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Vol. 4, Issue No. 4

Surprise, Bob!

Caught off guard, local office machine dealer Bob Wilkinson appeared
somewhat astonished at being selected Business Executive of the Year by -
the Terrace and District Chamber of Commerce last week. For story, see

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Unopposed bid gets
unique timber sale

Bill Harvie of Vanderhoof
said he was surprised when no
one else bid on a timber license
sale for a stand of birch and
aspen near Meziadin. Harvie
said he believed there would
have been much more interest if
the birch had been for export,
but because the timber had to be
processed in B.C, he was unop-
posed in the bidding and suc-
cessful in obtaining a cutting
license for 50 cents per cubic
meter. The sale took place at the
Ministry of Forests district of-

' fice in Terrace Jan. 18.

by Tod Strachan

According to Harvie, this type

of contract is a first in B.C., and
he believes the production. of
birch lumber could be profitable
and also create employment. He
expects to be employing about
10 people within the first year of
operation, ;
Harvie. said he has been con-
sidering the idea for several
years and has done intensive
research over the past year and a
half after giving the idea to the

continued on page 23

Sixth generation

Tom (T.J.) Turner (the smalt one In the center), born in Milis Memorial Hospital last month, Is the sixth in his family
to carry that name. Grandmother Gail Turner, mother Laura (Kohl) Turner and father Tom (of course) Turner recent-
ly gathered with a Terrace Review reporter to discuss the family’s history, For story, see page 17.

. Betty Barton photo

TERRACE — A bid by Alder-
man. Ruth Hallock to open
North Sparks St. to unrestricted
log hauling was narrcwly
defeated at Monday’s council
meeting. Mayor Jack Talstra
cast the deciding vote after
council opinion was split on the
motion sparked by complaints
of violations of.a permit system
Hallock says is unenforceable.
Aldermen Mo Takhar, Danny
Sheridan and Doug Smith op-
posed Hallock’s motion which
stated that restrictions regarding
log hauling on North ‘Sparks
should be removed and the route
from the Kitselas/North Sparks
intersection to the
Halliwell/Kalum Lake Drive -in-
tersection should be designated
as an arterial hauling route open
to all traffic.
In making the motion,
Hallock said she was concerned
two years ago, when Bell Pole
said they intended to use the
route to haul timber out of the
Kitselas area, because of the
‘‘deplorable’’ condition of
Halliwell. But she said it had
“‘long been clear’’ that Halliwell
could not be upgraded by
“straight taxation’’ because of
the high cost factor involved and
“it seemed expedient that a cost
sharing plan that would involve

Halliwell property owners under
an LIP arrangement would
bring that job into the realm of
possibility’’.

Hallock told council that this
has now happened. A _ cost-
sharing agreement has been
made to upgrade the gravel por-
tion of Halliwell this year and it
appears the same will happen
with the paved portion next
year, ‘We'll end up ultimately

with Halliwell Avenue complete-.

ly rebuilt to arterial highway
standards,”’ she said.

**It goes without saying,’’ said
Hallock, ‘‘that the Kitselas ac-
cess, used for years by logging
trucks and other traffic and

- equipment, would naturally be

considered available when the
Kitselas timber licence was given
to Bell Pole

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“The North Sparks/Halliwell

route has been used for many, —

many years — even long before
Halliwell Avenue and the pro-
perties abutting thereto became
part of the municipality in the
1950's. Prior to that time the
property owners had enjoyed the
unique privilege of holding hob-
by farm land tracts without pay-
ing taxes into the general
revenue coffers of Terrace. They
lived in an unorganized area
similar to Thornhill today.”’
Hallock continued by saying
that when the municipal boun-
daries were extended Halliwell
property owners began to look

.for “tangible evidence of im-

provements and services to the
bench area’’. She said many im-
provements were put in place,
but Halliwell was never properly
finished,

“Token paving was done
from Sparks to Thomas, and has
long since been pounded into
oblivion — not by logging trucks
— but by all manner of traffic,”
she said, pointing out that

-Halliwell was subject to the

same weight restrictions as pro-
vincial highways.

‘*When we were faced by an

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tain, a pretty decent town.”’

Hallock said that the city now
has a ‘‘decent Halliwell
assured’’, jobs are waiting in the
Kitselas area, and: ‘‘Here we
stand with a permit system that
prevents trucks from accessing
Halliwell, except at specific
times, in order to insure safety
for Uplands School children in a
school zone that is the same as
school zones all over this pro-
vince — posted at 30 kilometers
per hour.”’

According to Hallock, there
have only been three fatalities on
Halliwell. in the past 25 years,
and ‘‘none of them involved log-
ging trucks”.

‘*In my view the safety aspect .

under such circumstances has
been fully addressed, except for
perhaps the proven dangers in-
curred by the drivers of vehicles
that are used for transporting
children to and from Uplands
School. Some of those drivers
could stand a bit of extra atten-
tion,’’ Hallock said.

Hallock told council that the
time has come when they should
take a stand and stick by it. ‘“We
have the choice of doing that or

onslaught of citizens’? con- running again and allowing the

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‘were badly misinformed, spark-

tinued-Haltoek;-“some-of ‘them~~problem, ~ and~ the: subsequent- ~~~

ed to protest by one or two key
instigators, and many of them
were more concerned with pro-
perty devaluation than anything
else.”

“And the council of that
day,” said Hallock, ‘‘did not
bite the bullet. We restricted the
use of North Sparks and effec-
tively stopped logging truck ac-
cess to Halliwell Avenue.”’

‘In the interim, we toyed with
some ridiculous alternate con-
cepts, not the least of which was
using City of Terrace taxpayers
money to assist in building a log-
ging road outside of the City of
Terrace boundaries.

‘‘Meanwhile, logging ac-
tivities and potential jobs in the
Kitselas timber holdings were
placed in limbo, and our pro-
crastinations were affecting not
just the corporate coffers of the
major Terrace mills but the very
livelihood of Terrace subcon-
tractors, fallers, chokermen,
skidder operators and truck
drivers in this community. And
this is a community that didn’t
come to pass because the tooth
fairy looked on it with favor,
but because loggers and
timbermen found a means (to
work, make a half decent living
for themselves and _ their
families, and create and main-

abuse, from one or two property,
owners with self-serving motiva-

tions to impede our judgement.”

She urged council to vote in
favor of her motion and con-
cluded by asking them to
“eliminate the troublesome,
time consuming and non-
enforceable permit system that
now exists’’.

‘Anything less, in my view, is
not only a travesty in terms of
economic buoyancy, but it’s also
a farce in terms of common
sense."

However, Hallock’s plea was lost
on Talstra, Takhar, Sheridan and
Smith. Their comments varied
slightly, but in general, they agreed
it would be prudent to maintain
the system in use and ask ad-
ministration to enforce the pre-
sent restrictions, by cancelling
permits if necessary, until the
promised provincial cost-sharing
money to upgrade Halliwell is
‘Sin the bank’’.

Smith also asked for more in-
formation on an earlier com-
ment by Bob Cooper who said
the ‘‘arterial’’? designation of

‘Halliwell would be mandatory

under the provincial govern-
ment’s cost-sharing program.

Inside
Business Guide 12
Church Directory 10
Classified Ads 21
Coming Events 14
Comics 20
Crossword 20
Dining Directory 2
Entertainment 2
Horoscope 16
Letters 5,6
Opinions 4
Sports 8.
Stork 6
Talk of tha Town 5

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