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Mr. Kofced may beinterested to learn that in the Summer, 1972 issue of Canadian Host, the publication of the Canadian Automobile Association, they estimate that the average American tourist, also an AAA member, spent $74 per day while on vacation, Whether or not tourists benefit the area they visitis a matter of dispute. Certainly it must be conceded

Squire Tanner Cambridge. Another was _ fishing holes and contribute to George Hees, doing much the the daily headache of local same, before he got into citizens; but it cannot be denied palitics. But, oh, the shame of it!

All this, of course. is prelude and masquerade to a secret hunch of mine that the Russians are going to lick us in the forthcoming series. If it ever forthcomes.

. dozen top hockey players from

Random notes this week. could there be anylhing more silly than writing a column about your silly old wife break ing her silly old ankle and four days later foine out for a swim and breaking your own silly old big toe? Well, 1 did both.

And boy, it hurts, boy. Trouble is, there’s not much the doctor can do about it. Had it X- rayed. He took a look at the

- plate, didn’t even look at the toe, and cheerfully informed, “Yes, Bill, you've wrokena chip of bone off it, but you can’t put a cast on one toe, so just wear a comforlable shoe wriggle the tae so it won't get stiff, and sweat it oul.’* 1'm sweating with every step. | didn’t realize how many lhings you could bump your toe against. It hurts even when 1 kick the cal, which I don’t do, but will, if she comes near my loe.

Enough about toes. Watch out for those bees. While waiting for the doc lo talk about (guess what) my tue, two large and husky men came into emergency ward swelling like balloons from bee stings. One was the local veterinarian, six fect six and about 280. His right hand and arm were almost completely numb and it was spreading inlo his chest, He was disgusted. How could a silly

__ litle thing half an inch long do «this to him? -

And spéaking™ of ‘bees, ‘how

‘ about those two headliners, Bobby Hull and Bobby Fischer. hockey player and chess masier, in thal order? Has ever so much media space heen devoted tua couple of guys who are doing well what they enjoy, and getting rich at it?

And speaking of Bobby Hull, what do you think of the World Heckey Association? Jt has stolen Hull and another half-

Elvira C. Bryant

Writes of life in the Queen Charlottes and adventures at sea

that far-lrom-benevolent monopoly, the N.H.L. Good luck to the W.H.A. | love to see a big organization kicked in the groin or the pocketbook in this case. Particularly by its own slaves.

Why shouldn't a hockey player, a good one, make more money than a movie star? He’s. often a better actor. -

And speaking about hockey, which is rather silly in this weather, have you ever read or heard anything more silly than the bleating of sports-writers, and even editorial writers, aboul the series of Russia?

The whole thing is getting rather sickening. It’s just ancther symptom of our in- feriority hang-up. We can’t beat the U.S. al money. We can’t beat the Chinese at ping-pong. We can't beal anybody at the Olympics except maybe North Wales or West Tanzania. (With the notable exception of those hofse-jumpers who are pretty good.)

Why don't we just relax and enjoy it, as Confuscius did not say? Why don’t we forget the ‘years when other countries were wobbly-aunkled on skates and every red-blooded Canadian boy had a Simpsons catalogue on one leg and an Eaton's calalogue on the other and could shout a frozen horse- ball through a. hairnet and we

won the’: - word char Pionship ~ twenty-eight ‘ip’Ghe ev ry: year? * Except. Remember that dreadful year (about (about 1986} when the British, of all people beat our team in the Olympics? Their team of course, was made up of Canadians living in England. Or Englishmen who had grown up in Canada. One of them was a English kid I went to school with. Another, so he claimed, was an old friend .of mine,

toward the construction, of roads, etc. Do you suppose Highway 16 would be the splendour it is were it not for Alaska becoming a stat in 1958?

Referring to Mr. Kofoed’'s charge thal we who deal with the tourist trade did not cry about the need for tighter management of our wild life, may I inform Mr. Kofoed that we are members of the Chamber of Commerce and I am sure Mr. Kofoed is well aware of what the Chamber has tried to do in supporting Gary Smythe’s work ard in trying to muster up additional help for him. Ona personal basis, three times last winter we summoned Gary Smythe when moose were illegally hunted on or near our property, which is posted No Hunting. Granted this may bea

small whisper in the battle for saving our moose, bul it is the best we can do without a telephone. If Mr. Kofoed will tell us how we can do more, I shall be happy to do so. Iam ‘My kid brother, who is ‘a fully in support of the Trappers colonel in the air force, is being six point proposal for posted to Germany in a few safeguarding our moose by weeks. What, inthe name of al] tighter hunting regulations and that is « ssilly, * are Canadians | “law enforcement: a riet

. doing in Germany?.:Who--are :. Liq yestenl --they guarding? Against: what?~= sy “Teel Mn: ‘Kofoedisinesronon .

