4, Issue No. 51

"TERRACE, B. C. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1988

‘Committee awaits:

study on:

traffic —

and pedestrians —

The city’s
Finance Committee met with
Terrace RCMP Staff Sergeant.
Len Woods yesterday to decide

if there is a pedestrian safety

problem in Terrace, and if there
is, what can be done to correct
it. Ce ‘

‘The. final recommendation
from the committee, which city
council will consider at its Jan. 9
meeting, is*to implement a
pedestrian/driver awareness
program and to have the RCMP
monitor certain crosswalks for a
specified time and warn or ticket
any violaters. The Public Works
committee met with the RCMP

‘this morning and their rec-

ommendations will. be added to
the list.
~ Woods says there are two

Lakelse Ave. crosswalks that are
of a major concern — one in the

4600 block, which is considered
dangerous because it: is. mid-

-block and on a two-lane road -

where pedestrians can walk out
from behind a parked car
without being seen, and the
other between McDonald’s and
Skeena Mall because it is the
most used crosswalk on Lakelse
and used primarily by younger
people.

The idea of pedestrian-

controlled traffic lights was left

Regional

Coast ‘Minister of State Terry
Huberts announced the creation

. of a 10-member Regional Ad-

visory Council for the North

Coast Region, it was met with a~

variety of different reactions.
‘But none of these reactions has
been quite as strong as that of
the board of directors for the
Regional District of Kitimat-

by.Tod Strachan

The advisory council will in-
clude mayors Gordon Feyer of
Masset, Peter Lester of Prince

- Rupert, Don Simmons of Port

‘Edward, Jack Talstra of Ter-.
race, Rick Wozney of Kitimat
and: Dave “Webster of . New
Hazelton. Aiso on the commit-
tee. will be. Garry. Hubbard,’

: ‘Stewart alderman and president

out of the recommendation for .

two reasons. As explained: ‘by
Woods, the city could Spend a
great deal of time and | money to
increasing safety
wouldn’t prevent any. accidents

which occur due to carelessness, |
~ And secondly, a traffic. study

already underway could call for
changes which would make this
type of control unnecessary or

determine that it is in the wrong.

.place. And as was pointed out
by Alderman Bob Cooper, the
installation of a flashing amber
light at the McDonald's
crosswalk cost over $10,000. -
Woods says that driver/
pedestrian education is the in-
itial key to preventing accidents.
Both have certain respon-
sibilities. Drivers have to be alert
and watch pedestrians carefully,

and pedestrians have to respect |
motor vehicle traffic — ‘watch-
the driver’s: eyes; is he or ‘she.

able.to stop given the present
road conditions, and is there
another driver in the next lane
whose vision is blocked by the
vehicle that has stopped?

There are too ‘many

pedestrians that step into a
crosswalk with no respect for
traffic, says Woods. They feel
it’s their right and don't seem to
value their lives.

but that. |

50CENTS |

Pleased as punch! That's Thornhill Junior Secondary student Kim Rempel when she was
presented with a $333.33 cheque from the B.C. Truck Loggers’ Association by Thornhill
teacher Teri Dunphy. She placed in the top 10 of over 1,000 entries in the province for the

association's forestry essay contest, and according to Thornhill principal Tom Hamakawa,

contest.judges deemed her entry to be the best of the 10.

district takes aim at Regional Council

of the Stewart Chamber of
Commerce, David Lane, presi-
dent of the Terrace Health Care

Society, Hans Wagner, board.

chairman for Northwest Com-
munity College, and Rod Robin-
-son, executive director of the
Nisga’a Tribal Council.

_In submitting this list to the

regional district, Huberts wrote,
“I have asked the following.
pesons to serve on the council -

after giving considerable
thought to ensuring, insofar as

possible, equal representation.’’.
But two regional district direc-

tors, Alice Maitland and Gor-
don. Sebastian, disagree with
Huberis’ interpretation of
“equal representation’’,

According to Sebastian, there.

-is a population of about 14,000
in the Kitwanga,

ga, Hazelton,
Kispiox area and about half of |
those residents are Native. He:

pointed out that the Native
population in that area isn’t rep-
resented on Huberts’. council
and made a motion that the
board recommend to Huberts
that Don Ryan’s.name be added
to the list.

Maitland agreed but said the
problem .is even larger than
described by Sebastian. ‘‘Why

include the Terrace Health Care

Society and not the Prince
Rupert Tribal Council?” she

’ asks, adding that there should be

at least two more members on
the council to represent the
Native population and possibly
the college and health care socie-
ty should be dropped. |

But Dan: Pakula expanded on

expressing the board’s frustra-—

tion even further following com-
ments made, by Gordon Robin-
son, who asked, ‘With this
system what. do. we need. an:

MLA for?” and Les Wat--
mough, who said, ‘‘This doesn’t
look any better. The number of
people having good input is
down to 10 from 60. We have
regional districts throughout the
province who could have been
given this function, and quite
frankly I think we could have
been doing a better job.’’
Pakula then pointed out, ‘‘This
program has been on for over'a
year and nothing’s happened...
We should conserve the regional

‘district function and we can do

away with all of this.”

At this point, newly-
appointed director Dr. Chee
Ling of Kitimat made a tabling
motion and suggested that the
board should first be givén a list
of ‘all 60 members of ° the
minister’s regional development
group to insure that all groups in

the area are represented. This

motion was seconded by Pete
Weeber, but was defeated after
beitig opposed by everyone but
Lee, Weeber and Bob Cooper.

Sebastian’s original motion, to’

recommend Don Ryan to the
council, was then put to the test
and passed with only Weeber in
opposition.

This sense of frustration and
dissatisfaction was not passed
on to Terrace aldermen, how-
ever, by Mayor Jack Talstra,
who is also the regional district
chairman. During the regional
district meeting, Talstra made
several comments such as,
‘Others are playing ball, and if
we don’t, I don’t know what
might happen,’’ But to. council,
he said only that, “We're into

this regional framework whether

we like it of not, and I think
probably we should use it as best
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