Vol. 4, Issue No. 38

YOUR HOMETOWN LOCALLY OWNED AND OPERATED NEWSPAPER

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

Inside

- this week’s
Terrace Review

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~ Business Guide

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_ Ghurch Directory 16
. ClassifiedAds 19—22
Coming Events 14
Comics 18

_ Crossword 18
- Dining Directory 10
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Horoscope sss
Letters « 6
Sports oe 8
“2Talkofthe Town ~ 5
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Weather

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.
“I can’t believe the city would
allow logging trucks in a school
zone, let alone on Halliwell at all

with, the. present. road .. condi-

tions,’ he said..The problem,

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, row the in-
dustrial commercial building in-
spector in Campbell River, also
recalls the amendment, “It

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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Your services
Our jobs

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

office set up picket lines. Contract talks were set to resume this morning at8 a.m. +

Talks to resume as civil .

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Negotiations between the

government andthe 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-
- mouncement, adding there

would be an immediate news’

blackout.

Only a day and ahalf after the

full force of the strike hit Ter-
race, the sides agreed to meet

‘again ito discuss the issue of ©

’ Thie. City of. Terrace is offering a $500 reward for information leading to the arrest and con-

vistion 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 fields

at Christy Park. Anyone wanting to give-Information Is requested to oall the Terrace RCMP.

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 BCGEBU
members wondering why they

-weren’t back at work, according

to BCGEU rep Oli Magnusson

Reports that morning had in-
dicated the government. was
_Teady to move on its final offer.

At noon Plecas confirmed the
government was prepared to in-
crease the. 15 percent offer, and

“by £ 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. ce

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

workers excluded from the
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 ali the telephone in-
quiries.

Erle

Holt, operations

_Mmanager 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 al 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.

vice walks picket lines