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The 23rd Pacific Northwest
Music Festival ended Saturday
for most competitors with the
Gala Performance in the
R.E.M. Lee Theatre attended by
hundreds of arts lovers from
across the region.

For some of the participants,
however, it was just a beginning
- the representatives who will go
on to the B.C. Festival of the
Arts were announced at the per-
formance.

The Festival of the Arts, billed
as Canada’s largest amateur arts
event, will be held May 25-29 in
the East Kootenay community
of Kimberley, Competing on be-
half of the Northwest will be:
Joseph Nelson, intermediate pi-
ano; Audrey Faber, senior pi-
ano; Pam Kerr, intermediate

voice; Glenys George, . junior
speech; Susie Dow, intermediate
speech; Liza Cote, senior
speech; Elizabeth Sluys, in-
termediate woodwinds; Keith
Griffioen, intermediate brass;

the Northwest Singers, choral;
Caledonia Concert Band, senior

concert band; and the Terrace
Community Band, community
band.

‘The Pacific Northwest Music
Festival has once again proven
its worth in encouraging and ex-
posing the wealth of artistic
talent and dedication living in
and enhancing the lifestyle of
this region.

For complete results of the
Pacific Northwest Music Festi-.
val, see next week’s Terrace
Review.

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LIZA COTE: winner of the $1,000
Northern Drugs Scholarship for her
performance In speech arts.

SUSAN COOK: winner of the Terrace
Water Polo Association $250 schol-
arship for her dance performance. .

JOSEPH NELSON: winner of the
Knights of Columbus $500 scholar-
ship for his performance on piano. -

- Angling guides want fishing lodge reviewed

‘TERRACE — Third reading
was given Saturday to an
amendment of a Kitimat-Stikine
Regional District bylaw which
would allow a fishing lodge to be
established near Copperside.
With nothing left now but the
formality of obtaining provin-
cial government approval for the
amendment, the change is all but
official and local fishing guides
are more than a little upset.

by Tod Strachan

Gord Judzentis of Water
Witch Excursions was one of
three angling guides at the
Regional District board meeting.

When it was time for the three

angling guides to address the.

board they were told, ‘‘It’s not
appropriate to hear submissions
without hearing from the other
side and all parties,” even
though Rainer Imhoff, the ap-
plicant for rezoning, and his
lawyer, Darrel O’Byrne, were in
the audience,

in a discussion that followed,
director Les Watmough said,
‘I’m satisfied with the public
hearing.’” His point was sup-
ported by director Bev Rodrigo,
who said, “If we follow usual
procedures then we don’t want
(to hear) any more,’’ and direc-
tor Pete Weeber, who said,
“People in the neighborhood
were notified and they’re the
ones concerned.”’

Board chairman Jack Talstra
agreed by saying, “We are in the
middle of the process and may
not hear anything further until
after the amendment is adopted.
The safest thing is not to hear
anyone today,’ but he also
warned the other directors,
‘Two to three months down the
road we could be holding a hear-
ing on another amendment,”

The next piece of business
before the -board regarding
fishing lodges was a letter from
Cosmo Zavaglia, chairman of
the Terrace and District Angling
Guides Committee — a commit-
tee made up of angling guides
and the Chamber of Commerce
to administer a federally-funded
Angling Guide Training pro-
gram. .
~ The letter referred to fishing
lodges in general and warned the
board of “‘gold rush fever” in
the application for new guiding
licences. Zavaglia described
‘“‘outdated’’ licencing pro-
cedures and regulations and
pointed out, ‘‘The Regional Dis-
trict does not have a clear

understanding of the problems
associated with approving the
re-zoning of properties for
lodges, resorts and fishing
camps.’” uO

He explained that the provin-
cial government is making a
‘major effort’’ to establish new
policy before the end of the.
year. Zavaglia asked the board
to. resist any rezoning applica-
tions until that new policy was in
place.

In addition, Zavaglia asked
that the board consider a further
restriction to the current
application by stating that ‘‘only
eight of the maximum of 30
guests staying at a small destina-
tion resert shall be guided sport
fishermen’’. He explained that
this would bring any new opera-
tions under the same ‘‘self-
imposed” interim regulations
that the majority of local guides
are now following on a volun-
tary basis.

The board agreed with Wat-
mough and passed a motion to
send Zavaglia’s letter to the
Planning Committee, who could
then meet with the guides to
discuss their concerns.

But that will be too late, ac-
cording to Judzentis. After the
bylaw amendment has been
given third reading, it’s all but
passed, and he says the board
should have received any new in-
formation first.

Later in the day, when it was
finally time for the third reading
of the bylaw, Regional District
administrator Bob Marcellin
told the board that issues raised
at the public hearing had not
been completely resolved but
had been addressed.

