Ad Terrace Re view —

Wednesday, October 24, 1990

Timberman McRae
appointed to |
investigate Wedeene

Terrace forestry consultant Bill
McRae has been appointed by the
Ministry of Forests to study the
reasons for the business failure of
Wedeene River Timber and recom-
- mend any means by which the
Prince Rupertsawmilling operation
can be kept alive.

Forests Minister Claude Rich-
mond promised at a public meeting
in Terrace Sept. 25 that he would
look into the situation and
announced MeRae’s appointment
as investigator on Oct. 17.
Wedeene had publicly stated the
company was in receivership two
days before the Terrace meeting.

Wedeene’s vice president of
operations, Kelly Williams, blamed
a combination of soft lumber mar-
kets, timber shortages and a ban on
the export of raw logs for the
company’s financial problems. The
mill is still in operation while
receiver Peat Marwick analyzes it

New radio

to find out if it’s losing money on
a day-to-day basis without the
inclusion of debt payments.

Peat Marwick representative
Colin Rodgers said two weeks ago
that if the operation can’t pay for
itselE on that basis it will probably
be shut down. ;

Yesterday Peat Marwick repre-
sentative Todd Martin said from
Prince Rupert that the analysis is
still not finished. McRae’s inves-
ligation, he added, will have no
impact on the receivership process.

The mill employs 150 people,
and Richmond said he is con-
cerned about the impact so many
layoffs would have on Prince
Rupert’s economy. McRae’s
report, which will summarize the
operation’s viability and recom-

The Northem B.C. Winter Games fund got a boost from local businessman Campbell Stewart
recently as he presented Terrace Games chairman Geln Thomsen with a cheque for $2,000 to help
defray some of the expenses, The Games are scheduled for Terrace Feb. 1-3, 1991.

mend options for keeping it going, § _
if there are any, is due by the end &

of the month.

equipment

installed at airport

Regular travellers on Highway 37
between Terrace and Kitimat may
have noticed something missing
recently in the scenery.

The bunker that used to squat
behind the chain link fence
between the highway and the air-
port at the top of the hill is now
gone. The building was removed
and a new one built about 150
metres back from the toad to
house a new, solid state localizer
unit.

Airport electronics maintenance
manager Tim Foster explains that
the localizer broadcasts a narrow
tadio beam southward down the
Kitimat valley that approaching
aircraft can use to home in on the
airport. The localizer housed in the
old building dated back to the
1950’s, using vacuum tubes. The
new one performs the same func-
tion but takes up only one-fifth of
the space and uses transistors
instead of tubes.

The new device was commis-
sioned Oct. 12 and required a full
day of flight-checking to calibrate,
Foster said. Moving the location
Tequired new cable, electrical
supply and an antenna, but the
approach procedure hasn't
changed.

"It was originally part of an
Instrument Landing System," Fos-
ter said. An ILS consists of two
parts, a localizer and a plidestope.
The localizer signal guides the
aircraft into alignment with the
centreline of the runway being
approached, while the glideslope,
which broadcasts a signal that has

- the form of a plate tilled upward
slightly, provides a gradual descent
“that can be followed to pul the
aircraft down at the proper angle
‘on the end of the runway, The
Terrace equipment, however, has
only half of the system, and it is

- used to guide aircraft down the |

Kitimat valley “to” within ‘visual
~ gange of the airport.

The new building also houses
Distance Measuring Equipment,
another radio device that tells a
pilot with a suitably equipped

airplane how far away the airport | :

is. Following the localizer,.. the
pilot knows the aircraft is over the
airport when the DME reads 8
(nautical miles), Foster said. The
pilot should then be able to make
a landing with visual references,

As further help, fan markers are
spaced along the localizer beam
down the valley. They broadcast a
fan-formed radio signal straight up
in the air which the airplane passes
through as it flies along the
localizer path. There are three of
them in the valley, and as the
airplane goes through them the
pilot can refer to an approach plate
(a type of aeronautical map for
airport landing approaches) to tell
what altitude is correct for each
fan marker position.

coming

The Terrace chapter of the Heart
and Stroke Foundation is looking
for local residents to come out and
work out Nov. 4 at Thornhill
Junior Secondary Schoot. The
Organization’s annual Workout for
Heart begins at 1:30 p.m. and
continues until 4 p.m. |

In addition to adding a bit of
fitness to the lives of participants,
the event also raises money for the
foundation through donations and
pledges. Anyone interested in

sponsoring a workout participant

or donating a prize can contact
Jenny Smith at 638-1301 or Karen

Enriquez at 638-0487,

Participants can pick up pledge
Sheets at CFTK, the arena office,
or from any fitness instructor. |

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