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Vol. 4, Issue No. 38 *

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TERRACE, B.C., WEDNESDAY, September 21, 1988

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Old proposal could /

have prevented |
major confrontation

TERRACE — Was the confron-
tation between city hall and
Halliwell Ave. residents regard-
ing the use of their street as a
logging access route to the
Kitselas area really necessary?
According to information re-
ceived by the Terrace Review,
‘ the whole issue could have been
resolved before it even happened
if city council had received a
proposed Traffic Bylaw amend-
ment that was drawn up over
two years ago.

Gil Cobb, the city’s senior

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building inspector for eight
years until he resigned in mid-
December ‘last year, has con-
firmed the existence of such an
amendment and says that it was
drawn up by himself and his
junior assistant, Gerry Lichten-
feld, in conjunction with city
engineer Ralph Keen more than
two years ago. ,

He says the amendment was a
result of a study they carried out
on various traffic flows within
the city and their effect on safety
and maintenance problems on
city streets. Cobb, now the
senior building inspector in Gold
River, says the amendment
would have prevented any in-
dustrial traffic from using
Halliwell. — , ;

- **T- can’t believe the city would
allow logging trucks in a school
zone, let alone on Halliwell at all

says Cobb, is that the building

’ inspector doesn’t have a voice in

council. ‘'They pay people like
me to give professional advice
and information, ‘but.that infor-
mation was probably side-
tracked.”’

Lichtenfeld, riow the in-
dustrial commercial building in-
spector in Campbell River, also
recalls the amendment.
would have been in black and

“white but nobody bothered to

pull it out. It defined arterial
and feeder routes,’’ he said,

adding, ‘“‘They have to have

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with, the. present road . condi-
3,’.zhe. said. The problem,

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Yourservices
Our jobs

Except for management and essential services, the provincial government was off the job
Monday morning as BCGEU members like these In front of the Terrace Government Agent

office set up picket lines. Contract talks were set to resume this morning at8am. ~-

Negotiations between the
government and the B.C. Gov-

ernment Employees Union are’

scheduled to resume at 8:00 this
morning in Vancouver. At a
press conference yesterday at 1
p.m., chief government negotia-
tor Bob Plecas made the an-
nouncement,: adding there
would be an immediate news
blackout. = | _

Only a day and.a half after the

full force of the strike hit Ter-.

race, the sides agreed to meet
again to discuss the issue of

The Clty of Terrace is offering a $500 reward for information leading to the arrest and con-

viction of Whoever did this: late Friday night or early Saturday morning, someone used a
vehicle to-rip up the newly-seeded landscaping on the hill in front of the Terrace Arean. On
_ the same evening Terrace RCMP report that a similar incident occurred on the soccer fisids

at Christy Park. Anyone wanting to give-inf

Lobe

ormation is requested to call the Terrace ROMP.

wages. A stalemate Friday night
had the government holding
firm at their offer of 15 percent
over three years, while the union

was asking for 25 percent.

Earlier reports Tuesday morn-
ing had Terrace-area BCGEU
members wondering why they

-weren’t back at work, according
to BCGEU rep Oli Magnusson
- Reports that morning had in-
dicated the government was

ready to move on its final offer.
At noon Plecas confirmed the
government was prepared to in-
crease the 15 percent offer, and
by 1 p.m. the announcement to
begin negotiating again was
made.’

The strike was evident in Ter-
race in a big way by Monday.

Picket lines hit the Liquor
Store here in Terrace Saturday,
and by Monday morning Mag-
nusson estimated there were
over a dozen picket lines around
town.

The B.C. Government
Employees Union. strike has
some offices completely shut
down, some operating with
Management personnel only,
and some offering essential ser-
vices,

Offices being maintained by

BCGEU include the Govern-
ment Agent office, Courts,
Forests and: Lands, Parks, the
Skeena Health Unit, and Social
Services and Housing. Courts

- manager Irene Blackstone said
Monday they were operating as

usual, and there was no. court
scheduled for that day. A

Kitimat court Tuesday operated |

as usual, with management per-
sonnel, She said the main prob-
lem was a shortage of staff to
handle all the telephone’ in-
quiries.

Erle Holt, operations

manager at Forests and Lands,

said five excluded staff were
handling the work of about 30
BCGEU members. Because: of
the very low hazard. of forest
fires at this time, he said there
would be no problem with non-
union personnel taking over. He
also said they would still be
capable of hiring forest fire
fighters if the need arose.
Similarly for Parks, the tim-
ing of the strike has caught them
in the off-season. Supervisor
Gord MacDonald is the only ex-
cluded staff person, with three
on strike, ‘‘It won't have much
effect because we're not very

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Record-breaking run

The bad weather kept down attendance totals, but the 85 runners
turning up for Sunday’s two sessions raised more money this year
than was raised last year in the Terry Fox run for cancer at Terrace.
Organizers said about $1,700 was pledged or donated Sunday. This

compares to the $1,478 raised by 146 runners last year, Chairman
Gary Pettipas said sunny weather would likely have seen double the

entries, with more than $2,500 picked up. Totals from other area.
communities are not yet available. : .

Mirae