New building constructed

Arecent project at Heritage Park resulted in the successful completion of a storage and display
facility for the site. A group of workmen were provided through a Job Strategy Program from
Canada Employment and Immigration. A grant from B.C. Lotteries also alded the project finan-

cially.

Room to spare.

Heritage Park’s spacious,.new storage and display bullding is the result of a grant by the B.C,
Lotteries Foundation and a lot of hard work by the Terrace Raglonal Museum Society. Through a
Canada Employment Centre Jobs 8 Strategy Program, workmen were available for the construc-
tton of tha. building. Look,

TERRACE — Construc-
tion of a storage and dis-
play building on Heritage
Park for the Terrace Reg-
ional Museum Society was
completed on March 30.

by Mamie Kerby.
Terrace contributor

The building measures
30 feet by 84 feet. Features
post and beam construc-
tion with a cedar. shake
roof and board and batten
exterior. A floating con-

crete slab provides the —

foundation and floor.
Funding for the build-

ing was provided by a Job

Strategy .Program “from

Canada Employment and.

ditional funding plus
‘donations of time and

material were provided by

the Terrace Regional
Museum Society.

Client workers were
provided by the Canada

. Employment’ Centre.
Workmen on the project -

were: Richard Desjardins,
John New, John Dignard,
Mitchell Lagimodiere,

Dane Ziraldo and Shawn.

New,

Other workers were
Fred Kerby — Project
Manager, Melin White,

Robert Wright. and Don-—

ald Bolton.

Immigration and a grant

“race Builders

The work crew

was 18 weeks, providing
450 days of work at Heri-
tage Park, plus 45 days of
formal instruction at
Northwest Community

_ College.

The Terrace’ Regional
Museum Society would
like to thank the following
businesses for their co-
operation and donations
towards the Heritage Park

Storage and display build-

ing: City of Terrace, Ter-
Centre,
Kitselas Holdings, Totem
Press, Skeena Sawmills, H
& H Builders, Peterson

Engineering, Coulter Elec- -

tric, and Northwest Com-
munity College.

Richard Desjardines, John New, John Digaard, Mitchell Lagimodiere, Dane Ziraldo and Shawn
New were recently hired as workmen by the Canada Employment Centre to construct the
storage/display facility at the Haritage Park site. Several Terraca businesses cooperated and sup:

. piled donations for the project.

TERRACE — Terrace
and area schools, in con-
junction with the local
R.C.M.P., the Fire De-
partment, and local
businesses, will again em-
bark on an anti-bike theft
program. This project will
be carried throughout all
schools in Terrace and
area, | -
- To clarify

« During the 1986 Provin-
cial Christmas Counter
Attack Roadchecks
272,000 vehicles
checked and 742 driving-
while-impaired charges
were laid,

On average, each year
250 people are killed in
‘alcohol-related accidents:
while 7,200 are injured.

were -

by Constable
Ewen Haivie
Terrace R.C.M.P.
Crime Prevention Unit

‘The design of the pro-
am again this year is to
mark as many bicycles as
possible in the area to
deter thefts. Bikes will be
marked in six vital areas to
assist in the recovery of
stolen bikes and parts,
The marking has also pro-
ven in the past, in other
areas of B.C., to reduce
the number of reported
bike thefts.

Azeas to be marked in-
clude front and back
wheels, handlebars, seats,
cranks, front forks and

- the: main frame itself. If,

for example, a bike is

"broken down into parts
and put on another bicy-
cle, these parts will be
identifiable. The R.C.
M.P. at any one time may
have up to 30 or 40 bikes
at their. compound that are
not returnable because
they are not identifiable.

. This campaign has helped

in the quicker return of

recovered bicycles to their.

owners. It also helps in the
quicker identification of
stolen bikes.

~ Each area school will be
scheduled for marking
times throughout April
and May, at which time
students and parents will
be asked to bring their
bikes to school. Once
there, they will be engrav-
ed with a number issued

by. the R.C.M.P. that is
unique to that bike, and a
sticker placed on the bicy-
cle identifying it as being
marked.
Manpower for this pro-

ject is being supplied by:

Auxiliary R.C.M.P. Con-
stables, Regular Members,
Terrace Fire Department
‘members and volunteers,

‘and Probation Services

Division Project workers.

Local businesses; such as"

Totem Press, have supp-
lied bike theft prevention
posters for. the program
free of charge.

The marking program is
‘no cost’? to participants
and we are encouraging
any parents or citizens
who also want to get their

bicycle marked to check

. Stop the Bike Thief
campaign begins in to

with their local. ‘school or -

the R.C.M.P. to ‘obtain
times that the project is
going to be in their area.

‘At the end of the pro-

ject at each school a short -

talk will be done on bike
safety and security to all
students, The general pub-
lic should continue to note
a policy change at the
R.C.M.P. office in re-
gards to reporting of lost
or stolen bicycles. No lost
or stolen bike reports will
be accepted over the
telephone. Persons report-
ing such events will have
to attend to the office on
Eby Street to report these,
This is designed to dis-
courage false reports and
also to obtain more ac-

curate information on'the
loss or theft for opera-
tional investigations, .

-Approximately §10 bike
thefts have been reported
to the Terrace R.C.M.P.
in the past two years. At
an average cost of $200
per bike, the losses in Ter-
race alone exceed
$100,000. Losses in
Canada exceed $100
million dollars a year:and
are presently increasing at

10 percent: per year, 12

percent alone last year in
Terrace,
theft exceeds auto theft in
Canada in dollar value,

This alone should be a
good enough reason to
make sure all families are
involved in the program.

Duration of the Project

Presently bike