The Prince George Citizen - Friday, April 30,1993-3
Local news
Mark Allan City Editor
562-2441 Local 503
Bird
watchers
Citizen photos by Dave Milne
Prince George residents kept their eyes on the sky throughout the city Thursday when the Canadian Forces Snowbirds went through their aerial acro-i batics over the city. Their performance included the head-to-head pass (top). About 2,500 area school | children were at the air-| port to watch the show, as ’■ guests of the Snowbirds, who will perform over Prince Rupert May 14 and * Smithers May 15.
Drama festival results
Renovations on hold
Thursday’s winners were:
My Favorite Poem - Narrative
Class 069, 9	and	younger,
3roup 1 — Carla Parsons.
Class 069, 9 and younger, Group 2 — Aimee Cassie.
Class 070, 11	and	younger,
3roup 1 — Peter Bagnall.
Class 070, 11	and	younger,
3roup 2 — Kathleen Greenfield.
son, Jill Madden, Jane Harding, Jennifer Tkachuk, Heather McIntosh.
Class 207, 16 and younger — O’Grady High School: Kcri Thief, Trish Pelrella, Rachel Zastre, Barbara Spademan.
Class 068, 7 and younger — 7aitlin Lutzer.
Class 071, 13 and younger — \ndrew Green.
Class 072, 16 and younger — irin Creak.
Mime - Solo
Class 201, 13 and younger — Bronwyn Glover.
Mime, Duo or Group
Class 206, 13 and younger — Rainbow Kids’ Theatre: Jcncll Par-
Dramatic Duologue
Class 167, 9 and younger — Curry Furry and Millen Knuuttila.
Construction	renovations
planned for the Prince George Coliseum are being put on hold for a while, although improvements in sound, heating and roofing will probably go ahead.
Tom Madden, director of Leisure Services, is recommending to city council Monday that his department review the work, design and construction schedules for the
Class 168, 11 and younger — Aimee Cassie and Laura Schneider.
Class 169, 13 and younger — Bronwyn Glover and Kathryn Pro-udfoot.
Class 170, 16 and younger — Jay Anna Major and Sara Radford.
renovations.
“Given that good construction work flows from good designs, the review of our design timeframe should allow us more time to look at design options,” Madden says in his report.
In February Madden recommended Johnston Sport Architecture of Victoria to do the architectural services required from six
bidders, but city council delayed the decision for more information.
Councillors were reluctant to award the work to an out-of-town firm when three local firms had submitted lower bids than the recommended 588,650 price.
Madden’s recommendation sparked a debate here. Local architectural firms expressed disappointment that city administration would consider out-of-town firms. Madden said his recommendation was made on the basis of the Victoria firm’s ample experience.
Architect Des Parker, who did the study four years ago, thought he would be asked to continue the work he started. “I feel I have a running start on delivering this project. There’s nobody in Prince George or B.C. that knows more about that building than I do,” he
Building plans pouring in
said in February.
The lowest bidder, at 577,850, was architect Stuart C. Ross, who felt the work was not that difficult.
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The 80-acre parcel behind the Hart Highway weigh scales received the green light from city council Monday. Money from the sale of the lots will go into provincial coffers.
Southwest College Heights is the hot spot for development in the near future.
There’s a vast amount of land owned by the Roman Catholic Episcopal Corporation.
“Belco Developments Ltd. is looking at developing about 60 acres from Lafreniere to Lalonde to the future Ospika Boulevard,’’ said Bloodoff.
Another 200 lots will be developed in the Southridge area by the city as well as infilling lots in former phases of Southridge development.
There are 80 serviced city lots on Cranbrook Hill which will come on stream within a year.
Southeast There’s little room for development to the southeast as most land is used for agriculture or is Crown land.
This area is near the experimental farm and the airport.
East Some infilling of singlefamily lots is taking place east of
the Fraser River in the Blackburn area, but the main development seems to be applications for mobile home courts.
Records show the total value of building permits in 1990 at 565 million, including 224 SFH and in 1991 at 557 million including 275 SFH.
Design of subdivisions will provide a mix of housing from singlefamily to duplexes to multi-living complexes to institutional lots complemented	by convenience
stores, recreation areas and parkland.
Bloodoff still has one concern about the future of the city.
“We still need to diversify our employment base from dependence on the forest industry. For longterm growth of the city we need to become the financial, administrative, educational and cultural centre of the North.”
“We’re just at the edge of being the size of cities that begin to grow in spite of themselves.
“Costco is a first example of that. Costo is coming here because we have the population to support it. It’s bringing a couple of hundred jobs to the city,” said Bloodoff.
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Vanier Hall
management board formed
by ARNOLD OLSON Citizen Staff
Community group representatives and the Prince George School District will form a management board to raise money and maintain Vanier Hall.
One of the first duties of the group will be to devise a more equitable fee schedule for the auditorium’s use. Outside performing groups might pay more, so money raised through local ticket-buyers will stay here to keep the hall in good order.
That was decided at a two-hour meeting Thursday night. Major user groups discussed the future of the auditorium that has doubled as a community theatre for the past 25 years.
The invitation-only meeting was amicable although the community group representatives went there with some apprehension, Evelyn Lee, Community Arts Council president, said today.
She said groups represented included the Prince George Concert Association, Prince George Symphony Orchestra, the music and dance festivals and Judy Russell of Enchainement Dance Studio.
“We more or less came to a consensus,” Lee said. “There’s really not much choice.
“The understanding is that the community groups and a couple of representatives from the school district will form a management board. We’re going to decide some long-range things and also, on the short-term range, raise some funds to make some repairs and make sure Vanier Hall is usable for the next five to seven years, until a performing arts facility is built.”
She said school district superintendent Jim Imrich outlined the history of Vanier Hall.
He reminded the groups the original plan was for the auditorium to be a teaching facility. The original plans for it to be a theatre were changed and the stage size scaled down.
Today, he estimated, the com-
munity uses the auditorium 98 per cent of the time and the school district the rest.
Lee said the school board would decide priorities for the auditorium and provide one-third matching financing, with community groups providing the remainder.
“We’ll just see what we can do about raising some funds to replace some of the things that are needed in there,” Lee said.
She said little is left in a trust fund set up for Vanier Hall. The money brought in from rent has been used for upkeep and administrative costs. The lighting board has been replaced.
“There isn’t a lot of money there right now, from the past 25 years,” Lee said.
’’Safety will be the first concern. Overhead structures on the stage present problems, Lee said.
“The hall has to be brought into the ’90s,” Bill Russell, Enchainc-ment’s technical manager, said today.
He said the school district has lagged behind technical developments, but much more seriously, the stage area has structural problems that are safety hazards.
The rail system that holds lights, drapes and pulleys is dangerously run down, he said.
“A theatre is dangerous place to be, anyway, with the various types of apparutus backstage . . . unless it’s operated by knowledgeable and experienced safety-conscious people. Everything above the stage is suspended.”
Russell said the school district estimates up to 525,000 is needed to upgrade Vanier Hall, but cannot finance it with current budget problems.
Lee said the new management board will meet again in about three weeks. The first requirement is feedback from the district and community groups’ technical people.
Groups not represented at the meeting will be able to get a report from the Community Arts Council.
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