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"Taking flight ~ ,~ ~ ~ i~ ~. Organizers are hoping for an Here they are_ meet Terrace's A Terrace woman overpowers airshow as successful as 1994's 1996 Volunteers of the competition at a regional body smash hit\NEWS A5 Year\COMMUNITY building meet\SPORTS B7 WEDNESDAY 93¢ PLUS 7¢ GST APRIL 24, 1996 fe'klN DAR D VOL. 9 NO, 2 Site clean up could cost millions By JEFF NAGEL Terrace, the Keith Ave. Mall, waste management engineer Richard said. Emil Wirtl. owner of the Keith PROPERTY owners on Keith Ave. Copperside Foods, Coast Tractor and Glue. Glue said it might be possible to Avenue Mall. says he had no idea d~ere may be forced to clean up contaminat- Norm's Auto Refinishing- have been "Chlorophenols are a poison, a pesti- monitor the contaminants without a was any problem when he bought hind ed soil left by an old sawmill there. given notice they'll have to pay for a cide," Glue explained. "Aquatic life is full-scale cleanup, but added owners lbr his slrip mall 10 years ago. Creosote contaminants left behind on clelm up. very sensitive to it." would likely have to put up a substan- "We haven't caused any pollution the old MacGiltis and Gibbs pole yard They're all sitting on what wits pre- Government agencies want the pro- tim security bond. there." he said. have entered the water table and the viously the MacGillis and Gibbs site. perty owners to prepare a remediation CN Rail carried out test drilling of Cily councillors are reluclant to have wood preservative chemicals may have The land was first sold to CN Rail, and plan by July 31, lind to provide an out- the site and at points along Keith Ave. the city take a lead role in organizing spread to properties south of Keith then split up. line of it by May 31. last summer. the property owners. "It's rather scary," Ave, according to B.C. Environment The main danger is to fish if the chlo- Glue confirmed clean up of the con- But the letter sent April 11 by said councillor David Hull. officials. rinated phenols and petroleum hydro- taminated site could be expensive. Environment Canada and B.C. The city has a water line easentent. So far 10 property owners on the carbons in the groundwater were to "If somebody cleans up all the mate- Environment was the first time many Glue said property owners who north side of Keith - including CN spread as far as the Skeena River, rial, all the ground to specifications, it property owners heard they'd be held refuse to comply could face polhltion Rail, the highways ministry, the City of according to Environment Canada could cost several million dollm-s," he responsible for the polluted site. abatement orders. Claim Nisga'a deal critics 'not sell job' multiply NEGOTIATORS OUT explaining the Nisga'a hind AN ORGANIZATION claims agreement in principle are taking public comment that opposes the present but don't expect it to have a major impact on a final treaty. direction of native land ~'., ; ~!.,~,~ How much influence public opinion will have on a final claim negotiation is making treaty "depends on the topic," says Patrick O'Rourke, a inroads in Terrace. member of the provincial negotiating team in Kitimat for a B.C. FIRE (B.C. public forum last Thursday. Foundation for Individual "The main items, we call them the assets, the land area, Rights and Equality) now cash, the number of fish - aren't likely to change. On the has 73 members in Terrace, basis of the agreement of all three parties, this is what they according to presidentGreg want to do," he said. Hollingsworth. The group O'Rourke said it is not the job of negotiators to Sell the has nearly 4,000 members AIP but to set people straight on what it contains. province-wide. 4~ "We simply explain the facts to (people'), it's not our job Hollingsworth said a to convince people who think this is a wrong thing that it's large number of new mem- .'1 right thing. Probably more important is that lhe govern- bers have signed up in the ment views it as the right thing to do, generally, tO nego- two months since the tiate treaties," O'Rourke said. Nisga'a concluded their O' Rourke and other negotiators received a mixed reac- agreement-in-principle tion from about 25 people who came to the meeting. with federal and provincial There were specific questions on paragraphs of the negotiators. agreement-in.principle and what they will mean, as well as "We've seen a real some open opposition and open support. movement since the 15th of The deal would give the Nisga'a about 2,000 square kil- February," he s~dd. ometres