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FOR YEARS people driving the highway from Terrace to Prince Rupert have had to round the sharp corner under Carwash Rock about 50km west of here.

The narrow piece of road has historically posed a ha- zard to motorists,

But by the end of March that stretch of road will not only be wider, but a lot more safer for drivers.

“Some big rig drivers and bus drivers have had some

close cails out there,” said Greg Ross project coordina-.

tor for the ministry of transportation and highways.

“We are trying to increase the distance between the travel lane and that rock wall," said Ross.

_ The increased space ~ up to 1.5 metres of it — be- tween the inside lane and the rock outcropping is expec- ted to increase drivers’ sight distance. ,

The project will also increase the clearance by 12 metres which should make rounding that comer less dan- gerous particularly for larger vehicles.

A Chase, B.C. company has been awarded the $119,300 contract to remove 300 cubic metres of rock from the bluff.

The crews are drilling 600 linear meters of rock bolts into the rock to stabilize the bluff. They're spending a lot of time dozens of meters up on the rock face suspended by ropes in order to drill he holes for the bolts.

Drilling began March 5 and blasting is expected to’

take place into the March 17 weekend.

Traffic delays in the area are to be expected but the ministry is posting road closure times on the overhead electronic signs west of Terrace and east of Prince Ru- pert.

So far, says contractor Mike Hall, the project is on schedule. He also said that run-off from above the rock

face will slill drip onto the road and passing vehicles. It

will still be Carwash Rock.

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CHRIS WOUTERS is one of ten people drilling and blasting at Carwash Rock 48 km west of Terrace.

BILL HALL is roped up and hanging

and co-worker Rob Seymour drill holas in the rock face of Carwash Rock. Nine- metre balts are inserted to stabilize the bluff once blasting is completed.

Skeena ridi

takes in all of Kitwanga

A SLIGHT change in the electoral boun- daries means more Kitwanga sesidents will be voting in the Skeena constituency in the coming provincial election,

In the past boundaries followed Hwy 37 and some Kitwanga residents voted in Skeena and the rest voted in Bulkley Vatley-Stikine.

That’s changed in the latest redrawing of the boundaries, and all Kitwanga vo- ters will now be part of Skeena.

The riding’s major population centres are Terrace and Kitimat.

The other change means residents of the tiny village of Hartley Bay on the coast now will vote in North Coast, along

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with residents of Prince Rupert, the Queen Charlotte islands, the Nass Valley and Stewart.

The population of the Skeena riding is 34,210, according to Elections B.C.

That’s 27.4 per cent below the 49,640 average population for a riding that was the goal when the boundaries were last redrawn.

Local people and politicians in 1998 persuaded the electoral boundary com- mission to allow this and other northern ridings to remain largely unchanged.

Four more ridings were added in the urban south, meaning B.C. will elect a total of 79 MLAs this election.

Helmut confirmed

FIFTY SUPPORTERS turned out March 3 to con- firm Helmut Giesbrecht as the NDP’s candidate in Skeena in the next provincial election.

‘Giesbrecht's nomination was not opposed, Skee- na’s MLA said he’d fight based on his record.

“If you filter out international economic pres- sures that no provincial government could with- stand, our record is one of achievement and invest- ment in ail regions of this province,” Giesbrecht said.

Dead man identified

SUXTY-NINE- year-old Lionel Sears was identified last week as the man who died in a Thornhill house fire Feb, 23.

According to fire officials it appeared that Mr. Sears was putting wood in his wood stove when his clothing caught on fire.

Police attending the call confirmed Sears had died at the scene. No foul play is suspected,

School site debated

ARCHITECTS and Coast Mountains Schoo! Dis- trict administrators will be on hand Wednesday. afternoon for a public information session on the Skeena replacement school.

The meeting starts at 4 p.m. today in the Skeena Junior Secondary School gym. Anyone interested in how the pians for the $12 million project are shaping up is encouraged to attend.

Construction on the replacement schcol is slated to begin this spring. The architect firm of Grant and Sinclair is expected to present design drawings,

The school district has hired a project manage- ment team from the Surrey school district to help.

Two convicted

after grizzly bear shot

TWO MORICETOWN men have been convicted of unlawful possession, trafficking of dead wildlife and making false statements to wildlife officials.

Gerald Arthur Tait and John James Joseph now face jail terms, fines and suspended sentences stemming from a 1999 incident.

A Hazelton man shot and killed a grizzly bear on his property in September 1999, He turned the hide over to Tait and Joseph, who held a valid hunting permit for the bears, said the ministry.

The two men took the hide to the ministry’s wildlife branch for compulsory inspection and claimed that Joseph was the shooter. The hide was then sold to a taxidermist, said the ministry.

Tait will serve two conditinnal jail sentences totalling 6 months, he will have to pay a $500 fine and $400 restitution to the taxidermist.

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