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plications by companies for -

guarantees. to northwest
pulpwood say as much about
what may or may not be in the
forest as they do about what the
companies want to with the
wood,

Two of the applicants say
there isn’t enough wood as it is
-and want to.protect their ex-
isting operations. One wants to

build a pulp mill in Stewart and

one wants to expand an existing
mill.
The applications are for

Pulpwood Agreement 17 cover-'

ing an area stretching from west

Terrace
teacher
charged

ted for trial on nine counts of -
sexual offences against young

girls.
The 58-year-old man — ‘who
left Terrace in 1981 — will ap-

pear in Terrace county. court .

Oct. 10 on six counts. of inde-
cent assault, one count of sexual
assault, and two counts of hav-
ing sexual intercourse with a
female under the age of 14.
The charges involve seven
complainants —.all girls under
I4 at the time of-the alleged of-

fences, ‘Court documents allege
the incidents took place between. -
1967 and 1979 in Terrace and in-
1983 in Courtenay,

Bes cat fe

end: of a preliminary hearing ‘i in.
Terrace court last. week. :‘Fwo:

related charges were dismissed.” ;

A ban has been placed on the:
publication or broadcast of any .

information which might lead
to the identity of the com.
plainants,

Food bank
next week

TERRACE — The. Terrace
Churches’ Food Bank holds its
March distribution next week,

’ Tt'll be held in the Evangelical
Free Church’s youth centre next
to the carpenters’ hall. .

March 12 is for last names
from A-H, March 13 for I-R,
March 14 for S-Z and March 15
for people who have missed the
first three days. -*

Ivll be the third distribution
of 1990 and donations are
always welcome. _

The Terrace Churches’ Food
Bank is run by area churches us-
ing. volunteers: A. meeting this
week will decide if there’ll be a
distribution in | April.

Gov’ t studying housing bid

TERRACE _ Senior govern-’

ment officials this week are go-
ing over a request by the Ter-

race Health Care Society for $2.
million to build a housing com

plex. vo
The move follows a trip t
Victoria by soclety officiais ias

. week to discuss plans to build “0

units for people who, while able
to live by themselves, may’ need
a certain amount of care.

Society chief executive office

Michael Leisinger sald officials

of the health and social services

and housing ministry officials

were impressed with the plan.
The idea behind the complex

is ta’ provide. housing and: care

for people who “now, even
though they don’t need it, end
up in Teérraceview Lodge's in-
termediate “care. wing ' because
there.is:no place else for them to.
£0, * sald. Letsinger.

It also. means a cost savings in
that the supportive housing plan
could cost "the: government

$20-§22.a day. per -unilt
20-22. a. day pet

_ igen er evdate ECR:

of Terrace to. Burns Lake. In:

side that area is up to 623,000.
cubic’ metres: of. pulp-quality —
wood a year that can, be cut for -

25 years if needed, , Says the pro-

_vincial government.

The. wood * the. provincial
government says is there is not

now part of. any operator's. aie “
“nual allowable cut.

Skeena -Cellulose, | which

wants all of the. 623,000 cubic -
metres to-build a third line at.its -

Prince Rupert pulp milf at a cost

’ of $745 million; says it may not

have to cut the wood at all.

It says 150,000 of the. 2 :
million cubic metres ‘it needs a

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from itself-while the rest will be
bought from other operators in
the form of waste from logging
sites and surplus sawmill chips.

‘But in order té.secure finan-
“cing. , ‘for the -inyestment, we
” must. maintain at. least our pre- -
sent percentage’ of. secure fibre -
“‘supply,’? its application. states...

““Pulpwood Agreement “No.
17. is. needed to increase’ our
overall “fibre supply. security.
Financing. is .not. possible

- without fibre security,” the ap-
. plication continues.

Skeena_ ‘Cellulose. now uses

“2. 17 million cubic x metres a year

of pulp: fibre: at ‘its Prince
Rupert mill, only 30 per cent of
whieh it has wader § secure supp-
Ye!

On Page 4. jou'll find an
outline of what makes up a
Pulpwood agreement.

Also ‘on ‘Page 2 ave what
the applicants..want to do
with the pulpwood.

The second application to in-
crease” northwest: pulp supplies
by building<a mill. at Stewart
comes from Orenda Logging. It

wants: 100,000 “cubic” metres a

‘on income levels. 4
"doesn’t follow: what they haye;.
- We're asking them’ ‘to, custom:

tient casts of $90 a day, he add.
ed.

“The minister of health ;
(John Jansen) was really excited —

becarise it could free up.or bet-
ter utilize money
mizistry,’’ said Leisinger,

The complex of one; two and |
three-bedroom: units: would: be —
built beside Terraceview: Lodge
so its residents can have easy ac-

cess to the lodge’s food, recrea-

tion and health care facilities,: -
Leisinger said the discussions:

between senior health and social

services and housing officials :
_ are taking place because the dp-

plication takes in. respon«
sibilities of both ministries.