And with what? one point, People like us whom

. I know I’ve come a long way he says are “blinded hy the

from my broken toe, but some- glitter of money and deafened

where in some secret little niche by the clatter and clang of ca

in’ my mind there is a con- registers’ are _ actually nection linking all these sum- suffering from fatigue, the

eats result of working 19 hours a day mer sillinesses. Or maybe Tjust 4 operate one of these “tourist got loo much sun when I went to traps". We feel we are offering the beach the other day with 3 welcome service in providing Kirt and her husband. And tourists with aa comforatable, roke my toe. clean place to spend the night safely, just as the grocer provides a service in providing wholesome food. But no, ve are a tourist trap and money hungry; the grocer is a reputable businessman. /

My hunch is based on the fact. that the games will be played under international rules, Take away the checking, high- sticking, elbuwing, slashing, boarding and gouging from the game, and your average Canadian player is lost. 1 can visualize clearly five Russians descending on some hapless Canadian goalie, with all the other Canadians in the penalty

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Enough. This column is about summer silliness. How’s this? An aunt of my wife, who was born and reared near Belfast, but has lived for a number of years in Canada went back to Northern Ireland for a visit this summer, We're watching the obituary columns.

Sincerely yours, . Mrs. Gene Sandecki

seperaling and weighting the land clear. (in time past broom catch must get pretty fed up three inches in diameter was Dear Sir: with fish afler awhile. I asked . used for fuel in either stove or _ 50 Derrill Warren is going to him if he ate much fish after so fireplace. Cutting itdown was a lead the Conservatives out of much handling of them, and he said ‘‘very liltke,”’

There is of course a lot of work to be dune on a boat. The

The B.C. Canuck came in this week with quite a good catch. I- went down in the evening to watch . the -unpacking or unloading vf the fish. Decided to stay under shelter to wateh the proceedings, and nat to go down the ladder onto the boat. The

as-formidable as the Himalaya or “tame blackberry” plant, ] ago! do hope none of this seed was

tide happened to be low at the old ice had to be shovelled out introduced to the Queen Nodoubt a few old Tories who time. It was ‘an interesting andthe hold washed down. New Charlottes!) have vated Social Credit in experience, and ] should have ice had to be taken on and the Only about twenty-three recent years because the

boat refueled. We were able to - miles of ihe highway between Conservative plight is” so gel back from our trip to Queen Masset’ and Queen Charlotte hopeless are toying with the Charlolte Cily yesterday, in City are nol yet paved, but the idea of going Conservative now - time for these last items to be work is being done. Shortly - chiefly because of the Tory win looked after. it was Vic's first after moving here last year in in Alberta. There is a grave trip up that way and he was © March, the family‘could only go difference: guite taken with Queen. a short distance out on the read Charlotte City.. Personally 1 from here. The mud became a —_‘In' Alberta the Conservatives think the nicest part isalongthe real gumbo-real “icky”, would were the official oppostion way where you have the beach be another way to describe it. throughout much of the thirty- on one side and green fields or The paving at Masset is being five years.of (he Social Credit trees on the other. There done quickly and efficiently. regime. In B.C, the opposition beaches are rockier than those The whole appearance of the has been CCE-NDP for about near Masset and consist village has been altered, and thirty years - both before -and_ mostly of gravel rather-than quite likely people will be in- during the Social Credit regime. sand, . clined to spruce up their homes -In-s all _ On this drive I actually saw a5 a resull. ° : ~ government across Canada in two deer. For awhile I was’ | A letter from a former Nass recent years, both federal and beginning to wonder ‘about. Camp resident ithis past week, provincial, ‘there hasn't been hearing that the Islands are reached me from Quesnel, one instance where a parly has over run with these animals. It Randi and Haakon Stenerssen come from nowhere to form a seems this-year quite a few ‘became the proud parents of a government - probably not since fawns were picked-up by'peaple baby. girl, Ingrid, on June 20th. - Premier: Bennett and Social .. who saw them alone at the side Haakon ‘finished ‘writing hia: Credit did it here twenty years of the road. These young deer exams the next day so I can ago - and there was chaos in “were flown out later to parks, It- ° imagine he had a little problem B.C. then with the collapse of seems to be a problem studying, and’ waiting’ forthe the ‘coalition. " educating people to the fact the. new arrival!

