A year ago this week — TERRACE FIREFIGHTERS WERE KEPT BUSY a vear ago last Saturday. They responded to a total of four fires and two false -alarms. Arson was named as the cause of $1,000 damage to a vacant house at 3315 Sparks, a minor kitchen fire was handled quickly at 4832 Scott, and two & separate bush fires near Agar Park were extinguished later in the day, Of the two false alarms, one came fromthe REM Lee Theatre. AND FOREST CLOSURES: WERE PENDING. The Terrace ‘Review was told a year ago this week that restrictions could be _ placed on public access and camp- ing in local forests if a recent Streak of hot, dry weather cont- inued. A Ministry - of - Forests Wednesday, June 6, 1990 spokesman said industrial oper. =<“ ations were already confined. to - early-shift work — dawn to 1:30 : p-m. — and that would continue Until the fire hazard dropped. At that time the fire hazard was rated between high and extreme, - and 32. blazes had been recorded. since. April 15. In 1988 there were only -35 for the entire season, Thirty-one of the fires had been small and were casily controlled, however. The. only one causing . any real concern was one being - battled by a crew of ‘50-60 fire- fighters at. Ritchie Creek in the . Bell-Irving river valley, _SILVICULTURE WAS THE BUZZ WORD AT CITY HALL. Terrace council had applied under the provincial Community Forestry Progtam to sponsor a Skeena Cel- lulose-managed silviculture project located at the north end of Lava Lake. If the project was approved, a Skeena Cellulose spokesman said, the 450-hectare site would Create about 38 jobs over the sum- mer at a cost of $271,500 to the province and $90,500 to Skeena Cellulase. RESIDENTS OF THE 4700 BLOCK LOEN MISSED THE DEADLINE on an LIP petition a year ago this week and pavement for their street was put on hold for at least a year. The original April 19 petition was rejected because - - homeowners believed they had already paid ‘for: the original pave- ment. That made it the city’s res- ponsibility to resurface the road, ‘They were told later, however, that the city had paid for the original ‘+ + pavement in 1969, The residents. were given an Opportunity to change | cir minds but 22 of 33 residents still rejected . the project; they still didn’t think they. should “have 10 pay. An. "- atlempt by the city 10 give them a third crack.at the petition was shot _ +. down by the Ministry of Municipal "> Affairs . because . allowable lime for obtaining an LIP petition had been exceeded. . the. maximum TENNIS. ‘WON OUT OVER ' FIBLD SPORTS a year ago this week, Following a lengthy debate, - elty council. reallocated $6,500 of “thé $10,000 budgeted a4 the city’s ° A litte MOGA "madness" at Caledonia a year ago this week had nothing to do with teachers leaving town. Share of. a $18,500 field. dresser. The money was now going to be used for resurfacing of the Kalum _ St. tennis courts with a sealer and. rubberized paint. The field dresser purchase ran into trouble when School District 88 couldn’t find their share of the purchase price in their own budget. AND A COUPLE OF NEW NAMES were added to the city roster a year ago this week. Peter Monteith came from Vancouver to take on the Tourism and Economic Development function and Marvin Kamenz, a recent graduate of UBC, took on the job of City. Planner. AROUND TOWN, two Terrace Students received recognition at the B.C. Festival of the Arts held in Chilliwack. Mark Tessatro was named runner-up in Junior Speech Arts and T-Jay MacKenzie was runner-up in Intermediate Brass. T- Jay was also asked to play in the Provincial Awards Concert on Saturday evening. The Pacific Northwest Music Festival sent 15 competitors and seven alternates who were selected by the adjudica- tors at our Festival:in March. NURSES. HAD SERVED 72- HOUR NOTICE but dialogue between the B.C. Nurses’: Union. and the Health Labour Relations Association continued. A news: blackout made. it difficult to stay: - on top of the situation, but inde-‘ pendent mediator John Kinzie did. say that the mediation process had | carried right through the previous . two weekends and several issues ‘ had been resolved, These included, he said, professional responsibility, work load, occupational health and . Safety issues, casual employment. work scheduling, union. leave and security matters and pay while on- Workers’ Compensation leave. . TERRACE’S KSAN . HOUSE. SOCIETY: announced - they had _ teceived grant monies totalling: © $22,546 from the Secretary of . _ State ‘(fedéral)y,’ Attorney-General - (provincial) and Northwest Mental Health ..Network - (local). Ksan chairperson: Shelly Taylor said the money would be used for ihe - production and distribution of an information kit on family violence which would increase an awareness of family violence and . provide information on available resources and the tights of victims. ‘AND THE R.E.M. LEE FOUN-. DATION was gearing up for their . 