A2- The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, January 5, 1994 SKEENA NEW DEMOCRATS ever it took four ballots to choose retiring MP Jim Fulton’s succes- SOF. ce akkkk ‘ HOSPITALS across the pro- vince agreed to accept the tena- tive framework | agreement. thal wes initially tured down Jas! April. Terrace Health Care Society declined to say which way it voted. Chief executive officer Michael Leisinger said the silence was be- cause of the high profile of the is- sué and the controversy surround. ingit - | kk kkk PREMIER MIKE HARCOURT rejected Alcans demands to Tenegotiate the original Kemano power deal. The premier said the increases the company demanded would cost B.C. Hydro and the and the province more than $350 million over the proposed 20-year life of the contracts. Alcan vice-president Bill Rich said the company needs the con- cessions to. “revitalize the cco- nomics of the Kemano Comple- tion. Project” which has been mothballed since construction was halted two years ago. Harcourt told. the legislature in Victoria’ Alcan. threatened to. abandon. the. ‘project if the pro- vince’ ‘did- not” agree to conces- sions. Augus ‘CITY COUNCILS = aproved construction of a sewer on twedie Ave. dispite an evenly split vote on the-issue-by:residents.:: bis. i. Homeowners willbe paying*be: tween $1,500. to $6,000, depend. ing’on their lot size. wk kkk SKEENA RIVER fishermen can't. agree on closures. Sport Gishermen don’t think the cuts this month of fishing time at the mouth of the ‘river goes far enough. Commercial fishermen think they go to far. The commer- cial fleet is allowed to fish two days a week in the outer area and one day a week in the inner por- tion, Department _ Of. Federal Fisheries official said: the move was made afier monitoring showed poor returns of steelhead and cohosalmon.” kkk Ik YOUNG people in the north- west are more likely to suffer in- jury or death than their peers else- - were dismal. : Neither” British Columbians chose Joe Barrett as their candi .-. date to run in the federal election,” Barrett lead from the start how-: thelr, — government. . : responsible for the: ‘half-billion dollar increase in the cost of com- ~ pleting the Kamano Completion | Project,’ said Harcourt, He went on to add ‘‘Nor should British Colubians be expected to rew- write existing contracts to pay for that overrun.’” Rich denied the company threatened to kill the project. kok kokok EARLY STEELHEAD runs Habitat diologist Bob -Heoion said the estimated numbers of steelhead are down by 1350 from last year at this time and down 2650 from the ten year average. wkk Kk A PROVINCIAL study predicts a loss of jobs in the forest indus- try. The 55 page report looks at three scenarios based on yearly logging amounts in the Kalum North area and came up with the same job loss conclusion. The three scenarios cal! for sub- stantive cuts in current logging ‘levels — immediately in one scenario, and delayed by 10 to 20 years in the other two scenarios. kk kkk ‘THE CITY’S BIG FOUR gro- cery and department stores —- K- Mart, Safeway, Overwaitea and Woolworths — were fined $1,000 each for opening on Cana- de Day and Thanksgiving in 1992. where in n the: province, c, according to a report” prepared by the Skeena Health Unit.. It examined: injury, death, and. hospitelization— statistics from _1987-1991 among those 0-19 years. During that period there was a tolal of 76 injury deaths in the region. A mortality rate twice the B.C. average. kekkx JET SKI RIDERS came under fire from some Lakelse Lake resi- dents after a collision between a jet skier and a float plane. kk kkk COMMERCIAL FISHERMEN wrapped their nets around the De- partment of Fisheries and Oceans building in Prince Rupert to protest fishing. restrictions im- posed to reduce the incidental catch of steelhead, coho and pink salmon. They unfurled the nets when DFO agreed lo a two day open- ing. kk kkk | CELEBRATION: Ceremonial dancing and singing marked the opening of Kitselas Hall in late October. A tatem pole carved by A GANG OF THIEVES prowled the downtown core, breaking into businesses with alarming frequency. Police made a series of arrests in the fall and in Oclober a 21-year-old Terrace man was sentenced ta two years in prison for his role in the break- ins. kk kkk FORTY UNION members picketed Pacific Northern Gas for its choice of a company it hired to build a gas pipeline west of town. They said the contracior — North American Construction — brought in workers from Alberta who belonged to what they called a “rat” union. THE FUTURE of Howe Creek became a critical election issue in local municipal politics, Most can- didates, with an eye on a 500-name petition calllng for Its preservation, came out in favour of set- ting aside more graan space within tha city. MILLS MEMORIAL hospital (MMH) is closing 17 beds, making it the second lime in as TMany years the facility has trimmed capacity because of shrinking budgets. In the last 18 months the hospital. has reduced 40 per cent of their beds, There won’t be any immediate lay offs until next spring however. they (MMF) will have to cut ap- proximently $500,000 for next fiscal year be jning April 1. ei[wier? BR ek G5; We vel PROJECT LITERACY Terrace receives.a $54,000 grant from the - federal and provincial govern- ment to hire ‘a coordinator to target two or three communities for literacy development. kkkekk COCA COLA is centralizing its northwest distribution efforls in Terrace. Is builbing a 22,000 square foot