B16 Terrace Review — Wednesday, December 12, 1990 °°

- [Looking back...

: _. ogging truck traffic. on -
7 I ‘North Sparks St: and:
an issue of : debate for years. A
: little. more than : three years ago,
-. City. council approved a.change to
. the” traffic . bylaw giving them

authority to issue permits allowing .

the use of over-weight vehicles on
North Sparks in the event of
“financial hardship".

That section of the bylaw was
used three years ago this week to
allow Bill Penner to haul 200

loads of cottonwood out of the.

Kitselas area, and two years ago to
allow Bell Pole to extract 35 loads
of logs. The: situation. would be
remedied, we were told, orice
funding was found to upgrade
Halliwell Ave.

But there were issues on other
city streets, too. Two years ago it
was pedestrian safety and last year
it was snow removal.

In 1988, a move by city council
seemed 10 promise something
would finally be done to improve

' pedestrian survival chances down-
town... even though a traffic study
was already underway to address

' potential problems the proposed
Okanagan-Skeena shopping centre
might introduce. According to
Danny Sheridan, the crosswalk
problem on Lakelse Ave. was
getting worse: "You're better off to
jaywalk," he said. "At least then
you can treat every driver as the
enemy." We would have to wait,
though, to see what would be
done. As far as snow removal was
concemed, the Public Works Com-
mittee was going to look at special
considerations for seniors and
handicapped residents in town... or
so we were told.

In other city news, property
assessments where way up in 1987
— a whopping 283 percent in one

particular case — and there was
concern for skyrocketing taxes.
That same year, a proposed trailer
park at McConnell and Sparks
offered a reprieve from taxes for
some first-time homeowners. But it
died at the hand of public protest;
a trailer park there would have
depreciated the assessed value of
"real" homes, opponents said.

In 1988, a new fire engine
arrived in town, city council sent
letters to 12 government officials
offering their full support of the
Shames Mountain project -— pro-
vincial funding was needed for the
road if we were to ever ski there.
And last year, the city turfed a
family of muskrats out of the
sewage lagoon, even though their
presence made a strong statement
on the purity of the water there,
And Big Bertha, the impressive-
looking but useless antique logging
spar, was in the news; she "could"
get a facelift city council said.

round the community, it
was three years ago that
the city’s Dec. 27, 1987,

Diamond Jubilee birthday agenda
was Officially set, the Public
Library received a grant of almost
$2,000 for video tapes, Rita Mac-
Neil sang at the R.E.M. Lee, and
behind the scenes, the Terrace
Youth Centre was beginning to
take form.

This week Iw, years ago, the

- Halliwell Ave, has ‘been -

library | expansion plan. was
revealed for the first time. It would

cost $870,000 we were told, but
‘would be adequate until the year

2010. Two years ago the Thomhill

Community Centre got a grant of

almost $10,000 for an upgrade and
a year ago this week an addition to
the centre was announced. The
regional district announced that
they had approved the construction
of a Peaks Gymnastics gymnasium
complex on the community
grounds, and once these plans
were firmed up it was revealed

that the gym would in reality be an

addition to the existing community
centre.

It was a year ago this week we
were told the housing vacancy rate
in the area was only one percent.
This might have been hard on
newcomers to town but as is the
case every December in Terrace
there is a lot of community spirit
to impress newcomers as well.
Thornhill firefighters always come
through with needed toys, the
official CDC tree lighting offers
optimism for all, schools collecting
food for the needy, Boy Scouts
were on the corner seliing trees,
the annual announcement of the
Lions’ Thankfull Tankfull cam-
paign... These are things that show
the community cares.

n the regional scene, it
O was three years ago this:

week that Minister of
State Dave Parker was putting
together his committee for. the
North Coast Development region
and CBC regional director Eric
Moncur told us it was a general
misconception that CBC employees
in Prince Repert were going to be
fired due to budget cuts. In fact, he

said, things weren’t going to get

worse, CBC service here would
actually improve.

It was two years ago that north-
west trappers and cross-country
skiers squared off on the Onion
Lake ski trail proposal, and last
year during this week the regional
district looked at log exports and
said no way... we don’t think it’s
right. There was an exception, of
course, with Stewart director Andy
Burton defending the export of
fogs; they were the life-blood of
Stewart.