1989 Celebrity Auction a year ago this week, Items received to date included an autographed campaign poster from Ed Broadbent, an ‘autographed photo of Bob Hope, a John Turner scarf, a copy of the "86 Expo souvenir publication autographed by Jimmy Pattison and a tie from Prime Minister Brian Mulroney. IN EDUCATION, STAFFING CHANGES WERE IN THE WIND and in part this meant that a few local teachers would be leaving Terrace. Caledonia vice principal Hugh Mackinnon, already on a year’s leave of absence, had accepted the position of vice prin- cipal at Georges Vanier Senior Secondary in Courtenay and Cale- donia coach Phil Letham was off to . Wellington Senior High in Nanaimo. A ‘LITTLE "MADNESS" AT THE. SCHOOL, had. nothing to do - with the ‘departure of these staff “members, however. It.was MOGA ’ (Most: ‘Qutrageous: Group Activity) Madiess fever and, ‘as they had a ‘year earlier, Caledonia students did 8 great job of demonstrating their ‘true ambitions in life. Events [ke the Jello Limbo and Mudstacle. Race would be stacked up against other acts of questionable sanity in the national teenage MOGA con-. “test which is apparently designed - to . determine’ which ‘Canadian - -school is the "craziest" in the land. ‘ON AN: ACADEMIC NOTE, - 13-year-old Rodney. Sanches ‘of © Thornkil! Junior Secondary was - the winner of a province-wide poster competition sponsored by the Ministry of Transportation and Highways. As a result, Rodriey and his mother were off on an all expense paid visit to. Victoria where they. would be introduced to the legislature and have lunch with the Minister of Transportation. TERRACE MINOR SOFTBALL teams from three divisions won. two titles and two runnerup spots at the annual Smithers Invitational minor softball tournament a year ago this week, The peewee rep team, North Coast Road Maintena- nee, finished with a four-win, one-loss record to win the Bantam division, Terrace Bantam gitls took. top spot in their division, and it was an all-Terrace finish in the Squirt division with Middelton Trucking beating the Little Gassers in the final game. Terrace's Lakelse Pharmacy place second in the Peewee division. TERRACE CYCLIST MIKE CHRISTENSEN won the final eoceccccee " ~~ PLAYS Kids-to-kids ... an effective approach to teach Canadian youngsters about safety rules. Who are these safely ambassadors? They. are members of The War Amps Child Amputee (CHAMP) Pragram. Since” launching a safety awareness program over 10 years ago, thousands of youngsters have leamed from the message, “Safety is no accident: so PLAYSAFE!” Additionat information is avallable from: . me The War Amputations of Canada - National Headquarters . 2627 Riverside Dive — Otfawa, Ontario KiV0C4 ; ofa, (613) 734-3821 - ; 4G Charilable Region No. 0. 0286831 we re 80-K race in the Kamloops "Tour: - -Of-Grasslands’ bike race a year ago this. week but an earlier event eliminated-him from the top-three finisher’s list. At the 35 kilometer mark of the first 80-K event of the weekend, Christensen was involved in a 16-bike collision. Although he managed to finish 55th in a field of 75 racers but it was a disap- pointing weekend. In two other .events during the weekend, Chris- fensen finished 16th in the 30- minute plus five-lap critetium and — a 18th in the 12-K time trial. MICHELLE HENDRY was with | ihe Canadian national women’s basketball team in Paris around the same time and helped bring her team to a third place finish in the Bicentennial ‘Classic Tournament. The Canadians turned in_a-two- win, one-loss record with scores of 65-62 over Hungary, an 89-90 loss to the Soviet Union, and an 82-78 win over China. The Russians and Spanish placed first and second in this world class event. FE ncveseee cei o¢ ‘Pe sececnqeccccone. he ach i ieee aman ELE Re ee