Music Festival oy ends, provincial — reps chosen 7

The 23rd Pacific Northwest Music Festival ended Saturday for most competitors with the Gala Performance in the R.E.M. Lee Theatre attended by hundreds of arts lovers from across the region.

For some of the participants, however, it was just a beginning - the representatives who will go on to the B.C. Festival of the Arts were announced at the per- formance.

The Festival of the Arts, billed as Canada’s largest amateur arts event, will be held May 25-29 in the East Kootenay community of Kimberley, Competing on be- half of the Northwest will be: Joseph Nelson, intermediate pi- ano; Audrey Faber, senior pi- ano; Pam Kerr, intermediate

voice; Glenys George, . junior speech; Susie Dow, intermediate speech; Liza Cote, senior speech; Elizabeth Sluys, in- termediate woodwinds; Keith Griffioen, intermediate brass;

the Northwest Singers, choral; Caledonia Concert Band, senior

concert band; and the Terrace Community Band, community band.

‘The Pacific Northwest Music Festival has once again proven its worth in encouraging and ex- posing the wealth of artistic talent and dedication living in and enhancing the lifestyle of this region.

For complete results of the Pacific Northwest Music Festi-. val, see next week’s Terrace Review.

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LIZA COTE: winner of the $1,000 Northern Drugs Scholarship for her performance In speech arts.

SUSAN COOK: winner of the Terrace Water Polo Association $250 schol- arship for her dance performance. .

JOSEPH NELSON: winner of the Knights of Columbus $500 scholar- ship for his performance on piano. -

- Angling guides want fishing lodge reviewed

‘TERRACE — Third reading was given Saturday to an amendment of a Kitimat-Stikine Regional District bylaw which would allow a fishing lodge to be established near Copperside. With nothing left now but the formality of obtaining provin- cial government approval for the amendment, the change is all but official and local fishing guides are more than a little upset.

by Tod Strachan

Gord Judzentis of Water Witch Excursions was one of three angling guides at the Regional District board meeting.

When it was time for the three

angling guides to address the.

board they were told, ‘‘It’s not appropriate to hear submissions without hearing from the other side and all parties,” even though Rainer Imhoff, the ap- plicant for rezoning, and his lawyer, Darrel O’Byrne, were in the audience,

in a discussion that followed, director Les Watmough said, ‘I’m satisfied with the public hearing.’” His point was sup- ported by director Bev Rodrigo, who said, “If we follow usual procedures then we don’t want (to hear) any more,’’ and direc- tor Pete Weeber, who said, “People in the neighborhood were notified and they’re the ones concerned.”’

Board chairman Jack Talstra agreed by saying, “We are in the middle of the process and may not hear anything further until after the amendment is adopted. The safest thing is not to hear anyone today,’ but he also warned the other directors, ‘Two to three months down the road we could be holding a hear- ing on another amendment,”

The next piece of business before the -board regarding fishing lodges was a letter from Cosmo Zavaglia, chairman of the Terrace and District Angling Guides Committee — a commit- tee made up of angling guides and the Chamber of Commerce to administer a federally-funded Angling Guide Training pro- gram. . ~ The letter referred to fishing lodges in general and warned the board of “‘gold rush fever” in the application for new guiding licences. Zavaglia described ‘“‘outdated’’ licencing pro- cedures and regulations and pointed out, ‘‘The Regional Dis- trict does not have a clear

understanding of the problems associated with approving the re-zoning of properties for lodges, resorts and fishing camps.’” uO

He explained that the provin- cial government is making a ‘major effort’’ to establish new policy before the end of the. year. Zavaglia asked the board to. resist any rezoning applica- tions until that new policy was in place.

In addition, Zavaglia asked that the board consider a further restriction to the current application by stating that ‘‘only eight of the maximum of 30 guests staying at a small destina- tion resert shall be guided sport fishermen’’. He explained that this would bring any new opera- tions under the same ‘‘self- imposed” interim regulations that the majority of local guides are now following on a volun- tary basis.

The board agreed with Wat- mough and passed a motion to send Zavaglia’s letter to the Planning Committee, who could then meet with the guides to discuss their concerns.

But that will be too late, ac- cording to Judzentis. After the bylaw amendment has been given third reading, it’s all but passed, and he says the board should have received any new in- formation first.

Later in the day, when it was finally time for the third reading of the bylaw, Regional District administrator Bob Marcellin told the board that issues raised at the public hearing had not been completely resolved but had been addressed.

