L Legislative Library, C.:T- I Parliament Buildings, Victoria, B.C. V8V 1X4 ~-,4, YOUR HOMETOWN LOCALL Y OWNED AND OPERA TED NEWSPAPER Vol. 4, Issue No. 11 50 CENTS TERRACE, B.C., WEDNESDAY, March 16, 1988 'l I Ill Caledonia Police building scholars gets reprieve set, record The Provincial Police and it would be a bonus to the Building at the corner of Kalum merchants "if we can get that St. and Lakelse Ave. has been eyesore out of there". Ninety-two percent of the given one last reprieve before it Jackman's position was sup- Caledonia student body passed will either be destroyed or ported by Me Takhar, but the their first semester finals, and 25 become a heritage site. In a 3-2 vote was tied when a motion of the final marks were 90 per- vote Monday night council made by Ruth Halleck to adopt cent or better. These are both decided to have the heritage the committee's recommenda- school records according to value of the building assessed by tion received the support of Bob principal Bill Sturn, and he says a professional before making Cooper. the credit belongs to "hard- their final decision. "It isn't my intention to go on working" teachers and "in- The decision followed a Com- forever and forever and hold dustrious" students. mittee of the Whole recommen- thisproperty owner up," said The 25 top marks were turned dation to contact B.C. Heritage Hallock. "I quite agree that in bY 15 grade 12 Caledonia Trust to request that one of their would be most unfair. But by students, two more records ac- professionalstaff visit Terrace the same token, we do have an cording to Sturn. Of the 15, five • for the purpose of assessing the existing bylaw, and before we qualified for Provincial Scholar- heritage value of the building. rescind that bylaw we should ships of $1,000 each, providing The motion was opposed by make every effort we can to they graduate in 1988, and the Bob Jackman, who reminded determine the heritage value of rest may qualify for $1,000 Pro- council that they have a request that particular piece of vincial Scholarships if they do to remove the building so the property." well on one or more of their property can be sold by its _ Hallock added that she felt it finals in June. owner. "I don't believe he was "highly unfair" for The scholarship winners in- bought it as a heritage site," said Jackman to refer to the building cluded Sara Chen-Wing who ex- Jackman. "We're holding back as "an eyesore and a worthless ceed 90 percent on three dif- development of that area." building". ferent exams, Surrinder Deol Jackman told council that "To my way of thinking," she who scored 97 percent in even if they were to purchase the said, "any building that has sur- Biology 12, Adam Ford, over 90 property in order to preserve the vived •since 1906 is pretty well on two exams, Peter Hepburn building, it would still be a worth its salt. It's pretty well put who was over 90 percent on all ,~,.-passive.corner".in" an area to to~ether."......... " .... four of .his finals, and Da~;id be considered for prime develop= She concluded by saying, Weismiller, who scored 91 per- Angola Moehllng IB the first new Justice of the Peace to take office in Ter- race since 1984. She was sworn in at a ceremQny In the Terrace court- ment, According to Jackman, "There's a lot to be said about cent in Biology 12. house by Judge P.R. Lawrence March 8. Moehllng is currently a District merchants located on the the heritage value that obviously The list of likely winners who Registrar, and she said the new authority will allow her to sign ball release downtown portion of Kalum St. some people have Overlooked. will be shooting for scholarships applications, issue summonses, warrants and search warrants, and That is the last remaining authorize subpoenas for witnesses. are considering a-revitalization in June included Coin Brehaut, project to upgrade their area, heritage building on its original Inness Campbell, Mathew site in the entire community. Cheer, Aaron Davis, Davis Unfortunately, we don't have Lindsay, Shawnee Love, David any heri[age brick or stone Vu and Christine Weber. buildings here but this is a town Sturn added that several that was built out of wood, sur- Caledonia students have also vived on wood and will continue been nominated for other na- to survive on wood -- no matter" tional or provincial scholar- how many concrete apparitions ships. Peter Hepburn has been go up in the downtown area." nominated for the University of Takhar answered Halleck's Toronto National Scholarship, comments