had a camera,

_ After the large metal bucket is filled up with fish from the hold, these. are dumped onto a metal bench or table that has sides on il, Here sorting is done. I wondered why a few fish were thrown to one side and weighed individually. These were the springs, and right now red springs are worth 98 cents a pound, even higher than sockeye, (Unce again. Vie had. one sockeye that he didn't know aboul until after he received his _Statement.)

Idid recorgnize the halibut of ‘ourse and these were put into a seperate meta! cart. The major part of the load was cohoe and . there were lwo cars fullof these |

_to be weighed, We were all both surpirsed and pleased to find over $100) worth of fish had - been brought in after. just twa “and a half days fishing. This_ * morning the B.C, Canuck should . be back .out fishing as the

--"captain’’ look the boat out last’ fawris seen alone have not been =A reply, was received: from Let's ff - “evening on, the outgoing tide. A deserted by their mothers. © . Jim Fulton,-Tlell, B.C. almoat - jnerg j : fies i sf eventually month of that kindof fishing and 47 ‘nteresting part of the trip, _ DY return mail. Lwillquote from - here in British Columbia the

~ a paragraph: ‘In such a‘rare . “natural “ganciuary 28 our west -coast we tmusl fake gréat’ pains. . "to preserve the wilderness ‘from. destruction .at the hands:of ~ technology.’ This | burden is one: carted, iby ;

‘one would not need to worry - about working during the rest of the year.

I should have mentioned that ’_ all the fish are also graded, and “lit ig better if the fish: tiave been

power will go ta the official Oppasition ~and:right now that means N.D:P.: ‘They. have polled

was seeing the wild foxgloyes or - digitalis. Thsse-are’ pink. or: white and growing In. many places, We noticed a whole fll of. them in one. spot... am told’ ‘that'.an.-earlier.:game-warden.:

ptoperly cleaned,: After cked quite a few: packages :of . * weighing ” the’. ‘carts “Of fish pete Wh bim-ort-teips out ain

appear: ‘ld: be... sacked . with: ‘ce, ‘pround,: which’: ‘is why sich “and. placed ‘In a. ‘type - ‘flower ¢an:be. seen, In -blow warehouse. From there ‘hey today. Near Tiell there is quite,

are taken over to Prince Rypert "bit of 'yéllow broom,'so dt ia no

“tothe cannery: ‘The carts are’: ‘doubt: from. seeds ' acziltered: int

_ thee ‘Up. me ame an fs ‘past... -Broom ; qv fora yee warohowa, and, two. men ‘quite ‘a: nuisance ita * ai uo ruly S _Atlempling roam i a ort keep ‘new’. social cuilural and Alan D, Hassell

busy at that job » The Fellow

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os ecological consciousness,”

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attending they tie up our traffic and our,

that tourists inject a tidy bonus,

real chore..Hawever it was not ‘he wilderness - just as Davie - ton was going to dosix years ©

(he changes ‘of.-

about. one. third. ofthe voles .

Dear Hector:

First let me thank you for your excellant letter, Let me explain that Ido not want to,gel stuck ina rut writing ‘how-to- do-it’ articles, but it would appear that E may be ina rut on the other side of the road.

Scully’s story took place over 20years ago on Athabasca Lake in Alberta, and was very true. Those wet sleeping bags were

cold! We lost the tent but it was ©

another party that had the trouble with the boat. The “walking on walter’ you mentioned had me, but a search af my memory brought back a picture of a hunter in a very small--quite round -- inflatible life boat — but that is another Scully-type story.

The ‘pictures here are of the burned cut tent and one of the ‘pups’ we erected. The lad by the tént is James Stewart, son of the local Indian agent,

“Chen hyperboreo” -- Loie Blanche ~ Wavey -- Snow Goose he name wavey is, a

corruption of the Indian word Wa-Wa. ‘(excerpt from Tavenner's Birds of Canada.”) . Honest, 1 thought everyone knew what wavies were, Then 1 gal to. falking to three experienced hunter types and discovered, to my amazement, thal 2 ‘of ‘the 3 did not know wavies by that name.

