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Wednesday, September 3, 2014
Does the city need a slogan? A RECENT letter submitted to the editor of this paper arguing that Terrace needs an official slogan set off a string of suggestions submitted by readers through Facebook. Other large northern cities tend to have slogans. For instance, Prince George is called “Gateway to the North” and Whitehorse is “The Wilderness City.” Fort St. John goes by the moniker “The Energetic City.” Meanwhile Terrace remains sloganless. The many suggestions received ranged from positive, humorous to strange. One person commented that no name is
best. Positive, affirmative suggestions included “Home of the Kermode” by Wendy Scott. which would jive well with the official and trademarked city logo of the Kermode bear. “Welcome to Terradise,” is another, submitted by Mandi McDougall. Other suggestions included “Land of Opportunity – the True North, diverse and free,” and “Salmon Capital of the World,” both by Maggie Jo. Judith Olsen suggested “Terrace, one step in the stairway to heaven,” and Joe Bevan chimed in with “The Land of Many.”
With another flavour, John B Nelson thought “the central hub of transportation from trucks to lumber, oil and natural gas” would define the town well. And Brandon Greenall suggested “Terrace, a great place to live, but the rent will kill you.” The rest can be seen on the Terrace Standard’s Facebook page. The letter writer, Max Durando, formerly of Terrace and now living down south, said the slogan should note the city’s strengths including natural beauty, wealth of industry
and commerce, First Nations culture and art and – the breadth of the many other visual and performing arts “that bind the community together and make Terrace a desirable place to live.” Durando’s own suggestion is “Vibrant by Nature.” “That’s kind of catchy and it reflects the sum of all those strengths,” he said. He also said he saw a business publication refer to Terrace as “Heart of the Northwest.”
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Hotel plan advances By JOSH MASSEY
JOSH MASSEY PHOTO
■■ A mysterious project CITY COUNCILLOR Lynne Christiansen paints over the previous designs on the fire hydrant in front of Terrace City Hall. City staff say they plan an unveiling of a new fire hydrant that will honour a former municipal luminary in the coming weeks.
IF TERRACE and area was a Monopoly board, then we would be seeing a number of those little red hotel markers appearing here and there. In its Aug. 25 meeting, city council granted development permits to what is called the Sung Soo Kim Hotel Development for a complex to be located on 5112 Highway 16 West beside the Canadian Tire. The hotel will have 93 rooms spanning four storeys and construction is planned to begin before the end of 2014. A variance on maximum height for a building in the C3 commercial zone from 9 metres to 17 metres was also approved by city council last night. Another permit was also granted which will allow the company to develop 44 metres of Brooks St., which runs north up the east side of the development between it and Canadian Tire. This is to aid entry and exit of the parking area for the hotel. Originally the company had wanted to apply for two development permits at once to build a second piece of property right beside this one, however, city sustainability coordinator Tara Irwin told council that the developer has opted for a phased approach. Previously the developer said part of the property needed environmental reclamation work done before it could be developed. The permit mandates that construction has to begin within 12 months from now and the city has a $150,000 deposit held against this and other requirements such as landscaping requirements outlined in Terrace’s Official Community Plan. This is the fourth hotel project announced in Terrace and Thornhill in the past year and a half. The only other one to be at the development stage is the Sunshine Inn being constructed just down the highway about 2 kilometres east, beside Kalum Tire. In Thornhill, there is a Holiday Inn Express hotel planned, and back in Terrace, on the old Co-op lands on Greig Ave., Superior Lodging of Calgary is waiting for environmental work to be completed by the previous owners before constructing another 100-room hotel.
Oven ready
Who’s King?
Salmon strength
Local volunteers build an ancient style of stove out of clay and rock \COMMUNITY A11
Runners train hard for showdown on Terrace Mountain this weekend \SPORTS A19
A report on the success of Nisga’a Fisheries’ Nass operation \NEWS A5