by pointing out that Christine Weber for the they had been trying to decide Premier's Award of Excellence, the fate of the building for "a Shawnee Love, Ma~k Bentley year and'a half" and the debate and Deborah Jackman for had gone nowhere. "We're just Pacific Rim Scholarships, and holding up the owner of this Michelle Hendry, Jann Marie property," he said. Wilson and Lisa Dams for Nan- When the vote was called, ,i cy Greene Scholarships. Mayor Jack Talstra cast the ~q I I lnl . J[ continued on page 24 ,d Outside I II IIII I I i Date HI Lo Prec. :I Mar. 7 3 0 15.6 rnm mixed - - Iflside rain & snow Mar. 8 6 1 8.2 mm mixed Business Guide 16 rain & snow Church Directory 10 Mar, 9 6 -1 ,4rnm mixed Classified Ads 21,22 rain & snow Mar, 10 4 .2 nil Coming Events 14 Mar. 11 6 0 nil Comics 20 Mar.'12 7 1 trace of rain Crossword 20 Mar. 13 7 .2 nil Dining Directory 2 Forecast: Continuing sunny IEntertainment 2 through Thursday. Increasing Horoscope 15 clouds for Friday and the Letters 5 weekend with a chance of rain. B.C. New Democrat Justice critic Moo Slhota, the MLA for Esqulmalt-Port Renfrew, was In Terrace last week with Opinions 4 Highs until Thursday 7, lows to his wife Jesse (center). Slhota was met by Terrace NDP representative Gall Murray (right) at a reception in the Ter- Sports 8 -3; from Thursday on highs of 5 race Hotel. The rookie MLA spoke to a large crowd and vowed to continue his efforts to uncover the facts behind Stork 6 and lows near 0. the Coqulhalla highway spending scandal. Talk of the Town 5 I Feds poised to cripple mining exploration .... ;i The tax-break system danger of being dismantled ing ventures to use in the uncer- ship to raise capital for explora- the risk previously associated that has pumped new life by the federal government. tain initial stages, of exploring tion costs to prove out their re- with such ventures. into mining exploration Flow-through mining shares, ore bodies. Prior to the issue of serves. The principle attraction Dozens of junior mining com- and development in the introduced by the Liberal flow-throughs, individuals and of flow-through shares is the panies have used flow-through government in 1983, have pro- companies who made mineral provision of tax write-offs for capital to finance drilling and t ), Northwest over the past vided a large pool of risk capital discoveries were faced with a investors amounting to 133 per- exploration programs in the four years is •in immediate for prospectors and junior min- daunting exercise in salesman- cent of the investment, removing uontlnued onpage 24 @ •i¸ :ii::r : • ..... 2 Terrae~Review. Wednesday, March 16, 1988, : .~[~!•....................~ •.~~!?i i~ •t I : ! :i~! ••'~ ¸~:: •i'~ ¸ ~.!~i:~i.II~ -:,~ . .•' • b"rewi ng agaJ n L TERRACE -- It's a good news- still trying to limit wage in- bad news scenario for the board creases in public sector employ- of School District 88. ment. He also called it "nothing The good news is that this more than meddling.., by a third ,i year's funding formula an- party". nounced at the beginning of Award limitations imposed by March by the Ministry of Educa- the CSP have cost teachers an & •:: tion will increase District 88's average of 14.7 percent in lost budget by $2.2 million, up 11.4 real income (after inflation) • .i /. percent from last year. For local since 1983, Giesbrecht claimed. 12 taxpayers, that means maintain- He also pointed out that ing education service levels will deteriorating wages in com- parison to other provinces in cost an estimated six percent f~'i~ • ": more instead of 40 percent, the Canada will make recruitment figure that was being somewhat of teachers for B.C. increasingly ':•::ii::i;~i::i~¸~i~!~!ii~~ fearfully propounded by district difficult. "i administration before the minis- In addition to the grid in- t i try came through. creases, Giesbrecht said the The bad news is that a condi- TDTA will also be seeking sim- tion attached to the increase is a plification of the grid structure cap of 2.8 percent on teacher from 11 seniority steps to five, salaries - any higher awards will arguing that H years is too long Tom McColgan (left), a new member of the Terrooe Centennial Lions and this year's Easter Seal chairman, certain- have to he paid for out of local to achieve the top of the salary ly paid his dues for club membership -- he hand-stuffed 6,500 envelopes with Easter Seals, which are now being tax dollars, and that will prob- scale. Shortening the grid, he mailed out to households in Terrace and Thornhill.