Of course for some of the
smaller logging contractors in the
area three years ago this week,
keeping the logs in the northwest
was no great blessing either. Ris-
ing costs created by a new forest
policy had become a factor in
negotiating new contracts between
small operators and big mills. The
only solution, the contractors were

‘told, was to become more effi-

cient... somehow,

this week, the Northwest
Community College board
expressed concerns for the coming

| n education three years ago

year, 1988, and Skeena Junior
Secondary students raised $3,200
for the Vancouver Children’s Hos-
pital with a starvathon. In 1988,
Val Napoleon was re-elected board
chairman and School District 88
braced themselves for a Jan. 3,
1989, teachers’ strike. At the col- ,
lege, Adult Basic Education. stu-

Community support for the needy was at its traditional high level a year ago this week as the
Terrace Community Band under the direction of Jim Ryan helped kick off the annual Salvation

Army Red Kettle campaign.

dents were taking up a collection
for Armenian earthquake relief and
in spite of the optimism of a year
catlier, the board faced a budget
shortfall and their 1989 summer
program was cancelled due to a
shortage of students and high
operating costs.

Last year, Edna Cooper found
herself at the school trustee helm
and besides promising more open
committee meetings, was quoted as
saying "the most important part of
education is the interaction of
student and teacher. Our job is to
make that interaction as meaning-
ful as possible,"

] n school sports, Caledonia
Kermode Boys’ didn’t win

but were selected the most sports-
man like team at the 1987 B.C.
schools senior double ’AA’ volley-

ball championship. The annual

elementary volleyball tournament
in 1988 closed with Veritas,
Clarence Michael, Cassie Hall and
Hazelton’s John Field each placing
first in their categories, and last
year during the same meet Stewart
took two of the trophies while
Uplands and Copper Mountain
took the others.

Not much high school basketball
action a year ago this week, but in
1987 Kitimat and Terrace junior
secondary teams split the Dec. 5
playoffs for berths in the Northern
B.C, Winter Games. In i986 the
Kermode boys’ were said to be off
to a promising start. They were
ranked 10th in the province and
had just defeated Prince Rupert
100-87.

Hockey action three years ago
this week saw four area youths
named to the B.C. Junior Hockey

League’s all-star team. ‘Picked |.
were Ben Giagonni, Mark Grey- . '

eyes, Ian Alger and Blaine Moore.
That same year, the Terrace Inland
Kenworth bantams took silver in a
Fort St, James meet but the Atoms

were less fortunate; they came up

dry in Kitimat’s Sth annual Elks
tournament.

In 1988, Terrace Inland Ken-
worth Bantams were defeated in
Vanderhoof but placed second in
Burns Lake. The Atoms did a little
better in Kitimat’s 6th annual Elks
tournament; Terrace Dave’s
Plumbing was the runnerup in the
’B’ section. Last year's version of

that same tournament saw Terrace —

placed 3rd in both the ’A’ and ’B’
section.

In the adult world of hockey, the
1987 Terrace Trojan ladies won
the zone 7 ladies berth in the B.C.
Winter Games. The Terrace
Timbermen won the ’B’ side of

the Smithers Oldtimers Tourna-
ment in 1988 but in 1989 came up
dry in that tourney.

Last year saw our local NHL
heroes come up with some varying
moves. Kitimat’s Mark Fitzpatrick
was named NHL player of the
week; he was on a roll with his
third straight shutout, But for
Terrace’s Jeff Sharples the move
was to the minors. Oilers manage-
ment shipped him off to Cape
Breton for a workout with their
AHL farm team.

In curling, Gord Judzentis placed
third after Bob Baase and Mike
Matthews in the 1988 Smithers’
annual cash spiel. In last year’s
Smithers’ spiel, though, the money
went to Prince Rupert, Smithers,
Prince George and Kitwanga.
Terrace wasn’t even in the picture.

Sing your way
to the top of the charts

Come out to Karaoke Night and sing along
with the lyrics as they appear on video.

Sundays 8 - 12 midnight & Thursdays 8:30 - 1.30
Join the chorus at George’s Pub!
Northern Motor Inn, 3086 Hwy 16 E.,

Terrace phone 635-6375

*Karaoke - available.for rent for Xmas parties

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