Library starts appeal Here's your chance Cashing in The library needs $87,000 over A meeting Nov. 28 will provide Kevin McDougall's Terrace two years to boost the expansion information on bone marrow quartet played sweetly in local now underway/NEWS A8 matching/COMMUNITY BIO bonspiel/SPORTS 01_ WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 23. 1994 TA__N DAR D Thornhill takes first step AMALGAMATION, incorporation or status tomorrow. quo ? To do that, hc's holding a public meeting That's the question the Thornhill restructuring Thursday, Dec. I. It takes placc at 7p.m. in tl~ study will ultimately answer. Thomhill Community Centre. But first the consultant wants to find out what For a brief overview of some of the factors people there think are the issues today and Thornhill, and Terrace residents for t/tat mat- where the communi(y is or should be headed ter, will have to consider, turn to page A 5. Gosneil vs. Scott on Saturday night IT'S BEING called Conflict or Consensus. The Land Claims Is- sue and it'll be on "IV and FM .- radio this Saturday night. The two-hour production fea- tures a debate between Nisga'a Tribal Council president Joe Gos- nell and Skeena Reform MP Mike Scott. The debate will last 40 minutes after which there'll be a chance to ask questions of the two. It takes place ill the Skeena Room of the Terrace Inn where I there'll be room for an audience, . says CFTK-TV representative Chris Holtom. Questions can be asked by the audience and can alsobe phoned: in by those watching on TV or ,". Joe Gosnell Mike Scott ' listening on the radio, said be used during the debate and city's representative on the :, Holtom. : question and answer period. Skeena Treaty Advisory Corn- !i : The CFTK-TV audience .Moderator for the evening is mittee.. : stretches from Prince Rupert to Rick Wcbbcr, a former TK news The committee is being formed Bums Lake while the CJFW-FM anchor and now anchor with to monitor progress in native land signal covers from the Queen CHBC-TV in Kelowua. claim negotiations in the region. Charlotte Islands to Bums Lake, The debate grew out of a chal- As soon as it is formed it is ex- Holtom described the produc- lenge issued by Oosnell to Scott pected to appoint a representative ., Esteem team tion as one of the more major un- at the latter's Oct. 5 public forum who will become a member of the dertaken by CFTK and CJFW- on land claims. provincial negotiating team in the THREE OLYMPIC ATHLETES were in Terrace last week talking to students about self- FM in recent years. That forum was one of four Nisga'a talks. confidence and setting goals. Along with runner Charmaine Crooks and master of the "For radio it's relatively easy. held by Scott throughout the Councillor Val George was steeplechase Graeme Fell was wheelchair athlete Daniel Wesley. Since losing his legs in a But it'll take a lot of work for northwest to gather opinions on designated Talstra's alternate to train accident, Wesley has gone on to win several Olympics medals in track. He is now train- television because it'll be live and land claims. that committee. : ing for tryouts for the Canadian disabled tennis team compeling in the Atlanta Summer out of our building we're taking "k ~ ~ "k "k The committee will also take in Stewart, Kitimat and Prince Olympics in 1996. See page C2 for more on Wesley and the esteem team. phone calls, too," she said. In a move tied to land claims, .I Three television cameras will Terrace mayor Jack Talstra is the .Rupert. • i; "~ i, Food bank running deficit Report predicts because of huge demand DEMAND WAS ove,whelming day. lost forest jobs at the Terrace Churches Food The food bank is supported by Bank last week, leaving it "We're definitely going to be canvassing our churches 11 area church~ and is supple- A LOSS OF 106 jobs over the employment at 403 person- next 20 years. years which created an addi- stripped of money and supplies. and raising public awareness. We have nothing for Janu- mented by donor boxes at Terrace A record 463 distributions were Co-op, Ovcrwaitea and Safcway. That, says a report released tional 235 indirect jobs. In- made to at least 1,600 people, ary," says food bank organizer Terry Mahoney, Donations are welcome at any last week, will be the impact if come from those jobs was says food bank organizer Terry of the participating churches in the Chicf Forester reduces the estimated at $17.9 million. Mahoney. the food bank. They are the annual allowable