He said government agency
approvals are in place and Im-
hoff has agreed to relinquish his
right to run a camp ground on
the site.

Marcellin also reported to the
board that Imhoff had ‘‘jumped
the gun’’ in establishing his
resort. According to Marcellin,
Imhoff had begun renovations
on an existing building and was
developing a lodge facility on
the main floor and a private
dwelling on the second floor.
Also, he said, Imhoff was pro-
ceeding with the construction of
some of the cabins.

He reported that Imhoff was
“to the point of violation and
shouldn’t proceed’’ and said ad-
ministration had sent a letter of
caution telling Imhoff there was
no guarantee the bylaw would be

passed.

Director Ruth Hallock ex-
pressed concern after receiving
this information, saying she
hoped the situation wouldn’t
develop into one similar to
Gossan Creek, where they were
having to take the developer to
court to resolve bylaw viola-
tions.

Judzentis was appalled with

“this course of events: the

mechanics of the rezoning pro-
cess have been allowed to grind
slowly ahead, even though there
are indications for concern, and
no new evidence regarding the
application will be heard until
the bylaw has been passed.
Judzentis said he was in the
lower mainland promoting his
guiding business when the public
hearing was held, and he said he
wasn’t aware of the fact that had

Better guiding
regulation sought

A number of guides belonging
to the Terrace and District
Angling Guides Association are
taking steps to ‘‘get a handle’
on the local guiding situation,

but a slow-moving provincial ©

government could destroy the
whole effort.

by Tod Strachan

According to spokesman Jim
Culp, two new initiatives —~ a
voluntary set of self-imposed
restrictions and a Chamber of
Commerce-sponsored Angling
Guide Training Program — will
go a long way towards making
peace within the sports fishery
and enhancing the industry as a
whole.

But because there are only a
possible 13 out of 18 local guides
patticipating, and antiquated
provincial licencing require-
ments are still in existence, their
efforts could have little mean-
ing.
Culp described the current set
of regulations governing angling
guides as “‘right out of date’
and ‘‘absolutely out of touch
with the times’. He said his
group has asked for a morator-
ium on the issuing of first-time
guiding licences until a provin-

cial review on guiding policy has
been completed.

He said the situation as it ex-
ists now is out of control, with a

gold rush for new licences, Ac-—

cording to Culp, anyone with.
liability insurance can apply and
receive a licence. There are no
requirements for the applicant
to have any knowledge or exper-
ience in the business.

Culp described the Angling
Guide ‘Training program as a
much-needed one because there
are no trained guiding assistants
in the area. He said the Job
Development Program would
employ a project manager and
12 trainees through eight weeks
of classroom instruction at
Northwest Community College,
followed by six weeks of exper-
ience in the field.

He said the training will cover
everything an assistant guide
would need to begin work, in-
cluding engine repair, boat
handling, biology and botany,
tackle use and maintenance,
regulations, wilderness survival
and survival first aid, legal re-
quirements and marketing, as

well as the ‘‘Superhost’’ pro- ©

gram.

Hot Springs == continued from page 1

Branch is aware of habitat con-
cerns.

“The application has not been
approved at this point,” said
Yardley, ‘‘and as far as protec-
tion of that particular stream is
concerned, we are well aware of
that concern and we're certaitly
looking at means by which to
provide an appropriate measure
of protection.”

Terrace Conservation Officer
Terry McGunigle is aware of the
situation but said he had no con-
cern regarding any damage.

“The whole thing is under a
referral process where those con-
cerns are met and answered,’’ he
said. ‘‘And if the concerns are

too great through that referral

process, modifications will be
made.”’ ~

McGunigle also advised,
‘‘Tet’s wait and see, There
aren’t any concrete proposals as
to how the development is going
to go ahead as yet.”

Hot Springs developer Bert
Orleans was unavailable for any
comiment, *

been scheduled.

“The single public hearing
process does not give fair oppor-
tunity to all — only to the people

- who have applied for the bylaw

change,”
meeting.

‘“‘We think that if there’s
evidence that wasn’t brought up
at the first one, or wasn't
available at the first one, - it
should go to a second hearing.”

he said after the

Editorial —

continued from page 4

or don’t care that the first
generation of hospitals in the
Northwest and other parts of the
province are aging to a point at
which some major injections of
capital are required.

If health care remains a fiscal
backwater in this government’s
spending priorities, it will be
interesting to hear the justifica-
tion for it in view of multi-
billion dollar overruns for the
Coquihalla highway and
Skytrain, the remaining debt
load from Expo 86, and the
cavalier issuing of spending war-
rants - $1 million in this regional
district -for a regionalization
plan that not only hasn’t shown
any results but doesn’t even ap-
pear to have any objectives.

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