warehouse and office on Keith near the Petroca bulk plant, Employecs from Prince Rupert: and Smithers will transfer to Ter- race. . kkk kk NORTH KALUM — Timber Stan Bevan and ‘Ken MacNeil that | travelled ta Sevila, Spain, returned to Tsimshian land to be ralsed in front of the hall. supply has more timber volume ihan originally estimated. The original analysis assumed the volume of timber remained static once it was older than 250 years. The new report calculated an in- crease in standing timber volumes ang, also, in the,,sccond growth stands. The new. ieport ack. fed ttae nowledges “significant un. certainly surrounds estimates of timber volumes for north Kalum." Forrest Services is work- ing on a disscution paper on the Kalum North that will be ont in - mid-Oct. or early Nov. kKakkk SALVATION ARMY Captain Bill Young died on .Sept. 6, “receiving honour guards from three organizations and great tribute from northwest native people. - _ kkkkk TSIMSHIAN FISHERMEN called their second homeland fishery a learning experience. October ESKAY CREEK road construc- tion is underway, The 24km route leads off of highway 37 into the _ Iskut Valley area.The cost of the project is estimated at $7 million. The completion of is needed next ycar to meet a Homestake Canada plan for mine develope- .ment.Homestake is fling for permission for mine develope- ment 10 the provincial govern: ment, kk kkk MOOSE HUNTING | season _ was cut in half. The season ran from Oct.26 to Nov.5. The season is cut from 20 days last year to (en days this year. Low numbers of bull moose in the Skeena region have forced conservation officers to shorten the season. kkkke BIDS FOR THE library’s ex- pansion came in at $1.857 million — only $100,000 over what was budgeted, But the library faced a wait for word on their application for a B.C, 21 grant to help cover con- struction costs, kk kkk ELECTIONS CANADA recalled thousands of bingo daubers that were seni lo native fescrves lo remind natives to vote, kak kkk AN OPINION POLL commis- sioned by the Terrace Standard showed the NDP and Reform Party neck and neck at 31 and 30 per cent respectively. A second poll conducted later in tie morith: Suggested the Reform Party had a . five-percentage point lead, aa kke PINE MUSHROOM. season drew complaints about. garbage left in the bush, Jost - pickers, habitat destruction, and trespass- ing. : khkkk ENROLMENT AT Northwest Community College hit an ail- time high, with 1,500 students Tegistered al campuses across the northwest. kk kkk THE TERRACE SYMPHONY orchestra held its first practices . together, blending talent from several gtoups of local musicians. ka kkk THE NATIONAL PARTY’s Isaac Sobol came out swinging at all candidate’s mectings through- out the riding during the federal election, drawing thunderous ap- plause at each stop. kkk kk SKEENA CELLULOSE cm- ployees found out they would not receive the profil sharing cheques they were expecting, Company officials said employ- ces could receive the cheques if the overall forest industry im- proves, but said otherwise the profit-sharing plan will be suspended. ; Some employees already made large purchases in anticipation of receiving the money, expected to be more than $3,000 cach after taxes. kkk kk _ AN INVESTIGATION into al- legations of bingo cheating tumed up no proof of wrong-doing, But a locai bingo hall owner in- ~ Stalled a computerized bingo card that Public. Ganting Officials hope wll verifier Branch =5 September The use of a rotating fish wheel fo scoop up fish was not particu- larly successful, but they hope to perfect their techniques in future years. The homeland fishery targetted overescapement of sockeye sal- mon. byeag oblaP KER KE tg ire bee A STUDY determined the ma- jority of northwest high school Students in Grades 10-12 are. sexually active. kek kk B.C. TREATY Commissioner Chuck Connaghan became in-' volved in an effort to find a mediator to help resolve the land claim overlap dispute between the Nisga’a and the Gitanyow (formerly Kitwancool), Nearly two-thirds of the’ 25,000-square-kilometre Nisga’a’ land claim — now being negotia- ted by Ottawa and Victoria — is _ also claimed by Gitanyow na- tives. climinatc any possibility of cheat- ing in the future, kk kkk THE AREA’S new correctional centre officially opened its doors with attorney-general Colin Gabelmann in attendance. kkk kk LAVERN CHINN, a mentally handicapped worker at the school district maintenance yard, became the focus of a dispute between a union and the school district. CUPE local 2861 reps cited cut- backs of their positions by the school board as their reason for withdrawing support of an ar- Tangement that allowed Chinn to work outside the union. Negotia- tions began to resolve the dispute. wkkekk ENVIRONMENT MINISTRY. officials bowed fo pressure from the federal Department - of Fisheries and Oceans and told Smithers habitat biologist Bob — Hooton to stop releasing con- troversial statistics about the strength of Skeena steelhead tuns, Commercial fishermen contend — the steelhedd run isn’t in as much trouble as the environment minis- iry statistics Indicate. kkk REFORM PARTY candidate Mike Scot became the Member of Parliament for Skeena, captur- ing nearly 12,000 votes. Liberal Rhoda Witherly was second with 7,477 votes, NDP’s Joe Barreit was third with 6,537 votes, the National Party’s Isaac . Sobol was fourth with 2,425. votes, and Conservative candidate Danny Sheridan was fifth with 2,126. be ie lei a atts hal des | eShop edhe