o TERRACE — Canada Safeway

has reriewed. a. purchase option —

ona piece of land across Ottawa

St. fro g says. B company spokesman.

‘= The option with land owners -

me Okanagai- Skeena ‘Group. was tic extended ‘Jan. 10, alter, the first.” tember, exe

‘one,” taken’ lait : pired..

its present. nation,

_ 2 Price of the. extension, which’ : expires ‘the end of July this year ‘is $20,000 while the first option’

Jandt tiles records. : ; sid the spokerman Don Bel

The. Sptioae covers the

undeveloped portion of. proper-,

ty bounded by Ottawa St, Keith, . Ave. and: LakelseAve. that is: . owned by Okanagan-Skeena_

Group...

According to the option filed.

with ‘the “and. ‘tithes office,

Canada Safeway: could: ‘have also purchased the property: as

of Jan. 10 for a bric $500,000. i

on hold early last year pending ¢ a

reexamination - of .- what ° it

wanted to do. : The company is the parent, of

, Skeena Broadcasters which 1 has. ; cable operations and real estate’

: other places i in B.C... ” Okanegan-Skeena ( Group two. 7

and : half years -ago’ said: it. wanted to develop that land and - also the land already containing . businesses but put. those plans’.

‘purchased ' property in Prince

store in that lty.

extensive radio, television. and.

holdings in the ‘northwest and

Canada| Safeway last | year :

Rupert and has received ap- provals Necessary | for a bas

“TERRACE — Fears of con- “flict in the’ Persian Gulf pro-. “mpted the school board last’ week to cancel a trip to Greece planned by Hazelton high school students. .

Trustees voted Jan. 8‘ ta withdraw. approval. for ‘the trip,

They. ‘instead gave approval-in-principal to ef. forts to find a'safer alternate destination — possibly Mex-.

|| Greece trip off

— for the students, |

the “Hazelton . students * were to make the trip during — Easter holidays: ‘and would - have. had to ‘pay, for their. : airline tickets by. today, 8)... ~! ‘Terrace trustee Wayne Braid ‘daid it. was unfair, to”, force: students’. families to decide. whether to’ pay. the ,

$3,200 each .for.the..non-.1:

refundable tickets ‘given, th situation. Ss

oan

It'll be 42,000 square feet i in size, double that of the Prince

cost! $5; 000, , indicate: provincial:

Rupert store it mow has.

dighways ministry issues four com pliance orders -

TERRACE = the hig “hi ahways with equipment breakdowns. contractots wen true; nistry has issued four notices ministry spol esman i companies * doing ‘road

“year. . A compliance order dg the’ Se- crane Hari pore lac une tore “ed hi ; or

a ine uahways min istry in Dease. Lake. built after a 1990

. fire deitrayed ‘its old base and:

says’ ‘a

Jane” ‘Sparkes gaid the ministry Tegatds releasing: ‘infor- mation: on: contractors inthe

_ ~ iPtres over road “and bridge. that this has helped its ability to Same fashion ws it would in

ane ‘ean of oraers to comply was ‘years go. work just over two. provide snowclearing. vere employe ‘on 5 pan ' : '. govertiment-emplo ces, ; (Mea, North: Coast Road t-it; one’ ‘step above non- LO IO 8 PON

‘conformance, .Eéports- which — ree ‘outline: individual drone. ‘that. vetueein, ? “attention: and one EP

| Mewspapers®that highways “pdow a default mo tye. 4 :. thinister Rita: Johnston will i which “work is! fault: release a report card on private

“away froin the ‘maintenance —

The only. time the. sniniatry would: release such information

said.

is ifa company is replaced or if: it won't be siven anew one, she

TERRACE ~—. Approval has

- been given to prepare a set of

preliminary design drawings for an expansion at the Terrace-

Kitimat airport, ‘says its manager, Darryl! Laurent said the draw-

ings will give the federal govern- ment a better idea of construc- tion cost.

Approval after that step will lead to final drawings in preparation for tendering, he said.

“We expect to. get effective

-project approval in April or - May, This could: ‘be the:

ay iP

year and construction’ next if everything goes according ta’ plan,” Laurent added, |

What's wanted i is more public waiting area, better service?

. space for. aiglines, anew holding “yoom; ani indoor baggage belt, a _ different location for. the’ gift

-shop,-a remodelled Testaurant ’ and space for what could bea

lounge, he said.

irport expansion possible —

t This would be the third m major’

expansion ‘at the” ‘airport since: 1986. A new flight services sta- tion opened in 1988 and. fast. year, a combined services building to hold firefighting and maintenance equipment was, constructed, : Laurent also. said a re-: surfacing of the airport’s main. runway will take place this year.: Runway 15-33 is 6,000 feet: long : and 150 feet wide. Ot tee z And while the airport looks to expansion, it’s expected to

have 100,000 to 101,000, passengers pass through its:

doors this year, ; ' That’ be down a bit from

previous. years which, touched ;

104,000 passengers. 3

“If we. stay over. 100,000, that'll be fine,’” said Laurent?

He's anticipating a bit of a slow first: quarter this year with

- business to pick up as 1991, ro-

gresses.

White Cane Club promoter faces | assault charge

TERRACE — A promoter be- ing investigated in connection with the White Cane Club varie- ty show scandal has been charg- ed with assaulting the group’s vice-president. - ;

John Albert. McDonald is charged with assaulting White Cane vice-president Elizabeth Hong, aswell as Alterra Jane Tait. He appears in court on the twq assault charges Jan. 17.

The 42-year-old Terrace man is alleged to have assaulted the

_ {wo women Sept. 22, 1990.

Hong said she hasn't seen McDonald since the club's Dec. 15'show to benefit the local

+ blind -support group was

cancelled. People who bought $6 tickets to the scheduled per- formance were turned away at the door.

McDonald organized the sales of an unknown amount of tickets to the show. Club of- ficials say all the money is gone, and RCMP have seized all the receipt books and records.

Two other shows McDonald was organizing in Kitimat and Prince Rupert either didn’t go

ahead or were hastily te: organized.

Hong and White Cane Club. president Felix Goyette say the club never received any of the. money from the tickets: that were sold,

and given to anothiet :

‘meet siloweldiring requirements. ‘during a major snowstorttt, o

f equipinent thas. and: the number’ of operators. Thete’s been no ma-) lor storm up there yet to test our it

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