;i .... • ~/T.,-----.-.~~-'-= ---'~ " i'~ ~ I'," ~ ." ; • . : L. ~.~~ r.:~ .~ ,,,~ i :~ "(: ~' v ~, i "-;"L b r" ~ r" v ..... I =,,,~re~~_ Your __,....hodvknows ~-----~ I your m,nd? Page A IO .. : .. , NORTHERNBC~WINTERGAMES| A celebration of animals ~ our •' theseareorphans. Resldentsof i ~ the Terrace Ammal Shelter are featured throughout this issue. • Orenda cames on --- page A5. J WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 9, 1991 • Vol. 7, Issue No. 2 i I t [ • 't ,. o I i~::~'.."~/~ ~ :..:<~!~:,~'f .~.~• : :, . - . ~, : ~.: , • . ..'..~:..]," .... .. ...: ~:~ !:::!i~ You~ homet6wn loeally !owneda~ tnewspaPeri : /~,i~i~ Phone 635-7840 Fax 635-7269 I II i I % .;.;..~,.'~.:.:. : "" i% Wind topples -i~:~ .. weather records by Ted Strachan i i T .... ~ A- n~ off weal~r records have been b~ken in the last eight months. 1990 was a -year of extremea. i Last summer we broke an old Uigh~tempemture record. On Dec. 3 a retard snowfall all but closed in.the area. The storm began Sunday:at~moon and by the lime it,, wu,over the Tcrrace weati~r ofl~e had recorded a total of 100.6 ..... ~,~,~ -:~i~ ~ centimetres (39.6 inches) of snow and 20 millimetres of rain. On Dec. 3 alone we ba~, 82.8 contimetres 02.6 inches) of. snow, and this set a new 24-hour snow- fall record for the month of -~: December. The previous record was set on Dec. 12, 1978, when we got a 50.6 centhnetre (19.9 The paddng situation downtown i= desperate, but that isn~ what put this car on its side ~~lane of the Skeena Mall. inch) dump of wet, heavy, snow. RCMP spokesman Cst. Don Oldham said it came loose from a tow truck's hook while be~ towed around the comer at the nolth Even though this was a December end of the Sande Ovelpass and slid down the embankment, starlJing a few people on the other side of the wall .. record, however, the all time record is still secure. It belongs to City shoots down apartment plan ~,~: by Ted Strachan ,, Talstra pointed out that neigh- Terrace. L0Vstad if he bflngs a new pro- 1972, when 102.4 centlmeties • .... boor/ng residents had expressed Lovstad also said traffic would posal back to council, however. (40.3 inches) of snow were An ep~tment building is not concemover increased traffic, the not be a problem: parking would Iksldes the trust and support of hts measured. going to be built at Eby and Davis. vagueness of the proposal and the flow off Walsh Ave. and exit onto neighbours, Lovstad will have to On Dec. 5 it began to rain.., and At least not in the immediate quality of life in the area. But he Davis Ave. All he needed was to prove to everyone that an apart- forgot to stop. We got 16.2 future. A standlng-reom-only ~so indicated that if the .developer, have his property rezoned from R2 ment building is a suitable buffer millimetres (0.64 ihches) of ram crowd attended a pubflc hearing in Ray Lovstad, could "clanfy or tone two family residential to R3 mul- between the downtown core and that day, another 20.2 mlllimetres residential areas. And with this (0.79 inches) the following day, city council chambers Monday down" his proposal he could br/ng tlple family residential. established, will have to convince and on Friday, Dec. 7 ---you night, and when all was mid and it back to council for a second One thing Lovestad didn't have, council that his property, presently guessed it m another record fell. done it was a draw. look. though, was a set of drawings to Lovestad described his pmpmal show city aldermen and neighbour- zoned R2 and listed as high den- We broke the all time, one<lay Aldermen Ruth Halleck, Mo sity residential on the Official Takhar and Rick King were during the public hearing, saying it ing residents what his building and rainfall record for December with Community Plan, should be 111.4 millimetms (4.39~nches) of opposed; aldermen Bob Cooper, would be an attractive, three.story, landscaping would actually look rezoned to accommodate a mui- rain. The previous ~ for any Danny Sheridan and Darryl 2% to 30-unit apartment building like. This caused what alderman tlple family dwelling, month was set on Tuesday, Oct. Lament were in favour. This left set on a nicely landscaped lot. He Rick King described as a lack of In supporting Lovstad, Cooper 31, 1978, when we got 114.8 myor Jack Talstra with the decid- said each unit would be in the confidence in Lovstad's proposal; said he didn't believe traffic would millimetres (4.52 inches) of rain. in8 ballot and he voted asalmt the middle to upper range witil two or mm residents suggested that once be a problem and sdded that the We missed this by .just proposal. "If a change of this ira- three bedrooms and self-contained the property was rezoned,-I.ovstsd one dedication of a 33-foot strip of portsnce is to take pktce In this laundry. A type