: 12 Terrace Review — Wednesday, July 23, 1986 . - nn —— Community work being . RAN as done on Terrace stre stots hes Connie Haines, District of Terrace employee, brightens up local streets with road mark ings of yellow paint along Greig Avenue just east of the Sande Overpass. TERRACE — The municipality is now per- forming road work to maintain local streets. by Philip Musselman Normally, work on pain- ting crosswalks begins in the spring with priority given to jobs concerning crosswalks used by school children, said Ralph Keen, City Engineer. From then on heavily used streets with good foundations receive maintenance to keep them from. deter- jorating. The upkeep of roads is operated on an annual budget which = is separated into painting and patchwork accounts, Part of this budget goes for street sweeping, drainage maintenance, clearing snow in winter, etc. Recent projects in- clude paving parts of A dozen years on the job Jack Pratt, employee with the District of Terrace for the past 12 years, is use to the summer work routine which In- : cludes the repainting of center lines along streets around town. | At The Homestead Heritage Park Ross held the pre- emption at the north end Building of Kalum Lake next to Wesach Creek. Portions = A well-built, two of her land were sold to a storey structure, the Oscar Olander and Tom Conroy around the time of World War I. The. Homestead building is typical of the permanent dwellings of many pioneer families. Homestead building was constructed in the 1910s by Tom Conroy, nephew \ of Mrs. Ann (Grannie) Ross, after whom i Rosswood is named. t _done and - it City roads geta bright tinge of yellow Keith Avenue, and Park ‘Avenue Hill. According to Keen, considerable pothole patching is done every year, but there never is enough money for these projects. Repairs also de- pend on conditions, Keen said. For example, pothole patching has to be completed in hot weather to be effectively is only economical to do a good amount of work on one road than to work on the odd pothole. ( Road signs painted District -craws | use municipal trucke to carry equipment to ‘various work stations, —-_—- we Did you know? TERRACE — Some beaver do not construct dams, but live on the banks of rivers in lodges or burrows.