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Road to cost $30M Puppy saved ,Start yc ur engines! The feds have already chipped in Police are looking for the person Moves are underway to start a their share for the road to who threw a dog into the local go-kart association in this Kincolith\NEW$ A16 Skeena\COMMUNITY B3 area\SPORTS C1 WEDNESDAY 93¢ PLUS 70 GST APRIL 3, 1996 Tz NDARD VOL, 8 NO. 51 Orenda deal might mean good news Laid off workers wait for sale word IT'S TOO EARLY to tell if the proposed residents of Meziadin and area who work sale of Orenda Forest Products is good meant it didn't need Orenda's wood. the two last year when another company for Orenda's con~'actors and for the ser- news for the more than 150 people who Repap did order the wood in early [] Repap eyes Orenda wood tried to buy Orenda in early 1995. vice industry which maintains logging have been out of work since the compa- 1995, before the strike, but then invoked as way to buffer losses from Repap opposed that proposed sale, equipment. ny shut down logging last December. a clause in its agreement to cancel it later Nisga'a agreement-- All saying it needed Orenda fibre to supply Workers either tried to ride out the "This is too soon for me to make a on in the year. [] Second time lucky for its Prince Rupert pulp mill. comment," said Pat Ogawa of Repap, And a pulp shortage early in 1995 shutdown while others have tried to find That proposed sale fell through, putting forests company? -- A11 work with other forest companies. the company that wants to buy Orenda. drove prices up so high fibre started Orenda back on the market in the hunt The cancellation by Repap of its sales Ironically it was Repap who contrib- pouting into B.C. from all over the for a buyer. deal with Orenda had !he potential to be- uted to Orenda's shutdown late last year. world, causing a glut. Orenda to log and it couldn't find other Orenda Forest Products vice president "The bottom just fell out of the market come a major sore point between the two Frank Foster said he couldn't comment Repap has a sales agreement with customers. companies. Orenda to buy up to 240,000 cubic in a very short period of time," said Orenda did find one customer in on any specifics surrounding the tenta- But now, with the pending sale,'the tive deal with Repap. metres of pulp and saw logs a year. Repap's Ogawa. "There were barges full Alaska but found itself competing with dispute will become null and void. And he said he couldn't comment on But a sU'ike at Repap's Prince Rupert of chips coming in from Chile." Repap who was trying to sell its own That fibre sales deal between Orenda pulp and paper mill last year created a This then dropped the price of pulp to surplus. any past history between the two com- huge surplus of its own fibre which the point it became uneconomical for The resulting shutdown by Orenda hurt and Repap also caused friction between panies. Socreds ready for a rumble SKEENA SOCREDS are well financed to fight the coming provincial election. The local constituency as- sociation already has more than $18,000 in its bank ac- count -- a legacy left from the days when the party en: joyed the backing of indus- try and commerce. Control of the bank ac- count rests with the local constituency association and that's where it'll stay, says Dave Serry, the party's Dave Serry Skeena candidate and president of the riding association. "We're the only party that has local autonomy. Here we tell party headquarters what to do. The other parties have their headquarters telling them what to do," said Serry. He said local Socreds have had to defend attempts by former Social Credit members who are now L~erais to get their hands on the money. "We put a stop to that and the Reform party as well wanted to get their hands on the money," SurLy continued. The amount used to be higher -- approaching $30,000 but expenditures in the early 1990s have whittled the figure down. Local Socreds also sent an amount to party headquarters to help defray a debt of more than $1 million IT'S WIDER THAN a standard 4)(4 and has 16 inches of the American military is up in New Aiyansh this week going left over from the 1991 provincial election. complete ground clearance and that's dealer Phillip Rooyak- through a series of road and off-road tests by the RCMP. "The Liberals don't have that," said Serry of an election kers standing beside his Hummer. The vehicle designed for They're evaluating the vehicle for possible purchase. war chest. "All they have is glitz and glamour." He said the account gives local Socreds a solid financial base from which to conduct an election campaign. "I'm a Scotsman and I'm a frugal man. We're not going to go out RCMP test mc"Jie star favourite and spend it just because we have it," Serry continued. "We're going to get a good investment for what we THEY WERE made famous by the Gulf War production. A variety of models are now tailor Hummer cheaper to own in the long run when spend, just as if we would do If we were the government." and movie star Arnold Schwarzenegger has a made for industrial or commercial use. compared to the servicing costs of standard 4 One recent expenditure by.local Socreds was just over garage full of them. The B.C. franchise belongs to Fenders Leas- X 4 trucks. $700 to fly up party leader Larry GiUanders for a tour of And this week a four-wheel drive Hummer ing Sales an'd Service and one of its principals, Rooyakkers also points to the ability of the the northwest to probe Socred election chances. is being tested by New AJyansh RCMP. Philip Rooyakkers, drove up the Hummer Hummer to navigate up, over or around ob- A new provincial elections act, for the first time in B.C., The RCMP chose the Nass Valley because it that's now being tested in New Aiyansh. stacles that might stop other four by fours. sets maximum election expenditures. That figure for local has some of the most brutal on-road and off- "There are benefits to police forces such as A Hummer, he suggests, might not have constituency associations is $1.25 per registered voter. road conditions being experienced by RCMP the RCMP. It can go into terrain no other been subject to the kind of gunfire inflicted With under 20,000 registered voters in the Skeena riding, officers in the province. vehicle can and come out again," he said. upon a police 4 X 4 at Gustafsen Lake when it that means local Socreds are well-positioned for the com- In use by the American military since 1982, The RCMP asked for the Nass Valley road was forced to stop because a tree was cut ing spring vote. the 4X4 Hummer has a standard 6.5 litre test after watching it go through its paces at down, blocking a road. diesel and 16 inches of complete bottom the Chilliwack armed forces base last year. Rooyakkers estimates that up to 25 per cent While local Socreds have a candidate and are in decent clearance. "They were seriously impressed," said of the Hummers he'll sell will be for civilian financial shape, the situation is much different in the North It can travel up or down 60 degree grades Rooyakkers of the Chilliwack test last year. recreational use. Coast riding. and sideways to the point the horizon tills. "Hopefully B.C. will be the first (RCMP) The majority will go to resource companies, Just two people showed up in Prince Rupert last week for All told there are more than 150,000 Hum- division to take them on." fire departraents, police forces and other a public meeting to talk about the party's electoral chances mers (short for the official military designa- A basic Hummer costs $67,000 and a series government agencies requiring off-road travel. there. tion of High Mobility Multi-wheeled Vehicle) of options can add up to $30,000. One feature is an on-board air system Party leader Larry Gillandcrs and other officials doubt if being used in the American military. That's a lot of money but the advantage, permitting a driver to inflate or deflate the it will field a candidate there, saying they prefer to con- But it wasnJt until Arnold Schwarzenegger says Rooyakkers, is the vehicle's durability Hummer's tires according to the kind of road centrate their resources where they have better chances of contacted manufacturer AM General's presi- and low maintenance costs which can make a being driven upon. SUCceSS. dent personally that a civilian model began Socreds in Bulidey Valley-Stikine m the riding that takes in the Hazeltons and Smithers -- meet tonight in Smithers to consider running a candidate. Tsimsh ia,n tal ks move forward NEGOTIATORS ARE pouring over a Included in the seven Tsimshian vil- recently-concluded Nisga'a land claim The Tsimshian will work toward set- meat in principle as one group. preliminary version of how they'll go lages are Kitsumkalum and Kitselas in agreement in principle. fling those overlaps independent of its Once signed, the framework agreement about settling the Tsimshian land claim.