The Cree Indian name for wavies is Wa-way-o, perhaps the Ojibway of James Bay call them. Wa-wa as Tavenner suggests. ¢

All animals in the woods will die and none will die of old age as humans know it. Most will starve some severe winter or when age dims their keen eyes or ears they will be caught and eaten. There is but one type of death in the woods -- violent. If starved, an animal will rot and return to nature -- if eaten by larger predator, its blood and bones go to the body needs of another, <A beautiful beaver -laken by a trapper and turned into a fur piece by some craftsman remains beautiful, although in a different form. °

There is one unfortunate thing about trapping -- this is the : laking ,of a, es 2 life ; snuffed out belo * allthe hjtter-sweat fr

These are facts” not pretend to know the answer to Why death?

' A greater sin is waste. A beautiful anumal shot just to be turned over with a booted toe then left to rat — and this is done by many otherwise outstanding people, Far, far better for the little beast to run and frolic, eat and live than to rot in a ditch,

Tokill a proud buli just to nail ihe horns on a wall — that a ‘noble life shall be ended for such a pittance — this is. the great tragedy.

Oh -- my friend that breaks windows -- you and I know who hewarks for, and what they pay the supervisory staff. He may even have to donate some of his trapline earnings to them so

’ they can meet the payroll.

Yours truly . Les Watmeugh

Presentation to council

Upper Little Park

So much for Riverside Park. 1 now go into the Upper Litile Park. I'm sure you will all

remember that we, in. this’. based - community, have been waiting

since 194 to find some way of building an Arena, Also, suc- cessive Councils since that date have paid lip-service, but litle else, in finding a site for a _Recreational . Complex. In- Janpary of 1971, We finally settled on Upper Little Park as the site for our Arena, Curling Rink, Swimming Pool, and future Community Centre. This was a big decision, with the Council voting three for the Upper Little Park, and -three ’ opposed, The Chairman casting the deciding vate. It Is now & matter of history, but it seams.

an appropriate time to mention. -

it lo you as two of you .were -

opposed 10 this site; Ald. Clift,’

and Mayor J obnatone. The third person being .Ald. McAlpine, -

who has since left Council. The, -

olher three; Ald; Cooper, Ald.. Rowland, and’ ‘Ald, MacDonald,

were in favour ‘of the alte for the -

Arena and the ¢omplex.’ - The Arena people have, ing the construct! the

Arena had the

» There Is also talk that y you are-

going to move the Car Parking area from the lower parking lot- now developed at greal expense last year, up 1o the upper site, It is also said that you have hired another Vancuver expert to plan this, and one wonders how

much. more of the taxpayers...

money is going to be used for plans, and how much more it

will cost the taxpayer for these - continued paper changes that _

produce nothing in, the way of concrete results. . : After viewing the plans for the addition to the Arena; bids for which are to be opened today; and having been in- volved with the arrangements for obtaining the loan ‘of $320,000, where my signature is on the form clearly stating that this money was obtained for the rebuilding of our Community Centre, I feel it is my duty to

inform bolh the Federal and -

Provincial Gavernments thal

. theloanis not being used for the

purpose for which it was. ap- plied. I urge all members of Copneil to take-a second look at this, Terrace cannot afford to go

_ on borrowing these large sums _

of money, and then throwing them away, and I would remind members of Council that at no time was a referendum put to the people to borrow this money, because at the time we felt there was justification for its use, namely, to build a completely new Community Centre afler our old one burned down. I particularly appeal ta Ald. Cooper, who made it a point in her platform for re- election that we go the Recereational Complex route.

Lrealize that a whole year has passed by since our Community Centre burned down and that an Election is just around . the

comer. 1 again appeal to you

tonight. Consider your actions before it is too iate.

Victor C.G. Jolliffe.

Presentation | to council

This presentation concerns the new Recreation Centre for this Municipality. My ‘job is

"': "The purpose of these remarks is to bring out as clearly as possible the complete and total inadequacy oi this building so poorly conceived, in order that even at this late hour it will die before it is born. oo It has been eight years since -you were entrusted qith an Important construction program - this building we are in tonight. 11 will be more yet before your successors have a ‘similar opportunity. -

This is the magnitude af your . responsibility. It.is also your responsibility, Mr. Mayor, to stand in awe on that lofty site, look at those mountains, contemplate the majesty of. what you see, then look again at this contemptible solution to the Recreation ‘needs and civic pride of Terrace. .

