Mill may attract
-“‘helter-skelter’ camp
_ regional board fears

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accept a $216,250 Ministry of Envinvament grant, but the

Ministry of Municipal Affairs was going to have to add»
. something to their current offer of $2.06 million for the

- project. ; ;

"We still need more money for the Queensway sewer and

-we can only do-it through further negotiations,” said
Watmough. He then suggested the regional district would
probably abandon a large-scale project and concentrate on at

town locally

by Tod Strachan corridor and tackled a portion of
that problem last year when they

Orenda Forest Products and their began a process of public consulta-

owned and operated newspaper.

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Thornhill ta eat oon 1... sort of
- Leoigl ative hic ey y ee age
~ There is stil] some negotiating t ce ar iaiamerct. Bud Reims y in the Bobsien Crescent area.
appears as though atleastapart oj ctoria Bal. | _— ginally proposed.an $8 million
sewers. Eitimat-Stikine Regional | ut ovided sewage services to the core _
Watmough said Saturday thatthe ey ix GP NEM ON nam as Well asa portion of Queensway.

Municipal Affairs, however, divided the project intotwo-
approximately equal segments and said they would fond 50;
core area project, ss

It isn’t enough, Watmough said in December. The cost to
individual home owners would be far too high. To complete
the project as planned, according to Watmough would take at

percent of a Queensway project and 25 percent of a Thornhill ||

‘least double the government funding now being offered.

. Vol. 7, Issue.No. 4

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Phone 635-7840
Fax 635-7269

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 23, 1991"

main logging contractor, Elsworth
Logging, were a major part of the
agenda at the Kitimat-Stikine
Regional District board mecting

last Saturday. Of specific interest’

was the current Crown status of
the Elsworth logging camp and
housing problems that might
become a concern if Orenda goes
ahead with their planned pulp and
paper mill between Cranberry
Junction and Meziadin.
According to a letter from Minis-
try of Crown Lands regional direc-
tor Jim Yardley, Elsworth has been
granted a 15-year lease for a log-
ging camp. This is a compromise
to their application for a 30-year

would control the area much like a -

tion in order to put together a
Meziadin development bylaw. The
bylaw, which is nearly complete,

community plan and prevent
“helter-skelter" conflicting develop-
ments that would be difficult if not
impossible to service. | .

Objection was filed: over the
Elsworth crown application
because, says Pete Weeber, the
logging camp was located and built
with no official status and is ex-
panding beyond the realm of log-
ging; a service station and store
are now located there as well.
"They ignored us," says director
Pete Weeber of the Ministry of

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lease, says Yardley, due to objec- Crown Lands.
tions noted by the Regional Dis- Several -years ago, Elsworth
trict of Kitimat-Stikine. Logging wanted to set up a log-
| The regional district has long’ ging camp and since this is nor-
been concerned about haphazard mally done by applying for a
development in the Highway 37 — continued on page A2

_- Dramatic fire
being investigated

A flery red glow reflected against low clouds. Blinding white
flashes and a shower of white hot sparks... this was the scene at a
couple of Thornhill St. residences at about 7:00 a.m. Tuesday mom-
ing.

According to Thornhill fire chief Art Hoving the fire began in a
guest house at the rear of a private residence. The son of the
property owner was living in the guest house and he apparently woke
up in darkness Tuesday morning to the sound of a fire.

By the time the fire was brought under control, the guest house was
destroyed, two bedrooms, a bathroom and a part of the exterior of the
nearby main residence on the properly were extensively damaged,
rendering it unliveable, and a neighbouring garage was gutted.

Also destroyed in the fire, according to Hoving, was an apparently
uninsured 1977 Ford Mustang that had been 80 percent restored.
Hoving adds that the fire in the main residence was particularly
difficult to extinguish because the structure was originally a mobile
home to which a second roof and an exterior wall had been attached.

Hoving says the occupant of the guest house was a non-smoker and
the cause of the blaze {s yet to’ be determined. There is no estimate at
this time of the value of property damaged or destroyed in the fire.

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A blinding shower of high-voltage sparke was part of the scene yesterday morning in a
residential area of Thornhill as fire ripped through a storage shed and caused extensive damage
to an adjacent house and some nieghbouring property. See story to left for details.