2 Terrace Review — Wednesday, October 29, 1986:

Dell Rema
p asses away

TERRACE . Dell
Rema, born ‘Feb, 7,
1915, passed away Oct.
19 at Mills Memorial
Hospital in Terrace after
a long fight with cancer.
He was 71,

by Suzy Hamilton
Terrace Contributor

Dell, one of five
brothers, was born in
Alvadore, Oregon. He
met Illeen Snyder in
nearby Myrtle Point
where they were married
in 1937. After a suc-
cessful career in sales in
Oregon and California,
Dell brought his wife and
three sons to Smithers in
1967. There, he owned
and operated Rema’s

Auto Wrecking at _

Evelyn Station for six
years, In 1974 he and JI-
leen moved 40 km east of
Terrace to homestead
land on the Skeena River
where he spent the rest of
his life.

Dell’s friends will miss
his ready wit and
elaborate stories. He lov-
ed to teach and there
were messages in his
stories for every listener.
He was in love with life,
ready for a good time,
and full of kindness,

As 2 trapper, a pursuit

he cherished throughout

his life, he was careful to
tend his line with an eye
to the future. Dell always
left enough animals to
provide for tomorrow.
Many of his friends
benefitted from his will-
ingness to
them; he eased pain and
comforted in the manner
of a true practitioner.

Dell believed in solv- -

ing problems through his
own actions. As much as
he loved to ‘“‘gab’’, he

Fire report

On Wednesday, Oct.
22 the Terrace fire
department attended a
small vehicle fire on the
Sande Overpass.

Fire Chief Clifford
Best said the carburetor
fire was put out quickly
with no injuries
resulting.

Dell Rema

‘doctor’

prized the excitement of
life and work more.

-When he played his

squeeze box and har-.
monica, heads turned
and toes tapped. Playing
them both at the same
time was a mean trick,
but Illeen was, there to
make it possible. Their
love for one another
enriched everyone they
met,

Dell was a man of vi-
sion. He could ac-
complish anything he
tackled, could invent
new ways to overcome
obstacles, and combine it
all with a “‘gift of gab’”’
that endeared him to his
many friends across
Canada and the United
States,

He is survived by his
wife, IHeen; three of his
four sons, Ben and his
wife Angi of Mt. Albert,
Ont., Alvie of Topley,
and Rex and his wife
Sherry of Terrace; four
grandchildren, Jeanne,
Mike, Jesse, and Tom;
and ‘one great grand-
child, Eddie. He is also
survived by two
brothers, Warren Rema
of Blue Lake, Califor-
nia, and Zane Rema of
Powers, Oregon.

Funeral services were
held at the Salvation Ar-
my Chapel in Terrace on

Oct. 23. Dell Rema was.

buried at the Terrace and
District Cemetery.

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| Community plan hearing continues 7

“THORNHILL — Accor-

ding to the 1984 figures

there are about 2,500
people living in the area
affected by the Greater
Terrace Official Com-
munity Plan. A series of
information meetings
and an extended public
hearing have brought out
between 200 and 300 in-
terested residents of the
area who have filed. a
variety of general
criticisms of the plan,
and many of them have
maintained that a com-
munity plan is un-
necessary,

by Michael Kelly

The most recent public
hearing session took
place in the Thornhill
Community Centre Oct.
15, attended by about 50
people. The hearing was
conducted by a panel
consisting of Bob
Marcellin, assistant ad-
ministrator for the
Kitimat-Stikine Regional
District, regional district
board chairman Les
Watmough, planning
consultant Norma Ker-
by, regional district Ter-
race director Robert
Cooper, and regional
district assistant planner
Tosh .Yamashita.

Although many of the
objections lodged at the
meeting were repetitions
of non-specific com-
plaints about the escala-
tion of government
straight-jacketing heard
at previous meetings, the
Oct. 15 gathering also
produced a number of
written briefs directed at

particular sections of the
plan.

One submission called
attention to the plan’s

expressed intent for per-

mitting no residential
subdivisions outside the
Terrace North area until
the subdividable land in
that area is fully used.
The brief was critical of
the policy on several
points, stating that
developers in other areas
would have to depend on
the ambitions and
capital abilities of Ter-
race North landowners,
and that preference for
one area would result in
a distortion of real estate

prices which would be

harmful to landowners
in other areas, The brief
also questions the
suitability of Terrace
North in view of
reported problems in ob-
taining reliable ground-

water in some parts of

the area.

The background
studies for the communi-
ty plan, completed in
1984, designate Terrace
North as a preferred area
for rural residential
development due to
minimal land use and en-
vironmental conflicts,
few terrain hazards and
nearness to the Terrace
municipal boundaries.
The ground water pro-
blem is acknowledged in
the background studies,
but the solution was an-
ticipated by the logic of
an eventual boundary ex-
pansion by Terrace. That
eventuality was ‘recently
delayed for an indefinite
period of time by a

resolution of Terrace
council rejecting a boun-.
dary expansion pro-
posal.

The remainder of the
written briefs addressed
the designation of the

Lakelse Lake-Lakelse

River area as a Special
Resource Management
Area which would re-
quire site-specific
development permits.
All of the briefs contend
that stringent enforce-
ment of the present zon-
ing regulation, regional
district Bylaw 57, would
provide adequate con-
trols without the addi-
tion of further restric-
tions. One submission
went further in re-
questing intensive
wildlife management for
the area and. a 25-year
moratorium on logging
the slopes immediately
east of the lake.

During the hearing pro-
cess Dr, Norma Kerby has
repeatedly stressed that the
community plan, despite its
designation as Bylaw 47,
is not a zoning bylaw, buta
guideline for land use.
There have been numerous
problems in the past with

the existing zoning bylaws |

in the area, and Dr. Kerby
indicated that it is time to
re-examine the present

regulations and replace

them with something more
comprehensive - and
foresighted, One resident
maintained that the pro-
liferation of bylaws is “‘in-
sidious, they tie up
everything in the communi-
ty’’. He added that in his
previous place of residence
in Alberta ‘‘they even tell

you what color to paint your
house’’. Tosh Yamashita
denied that the community
plan bylaw would confer
any such powers on the
regional district, and he ad-
ded that the development
Permit system would in fact
give the regional district
greater speed and flexibility
in dealing with applications
because the lengthy pro-
cess of bylaw amendment
would be eliminated.

‘In defense of the
development permit
system, Bob Marcellin add- .
ed that blanket land use
designations can be avoid-
‘ed in the environmentally. |

sensitive Lakelse Lake
area. ‘‘At this time it's very

diff cult to say what future
development should be,’’

he told the group. “We
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