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WEDNESDAY, MAY. 31, 1989 "Vol. 5, Issue No. 22° Cees

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TERRACE -— Local business-. . . man: Wayne Braid is the newest

trustee on the board of School District 88.

Braid received . just over §5 |

percent of the vote in the lightly-

* attended byelection held May 27 ~ to replace trustee Barbara John- "gon, who: resigned i in February.

. Of the 528 ballots cast, 348

went to. Braid, Flip Cervo got 93 |

and Jean Kryzanowski received 85. School District 88 secretary- treasurer ‘Barry Piersdorff. said

- there were two rejected ballots. Piersdorff said the turnout

represented about three percent

. of eligible voters, adding, ‘‘That -*, works out to between $10 and _ $12-per. vote’’ in terms‘ of the cost .of organizing. the. byelec-

tion.

’ ‘He expects: Braid to be sworn.

in ‘almost .immediately”’ in- or- der to allow:him to begin partici-

os -..pating in board committee work - _before the final public meeting

Of the school year June 13.

- Braid didn’t campaign on a specific-issue platform, but he expressed interest in the steep funding increases promised for the next few years by the Minis- try of Education and said he believes he can help School Dis-

trict 88 secure its fair share of

the bonanza.

Wayne Braid to assume § school trustee seat

half ago.

A few residents from Terracevlew Lodge enjoyed a noon hour picnic in in George Little Memorial Park on Monday. Outings such as this are looked forward to with anticipation by Terraceview residents and are made possible through the use of a mini-bus donated to the lodge by Terrace Chrysler and the Rotary Club about a year and a

Untimely end for bears

Three two-year-old black bears were shot in the Merkley Road area north of Terrace last week,

According to conservation of- ficer Terry McGunigle, a Ker- modei mother and her three cubs moved into the area on Tuesday, May 23,. when the bears managed to enter a crawl space at a Willow Creek Drive residence, damaging water pipes and causing leaks. They later

took on the exterior of the.

house, damaging windows and a door. McGunigle says the bears may have been attracted by fish

fertilizer that was sprayed i in the garden earlier.

The following day, McGuni-. .gle says, a trap was set for the

mother near the residence. He says he was called back to the residence at about 5:30 p.m. that day and found two of the cubs had been caught in the trap. The two cubs were released in the belief they would leave the area — but they didn’t. He was called

‘back at 9 p.m. that evening and

had to shoot one of the cubs. McGunigle says the remaining

~cubs moved to the Merkley -Road area a few hundred yards

400 i in the 10-K on May 28,

. u . , . - ‘ Big run for Ansems While on a_ business trip to the lower mainland last weekend, Terrace resident Ed Ansems decided he’s enter the Hazelmere Vajlley five and 10-kilometer race in Surrey.

_ The decision added another victory to the well-known local runner's laurels — he placed first-out of a field of more than

Ansems i is a teacher at Cassie Hall Elementary School.

Fishing lodge blows by the bylaws — editorial,

east of Willow Creek Drive on Thursday. There they ripped

_ Open a bag of garbage sitting on

the rear deck of one of the residences before trying to enter the house and causing consider- able damage to the back door and exterior of the house. He says he was called again and had to. shoot both of them. The mother hasn’t been seen since and is presumed to have left the area. ,

Two-year-old cubs . are not.

afraid of people, says MeGuni- gle. They are energetic and play- ful and at the same time disobe-

‘dient to the mother. They also

lack all fear of humans and will enter homes in search of food.

McGunigle says the usual bear season runs from about April to November, depending on the weather, and during that time extra care should be taken to make sure garbage is sealed in plastic garbage bags and then placed in a metal container: to confine the odor.

-CN derailment dumps coal cars into Skeena

‘The CN raif line between Ter- race and Prince Rupert was closed by a derailment at Tyee,

. 80 kilometers west of Terrace, Monday morning. Traffic on the

line was restored at about 1:30 a.m. May 30,

The incident occurred when 16 loaded coal cars left the track on a westbound train headed for Ridley Terminals. Seven of the cars ended up in the Skeena

River. Provincial Emergency Program zone manager Allan Waddy said there was no obstruction of Highway 16 and no injuries occurred as a result of the derailment.

‘Department of Fisheries representatives say the coal

doesn’t constitute a serious ‘danger to fish.

Cause of the accident is unknown.

Council OK’s art project

The Terrace and District

Chamber of Commerce propos-

al to enlist the help of a high school art class to paint a sports theme mural on the cement wall of the Kalum St. tennis courts has been approved by city coun- cil.

- Council was initially con- cerned that a lack of supervision could result in the artwork con-

taining material that. may be offensive to some passersby due to the artists’ youthful sense of ' expression ~- so they’ve added | one condition to their approval. That the mural be designed and painted “in consultation. with the Superintendent of Parks and Recreation’’. With this bit of. insurance in place, the Recrea- tion Committee had no problem recommending approval.