IF KINCOLITH residents wanted to visit relatives in other Nass Valley villapes before last month, it often meant a ferry ride south to Prince Rupert and then a highway journey through ‘Terrace before re-entering the valley itself.

‘But since a 29km road connecting the coastal vil- lage to the rest of the Nass opened, residents have a ‘much easier time of it. “My husband and I had “Christmas dinner in Greenville,” said Kincolith merchant Winnie Deolan Fast week of the first vil- lage Kincolith residents encounter upon connecting up. with the rest of the Nisga’a highway.

“It was so neat we were

we.couldn’t.”

Doolan also reported

~ one of the first tourist vi-

“sitors - two people from

Rosswood,

“My daughter met them

on the dock,” she said. “We've been getting a lot of traffic. The view from the road is just beau- tiful.”

“But sometimes I miss the quietness and our own privacy.”

Kincolith for years has been connected to Prince Rupert by ferry and by. float plane.

- From that has deve- loped . business, commer- cial, recreational, family and community ties.

But the last ferry ser- vice takes place this week and float plane service has been cut back.

‘It’s a sign Terrace is re- placing Prince Rupert as

*. Kincolith’s main connec- .: tion, says Doolan. “It?s been a fast change in how we do things,” she said. “Terrace is the cen- tral area now.”

*Kincolith chief council- lor Nelson Clayton joined Doolan’s assessment of the road.

able to do that. In the past ’

KINGOLITH MERCHANT Winnie Doolan says residents of the village at the mouth of the Nass River are taking full advantage of a new road which. con- nects them with the rest of the Nass Valley. YUICHI TAKASAKA PHOTO

Village enjoys road benefits

but other than that, every- thing is OK,” said Clayton.

village council has ordered two water taxi-style boats. The intent is to offer

vice to Prince Rupert for people who don’t have ve- hicle access to Terrace, said Clayton.

And the plan is also to use them for eco-tourism ventures now that there is road access to the village.

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Maintaining the road is going according to plan, says an official from the local road maintenance company.

“There have been a couple of days of freezing rain and people have to

“It means we can go anyplace at any time,” he said.

“It really helps this time of the year. We've

been so isolated but now

we're able to go and visit when we want.” -

Both Clayton and Doo- lan are happy with the way the road is being main- _tained.

winter.

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But both say it has to be driven cautiously in the

“Just before New Year’s., we had some freezing rain,

drive with caution,” said Peter Landsdowne of Ne- - chako Northcoast. “Every stretch has its own micro climate we’ve got to learn,” he added.

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Despite the road now . being open, the Kincolith ©

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‘WHEN YOU LEASE OR PURCHASE VIRTUALLY”

_ Kincolith..... policing ‘change

coming

‘road to Kincolith, the

detachment is getting a little bigger. '- “As I understand it, in our new fiscal year the du- ties of policing Kincolith will be handed over to our detachment,” says Set. Don Murray.

That means by April 2003 the policing duti¢s in Kincolith will change hands from Prince Rupert, the detachment now responsible for servicing the small village, to the Lisims/Nass Valley de- tachment.

Officers either flew into Kincolith, located at the mouth of. the Nass River

on. the coast north of

Prince Rupert, or used boats.

-. With the new respons- ibility comes money for at least one more member, Sgt. Murray says.

» That new member will be. a constable and likely

won't arrive until after the.

‘beginning of the fiscal year in Aprif 2003.

-*_ Details of how the de- .

tachment will handle ex- panding its service area have yet to be worked out, .. "There is consideration of establishing members to work and reside in the community of Greenville,” .-Murray said. ;

.; The Nisga’a Highway: .

'. stopped at Greenville, also

-known-as Lakalzap, prior .. ‘to the opening of the Kin- —:

. colith road extension.

~Kineolith is 29km west

of Greenville.

Currently there is What's called a sub-station -office in the village, but

“there is no. permanent po- -

- © lice presence.

Also being explored is

~. locating a storefront office in Kincolith itself. . “We're working on it

Murray says.

WITH THE opening of the: _ Lisims/Nass Valley RCMP.

flow and a tof of things ae

have to be finalized,” Sgt. ~~

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