“There are. (housing) . pro-

grams now but they either have.

age. restrictions lor. restrictions
‘What we want

make a ‘program for’ us,” he

The. goclely: “estima

thly: Rents # of $300 ¢ or +90 peromn a:

‘in his °

‘ofa resident’s j income in addi-

~ tion to the per-day fee it would

‘receive from the provincial
government, ‘

-A_ report. prepared: ‘for the
health care society estimates ihe

“area needs at least.-40° and
; perhaps as many as ‘100 units of

‘the type proposed.

The $2 million could either’
come as a grant or as a loan
guaranice against a mortgage to
be taken out: by the society, said
Leisinger. : ‘'.,

Other plans by health care
society include day care for
elderly people now living with
their adult children.

year it from the northern end of
the Kalum Timber Supply Area,

- Orenda now has a Licence to
cut 360,000 cubic metres a year.
With: better utilization of “its
own wood and. purchases .of

‘ pulp logs and residue from
_-other operators, ‘Orenda § says it

may never need that ‘agreement
guarantee.

Like Skeena Cellulose, Oren-
da says it may not need to exer-
cise the guarantees the agree-
ment provides but does need it
as a security for financing and
in case pulp fibre supplies fall
short in any one year.

If given the 100,000 cubic

metre guarantee, Orenda says
Skeena Cellulose, the major
purchaser of. pulp logs in the);

north Kalum, will continue to.
have’ a supply for. its: current uot

operations. aa
Eurocan, which wants the en-
tire 623,000 cubic metres, and ©
Northwood, which’ -wants
150,000 cubic :metres ., near -

Houston and Burns. Lake, have 2 a
doubts there i is enough’ wood for.

existing operations as it is... °°

A report. prepared. ‘for .
Eurocan estimates that sawmills
in the Terrace to: Vander :

“cont d az

Miners seeking —
lower road cost

TERRACE: — Mi.ing com-
panies active in ine gold-rich
Iskut Valley north of Stewart
have told the provincial govern-
ment they should only pay a
portion of a $12.5 million pro-
posed road into the region.

Their statement is the latest in
a series of maneuvers which
have taken place since last year
when the provincial government
announced there would be
economic benefits arising from
a 72km road leading from
Hwy37 into the Iskut.

At the time the provincial
government said it would pay
for a portion of the road but ex-
pect companies which would
benefit from its construction to
pay a larger share of the cost.

The mining companies” posi-
tion is backed by a report
prepared for Skyline Gold,
. f. th

and Cominco, which

is developing the SNIP proper-
ty.

Royea said the report states the
companies should pay only 12
to 18 per cent of the road cost.
That’s compared to the 75 per
cent a provincial government
report suggests the companies

Cominco spokesman Merlyn’

should pay.

“What our report “does : is
look at all the benefits from the
road. The study by the provin-
cial government took an-ab-
breviated view of: the benefits,’’
Royea said.

Missing from. the provincial
study were benefits from mines
buying services and supplies in
northwest cities, royalties and
taxes going to the government
from mining operations in the
Iskut and profits and taxes from
logging companies that . could
use the road-to get to timber in
the Iskut, he said, .

Royea added that the 12 to 18
per cent figures are based on
several scenarios determining
the amount of and from where

.the mining. companies would

buy supplies, og

‘He’ said the: provincial
government ‘study - was ° “also
limited because it narrowed the -
benefits of the road to the Com-
inco and Skyline properties.

Mining companies have said
before the area holds much
potential for more mines and
for more exploration if there
was a road. Access is now
limited to air travel,

Exemption wanted

TERRACE — A teacher seek-
ing religious exemption from
the local teachers’ union is to
appear before the Endustrial
Relations Council (IRC) next
week,

Terrace teacher Doug Brewer
will make his case before an
IRC hearing in Terrace Mar, 14,
1RC- officials said last week.

One other teacher won ex-
emption from the ‘union last
year. She told the IRC she ob-
jects to being a member of any
organization that ‘doesn’t pur-
sue Christian principles as its
primary objective.”

Twenty more local teachers’

also refuse to join the union,
but have not yet applied for an
IRC exemption. They face los-
ing their jobs if they don’t
become members by the end of

. June,

. Terrace District. Teachers
Association president Greig
Houlden said most of the non-

union teachers object to the
pro-choice abortion position ~

taken by the B.C. Teachers’
Federation.

The collective agreement
signed last year. by the school
district and the teachers requires
all district teachers to become
members of the TDTA and the
provincial federation by June 30

as a condition of employment.

Houlden said the non-
member teachers who don’t
gain exemption by then must
either join the union or look for
a new job,

He predicted the bulk of the
teachers will decide to stay.
**We're assuming that by July 1
we're all going to be one big
happy family again."”

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