cut (AAC) in If the harvest was cut im- That tops the previous Novem- Evangelical Free Church, the the Kalum South to the extent mediately by 3,3 per cent as bcr record set last year and comes about restricting applicants, Large families are given extra. Sacred Heart Catholic church, suggested by a timber supply suggested in the base case, 21 close to January and February Mahoney said future food bank The food bank operates during Knox United Church, St. Mat- analysis for the area. of those jobs and $600,000 of figures when people are faced distr~utions may result in cutting the winter season by holding a thew's Anglican Church, the Sal- The analysis was released in income would dis~ippear, with winter heating bills. more items from the bags that are four-day distribution period each vation Army, the Alliance June of this year. Based on The greatest impact would be "I had tried to order for 400 handed out. month. Church, Zion Baptist, the estimates of the number of felt after the first deeade when bags, but we ran short of funds," "It's hard to differentiate, it It doesn't operate in December Lutheran church, Terrace trees out there now and likely the 10 per cent AAC cut oc: said Mahoney. comes down to deciding who is because of the Salvation Army's Pentecostal Assembly, the Chris- second growth patterns, it eurred. That would mean'the "Last year we cut back on more deserving," she said. Christmas hamper program and tian Reformed Church and the came up with a long term end of another 61 jobs. sugar and toilet paper and this "We're defi|dtely going to be returns in January through to the Seventh Day Adventist Church. sustainable harvest. And by the time the target time we couldn't afford to buy canvassing our churches and rais- spring. For donations during the weck, That means the volume of 400,000 cu.m, figure : was potatoes," she said. ing public awareness. We had a Last week's heavy demand Sacred Heart is open from 9 a.m. wood that can be cut in the reached after 20 years, 106 Cash costs in previous years tremendous response last year leaves Mahoney wondering about to 4 p.m., the United Church from Kalum South so as to ensure a jobs generating $2.2 million in average $2,000 a month but now when this happened." how many people will show up in 9 a.m. to noon Tuesday to Friday stable wood supply for the next income,~: would have dis: ~ the food bank must come up with "We have nothing for Janu- January. and the Evangelical Free Church 250 years. appeared. more than $3,000 a month to ary," said Mahoney. The food bank opens a week from 9 a.m. to noon Monday, Its conclusion was the AAC Of those jobs, 67 would be in: cope, Mahoney added. Single bags are given to siqgles earlier in January and Jan. 9 is Wednesday, Thursday and Fri- had to be reduced by 16.7 per the Kalum South area itself And while she isn't thinking while families receive two bags. tentatively been set as the first day. to 400,000 cu.m. and even then with Tenace, consultant Rahdy there would be a minor short- Sundcrman concluded, feeling fall at the 140 year mark. the greatest impact. The document put forward a But the effects will be felt Advance fire protc.=ction vote today base case which suggested an 'outside the Kalum Southi The ' TODAY'S THE DAY for resi- fire department look after admin- another $194 for operating costs. the first.year to cover start up and immediate 3.3 per cent reduc- report pointed out 193 of 517 dents of north Terrace, Braun's istration of fire protection for On the other side of the equa- $194 for operating costs. tion in harvesting, a further cut person-years employment ere2 Island and New Rome to cast those areas and provide one tion the regional district estimates On the other side of the equa- of 10 per cent in year 10 and a ated elsewhere in B.C. by har, their fire protection referendum pumper fire truck. the same homeowner could save tion, however, the regional dis- final, small reduction 20 years vesting here would end i~iking vote in advance of the main vote. The Thornhill department approximately $340 on fire insur- trict esthnates that same from now. with them almost $4 lhillton tn The regional district offices lo- would provide a pumper/tanker ance, homeowner could save approxi- The latest report, called the earnings. cated at 4545 Lazelle Ave. will and tanker. The main vote is scheduled for mately $340 on fire insurance. Kalum South Soclo.Eeonomlc For copies of the study and remain open until 8 p.m.