of l:md, $190 million and rights to resource royal- Prior to the agreement ties for forestry and mining. Self government and a share ~'~ '":~F release, he said, critics of ¢"~ of the Nass River sahnon fishery are also'included. the process focussed on the Dave Serry, the Skeena Social Credit candidate in the secrecy under which it was upcoming provincial election, opposed the tentative deal. being negotiated. If provincial Crown land is involved in treaties, Serry "They now have said, the province deserves compensation from the federal something concrete to look government. B.C. can't afford to pay in a climate of gov- at, and they're not too hap- ernment budget restraint, he added. py," Hollingsworth said. Deiter Wagner said no one denies natives are owed a Labelled by some as senlement for the treatment they've received under con- extreme, B.C. FIRE federation. But he is worried that hind claims agreentents describes itself as a pro- will equate to sanctioning South African-style apartheid in vince-wide grassroots Canada. orgfinization devoted to Nelson Leeson, a Nisga'a negotiator, tried to offer reas- promoting equality, the surance in saying the Nisga'a don't want apartheid and do rights of individuals and want to negotiate their way into Canada. "If you look care- freedom. fldly, the htws in the AlP are to protect our language and Hollingsworth says he culture. Diversity can also be a strength," Leeson said. believes the land claim One audience member spoke up in support of the issue must be settled, but at Nisga'a but suggested the AlP went too far in the opposite the end of the day there direction. "No disrespect to you but 1 see this as a poor must be equality and deal, I hope you don't compromise more," he said. "You fairness. should have gone for way more hind and less cas '1 . " "They are never going Leeson said he believes the Nisga'a will have to fight to to get the people of B.C. to keep what is in the AIP because of political pressures accept provisions which building against it. entrench racial discrimina- tion in the constitution," he t Ready for market said. "Neither will the peo- JUDY TESSARO is getting ready for the opening of the market, preparing some of her popular home-made ple of this province accept jams. The first farmer's market is on May 4. Tessaro is one of the long-time regulars at the market. Her a government where demo- jams are made exclusively from Terrace fruit, some grown in her own backyard. This year she plans to in- Local man pleads cratic rights are tampered troduce a new jam for First Nations customers -- made from soapberries, Tessaro is always looking for jam with." jars (baby food jars work well) and plaslic bags. If you bring her some, she'll probably trade you some jam. guilty to murder A TERRACE man is to be sentenced May 31 in New Westminster court for the 1993 murder of a Langley man. Robert Wagner, 32, admitted to the second degree murd- er of Anthony Kohlman who was 30 at the time of his Ferry Island carvings defaced death. Also admitting to second degree murder is Wagner's brolher, Rory Wagner, 36, of Chilliwack itild Gerald WHILE STUDENTS and contmun- with families and others who use the "The only ones that were damaged Beaugrand, 36, of Surrey. ity groups spruce up the city, trails. were the ones 1 did in the spring," Crown counsel Scan Maddigan sltid the trio admitted to someone else is out to deface Goyette is worried the vandalism says a puzzled Goyctte. abducting Kohhnan on Oct, 20, 1993 and taking him to Terrace's public art. reflects a disturbing freud in Terrace. He thinks the vandal may even be Sumas Mountain nero" Abbotsford where he was beaten and Recently ten of the Ferry Island He points to the flowers ripped out of someone he knows. clubbed to death with stones. ....... carvings were destroyed. concrele planters last summer and the Goyette had intended on doing The murder was in apparent retaliation for an alleged "It looks like someone hit them frequently broken mirror at the top of more carvings this summer, but for sexual assault of a young girl eigh t years earlier. Kohhnan with a hammer," says carver Rick the Kalum St. hill on the bench. now plaits to hold off to see if any was accused but acquitted of a charge of sexuai abuse. Goyette. "It seems these people don!t have more carvings are vandalized. The trio had originally been charged with first degree He carved nearly 30 old men's enough to do. ,t However, since lhe wmdalism a murder and kidnapping.

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