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and degrees earned by a ’ Terrace and Kitimat to mountain trails to have number of Terracites help the needy in Africa fun and test themselves \COMMUNITY 83 \NEWS 62 \SPORTS 83 li I A e --c -0 >-a >-a -VI I outside of the Terrace area) QI -c h Credit ;unioti’’see>ks,,new buildi‘3 . ’‘ THE NORTHERN Savings Credit Union would first h to approved by the credit 3,800 ,\members would be served better The Terrace and District Credit Union , is expected to construct oa building here union’s bo through seeking a larger partner. decided upon Northem’Savings late lakt De- ‘ I large enough to handle its current Terrace OTheTe ch of the Northern Sav- The credit union also placed itself under cember after evaluating operations and those of the Terrace and ings Credit Union has 14 employees and the the financial watch of the Finaicial Institu- era1 other credit unions. District Credit Union now that the. two have Terrace and District Credit U tions Commission of B.C. which‘is respon- The intekening peri merged. employees. sible for the economic viability of credit (I June 14 final v&e vas occupied with draw- Northem Savings chief executive officer The ‘merger was approved unions in the province. ing up plans of how a merger would work. ‘Mike Tarr said a new building is considered cent margin of 15 people who cbt The Terrace and District Credit Union Early on, both credit unions announced a better option than enlarging that credit votes either leadi to the June 14 annual now has approximately$43 million in assets there would be no staff layoffs. union’s current location or renovating the general meeting of the Terrace and District which, when combined(with those of North- g> Two Terrace and District building now containing the Terrace and Credit Union or at the meeting ern Savings, will create an institution with board members, Nirmal P District Credit Union. l It becomes effective July 1 close to $350 million in assets. Steele, are to be added to the existing 10- “When we looked at the dollar costs, there rent locations will remain open until new n But when the two mortgage centres ’ memberhorthem Savings bo&d. was very little difference between the three quarters ready. The Terrace and District Northern Savings has in Kelowna and in And the of $61,000 which is $1,OOO are sum ’ options but a new building would be part of Credit Union began looking for a merger I Victoria are added, the asset base expands to for each year the Terrace and District Credit having the employees from both learning to partner last year after experiencing an eco- more than $5 15 million, said Tarr. Union has been in business, will be, used to work together,” he said. - nomic downturn ,caused, in “We’ll be the largest credit union north of create a community legacy fund bearing the He said construction plans would firm up downturn in the local econom ‘’ Kamloops;” said Tarr of the merged entity. credit union’s name. ’ within the next year to year and a half and Its directors felt that the “And number 12 or 13 in B.C.” Cont’d Page A2 - Cemetery, parks ’I. THEAuthoritylead a NORTHERNrisky wants lifestyle people Healthto who get clean ,up wanted tested for HIV following a BY SARAH A. ZIMMERMAN all departments have experienced cuts. rise in the local infection Exacerbating the situation is that since rate. CITY COUNCILLOR Lynne Christiansen his department was cut back years ago, the Two new cases were dis- wants more money spent on landscaping and city has acquired more park land. lawns at city-owned facilities after a relative “What happens is we get more and more , . cut the grass at the city cenwtery .before a green-spaces and we all low that, but as’the ._-,_. family funeral recently. ’ green space grows our actual gardens and ’ discovered, says Dr. Speaking at the June 12 council meeting, park staff has shrunk; so how ‘can they be Bowering, the authority’s Christiansen said her family was dismayed expected to keep it up?” Christiansen asks. chief medical officer. at the state of the cemetery. Although council didn’t Between 1995 and 2005 “I was up there for my un- provide Milnthorp with only one new case of HIV cle’s funeral and I said, ‘oh, more money when it did the infection, which causes it looks great at this end of city budget this spring, near- AIDS, was recorded in the cemetery,’ and someone ly every other councillor at Terrace each year. That’s said my cousin’s daughter . the June 12 meeting joined compared to roughly 100 went up there and thought it Christiansen in saying peo- cases reported in the Prince looked so bad she got a lawn ple are upset with weeds