B14 Terrace Review — Wednesday, March 28, 1990 .-—° ~

A year

ago this

week —

WE COULD BE NEXT. The
lead story a year ago this week
told of the fate of the Rim Saw-
‘mill, since dubbed the Rim For-
estry Development Park, and how
we in Terrace might find ourselves
in the same situation if Skeena

Sawmills decides to move -to.

Kitimat. A hundred Hazelton jobs.

were lost when the Rim mill was:

closed in June, 1988.

The story came from the March,

1989, meeting of the Regional
District of Kitimat-Stikine board,

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where director Les Watmough said &

there were similarities between the ©

current situation in Hazelton and

the possible future of Skeena-

Sawmills in Terrace. The basic
similarity, according to Watmough,

was the fact there was plenty of »

wood for both mills and no need
to ‘shut either of them down, If
- Skeena Sawmills did close, though,
a proposal for the Rim site might
work in Terrace.

The Rim proposal, submitted to
the regional district by Hazelton
director Alice Maitland, suggested
that Westar Timber be offered $1
for their old mill and that it be
tumed into a primary sawmill
serving a number of secondary
manufacturers. In addition to the
dollar bill, Westar would receive
good will tax write-offs and a
more diversified market through
the new wood processing indus-
tries that would follow. The
regional district offered moral
support for a feasibility study.

CAR WASH ROCK claimed the
life of a 32-year-old Prince Rupert
man a year ago this week when a
five-cubic-meter sheet of ice fell
from the vertical -rock face onto his
pickup truck. A passenger in the
vehicle received only minor
injuries. Highway 16 was closed
from 9:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. while
highway crews cleaned up the
mess and dislodged any remaining
ice with explosives.

Around the same time, another
section of highway north of us was
causing Atlin New Democrat MLA.
Larry Guno some concern. The 50
kilometer-long Bob Quinn ava-

lanche belt on Highway 37 was

dangerous enough as it was, sald .
Guno, but if the province was to.

let Dease Lake maintenance con-
tractor -NorRoadco Lid. close the
Bob- Quinn camp it would be
"foolhardy in the extreme”.
According to Guno, .the Bob
Quinn section of road is the site of
- the worst avalanches in the prov-
ince and the camp there has. tradi-

tionally been stocked with emerg- .

“ency equipment such as stretchers,
probes and electronic tracking

' . devices; closing the camp would
put the health and safety of north-
em residents at risk. :

The Stikine Highways district.

manager, Dan Stead of Dease

Lake, wasn’t overly concemed, -

though. He said NorRoadco would

need approval from the Ministry of.

. Highways before they could close

‘the camp and he didn’t believe.

MEMBERS OF NATIVE BANDS from throughout the Northwest converged on Terrace a year ago this week to protest the
federal government's announcement of a funding freeze on native post-secondary education assistance.

they would get it.

NATIVE EDUCATION was also:
a hot item in the news a year ago
this week, A March 20 announce-
ment from the Department of
Indian Affairs stated that funding
for post-secondary education pro-

grams had been frozen at 1988 -
levels. Two days later, about 200:
northwest students, parents and

aboriginal leaders gathered in
George Little Memorial Park, and
to the beat of Native drums ‘in the

background heard speaker after

speaker denounce the govern-
ment’s plan.

The protesters were then led.
down Lakelse Ave. by the Kitsum- |
kalum drummers. Their plan was .

to stage a sit-in at the local Indian

Affairs office but when they.
was locked.
"We're locked out, ‘and that’s
symbolic because we're ‘also.
. locked out of the decision-making

arrived the door

process," Kitamaat Band chief
Gerald Amos was ‘noted as saying.
Richard .Turcotte, the Terrace

DIA district. manager, told the

Terrace Review that he had locked

the door on direct and unequivocal:

orders from Ottawa. According to

Turcotte, Ottawa ‘had anticipated.
the protest: action and given blan- .

ket directives to every DIA office

-in the country. When the protest.
ended, though, Turcotte met with a:
half-dozen. Native leaders and —
apparently promised that their -
concerns would be forwarded to.

Minister of - Indian and Northern
Affairs, Pierre Cudicur.

