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by Betty Barton

The R.E.M. Lee ilospital Foun-
dation. will hold their third annual
dinner and auction Saturday night

at the Inn of ihe West. Master of -

Cetemonies Doug Thompson will
guide guests through.an fun even-

ing of refreshments, dinner, the
auction with Leo DeJong, and
surprise entertainment noted on the
program only as The Race. Presi-
dent Marlaine Webber explains
that it will be a horse race with
various community members play-
ing the horses,

R.E.M. Lee Foundation annual auction co

Foundation representative Kath-
leen Delgatty reports that to date
more than $300,000 has been
Taised towards a CT Scanner for
Mills Memorial Hospital and the
region. Last year, the Foundation
added more than $36,000 in pro-

_ceeds from the dinner and auction

The debris from most of the diseased North Sparks and Halliwell trees Surrounding Skeenaview
Park is gone... including the stumps. The few remaining trees, along Heritage Park, will be removed
in mid-September. The city has budgeted $10,000 for the replacement of trees and fencing, and
another $10,000 for the construction of a sidewalk on the west side of North Sparks.

MORE HIGHWAYS CONTRACTS OPENED

Fifteen of the 28 private road
maintenance contracts for B.C.’s
highways have now been opened
for offers. The latest group of four
were announced by the Ministry of
Transportation and Highways May
15, but the Terrace district is not
among them. .

The ministry expects the offer
and awarding process to take about
100 days from the time the con-
tracts are opened to the time the

deals are complete. The latest
group ‘includes the North Coast,
Bulkley-Nass, North Island and
Kootenay-Boundary contracts.
The North Coast contract, cur-
rently held by O’Brien Road and
Bridge, originally a logging firm
from the Queen Charlotte Islands,
covers the Queen Charloties and
the Prince Rupert area to a point
on Highway 16 about halfway
between Terrace and Prince

TERRACE AUTO DEALERS

AUCTION SALE

Saturday, June 8, 1991
INDOORS AT THE

TERRACE ARENA
3220 Kalum Street
Terrace, B.C.

SALE STARTS AT 11 A.M.
On the block will be 75-80
1990 and older models
cars, trucks, 4x4’s, vans
from the dealers of Terrace.

VIEWING FRIDAY, JUNE 7, 1991
SALE CONDUCTED BY
PROFESSIONAL AUCTIONEERS
Mike & Monty Aldoff

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FRONTIER AUCTION SERVICES LTD.
KAMLOOPS, B.C.
PHONE 372-0560

Rupert. The area contains 486
lane-kilometres of highway and 16
bridges. The current three-year
contract is valued at $7,400,000.

The Bulkley-Nass contract covers
the roads from Kitwanga to
Stewart and northward to the Spat-
zizi area, and east to Smithers,
Babine and Telkwa. NorRoadCo,
the present contractor, receives
$30,100,000 for three years of
maintenance on 2,551 lane-kilo-
metres of road and 84 bridges.

The Terrace district contract is
expected to go up for offers some-
time in July. The district covers
1,144 lane-kilometres of road and
106 bridges. The contract is valued
at $11.7 million over three years,
plus 20 months of maintenance
worth $1.6 million on the Shames
Mountain access road and the
Nisga’a Highway.

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RIVER INDUSTRIES orrer expires 2 #9 a
(TERRACE) LTD.

4427 Highway 16

to their coffers.

- This year’s auction will offer a
number of items for bidding, in-
cluding an evening for two at the
Bavarian Inn, a return flight for
two to Edmonton, a magic horn
used to ward off invaders at Kit-
wanga, several works of arts, a

Terrace Review —

Wednesday, May 29, 1991 A3

ming this weekend

home or commercial security sys-
tem, one week at a condominium
at Whistler, a fishing trip, a cos-
metic care service package of a
massage, two manicures, and a
facial, and golf bag and clubs.
The tickets are for sale at Ev’s
Men’s Wear for $50 per person.

$23 million to be
Spent this year on
region’s highways

Most of the capital work to do
done on the Skeena region’s high-
ways in the next fiscal year will be
continuations of work already
begun. The district’s budget for the
year is $23 million.

Regional highways manager John
Buckle said yesterday work will
include another 12 kilometres of
toad reconstruction and paving on
the Nisga’a Highway from the
Cedar River crossing to Sand
Lake, part of a project that will
eventually rebuild and pave the
entire road from Rosswood to New
Aiyansh. Buckle said $4.6 million
will be spent on that work this
year.

Also included in the budget is
replacement of two bridges south
of Rosswood for $2 million. The
contract award was announced two
wecks. ago. : os

Another $4 million in paving is
being done on Highway 16 west of
Terrace, Buckle said.

The single biggest project in the
area will be the Hanna Creek road
work scheduled fora 15-kilometre
Siretch of Highway 37 north of
Meziadin Junction. This year
$6,125,000 in reconstruction and

paving will be done on the road,
part of a larger, long-term project
to pave Highway 37 north to
Dease Lake.

Smaller projects to be done this
year include work around intersec-
tions on Highway 37 near Lakelse
Lake that are considered unsate,
and several small engineering
Studies in the order of $50,000.
The latter includes an engineering
Study for an access road to Kit-
selas from Terrace North.

The road-spanning electric sign
at the western edge of Terrace is
slotied for replacement this year
with a modern digital sign. Buckle
said the existing sign is "1970's
technology” and a new sign will
give the ministry the ability to
display more messages on road
conditions: for the benefit of
drivers headed toward Prince
Rupert, The new sign will also
climinate the chore of changing
light bulbs — it uses electronically
controlled reflectors. Both the
Terrace sign and its counterpart at
the Prince Rupert end will be
replaced this year at a total cost of
about $200,000.

Ottawa closure not law yet

TERRACE — The closure of
Ottawa St. went to third reading in
council chambers Monday night
and that’s where it will sit until
Canada Safeway Lid. offers a few
guarantees.

“Skeena Mall and Overwaitea
have both filed concerns with the
city that they will lose access to

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@ Chain brake

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MAY 31, 1991

TERRACE, B.C. V8G 5L5
635-7383 — FAX: 635-4076

“Complete” Automotive, Logging, Mining & Industrial Supply Centre

Greig Ave. once Ottawa is closed.
City administrator Bob Hallsor told
Skeena Mall manager Lynda Bret-
feld Monday night that Safeway
will have to ensure that the relo-
cated Ottawa St. is open and ready
for use before the existing Ottawa
St. is closed.

MS