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Wednesday, April 1, 2015
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JOSH MASSEY PHOTO
PROFESSIONAL PAPER shredder Keith Piper working at Do Your Part Recycling depot in Thornhill on March 26. The area depicted here will feature a number of bins set up for people to put in their glass, plastic bags and other recycled packaging.
Glass recycling shift to start
By JOSH MASSEY THE REGION’S recycling program continues to expand with glass, plastic bag and Styrofoam drop off to be available starting today at the Do Your Part depot for both those who live in Terrace as well as Thornhill and rural areas. For city residents, however, it also means an end to city garbage trucks picking up glass once a month, a feature that had been part of the city’s curbside collection program which began last spring. This week was the last glass pick up by city trucks. For Thornhill and rural residents, it means they’ll now have a place for their glass. The new Thornhill and rural
area pick up program had not been accepting glass. Neither the city program nor the regional district one had been accepting Styrofoam or plastic bags. The additions to area recycling follow the signing of a contract by Do Your Part, a private recycling company, with Multi-Material BC (MMBC), an agency run by companies who use packaging material for their products. City recyclables are being taken to Do Your Part in Thornhill but regional district collections are trucked to a depot in Prince Rupert. Do Your Part depot owner Kasey Lewis says her contract with MMBC now means any city, Thornhill or rural resident can
drop off all accepted recycling material at her establishment. “Yes, but we’re encouraging people to still use their curbside service,” she said last week. Both the city and the regional district pick up recyclables every two weeks. Those dropping off their regular recycling will also have to separate it themselves into different bins located inside the depot. The same applies for drop-offs of glass, plastic bags and Styrofoam. “People will be here on site to educate, because people will be sorting it themselves,” said Lewis. “There will be bins set up for people to throw their own stuff in. It will be a true kind of depot.” “There is no limit on how much
people can bring, but it will be for residential only,” she continued, adding that there is no cost for drop off. “It’s now a no-pay system for everybody,” she said. For now the drop off location will remain at the Do Your Part location in Thornhill, but Lewis hinted that expanded services means she will need more space soon. “Ideally we would like to find an end market for it here but people have been looking for that for eight years, so who knows,” said Lewis of the energy-intensive long distance trucking of uncrushed glass products to southern B.C. She hopes the service leads to less contamination in blue bags.
THE TERRACE RCMP detachment is to be the home of a pilot project to place officers on horseback. In an email sent to a select few members of the national police force, a copy of which has now fallen into the hands of local media, details of the project, dubbed E-SPURS, indicate a return to the force’s equestrian roots would be ideal in smaller towns the size of Terrace. “We already know of the success within the Terrace detachment of foot patrols in the downtown core,” the email memo states. “The local detachment has responded favourably to requests from the public for an increased presence in the downtown core of Terrace.” “By now placing officers on horseback, we will be able to extend the reach of these patrols without reducing the effectiveness of members in dealing with some of the base elements of crime,” it continues. There’s even a public relations aspect to the pilot project. “We’re aware that the public’s acceptance of the RCMP goes right back to its early beginnings when members on horseback patrolled the Prairies,” the memo said. “This puts the mounted back into the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.” For now, two horses will be assigned to officers patrolling the downtown with the prospect of adding more as the pilot project is evaluated. And when not patrolling, officers on horseback will be available for more ceremonial duties. “It won’t exactly be the musical ride,” said one senior officer. “More of a mini-ride, but you’ll still get a sense of the pageantry.”
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Cubs are stars
Killer sentenced
Puck gentleman
Youths learn skills for home and community during weekend \COMMUNITY A10
Sentenced man eligible for parole due to young age at time of murder \NEWS A4
Terrace-born hockey player sets record for sportsmanship \SPORTS A21