of rental accom- could build almost anytldng he 13/100thS of ~ inch. community we must have 8 better modation, ngleas city planner wanted. -- Continued on pap A4 - cO~nued on ps~ consemus of council," he said. Marvin Kamenz, that is rare in There are other problerm facing f I DIK ,r .,., ~...,;o., Wednesday. January 2, 1991 ' ~ ...... :'' ...... '~ '~: "" .... : ' D itchpr ob lem. ha's only slow. solution, "monumental cost" Seniors Advisory Commission has his answer: ... budget con- member James MacKay may not straints prevent a total elimination be pleased by the city,s response, Of these drainage ditches. but he may not be surprised either. From the minutes of the commit- MacKay wrote a letter to city tee meeting: "Public Works repre- council in early December to sentatives indicated that they are express concern over open drain- looking at eliminating ditches as age ditches in the city. funds are available as well as These ditches contribute to a lack through Local Improvement Pro- of street-side parking, he said, and jeers. However, it would be a when they fill with water present a monumental cost to the taxpayers hazard to children. He said Local at this time to provide undergmtmd Improvement Project funding drainage throughout the Munici- might rectify this situation and pality. They noted that high prior- suggested, in addition to the ob- ity areas are recognized and it is vious benefits, culverts would save intended to include some of these the cost of cleaning the ditches areas in the first draft of the City's every year. capital budget." MacKay's letter was sent to city CORPORATE PARTNERS -- It was recently announced that Canada Sateway ano r'epm j~nv~, council's Planning and Public Which areas.'? For that we will entered into a corporate partnership wRh the Shames Mountain Ski Corporation on a soon-to-be- Works Committee, who considered have to wait. And once these areas released, full cclour pocket-sized Trail Map and Skiers' Guide for the Shames Mountain ski area. MacKay's proposal and made a are identified, will they get culvert An interim trail map of Shames is available at the lift ticket window on the mountain. Partner recommendation; a recommenda- in 1991? Again, we can only wait, representatives Safeway manager Eric Johanson, Grey Beverages owner-manager Steve Korpi, tion that city council adopted in Budget deliberations should con- and Shames general manager Scott Siemens review a mock-up of the guide. mid-December. By now, MacKay clude in a month or two. I EVENTSIN HISTORY:Januaryjots CompIIKi by Tom Taggart-- special to the Terrace Revle , . Jan. 1: NEW YEAR'S DAY (((EVENT OF THE MONTH))). •iilL~!i!:ili ~ Cuba Libre (1959). /i~- --:- eanamian "Maximum Leader" Manual Noriega visits Florida (1990). : : iil/~i:iii: r -Tick,tick-tick: Canada switches over to GST time (1991). :i!i::i:~ ;: Jan. 3: Territory of Alaska becomes 49th U.S. state (1959). ~ ' Jan. 6: China: Pamphlet "Whither China" hits the streets (1968), rave reviews. Japan: Emperor Hirohito descends (1989). Jan. 7: USAF pilot chases UFO to 20,000-foot altitude, never returns (1948). SKI TIPS from Jan. 8: Canada joins Organization of American States (OAS) (1990). Andrew Rushton, A Jan. 9: "Children of Light" religious sect awaits Armageddon near Vancouver (1954). Shames Mountain Jan. 10: Pamphleteer Tom Paine's "Common Sense" hits the streets of America (1776). Ski School Birth Of "The American Homer", poet Robinson Jeffers (1887). Skiing At Its Peak Jan. 12: Birth of Edmond Burke (1729), protagonist for Paine's "Rights of Man". Director Author Jack London begins his 40-year journey (1876). ~• Temperature Jan. 13: Bolivia: Lights out for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1909). ~i:i & San. 14: San Francisco: First "Be-in" gathering of the peace generation (1967). •Brussels: SHAPE headquarters bombed out of shape (1985). Dress Jan. lS: Civil rights'activist Martin Luther King, Jr. begins agitating (1929). Another week of excellent skiing at Shames has gone ! • Vancouver: Death of Angus Stewart, Canadian frontiersman (1953), byt While people in town were suffering miserable Lazaro Castro jaunts across the icepack from Alaska to Siberia (1987). ii~:: Toronto: Capitalist Campeau declares partial bankruptcy (1990). ~! ~i:i • temperatures as low as .20 Shames skiers enjoyed _ = - ,/, Jan. 17: Birth of Benjamin Franklin (1706) and Anton Chekhov (1860). temperatures as high as a balmy -5. Capital punishme.nt reyived in U.S. gratis of Gary Gilmore (1977). ,,, Hard to believe but very true. These temperature ~Jai~. "20i' Birtfi anddeath; resp., of the poets Edgar Poe (1809) and Robinson Jeffers (1862). inversions are quite common when you have clear skies Russia: Birth of Eugeny Zamyatin, author of "We" (1884).