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Dreams, wonder and tears. Of these things Christmas Is made. But even tired tears give way to excitement as Christmas Day nears. These children are from the Child Development Centre and stopped by Skeena Mall to add a few decorations to thelr third annual ‘Tree of Lights" last week. They and thelr friends at the center hope you will stop by and purchase some lights for their tree because all proceeds to towards supporting the center and every light added helps make their future a little bit brighter. The Tree of Lights will be lit this Fri- day at 7:30 p.m.

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ming in the sewage lagoon con-

templating parenthood. What could be more idyllic? When you’re in management, though,

you can’t always afford to be

sentimental, and the muskrats

river banks riddled with muskrat diggings. have been known ‘to.

‘collapse. In the case. of the ©

Ave, But even if the. lagoon -_ . didn’t: entirely. collapse, one ‘of

have been removed. It was either’.

them or our sewage lagoon.

The behavior of these muskrats, though, may be a statement on the effectiveness of Terrace’s new sewage treatment facility, It seems these furry little creatures seek out shelter come the first’ frost — cattails or an old beaver lodge sometimes do — but most often muskrats like to burrow into the banks of a fresh mountain river or stream. But in this: case, the muskrats apparently decided the lagoon was more attractive then the nearby Skeena River.

But muskrats are very active tunnelers and for the city’s Public Works department this presented a problem. Muskrats have long sharp claws and love to dig. So much so, in fact, that

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lagoon, this isn’t a comforting — thought for. those ‘living at the west-end of Graham or on Mills

the little guys could have gotten

going so strong that he might

have popped right out the other side, Admittedly, this wouldn’t have created a great leak, but it’s

not the sort of thing to attract

tourists either.

The bottom line, however, is

just what these muskrats in-

tended to do in the banks of our lagoon, Breed. They can have up .

to four litters a year with as many as 10 of the little diggers in each. Considering the damage that hundreds could do, Public Works obviously. had no other choice but to remove mom and

dad. So even though tourists.

may still find Kermodes in the dump, don’t send them to the lagoon because it’s now void of life... the fur-bearing kind,

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