Short-Handed RCMP to Get Help Auxilliaries to Come Clothes," Said Sgt

They're grounded Women targeted Off your behind i . L' Union members affected by an Deadly heart disease is killing Winter is no excuse to avoid airline switch here want an more women than ever establishing and sticking to an injunction\NEWS A:I.5 before\COMMUNITY B1 exercise regime\SPORTS BSC WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 21, 1998 93¢ PLUS 7¢ GST ND__ARD VOL. 11 NO. 28 Short-handed RCMP to get help Auxilliaries to come clothes," said Sgt. Darcy Gollan yesterday. "T'hey voted on that already" said Insp. Doug The Attorney General's office is expected to "They'll act the same as Citizens on Patrol - