4- , . , . ,~.~ ~ .~L~"~-xrY' WEDNESDAY, JULY 10, 1991 • ' , ' ~_.e'.~ !~ :-"1' ~ ~- .~- ~ ~ .~-~,"~'~ .~. ~ ~.~~. ~, o..'..~, Vol. 7, Issue No. 28 ,, w =, __ k)" C'LO¢'' ' " >hone 635-7840 Fax 635-7269 m m m Sc,-ving the communities of Terrace, Thornhill, Usk, Cedarvale, Kitwanga, Mezladin, Stewart and the Nass Valley 75 cents plus GST PETITION DRIVE "LAUNCHEDFOR HOSPITAL Victoria to get protest over funding shortage by Ted Strachan chief executive officer, says the petition will be presented to health Close to 100 people attended a minister Bruce Strachan at a public staff-management meeting in the rally to be held at the R.E.M.I.,ee Theatre sometime this summer. Mills Memorial Hospital cafeteria ¢ last Friday morning, and after a The rally will be funded by the lengthy discussion everyone agreed HosPital Employees Union, says the quarrel over staff cuts was not Lelsinger, and the date will be set between management and staff. by Strachan himself. He explains Instead, the four unions and the that an open invitation has been hospital administration came to a sent to Strachan asking him to pick conseusus that the quarrel is a date between July 20 and Aug. I- between Mills Memorial Hospital 20. and the Ministry of Health. It was David Lane, TRHCS beard chair- agreed that a Joint Action Commit- man, says if the~ R.E.M. Lee Hos- tee should be formed to recruit pital Foundation can sell 5,000 public support and lobby Victoria calendars to help buy a CT scan- ? for regional funding. ner, there should be no problem The Joint Action Committee getting at least that many signa- which consists of representatives tures on a petition to save a health of each of the four unions, hospital care system that has taken a lot of management and Terrace Regional work and a number of years to Health Care Society board -- met develop. But Lane says he doesn't Friday afternoon in a strategy understand why it should take a planning scasion, and again Tues- public rally and a petition to PRESIDENTIAL BLESSING. After complaining that all he got was a lousy hanosnaxe Trom day morning to develop the word- explain simple logic to the Minis- Doug Smith after presenting him with a gift from the Chamber of Commerce for being outgoing ing for a petition local residents try of Health. The Ministry of Health has so far president, Bob Park got more than he bargained for from Smith. The occasion was~the annual will find. in local retail outlets as installation of officers for the chamber last Friday and roasting of the Business Executive of the of this morning. Michael Leisinger, the TRHCS -- Continued on page A16 Year. For the rest of the story, turn to page B1. Photo by Nancy On" Road, bridge decisions City's bid.to move Ottawa await cost analysis St. goes nto high gear Ministry of Highways regional director John Buckle sayS. work is continuing on the Kitselm-Usk access study and a TERRACE--- The city has found requirement is that the intended current Ottawa St. will not be report is expected later this summer. According to Buckle, a way to speed up the approval of change be advertised in a local closed until the new Ottawa St. has road access is not a great problem but financial and land relocating Ottawa St. -- a pre- newspaper for two consecutive been opened to traffic. But accord- ownership still need to be worked out, Road access to Usk, requisite to the expansion of the weeks before any changes are ing to Hallsor, work on the reloca- howeRr, Is sail up in the uk. Terrace Safeway store. made. And this was done with the tion could begin in four to six Although the study is not yet complete, Buckle says there are Last night Terrace city council first bylaw. weeks and might be completed this major terrain difficulties to overcome between Kltzelas. and rescinded a bylaw which had gone City administrator Bob Hallsor fall. This would allow Safeway to Usk, and in the winter snows"des would be a problem. This still begin their expansion project later to third reading and was waiting says the new bylaw will allow the leaves the bridge option, but here again, a complete flnancinl for approval from the Ministry of relocation process to go ahead this year. analysis will be required. Municipal Affairs. They then gave sooner. He says city solicitors are The relocated Ottawa St. would About S0 people live in the portion of Usk Isolated by the first, second and third reading to a presently meeting with Canada be east of the Bank of Commerce Skeenu River, and at today's costs u bridge would cost in the new bylaw that doesn't require the Safeway lawyers to work out an and FetroCanada service station neighbourhood of $2 mlllinn. The biggest expense, explains blessings of the ministry. agreement on just how the reloca- and nearly line up with Sparks St. Buckle, Is the foundation and piles required in a river the size Under Section 574 of the Muni- tion will proceed and who will pay The change will allow Safeway to of the Skeena. cipal Act, local governments have the coats. He adds that Canada add 86 new parking spaces, On the other hand, maintaining the present ferry servke Is the authority to "dispose of a por- Safeway has already informally increase their staff from 100 to expensive too. Annual operating costs run around $200,000 and tion of highway in exchange for agreed to cover the cost of the 120, and add 12,800 square feet of maintenance costs are about $.q),O00 a year. Based on these land necessary for improving, city's lawyer and all costs of the floor space. This will increase the numbers, the cost of paying for a bridge, Including Interest, widening, straightening, relocating relocation. total available floor space to would only take about 10 yeats. or diverting a highway". The only Sefeway has also agreed that the 42,000 square feet. i ! : i~ ,~ :: :/? , i ~• • EASY REZONING ~ EXPECTED FOR •' CORRECTIONS TERRACE --- The city has received two rezoning applications from the B.C. Buildings Corpor- ation which will probably be going to a public hearing soon. The applications are to rezone two properties on either side of Braun St. at Highway 16 from Heavy Industrial to a new classsifi- cation suitable for a minimum security community corrections centre. Due to the location of the property, though, little opposition is expected at a public hearing. The first property is 5.17 acre parcel owned by Paul and Antonia Lyshaug, located south of the CNR tracks and east of Braun St. The second is a 6.87 acre parcel owned by B.C. Hydro and located south of the CNR tracks and west of Braun St. Once the rezoning change has been made, BCBC Will then ask the city for the closure of Braun St. between the two prop- noticed smoke coming from the cab. His effort to exnngum~..U.= erties in order to consolidate them An unhappy pair examine the cab of this belly-dump gravel fire with a fire extinguisher failed and the fire department was into a single parcel. truck belonging to D&E Trucking of Terrace, destroyed by fire called to the scene. Hoving says the cause was an electrical The new corrections centre will at about 6 p.m. Saturday. Thomhill fire chief Art Hoving says consist of a 9,600 square foot, the truck was parked at a Fox St. gravel pit when the driver short. single-story structure and parking lot llocated east of Braun. The main building will offer space for 30 residents as well as living, dining, Sharp rise in jobless rate recreation and administrative Unemployment in northern B.C. $6.8 billion, worked for wages; that proportion offices. West of Braun will be a isup 66 percent now, probably a workshop, wood-drying sheds and has reached its highest level in The June 1990 figure is the THE SIGN OF A reflection of the trend toward a work area. GOOD BUSINESS four years. Statistics Canada fig- lowest unemployment rate recorded for more than 15 years; families having two incomes. NEIGHBOR • • • rues for statisticalregions 98 and 99, covering all of northern B.C. in June 1975, during a boom except the Princ.e George area, period, the rate was 10.4 percent. showed unemployment at 11.0 At the bottom of the recession in percent for June 1991. the early 1980's, StatsCan recorded Do youremember.... That number is down slightly a rate of 19.0 in March 1983. • parents who didn't Gilham believes that unemploy- from the previous month, when understand you unemployment for the same area ment in the immediate area of SPONSOR was 11.6 percent, but up sharply Terrace is somewhat lower than • the squeeze of peer pressure from 8.5 percent a year ago. James the average for the north. Layoffs • trying to assert yourself? Gilham, a labour market analyst in the oil and gas fields of north- THE SIGN OF for the Canada Employment Centre eastern B.C. have probably , i A MERCHANT in Terrace, said last week; "I accounted for much of the If you do ..... WHO CARES haven't seen comparative numbers increase, he said. The layoffs from Alcan's Kemano project probably you may be just the person ABOUT PEOPLE ... like that for a long time." In the first quarter of 1991 .$14.5 won't have much impact on the we are looking for This emblem identifies million was paid out to claimants, local figures became a large pro- the civic.minded of which $12.6 million was regular portion of the workers will be business-men who sponsor benefits.