by Tod Strachan

‘our corner of. the land’ aren’t
enjoyed by all. Some, like Olaf
-and Dixie Thorsen, live beside .
. gravel roads and know that when
those sunny days come they bring

| Those tare sunny days that bless
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“weather Terrace dust.-The Thor-
' Terrace residents, believe that into

fall and they’ ve asked the city to
‘help.

isn’t going to- help. According to
alderman Dave Hull the city can’t
_ use oil for dust control. And that’s
true. A couple of years ago the
- Ministry of Environment put a

lack-of any standards for the qual-
ity of used oil and the possibility it
could contain PCB’s. But Hull

~* covered ‘all: other bases as well:
"There’s no money in the budget
for dust control measures."

Mayor Jack Talstra countered
this by pointing out that the city
budget isn’t "set in stone", but
according to Hull, if you do some-
thing for one, you have to do it for

Talstra agreed with this, in a ‘way.
He said the city gets dust com-
plaints every year but it seems to

on a solution like oil or calcium
_ chloride. and their investment goes

‘In the end the Thorsen’ 8 plea for
“help was simply filed for informat-
. ion, ‘but council did offer somet-

RCMP ‘to make sure drivers in

_ city’s 30 kilometer-per-hour speed

This may help a litle. The Thor-
sens live at 5331 Keith Ave. — a
street: ‘of which they say, "A lot of

‘ motorists use it like a drag strip."
But even without the dragsters,
there’s the industrial traffic. "The
traffic consists of employees from
B.C. Hydro, B.C. Telephone, Ban-
dstra, Tymoschuck and other busi-
nesses that are in this area,” -write
the Thorsens. And on top of that,
they add, there are the logging and

- Correction

In the June 6 issue of the Ter-
race Review, Terrace’s new
nuclear medicine technician,
Susan Winther, was incorrectly
credited with the. position of
ultrasound technician at Prince

prior to commencing her nuclear
medicine position at Milis Mem-

cal training: for ultra: sound at,
Prince Rupert Regional Hospital
and ‘completed it in. Prince
George, —

goes 0

‘kids. But salt (calcium. chloride)
‘with them that choking, dry--.
sen’s, though, like many other.

every life a little sunshine must.
_’a few other sundry things) you can

But there’s a a problem. The. city’s -
same stuff they liberally rust our
cars with in the winter, but. that’s
a -different matter; there’s . an,

~¢rimp on this practice because of a -

all — and that can get expensive. -

rain every time they spend money .

hing. They're going to ask the -
‘ Thorsen’s neighborhood obey’ the

“limit ‘that applies to all gravel - :

dump trucks that frequent the area..

Rupert’s Regional Hospital -

orial Hospital in Terrace. In ac-.
tuality, Winther began her clini- .

- But even if the traffic 4 ‘is. slowed ; .

a little in. the Thorsen’s. part of
town there will still be some dust.
So what are they to do? Sprinklers
don’t work, according the Thor-
sens: "Motorists run over our
sprinklers." They can't use‘ oil.
They’ve been told the PCB's
might kill the fish, birds and their

isn’t against the law and the city
has some for sale.

That’s right, "for sale”, Once
you've paid your taxes ‘(that’s the

money the city collects so they can
afford to maintain our streets and

go.to Public Works and purchase a
bag of salt for only $14. It’s the

annual budget for that..

But most ordinary’ people, ¢ afler »
paying city and. miscellaneous:

taxes, can’t afford to maintain their
own streets in the summer and the
tich people already have pavement.

For the sake of argument, though, '
let’s say these people could afford .
a few hundred dollars a ‘year. for
salt and were willing to-go out.
there and spread it, This could '

create a problem more terrifying
than the dust itself.
. Af; as the Thorsens claim, local

drivers are already destroying .
people’s sprinklers, imagine what

they might do to a wheelbarrow:
pushing home owner who dared to

venture out on the road.

"What: happens after.a hit-and run? In this case, a demonstration by the 747 Air Cadet Squadron

First Aid team for the benefit of Inspecting officer Major Thorp and visiting dignitaries during the
747 Squadron's annual inspection last Saturday afternoon. Following a careful examination and
appropriate first aid treatment this hapless skateboarder was strapped Into a stretcher and heid
upside down to prove the team’s work was secure.

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