Vol. 2, Issue No. 23

Directors and advisors

The Terrace Kitsumkalurn Salmonid Enhancement recently held Its third annual general meeting. Seated are (left to right):
Director Ben Bolton, President Doug Webb and Treasurer John Morgan; standing (left to right): Director Gill Cobb, DFO
coordinator Bruce Wright, Directors Jim Wold, Mike Graham, Jim Culp and project manager Grant Hazelwood. There are

now more than 30 members In the organization.

‘Inside Outside —
BusinessGuide 10 | Date, LO hme
Church Directory 14 | Mayor 47 7 06mm
Classified Ads 22, 23 May 28 17, 8 02mm
Coming Events 8 May29 18 9 tr
Comics 21 May 30 20 9 0.0mm
Dining Directory 2 May31 22 6 0.0mm
Entertainment 16 June 1 16 7 0.0mm
Horoscope 4, 10 74 Forecast: Mainly sunny
Opinions mo 4 conditions until Friday. For

the weekend, sunny with
Sports 6 aftemoon - cloudy periods
Stork Book 11 and a few showers. After-
Talk of the Town 5 noon highs In the low 20's,
going down to 6 averight.

Inspection

Logging trucks operating out of Terrace’s Westar Sawmill
were recently given safety inspections by Peter Martens
who looked over about 40 trucks In a two-day period.
“Overall, they're In pretty good shape,” he sald. “A few
need a little work, but | haven't seen anything serious.”
Martens has 27 years of experience In trucking and per-
forms similar Inspectlons for Westar’s mill In Vanderhoof.

_ Smith wins by-election

TERRACE — Terrace

“yoters have elected a hew

alderman to the
municipal council for a
five-month term. He is
Doug Smith, an = ex-
ecutive with Skeena
Broadcasters.
Municipal admin-
istrator Bob Hallsor re-
ports a low voter turn-
out in the recent byelec-
tion, with 1,083 ballots
cast representing 15.7
percent of eligible voters.
Smith received 843 votes
and his opponent, Victor
Jolliffe, got 240 votes,
The byelection fills the
seat on municipal coun-
cil left vacant by the
resignation of former

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Terrace Child Development Cen
the center’s operating budget.
Margaret Krulaselbrink, Terrl Townsen

alderman. Fred Mac-.
Donald. |

{n an opinion poll ac-
companying the election,
Terrace voters in a clear-
cut majority answered
“no”? to the question,
“Do you favor Sunday
shopping in Terrace?’’.
Those in favor of Sun-
day shopping numbered
355, and those opposed
totailed 728. The poll
was requested by Terrace
council to assist in
presenting a public posi-
tion to executives of the
large chain stores which
recently began Sunday
retailing here in con-
travention of the Holi-
day Shopping Act.

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TERRACE — At the
third annual general
meeting since its incep-
tion, the Terrace Kit-
sumkalum Salmonid
Enhancement Society
looked back upon a suc-
cessful year and forward
to a future laden with
challenging uncertain-
ties.

Society president
Doug Webb reported
that over 300,000
chinook salmon fry are
feeding in the troughs at
the Deep Creek hatch-
ery, soon to be released
into the Cedar, Copper
and Kalum rivers and
Erlandsen Creek. He

-also reported that during

the past year the society
completed tagging of
1500 chinook for the
Kalum Project, an

enumeration sponsored

by the Department of
Fisheries and Oceans to
determine the dimen-
sions of the chinook run
in. the Kalum_ River.
Other projects under-
taken by the society in
the past year included

clearing of trails into fish

brooding areas, the in-
stallation of a new water
line into the hatchery,
and an experiment to
determine whether
spring or fall release of
chinook into the Copper
River is more effective.
Webb also reported
two setbacks in the
course of the year. An
attempt at enhancing the
depleted coho popula-
tion in the upper Kalum
was a major disappoint-
ment, he said, because
the eggs obtained were

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Salmonid society sees challenging uncertainties

defective, for a reason
which no one has been
able to determine. He
cited a small landslide
upstream from the
hatchery on Deep Creek
as the cause of another
disaster; after the bank
caved in a torrent of silt
and clay coursed through
the intake pipe to the
brooding pond. Despite

frantic rescue efforts by

hatchery staff, several
thousand steelhead fry
suffocated in the
resulting murk,.

The society, originally
formed as cooperative
group of concerned
native and non-native
residents of the Terrace
area, will be branching
out this year as the Kit-
sumkalum Indian Band

begins an independent

hatchery and enhance-
ment operation, Webb
stated that chum salmon,
normally considered a
commercial species, are
being. incubated at the

Deep. Creek hatchery to.
assist the Kitsumkalum ~

Band until their hatchery
near Pine Lakes is com-
pleted. A suggestion
from project managér
Grant Hazelwood that
the society’s name
should be changed to
avoid confusion with the
Kitsumkalum Band’s
operation occasioned a
lengthy discussion
among the membership.
The final decision was a
proposal to change the
organization’s name to
‘Terrace Salmonid
Enhancement Society’’,
subject to approval by

continued on page 23

ter staff members are continuing to accept private donations which account for one-third of
Emptoyees ara Sheila Pretto (left, front), Margaret Dediluke, Jody Kelly plus (back, left),
d, Susan Lang and Denise Garneau. See story page 23.

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