and George area over that same mower herself and trimmed other debris on city and pri- 10 year period. it up,” Christiansen says. vate lands. I The call for testing went “We really need to look at The ‘city main&& 26 out to people who use intra- our green spaces because parks, two cemeteries, vari- venous needle drugs, meet it’s getting really bad.” ous other green spaces add- with prostitues or who have Christiansen suggested. ing up.,to 2,000 ha, says had unproteted sex. items such as city travel ex- I Milnthop His department , “What we are seeing in penses 1 be cut and the sav- has only, six full time em- the north kind of parallels ings diverted to landscape ployees ’ who are also, re-. what we were seeing in the maintenance. sponsible for items beyond downtown east sidc in the Though the cemctery e parks maintenance includ- I99Os,” Bowering says. “A maintenance budget hasn’t changed recent- ing assisting with special events such as the sharp upswing related to ly, city official Ross Milnthorp acknowl- chamber of commerce trade show, dry grad intravenous drugs, partly edged that complaints about its condition and Riverboat Days. cocaine and in particular, in have gone up. “In addition to that we have a significant thc aboriginal community.” “We have had more complaints this year urban forest in terms of trees on our down- Hc says people who think despite the same level in maintenance and town streets, in our parks and presently these engaging the services of sex in fact a somewhat increased level of main- - trees are not being trimmed and pruned trade workcrs in north is saf- t~ged.For example, we mowed twice last properly but they are a significant factor in cr than clsewhcrc are simply wqqk,” says Milnthorp. our quality of life,” says Milnthorp. wrong. that HIV and other City employees spend a minimum of 24 Imgation systems at George Little Park diseases can be contracted . hours a week at the cemetery, he added. and on the Grand Trunk Pathway haven’t through scx tradc workcrs “Thm’s 10 per cent of our resources and been turned on in years, he says. anywhcrc, and pcople must that does not include burials and all of the “Bringing those systems back into op- take the appropriate prccau- tasks that go along with that.” eration takes a significant amount of main- tions to avoid transmission. II Drummer bsv Milnthorp did ask city council for more tenance and work.” People contract HIV THE Gitselasu‘Dancers, who are all relzd, performed in their traditional dress money for his parks and leisure seryices de- The Grand Trunk Pathway (known as I through contact with an in- as part of the National Aboriginals Day celebration in George Little Memorial partment this year but the request failed. fected person’s blood or Park June 17. Cyrus Morrison is’ one of the troupe’s male drummers who “I think that the city has faced some very bodily fluids. played while the women sang. SARAH ARTIS PHOTO serious economic challenges oyer the last been identified as Cont’d Page A2 three to five years,” says Milnthorp, adding attention this ye Video surveillance/’ partI sf, , city crime fig‘hting strategy, By SARAH A. ZIMMERMAN - of the vandalism happened between if something took place that shouldn’t Thursdays and Sundays. Those figures have,” explains Copperside’s general THE CITY of Terrace and merchants don’t include unreported incidents. manager Fraser iMackie. will soon employ video surveillance, ’ City officials and local RCMP say “We can usually get a very good pic- cameras and other measures to combat the use of strategically placed video ture and it’s particularly effective with vandalism and crime in the downtown surveillance helps catch perpetrators gas and dashes, we can usually identify ’ core. and gives officials the evidence to press the individual and remind them that The move to promote the use of charges. Businesses that already have they have to pay for their gas.” video surveillance comes after the city cameras in place say they are effective Other businesses have already got gathered statistics on vandalism for a in preventing crime because would-be surveillance cmeras on order. six month period ending April 30. trouble makers don’t like being under Bob Park from All Seasons Source Those statistics show 35 incidents of the watchful eye of a camera. for Sports says he’s putting them up vandalism reported to police, ranging The Copperside chain of stores in as soon as they come in. His business from broken and kicked in windows to Terrace has been using video surveil- has been the target of broken windows, damage to vehicles.

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