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TERRACE - Peppy, who is a macaw, waits patiently atop of the parked pickup truck of owner Robert Dowse. Dowse had stopped to use the Canada Post office on Emerson and Lazelle.
Garbage, recycling bylaw now passed
By Margaret Speirs
THE NORTHERN CONNECTOR
TERRACE - Garbage collection and recycling in the regional district is set to start next month after the bylaw for it passed with all but one vote at the KitimatStikine regional district board meeting Oct. 24. It marks the end of sustained protests not only about the bylaw itself, which sets out how garbage is to be collected and in what size containers and imposes an annual fee of $200, but complaints that the regional district does too much business behind closed doors. The bylaw and its development also sparked the resignation of one regional district director,
Doug McLeod. Residents continued to question the bylaw Oct. 24 leading right up to the vote. Three residents took their turns telling the regional district what they didn’t like about the proposed garbage collection plan bylaw. Richard Tiernan told the board it should respect the 700-signature petition signed by residents who wanted a chance to vote on the bylaw, saying it’s imperative that the board realize that people aren’t against recycling but rather it’s what they see as the board’s way of pushing it on them that they don’t like. “It’s the ‘jam it down the throat’ attitude here,” he said about what people see the board doing. Only the people affected
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should be voting for it and not residents in other areas of the regional district who won’t be affected by the bylaw, he added. Urs Gasser thanked the board for acknowledging the email his wife had sent, in which she expressed her concern about the safety aspects of the collection with the school bus being around and people riding horses. He asked for clarification about when garbage collection and recycling collection would take place. Regional district official Roger Tooms answered, saying garbage collection would be every week and recycling collection every second week. Allan Friberg said he was going to speak to the board’s “un-
acceptable conduct” in the last couple of meetings but said that the board had changed this time and was listening to the people. Board chair and Terrace representative Bruce Bidgood said it was his job to keep things in order and apologized publicly about how things got out of hand at previous meetings. The vote came late in the evening and the bylaw was passed with all board members voting in favour of it, except for Diana Penner, alternate director for Area C which is the rural Terrace area, who voting against it. She asked for her vote to be noted in the minutes and then walked out afterward. Curbside collection is set to start Nov. 17.
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