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_Lyneli has recommended snow-

: mobile “club. members undergo

“vavalanche safety courses - and

. “ensure they carry rescue beacons ewhen out in avalanche areas,

Those, are. among the. findings ofa report. released last week-on

~ Peter, Dobie.

The’ pair died ‘of asphyxiation

When they were caught in a Jan. 3

_ avalanche on Thornhill Mountain, > Turner: and Dobie were among

a “group of Skeena Valley Snow:

he deaths. carlier this year of Ter- © face residents Perric Turner and

training, beacons ©

‘TERRACE -- Local coroner Jim

mobile Association menibers who were up on Copper and Thornhill Mountains that day. _

The tragedy occured in al area on the latter mountain known to area snowmobilers as: “The Big Lake”.

Lynch said the. snowmobilers spent the day racing their ma- chines up the steep slopes of the,

800ft, deep basin before turning

and. heading. back down at high

- speed, -

He said the accident occured at

approximately 3 pam.; just as the

Group. was about to’ head for

Marina contract let

TERRACE — Work is now un- der way which. will finally see’ completion of the $3 willion-plus MK Bay Marina. upgrade,

Being constructed is a-.1,500 5q.fl., two-storey building which will include an office, storage space and. public washrooms on ‘the = ground © floor carelaker’s residence above.

That building is ‘expected to be completed by the end of October, more than two. and a half: years after work first began to expand ihe facility: °

LDH Construction of Kitimat has been awarded. the -$88,000 contract to build the lower level while Quality Mobile Homes: of Chilliwack got the $109,000 can- tract for- the residence. ~The... federal, - government, through its Small Craft Harbours branch, coughed up $1.1 million af the cost, a GO B.C. grant pro-

Banner . ban in place

aster, says Susan Henycez, acting -area manager for B,C, Hydro.

‘Organizers forthe last blood “donor clinie put up a banner be- tween Hydro poles on Eby Street, near the.-palice. station, - During high winds all: but’ ‘one of the sup- port ropes were “pulled free, creat- ing'a potential hazard,

_ *What-happened was the, ban- ner was {lying from the top of the (power) Hines lo the ground. The ‘only” support ropes were on the one side,”’ said Henycez.-

If the banner had flown up and wrapped. itself around ‘the line, leaving «the -support rope dau- _gling,-.a: passerby. could easily liave: come by and grabbed that rape, explained Henycez: ; Tfanyone had ‘been touching - the- rope. at the ‘appropriate time, there’ sa: ‘tremendous possibility if they. weren't killed they could have ; ‘hid very scrious injuries,” she said.-

No: one. was injured in the inci- dent; ‘but: the “banner did blow down ‘on. top Of car, windshields,

momentarily. obstructing, drivers’ :

vision:

-In the past, B.C. Hydro has put. . ‘community ©: |. now people. are ® 34

for groups, ‘but climbing, the poles themselves to.

put up banners, not realizing they

should call Hydro personnel.

Tn order to prevent an accident, the power company bas informed -

city” council it: will nat ‘allow anymore banners to contact ils ‘power poles, Instead it has asked ‘the: cily’s help in finding a new

. location for this type of advertis-

inge 00 “ Although . ‘there are few ‘Loca- tions in Terrace with underground

wiring; engineering ¢ director Stew .

* Christensen: subsequently told a council, .commiltec-: there were potentially safe. siles- near the Sande Overpass;

The council:::-has- now asked Christensen to find out how much it would cost to install special poles to display banners and sale locations for those poles,

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concern ‘for BC. Hydro is posters which are nailed or stapled to pawer poles. .

‘They are very dangerous to,

our line men-when they climb up and down, ”” said Henycez, ©: * One: of: the ways..the company

keeps the community informed of

» possible salety. hazards is by’ nin-

“ning ;educational prograitis” for.

‘children in: grades four. and: five, and grade: 10 students. :

‘with’ | a

vided a: further million and the . Kilimat Stikine regional district covered the remainder of the cost.

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home. Turner and Dobler were maikng one last run when the snow above them broke loose and the avalanche enveloped them.

Battling freezing temperatures and white-oul conditions on-the searchers. eventually found Dobler’s body at 10:20 p.m, and Turner's about an hour later.

Other recommendations made by Lynch include:

* the Canadian Avalanche As- sociation include snowmobiles as a potential avalanche ‘‘trigger’’

in its publications;

* the Provincial Emergency

_ Program (PEP) standardize res- / cue equipment for their ‘search

and rescue teams; and * PEP also standardize training

-for groups located in areas where

recreationalists | frequent avalan-

che terrain. -

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