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Alaskans Want Road Into B.C Long walk Reading minds Our time to talk Local woman Distance psychiatry Two Kitselas women accomplishes goal of may be on the horizon describe the role finishing the Honolulu using new of the matriarch Marathon\SPORTS B4 technology\NEWS All \COMMUNITY B1 Sl.00 PLUS 7¢ GST (S1.1o plus8¢ GST outside of the Terrace area) TANDARI) Well.still awa,t,ng Alaskans repairs By JENNIFER LANG want road REPAIRS TO the city's well won't be complete for a few more weeks, a city official says. An electric motor that into B.C. went on the blink back in early October had to be sent to North Carolina for Idea hit as a resource grab repairs. By JEFF NAGEL The city's director of AN ALASKAN plan to build a new road up the engineering, Martin Iskut River to connect the panhandle to Hwy 37 is a Kwiatkowski, had expec- dangerous U.S. attempt to tap B.C. resources, envir- ted the repaired motor and onmental groups charge. pump assembly to arrive They say the road idea, advanced by Alaskan towns back in Terrace before like Wrangell, would make essentially create a new port Christmas. on the Bradfield Canal in competition with Stewart. The motor, pump, and Any ore mined or timber logged significantly north of cable have made it as far Meziadin Junction in the Cassiar Forest District could as Vancouver and should then be trucked down the new road and be exported out arrive here this week. of the new Alaskan port, rather than Stewart or Hwy 16 A new valve for the communities. Frank Street well is al- "We see this is as a resource grab," says Jim Bour- ready here, but the city is quin, Cassiar Watch's lskut- still waiting for some pip- based wild rivers director. ing, and Kwiatkowski ex- "It's a short cut to export re- pects that to take another sources that's going to avoid couple of weeks. the B.C. economy," ..... He's already lining up a He said the Alaskans are crane operating crew and playing down their real agen- mechanical specialists to da, instead claiming their in- reinstall the motor as- terests centre on fish exports sembly once all the parts' and tourism. are here ......... "Regardless of what Meanwhile, the city Wrangell and Petersburg may continues to draw its be saying about what they water from the Skeena want the road for, underlying River, Terrace's main all that is their long-range water supply until the well economic 'development pro- came on line in 1995. posals that they would like to GJl Arnold "The water is really become the port for exporting clean," he said. the resources out of northern B.C.," Bourquin said. The city has received "Once the road is in then it's a done deal - Stewart is some calls on the issue, left out of the picture." but not many. The Transboundary Watershed Alliance has been for- "Some people are real- med by 20 Canadian and U.S. conservation groups to ly happy and hope we fight the road idea. never go back to the "It is going to be a mineral development road that is well," Kwiatkowski said. going to alter the way that industry opertaes in northern "Some people are the op- B.C.," said Gil Arnold, the alliance's Nelson-based con- posite." sultant. Once complete, the re- il Alien splashdown Although motivated by environmental concerns, the pairs will cost between groups are instead keying on the resource drain and the THESE freaky and squeaky alien creatures were Year's Day ritual at Lakelse Lake attracted visit- potential threat to B.C. jobs - an avenue of attack they $75,000 and $80,000 - less caught on film during the 11th annual Kinsmen ors from far and wide. For more on the frosty see as more likely to attract local allies. than the $100,000 original- Kermodei Bear Swim. The bone-chilling New event see page B4. SARAH A. ZIMMERMANPHOTO. ly expected, he said. Continued Pg. A5 Skeena bidder Top cop selected still out in cold By SARAH A. ZIMMERMAN Deal with Mercer gets closer A REPLACEMENT for By JEFF NAGEL Terrace's top RCMP offi- NWBC Timber and Pulp Ltd. has again been rebuffed by cer has been selected. the province in its attempt to enter serious talks ~to buy Inspector Doug Wheler Skeena Cellulose. is moving to Langley and And all indications are the province is getting'steadi- Sergeant Marlin Degrand, ly closer to sealing a deal to. sell the operations to a watch commander from Swiss-based Mercer International. Red Deer, Alberta will NWBC, which is chaired by former Repap Enterprises take on the duties of in- cMirman George Petty, tabled a revised offer for Skeena spector here in the coming Wednesday, removing or altering some clauses that months. were problematic for Victoria. The