9

my 4

After the Riverboat Days parade crowds relaxe events and the number of eve race Review,

ES

d to the sounds of local musicians. nis made this. year’s Riverboat Days the biggest and be

The parade, number of-s st ever. For more cove

Victoria, B.C, | V8V 1X4

PES ed

Legislative Library, Parliament Buildings,

pectators, participants In the Oe 5% rage, look inside this week’s Ter- “te Pe)

(ae rots ot Oe

TERRACE —City council will _ have to address the problem .. caused by logging truck traffic

on Halliwell Ave. once and for

all at its Aug. 10 meeting, accor- .

“ding to Mayor Jack Talstra. by Tod Strachan —

““T get phone calls saying it’s my responsibility as mayor to enforce the by-law, but it’s not, — it’s a council responsibility

-. and, in my view, it’s a monetary |

aswell as a saftey consider- ’ ation,'’ he said. 7

He said that council had the

choice of trying to obtain a court

-injunction to stop RJA Forestry -

Ltd. from using Halliwell Ave. as an access route to Kistselas,-

or changing their resolution to -

allow the logging operation to continue. —

“To go to court for an injune- -

tion to stop the hauling now,” _ explained Talstra, ‘‘they can do-

fairly quickly and probably get ‘But that’s not the end of the matter. It would probably be ap- " pealed, and a court case set five to six months down the road. If they lose that appeal, then RJA Forestry could sue the city for

‘results were

_ Trucks roll on Halliwell, City _ probes legal stan oe

the period they haven’t worked. ‘“‘My recommendation to council will be that if they want

to uphold this by-law they better ©

set aside $30,000, or maybe even $50,000 for this court case and ask them if they want to-use the

taxpayers money in that way.’?.

_ Also, a city-funded study on the feasibility of using ‘the Steinhoe Creek route as an alt- érnate access route, if ready be- fore Aug. 10, could have an-ef- fect-on council’s decision if the positive, according to Talstra. oe

“If the study came back say-

ing, ‘yes it’s feasible to build a.

road: through the Steinhoe,’ then I'd like to pull all the players in, including the Ministry of High- ways and Indian and Northern Affairs, and ask why we can’t. build a road and let ‘everybody take some responsibility,

_“*With that way to go, then I ° - think we could turn around and

say to the people that we’re go- ing to be hauling on Halliwell

for two years and you're just go-

ing to have to put up with it, “We've done that with the Skeena Cellulose burner and I think that would satisfy the peo- ple. 1 think that’s the solution?’ In the meantime, Talstra said

ce

the city was going to be very

cautious in the enforcement of the existing by-law banning large trucks from North Sparks and Halliwell. a

“We. have checked with our solicitors because enforcing a by-law is very tricky,” he said. “it’s up tothe city whether to

enforce a by-law or not, and for |

‘the moment we've told the RCMP that we want a legal opi- nion first, We want to make sure that we can enforce this by-law before we go ahead.” 7

. He added that the usu

‘method of charging people who

violated a city by-law would be

ineffective in this instance. -

‘*They go to court, pay their $30 and off they go,’’ he explained.

Talstra said that the city’s cur-

- rent resolution was to allow RJA

Forestry to do a limited amount of hauling,and even though that agreement wasn’t signed, coun- cil’s intent to allow limited log- ging traffic on Halliwell was

-Clear,

He said only a few of the 60 to 100 loads discussed by council had been taken out of Kitselas and said, ‘‘They’ve hardly be- gun to haul so we don’t want to

Move too quickly,”’

vars Rh §

_ Outside: -- Date. Hi Lo . - Prec, July 27 “21° 12° 7.6 mm rain |. duly28 my .48 mm tain July 29° 19 1. O4mmaaln - duly 30 21 10° 7 nil duly.31 18 10 0.8 mm rain Aug. 1 18 12 trace of raln Aug. 2 21 11 "nil

Forecast: Sunny with occa.

sionally cloudy periods. After- noon highs, mid 20s; ovemight

lows, 12. ee

_ Talk of the Town

- Inside.

- BusinessGuide Church Directory : Classified Ads Caming Events . Comics Crossword Dining Olrectory

‘ Entertalnment Horoscope Letters Opinions Sports Stork Report

‘Terrace wheelchair athlete Hau! Lark

blazed a pioneering trail across .

beet

Europe last week, shattering several world records in international avents

held in England and France. For detail

a)

& see next weeks Terrace Review. -