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The R.E.M. Lee Foundation was $19,000 richer following a donation by the
Terrace Elks Lodge #425 and the Order of the Royal Purple last week. The first
$14,000 will make the final payment on a surgical stapler and the remaining $8,000
will be added to the fund for the purchase of a CT scanner. The money was raised

through bingos. Above (from the left) representing the Royal Purple is Acting Royal
Lady Joyce Martell, Alec Houlden of the Terrace Regional Health Care Society,
Marlene Webber of the REM Lee Foundation, the Elks’ Exhaulted Ruler Joe Turner
and Health Care Society CEO Michael Leisinger.

Beautifiers look ahead, seek city support |

by Tod Strachan

An attractive community is good
for the residents and it’s good for
business. That’s the premise mem-
bers of the Terrace Beautification
Society went forward with when
they met with Terrace city coun-
cil’s Committee of the Whole Nov.
5 and outlined long-range plans for
the community . designed to
enhance the lifestyle of everyone
living here.

The Ministry of Forests has
offered the society 10,000 trees,
and with cooperation from the
Ministry of Highways and CN Rail
the railway corridor from the Ter-
race Co-op to the Kalum Bridge
might one day become a single

linear park. The trees would act as’

a buffer against noise and an unat-
tractive setting, and in their shade
might be a walking or jogging
‘trail, grass, flowers, shrubbery,
benches and picnic tables. This
project, they feel, might be a good

one for service clubs to get

involved in, .

. For the downtown core, more
planters and a few trees are
planned. Twenty-three planters

were installed in the 4600 block
Lakelse last year, bringing the total
in the downtown area to about 50,
and the society has a few other
areas in-mind for more planters.
The newly-grassed strip along
Lazelle Ave. is lacking trees and
the society is hoping for some
business sponsors to help correct
that problem. For the south side of
Eby from Highway 16 to Lazelle
they have a heritage project in
mind, Children and grandchildren
of our early settlers would be
encouraged to sponsor a planter
along this strip that would be

dedicated to their ancestors.

They haven't forgotten the Sande
Overpass. The east-west facing
earth slopes on either side of the
overpass are unatiractive, and a
solution to that might be a
covering of grass, broadleaf plants
or juniper. .

In residential areas, the society
has suggested that the city consider
projects similar to LIP (Local
Improvement Project) road
upgrades to rid neighbourhoods of
unsightly and sometimes hazardous
ditches by instatling culverts. This
would mean boulevants could be

grassed and the residential setting
would become much more attrac-
tive.

To organize and maintain these
projects, the beautification Society
needs some help. They need
money. Pacific Regeneration
Technologies, a Thornhill tree and
plant nursery, donated flowers for
the planters last year, but because
of the growing number of planters
the society doesn’t feel it’s fair to
ask for another donation. But they
have been offered a good deal on
purchasing them, only $300. For
other work, the society will be
submitting a budget to the city.
Two years ago they received
$6,000 from the city, but last year
they had less ambitious plans and
didn’t submit a budget at all. The
society has suggested that $6,000
for 1991 might be a realistic
budget to allow them to begin
working on their long range
beautification plan.

The society has also asked the
city to continue supporting the
cleanup crew that empties down-
town litter bins and consider a new
employee — a full-time summer
student to mow and water down-

town boulevards and cut grass and
weeds around power poles and
light standards.

And there is one other detail the
society says the city can help them
with... a fot. The city already has a
bylaw under which they can
impose a fine for littering or main-

taining unsightly property; the
society wants the city to post signs
to that effect and ask the bylaw
enforcement officer to start writing
tickets for violaters. If throwing
litter on city streets becomes ex-
pensive enough, perhaps litterers
would think twice before doing it.

Ski club ready
to change name

The Kitsumkalum Ski Club
has called a general meeting for
next Wednesday (Nov. 21) to
deal with changing the club’s
name.

The meeting, at 7:30 p.m. in
room 208 at Northwest Com-
munity College, will deal with
the proposal of formally chang-

ing the club’s name to Shames —

Mountain Ski Club.

The club has been in a holding
pattern since local skiing wound
up at Kitsumkalum.

Plans for this year include

building a new base with a Nan-—

cy Greene Ski League program.
This will introduce young skiers
aged seven to 12 to the fun of
sports plus the non-competitive
team racing.

This training will take place
on Saturday and/or Sunday, de-
pending on demand and availa-
bility of coaching volunteers.

Those interested in helping
out with this plan should advise
the executive at the meeting.

Representatives of Shames
will be held on hand to offer in-
formation on plans for the up-
coming season.

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