MEDICAL PREMIUMS: UP...

AGAIN. Effective April 1, 1989,
Dueck:
announced a year ago this week, :
Medical Service Plan premiums -
would be :going up 6.5 percent.
This meant that monthly premiums «

Health: Minister. Peter

would range from $31 for a single
person to $62 for a family of three
or more. Dueck did try: to soften
the blow; however. An altered and
expanded premium assistance plan
would. result in an additional
20,000 B.C. residents who would
be eligible for premium assistance.

Even with these rising premiums,
though, local: organizations were
still working hard to purchase

‘needed medical equipment for the

hospital.-A year ago this week,
Elks Lodge #425 and the Ladies of

the Royal Purple paid one more.

installment on the $15,000 uretero-

scope they had purchased for Mills

Memorial a year earlier. A few

more bingos and two more install--

ments and the instrument would be

paid in full.

CALEDONIA. SENIOR . SEC-

ONDARY hosted the zone high

school badminiton finals a year
ago this week and won 10 of the
‘15 titles available: in the senior.
under-19 division. The big winners

were Caledonia students’ Garrett
‘Hidber and Lisa Mailloux. ‘Hidber

‘won the-men’s ’A’ singles, feamed

with Dayson Wrubel to capture the
- men’s A’ doubles and also paired.
‘with Mailloux to take the mixed
’A' doubles. In addition. to the:
mixed. doubles. win with Hidber, -
up with Jodie
‘Cey to take the ladies *A’ doubles.
‘Several Grade 8 students from’
‘Skeena and: Thornhill also did weil .
-in zone playdown badminton last:

Mailloux teamed

year, There.are too many names to

- mention here. but. their weekend:
performance gave an indication of
_--what’s to come-at Caledonia, nes
The Caledonia Kermodea hada fo
terrific: season ‘last year'--.buta: fo
disappointing finish. They were’ | — .
knocked ‘out: of the B.C, ‘high |"
school boys’ finals in Vancouver
‘in. two straight games. Four of the ©

members of that team recovered
enough from that defeat, though, to
bring their school a little honor.
Ginger Manhas, Frank 'Benaille,
David Owens and Jackie Brown

formed a team to represent the
‘Kermodes in a by-product of the
‘big series and came out with a

third ptace finish in a 41-team
field.

- The bantam bowling title went to
Smithers a year ago this week but
Terrace put in a good showing.
With a three-game total of 564,
Tracey Blaus of Smithers was the

‘only: winning bowler from this

zoné at the Youth Bowling Coun-
cil’s provincial championships last
year. Two Terrace bowlers won

third place honors, though. Kari
" Haugland rolled a 671 in the junior

girls’ division and Matthew Soules
had a 615 triple in the junior boys’
division.

Michelle Hendry had just com-

pleted a spectacular basketball

season at SFU and it earned her a.

tie for the SFU Female Athlete of
the Year award with swimmer
Annabel. Bicknell. But there was
more to come. Hendry .and_a
teammate, Sara Haave, were
headed for Toronto where they
would compete with 32 hopefuls
for one of the 20 positions on
Canada’s national team.
In other sports news a year ago
this week, Roseanne Komlos
placed second in her class at the
B.C. Olympic weightlifting cham-
pionships in New Westminster, .
Norm's Auto Refinishing won the
Terrace men’s rec hockey league
championship, the Skeena Hotel
Canadians lost the men’s basket-
ball league championship to Ev’s
Clippers, and, to top it all off, the —
Terrace Figure Skating. Club’s ice
camival, "Ye Olde Toy Shoppe"
was a great hit. It offered a bit
slower pace and gave everyone an
opportunity to sit back, relax, and
be entertained. It was a busy week.

David A. Warmer ; and J ohn Bandstra_

are pleased to announce that
as of March 1, 1990

"Murdoch R. Robertson.

fds Joined them in the practice af tw _

as associate counsel.

. We invite Doch' 9 Present and formet cerita io. f

- drop: in for a visit at |

Warner Bandstra
“200- 4690 Lazelle Avenue, Terrace, B.C. V8G 186.
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