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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1990 Vol. 6, Issue No. 48°

Phone 635-7840 Fax 635-7269

One vote decides ‘regional board seat

Sandy Sandhals has been declared the winner of the Area ’C’ director’s seat for the Regional District of Kitimat-Stikine. A recount yesterday morning changed nothing; the voting stands at 145 for Sandhals, 144 for incumbent Gordon Robinson and 67 for Bill Hayes. With the final count in, Sandhals becomes the new Area ’C’ director while Les Watmough, Harry Nyce, Fred Roisum and David Brocklebank won the remaining area director

positions by acclamation.

Sandhals, a 17-year resident of Terrace, says it was close and he hopes the layout of the ballot is changed for the 1993 election. The layout of this year’s ballot, he explained, placed the circles for marking the voter’s choice next to the perforation. Perfora- tions don’t always work as they should, and the perforation failed on two ballots cast in Sandhals’ favour. . |

This resulted. in the °X’ being torn off. This time, the error was

“caught at the polls, but if it hadn’t, says Sandhals, the two ballots

would have been declared spoiled and today’s headlines would have read "Robinson wins by a vote".

And "close" is still haunting Terrace city council. hopeful | Adrian Van de Mosselaer. After a recount in the city vote, Darryl Laurent and Danny Sheridan swapped fifth and sixth place but Van de Mosselaer was still out in the cold in seventh place.

There were, however, only four votes between fifth and seventh spot and some ballots cast, according to Van de Mosselaer, that were questionable. Whether they were spoiled or not is a matter of opinion. For that reason, he called for a judicial recount and as of press time yesterday was waiting to hear from his lawyer whether or not the judge had decided if there are suificient

grounds for a recount.

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draws concerns

‘In general terms, the Kitimat- Stikine Regional District board of directors likes Orenda’s propcsal for a pulp mill and coated paper plant in the Van Dyke forest area. But they have some major con- cerns as well, concerms that are part of the continuing saga of indiscriminate land development in the Highway 37 corridor.

Orenda has proposed the con- struction of a $310 million pulp and paper plant near Swan Lake, 55 kilometres south of Meziadin, that will provide 143 full-time jobs and produce 173,000 tons of light coated paper annually. This mill would use a grinding process rather than chlorine for puip pro-

duction, and according Orenda vice-president Frank Foster that means it would be a zero-effluent operation.

These are the things the regional board likes: new jobs, efficient use of local timber and what appears to be an environmentally safe operation. But in the board’s mind, it might be better if Orenda were to move their operation closer to communities with existing services such as sewer, water and schools. Stewart and Kilsault were two locations the board named last Saturday.

For years the regional board has

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Definitely winter...

Natalle Monteith, looking happy to be skiing rather than shovelling, paid a visit to the Shames Mountain ski resort last week. Natalie and her family were on the mountain jast Sunday moming, testing the snow and being photographed for the cover of the Northern 8.C. Winter Games magazine.

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