Community Recreation?

Recreation, ‘Refreshment of the strength and spirit after toll” is how: the. dictionary

’ defines .it.

“Refreshment of the strength and spirit afler toil’, perhaps ‘more toil is required becawe there shall be no refreshment in this building. ‘Last December, you will recall, a plan for rebuilding the © old Civie ‘Centre, called the

. SATH Centre, was submitted to

Council. This proposal ‘com-: ‘missioned ‘by. yourselves ‘was upon and answered the

needs of all organized

recreation groups in town. It .

called for a tire proofed con- crete’ -and steel structure, seperale fram the Ice Arena in accordance with the ‘master ‘plan for the development of. Little Park also commissioned, by yourselves.

What you are how -proposing to build is an 11,000 square foot building containing a lobby and-. washroom facilities for the Ice

’ Arena and threc small rooms to . replace; the uld Civic. Centre. -

Three small rooms in place of . - the Civic Centre burned. to the ground by. fire: and totally destroyed. .

~ You will see that: the cost of - ‘fire insurance is‘significant’ in ‘the operating costs of buildings, . _ especially. those where. parties are held, liquor. ‘is. consumed ~

and. judgement sometimes.

becomes hazy. ; - You will agree ‘that after all the effort made to build

ithe! Tow {i Youn Saad Dal “svood frame. :

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anew. ‘arena, it would be footish.to risk:

An 11,00 square foot Tuilding used for assembly purposes, twostoreys high, so long as it is

‘separated by a fire wall from the Ice Arena, is classified by the National Building Code,

_ Group A Division 2, according

‘to my interpretation. -

I repeat, Lo the best of of my knowledge and it would be wise

for Mr. Thomas, the Building |

Inspector for Terrace, to check: ithis out very carefully, an 11,000

squaré foot building used for assembly purposes, two storeys

high is classified by the.

National Building Code Group A Division 2, so long as it is separated by a firewall from the Ice Arena.

Your building, thus classified, must be prolected by % hour construction, the firewall separation for 1 hour.

Your building is not 580 protected.

Now, I admit, that the Code i is long and complicated and open to interpretation by the Authority having jurisdiction - yourselves, 1t might be that a

“Well engineered’ building, as -

often proclaimed in some quarters does not need to comply as stringently as others.

My point is that well engineered or not, this building is a wood frame structure, just like the old Civic Centre, subject to fire risk to itself & the arena, and is not suitable for use by senior citizens or children or anybody else.

As far as the plan of the new centre is concerned, again avoidable flaws and mistakes are very evident. They tumble

- one upon the other.

It provides our recreation community three rooms: A _Hobby Room, An Assembly Hall and a Ssnior Vitizens Room.

For the Hobby Room a brief

was given lo Council on November 1, 1971 asking that the new facilities provide a 36 by 36 foot raom, one or two sinks with special drains, six duplex outlets, 220 wiring for a kiln and "a door to the outside as basic

requirements, with potters-

wheels, a large kiln, wall shelves and cupboards also required if possible.

Only wiring to the kiln is included i in aroom 14 feet by 18 fee

“Caréhitedt! - My offied # te aint The public has been. ignored. val. Terrate.?>-

You will recall, Alderman ‘Cooper, that at the expense of

the Municipality, yourself, Miss . Parmenter, The acting director - of Recrealion, Mr. Condie and *"

Myself, visited the recreation - complex in Port Alberni.

You will agree, I thal this facilty stood out as an example of fine planning. Its emphasis was on Senior citizens and the very young, as well as teenagers and normal adults. In that projeci there were ne stairs

’ to climb, all change in elevation was made by ramps, doors were. wide. It is & fine building.

Supplement No.5 of the

National Building Code is called Building Standards for .the ‘handicapped. Itis a guide and is not mandalory but it does deal with the proper design of public buildings so that any han- dicapped person, young or old, may use them fully and safely.

T have a letter on file signed -

by the Minister of Health

Services and Hospita] In-.

surance, Ralph’ Loffmark, dated July 7, 1972 “asking that all public buildings in the province of British Columbia comply with Supplemerit No.5.