He said government agency approvals are in place and Im- hoff has agreed to relinquish his right to run a camp ground on the site.

Marcellin also reported to the board that Imhoff had ‘‘jumped the gun’’ in establishing his resort. According to Marcellin, Imhoff had begun renovations on an existing building and was developing a lodge facility on the main floor and a private dwelling on the second floor. Also, he said, Imhoff was pro- ceeding with the construction of some of the cabins.

He reported that Imhoff was “to the point of violation and shouldn’t proceed’’ and said ad- ministration had sent a letter of caution telling Imhoff there was no guarantee the bylaw would be

passed.

Director Ruth Hallock ex- pressed concern after receiving this information, saying she hoped the situation wouldn’t develop into one similar to Gossan Creek, where they were having to take the developer to court to resolve bylaw viola- tions.

Judzentis was appalled with

“this course of events: the

mechanics of the rezoning pro- cess have been allowed to grind slowly ahead, even though there are indications for concern, and no new evidence regarding the application will be heard until the bylaw has been passed. Judzentis said he was in the lower mainland promoting his guiding business when the public hearing was held, and he said he wasn’t aware of the fact that had

Better guiding regulation sought

A number of guides belonging to the Terrace and District Angling Guides Association are taking steps to ‘‘get a handle’ on the local guiding situation,

but a slow-moving provincial ©

government could destroy the whole effort.

by Tod Strachan

According to spokesman Jim Culp, two new initiatives —~ a voluntary set of self-imposed restrictions and a Chamber of Commerce-sponsored Angling Guide Training Program — will go a long way towards making peace within the sports fishery and enhancing the industry as a whole.

But because there are only a possible 13 out of 18 local guides patticipating, and antiquated provincial licencing require- ments are still in existence, their efforts could have little mean- ing. Culp described the current set of regulations governing angling guides as “‘right out of date’ and ‘‘absolutely out of touch with the times’. He said his group has asked for a morator- ium on the issuing of first-time guiding licences until a provin-

cial review on guiding policy has been completed.

He said the situation as it ex- ists now is out of control, with a

gold rush for new licences, Ac-—

cording to Culp, anyone with. liability insurance can apply and receive a licence. There are no requirements for the applicant to have any knowledge or exper- ience in the business.

Culp described the Angling Guide ‘Training program as a much-needed one because there are no trained guiding assistants in the area. He said the Job Development Program would employ a project manager and 12 trainees through eight weeks of classroom instruction at Northwest Community College, followed by six weeks of exper- ience in the field.

He said the training will cover everything an assistant guide would need to begin work, in- cluding engine repair, boat handling, biology and botany, tackle use and maintenance, regulations, wilderness survival and survival first aid, legal re- quirements and marketing, as

well as the ‘‘Superhost’’ pro- ©

gram.

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Branch is aware of habitat con- cerns.

“The application has not been approved at this point,” said Yardley, ‘‘and as far as protec- tion of that particular stream is concerned, we are well aware of that concern and we're certaitly looking at means by which to provide an appropriate measure of protection.”

Terrace Conservation Officer Terry McGunigle is aware of the situation but said he had no con- cern regarding any damage.

“The whole thing is under a referral process where those con- cerns are met and answered,’’ he said. ‘‘And if the concerns are

too great through that referral

process, modifications will be made.”’ ~

McGunigle also advised, ‘‘Tet’s wait and see, There aren’t any concrete proposals as to how the development is going to go ahead as yet.”

Hot Springs developer Bert Orleans was unavailable for any comiment, *

been scheduled.

“The single public hearing process does not give fair oppor- tunity to all — only to the people

- who have applied for the bylaw

change,” meeting.

‘“‘We think that if there’s evidence that wasn’t brought up at the first one, or wasn't available at the first one, - it should go to a second hearing.”

he said after the

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or don’t care that the first generation of hospitals in the Northwest and other parts of the province are aging to a point at which some major injections of capital are required.

If health care remains a fiscal backwater in this government’s spending priorities, it will be interesting to hear the justifica- tion for it in view of multi- billion dollar overruns for the Coquihalla highway and Skytrain, the remaining debt load from Expo 86, and the cavalier issuing of spending war- rants - $1 million in this regional district -for a regionalization plan that not only hasn’t shown any results but doesn’t even ap- pear to have any objectives.

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