move means De- The rival bidder removed its demands for up-front pro- grand is getting a promo- mises of forest practices changes and would delay its tion from Sergeant to In- demands for compensation to the operations for the ef- specter. fects of the Nisga'a treaty, PETER CROMPTON, the college's facilities manager, inspects work underway to prepare a classroom. Though the replacement But NWBC president Daniel Veniez said the offer there for the new nursing program about to get started. JENNIFER LANG PHOTO has been named, Wheler still hinged on his firm becoming the exclusive bidder said it's not clear exactly with 90 days to raise money in financial markets. when he'll be moving to Provincial officials rejected the proposal Thursday,' Nurse classroom work underway Langley or when Degrand saying any other bids must be prepared to close the deal By JENNIFER LANG eight beds and a classroom," structors will use. will be coming here. on Feb. 15. PREPARATIONS are underway in a NWCC's facilities manager Peter Twenty-four successful applicants Transfers within the "We have undertaken a thorough, rigourous and pro- classroom at Northwest Community Crompton said. from the region learned before RCMP can sometimes be fessional assessment of all the proposals that came in College, where new nursing students The work is being done in-house. Christmas they've been accepted to lengthy while officers wait and it was felt the Mercer proposal was the best one," are expected to begin their studies in "We're in the-throes of building NWCC's first-ever licensed practical to sell their homes, said provincial spokesman Lucy Stephenson. a few weeks, sink units, cupboards and shelving nursing program. Wheler's new job in The rejection came in spite of a Prince Rupert-led The college's facilities staff are units," Crompton said last week, Planning began in the spring of Langley will entail over- civic delegation to Victoria last week in support of renovating a large classroom in the Right now the classroom is pretty 2000. seeing operations support NWBC. northeast corner of the trades build- bare, apart from a r few tables and Course materials have been or- there. He will be looking Allies in the region are also rallying significant publlc ing at the Terrace campus in pre- chairs, but the sinks and Cupboards dered and a program Coordinator has after most plain clothes support behind NWBC and pressing the government to paration for the new Licensed Prac- will be installed shortly.. been hired. operations, including ser- reconsider. tical Nurse's pr0grami, slated to Hospital beds for the nursing lab - :Two representatives from the B.C. ious crime, intelligence, Veniez spoke to 400 people in Prince Rupert and 220 begin Jan. 21. doiiated from Kilimat' Generaliind College of Licensed Practical identification and dog ser- in Terrace at townhall meetings in the last week of De- - The renovations: will create a Mills Memorial- have already ar- Nurses were expected to visit the vice sections. cember. combination,classroom and labora- rived and are waiting to .be moved campus last week. Wheler has been in Allan Mclntyre, an SCI lumber grader and IWA toi'yforthenursJngstudents. Into.their new home ....... vhen member who organized the meelmg here, says Vemez , < ,~We..re puttmgup a dwldmg wall :: The classroom ts In- Continued Pg. A13 , : s0,1:we?.'can accbn.imodate a lab with rice Space?th~if(:the > : iii%'. ", • ,.~,,,, A2"e.r WdnesdoJan ory9 2002 II James W, Radelet RADELET & COMPANY Barristers& Solicitors Assessments drop again Tax Law • Trusts * Corporate & Commercial 1330 - 1075 West Georgia Street, Vancouver, B.C. V6E 3C9 PROPERTY values in Terrace are of property values on July 1, 2001. ments have fallen by .'tround four per Phone: 604-689-0878 Fax: 604-689-1386 down in most cases for the fourth For most homeowners it means a cent, city council will have to raise • straight year. modest decrease in assessments, tax rates slightly to meet its goal of The total .assessment for 2002 in A sample home in the horseshoe no change in taxes for the bulk of "Terrace for all types of properties valued at $120,300 in the summer of homeowners. fell to $739.6 million, according to 2000 sold for $116,500 in the sum- That means only a major drop in the B.C. Assessment Authority. mer of 2001, the authority said. assessment is likely to lead to a That's down nearly four per cent Average prices fell more on Ter- lower tax bill and anyone whose as- Let's Cele from 2001's total tax base of $769.8 race's southside and in Thornhill sessment has held steady or in- 'million.
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