THE TUMBLER TIMES

TR COMMUNITY COMMITTEE

The Community Committee met April 13 at
the Recreation Centre. Len DeMelt report-
ed on the tourism meeting he attended in
Fort St. John. After a lengthy discussion
On the immediate and future prospects for
tourism in the Tumbler Ridge area, a date,
April 26, was set for a tourism meeting.
This is open to all interested people and
will be held at the Rec. Centre at 8:00
p.m.

A letter was read regarding T.R. hosting
the 1986 B.C. Northern Winter Games. It
was decided more information and study was
needed before a decision can be made.

There will be a summer recreation program
for children.

Because of the great influx of unemployed
people looking for jobs in the TR area, it
was decided a temporary Manpower Centre is
needed.

Mark Stock spoke on the swimming pool
challenge he has issued. It was decided a
Swimming Pool Society should be formed to
handle the monies raised. A meeting will
be held at the Rec. Centre on May 3rd at
8:00 p.m.

The housing problems were discussed at
length. To handle the families of cons-
truction workers, Quadra Camp is expanding
its R.V. sites. The municipality is
building a temporary R.V. Site. This
should provide 250 R.V. sites with sewer
and water hookups.

Lot sizes are 40'-65', frontages - 120'
deep. Phase 4A lots will be smaller, but
phases 5 and 8 will have larger lots.

Quintette Coal is considering building
some two and three bedroomed townhouses
which will sell for $50-55,000. Some will
be available to the service sector.

Co-op housing is still an alternative.
There will be an educational meeting with
a Co-op representative at Tumbler Ridge
school, Wednesday, April 20 at 8:00 p.m.

Robert Todd has been appointed manager of
the Municipal Trailer Court. All applic-
ations for space must be made to him.

The mining companies are subsidizing
apartment rental approximately $300 per
month.

An RCMP corporal has been appointed to TR.
He will reside here as soon as accommoda-
tion can be provided.

Please note there will be a TOWN MEETING
May 18 at the Rec. Centre. Pat Walsh has
called this meeting so he can hear the
concerns of the citizens of Tumbler Ridge.
A date has not been set for the next
Community Committee Meeting.

J. Anderson

.was that it
“because the liquor store isn't a place to

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I LOVE TO SWIM

I love to swim. When I was three years
old I started swimming lessons and I ended
when I was 7. I went to Hawaii last year
and I had so much fun swimming in the
ocean that now I want to have a swimming
pool so we can swim all the time.

All people who like swimming come to the
Swimming Pool Meeting at 8:00 p.m. May
3rd at the Rec. Centre.

Derek Stock

TUMBLER RIDGE CHALLENGE
SWIMMING POOL FUND

The Tumbler Times donation from Edition #6
is $17.50. At the Swimming Pool Meeting
on May 3, plans will be made for how the
money will be looked after. That's the
Swimming pool donations that will hope-
fully be coming in from business making
money from the North East Coal Project.
Mark Stock

Relief parents required to provide
overnight care in their own home fo
five year old girl for the next 3
months to six months.

Please contact Terry Porter,
District Supervisor, Ministry of
Human Resources, Tumbler Ridge

(telephone: 242-4246 or 782-5931
local 278) for further information.

TR'S RCMP

On Thursday the 13th I interviewed Mr. Jim
Tysowski, he is the RCMP corporal and his
partner, Kevin Henderson, the constable,
at the TR RCMP Station. The hours they
work are four 12-hour shifts and the other
12 hours they are on call. You can con-
tact the RCMP at 242-5252 or through the
Dawson Creek RCMP at 782-5211.

I asked Corporal Tysowski if they were
planning on setting up a Block Parent
Program. His answer was not at the moment
but they will be setting one up as soon as
there are a few more permanent residents
staying here in houses because right now,
the houses children walk by are empty.
They will try to have it set up by early
fall. The RCMP officers will not’ be
bringing their families up here because
they will just be up here until the middle
of summer and that's when a few permanent
officers will be coming out here to live.
I asked Cpl. Tysowski if he thought it
was safe to have the liquor store next to
the school and grocery store. His answer
shouldn't be any problem

drink. All the people do is go in to buy
the booze and leave.

What Cpl. Typowski likes about Tumbler
Ridge is all the hustle and bustle. Most
of the people are working and they try to
help each other, also it's always chang-
ing.

Mark Stock

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