A8 - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, July 2, 2003

Vandals ransack local greenhouse and leave gift behind

TWO PACKAGES of oriental noodles were left after vandals ransacked a green house in the Terrace Anti-poverty com- munity garden located on the 2700 block of Evergreen St.

A gardener arrived at the scene at 7:30 am on June 27 to discover four missing tomato plants, ripped up pepper plants and other damage.

One opened and one. unopened. pack- age of noodles was also found. -

A wooden pallet was still against the chicken-wire fence surrounding the gar- den which garden coordinator Paula Shimmel believes helped the guilty party enter the property.

Shimmel said the perpetrator o1 perpe- trators tried to get into the garden shed as well, but was unable.

“It’s senseless vandalism,” said.

Shimmel said she was angered by the vandalism because plants destroyed were to be used to feed poverty-stricken fa-

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milies this summer.

The main Terrace churches food bank is closed during the summer months, ac- cording to Shimmel, so the anti-poverty group, among others, is looking for ways to feed hungry families in Terrace,

Shimmel: is looking for people who have spare time and want to grow their own food or food for others.

She also.need..yolunteers to. help clean up the garden which spans over nearly an acre, ,

She hopes to ‘make the community garden a place for families to go and hang oul, get some exercise, and barbe- cue,

She also suggested that those in men- tal heaith homes could come to the gar-

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A HANDSHAKE agreement between New Skeena Forest Products and siivicul- turatists Brinkman and Associates for the latter to take over silviculture work on the company’s TPL [ licence area has local planting contractors worried.

“We've basically been excluded from this process,” Ken Kubota of Backwoods Contracting told city council members June 23,

Kubota and other local silviculture en- terprises said New Skeena began talks with Brinkman without involving local contractors. “We just want an opportunity to compete in an open market,” Kubota said.

The city is writing Dan Veniez, presi- dent of New Skeena, outlining council’s support for local contractors.

“He should be doing everything he can to create jobs in the local community,” said councillor David Hull of Veniez.

Don Stuart, another executive of New Skeena, said the company has to look for more cost-effective ways of running its business once it is able to open up opera- tions again.

He said the company is focussed on securing what it needs to being operations and that agreements with contractors is not a main concern right now.

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Brinkman and Associates is a private- ly-owned company based out of New Westminster with an office on Agar Ave. in Terrace. They have been working with New Skeena, formerly Skeena Cellulose Inc., since 1976.

“Brinkman considers itself a local contractor,” said Cathy Craig, regional manager for Brinkman and Associates.

“We have every right to work in the Terrace area. We are just conducting business as usual.”

Craig said the company is discussing long-term stewardship agreements with New Skeena, but nothing has been agreed upon,

“I don’t know what the big deal is, to be perfectly honest,” Craig said.

“In my opinion, everything has been really blown out of proportion. No one even knows if they (New Skeena) will be a company in six months.”

Some local contractors hope to put for- ward a proposal for TFL 1 next fall when the Brinkman and Associates contract is up.

. Stuart said local contractors should continue to follow the issue.

“They should be keeping in touch with Skeena, understanding the company's needs and how they can meet those needs,” he said.

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