The Senior Citizens Room as |;

you intend itis on the second’ floor. It is. reached by two flighis of icy stairs outside: ‘or: narrow internal stair wells inside. None’ of the. recom- mendations of Supplement: ‘NOS ‘is incorporated into the design , of this building. -

The Publle has been ignored,

Both Aris Council, and Bad- minton Club submitted:briefs to the Councilalso on November 1,” 1971... outlining’:

“comprises ihe . Little Theatre, Art Association,” ‘Light Opera” Association,. Concert < Associallon, North West Music Association’ and: the. Terrace Community Choir,” . Of . course,- no

groupscanbe accommodated i

,& Single assembly hall: - Inessence, out of all the biiet

it is clear that the hall. has't

am sure, -

: their . requirements, The Aris Council:

received from the tax payer. The building you are about to _ construct does not measure up. - You have ignored thé needs of. the organized clubs and: in- dividuals of Terrace, a

Never was so liltle gained at 30 great a cost will be your epitaph as council if ‘public money is wasted on this Project.

Let us builda lobby to the Ice Arena, -

Then let us buildfor the future a fine second stage of the recreation complex, a beautiful i Civie Centre that benefits the sile arid our Lown andthe future. Thank You.

‘Soutar Condie Associates Ar- . chitecture Planning

4663 Park Avente -

Terrace,: B.C,

Presentation .

to. council

'. In 1965. the School Board § talked the Municipal Council ; into purchasing land for Schoo] Him use on Loen Ave., bordered by : Sparks and Kalum.. ‘Purchase a ‘ price qas.in excess of $44,000.5e This was paidfor by the District = of Terrace, and a commitment

‘at the time given to the School

*Board thai the land received in exchange namely, Riversideg School grounds; would be.usedgiam for Municipal parpose. The Municipality received Title on the 8th of April 1965, but did no receive use of the land till 1970, .On January i6, 1970, Schoo Board Secrelary Wells wrote the Administrater of the District of Terrace enclosing a copy of a letter received from’ Mr. Dudley Little and Mr. Gorden Little acting on behall Bi of the George Little Estate, Rim pointing oul that (he Riverside Elementary School property ai bad been given to the School ame

Board for the sum of $1.00 as a Be gift for School purposes. Tqey Fie noticed thal the School Board no § longer required the property for § this purpuse and asked the Hm . School Board to set a price on# this parcel of land so that them Estate could re-purchase ily The records of 1965 aha hat | the Council at thal time. in- tended to honour the fact that this land had been given te the Him Community, and had, in fact, placed on record in its minutes ff . that it would be used for or Municipal purposes for all time. # On July 7th, 1972, over thea . local radio station CFTK a news (a report read by Mr, Len Harrington inthe Sports sec- tion, there was a hews item —% which indicated that the Terrace

Curling Club would be building

‘anew building on the Riverside

' Park land. | have today attem-§

pted to gel a copy of this

broadcast for submission. .to

Council tonight, but have been

' Tefused even though I have

asked Mr. J. Fred Weber . te

intercede on my behalf to obtain this information, They do agree} that this broadcast took place on the.7th July 1972. |

- After hearing { the broadcast, I

‘visited the . Municipal Oitices

asked to-see_ the Minutes: and

_ upon checking them, found]

there was no. sign ‘of any

dealings in connection with this dwnd. On Friday, August 11th, 1972, vafter my letter had appeared inf the-paper 1-was in to read the Minutes againi and J found them since. my ‘previous visit, Minutes dated the 10th of July, ; -authorizing: the advertising of; this land had been placed in the +..Minute Book. However, they make no reference:to what, the

., deal is-or’ any ‘background ' in

‘formaton:. for.instance; to my|

knowledge the “Curling Club]

“owes four yeurs taxes, a.sum i

excess of $5,000. Ifthe. ‘Curlin

Rink obtains: 1nd for $5,000

-8S it shows .in the’ Minutes: off

-July 10th, 1972, ‘and It alres

owes the: District of Terrace: ing

excess of $5,000,-they are'in fact : ‘land for: ‘hothing.§

requirements: of these. ‘varying -

have a slage, changing rooms, - hh 8 de

seal approximately 400 persons, have a flat floor large enough t provide: . ‘Badminton:

and music. Your agsoribly sing no changing

eee os defined by the

‘this is not a very ‘good business |

Senin a

\ a ‘prime ‘pléce of & roperty ‘ata’ lower’ than: fdir

arket ‘Value, and [ suggest to & you ladies.and gentlemen, that

o - ~ tax payer by briefa ‘written, and Z : 2 ty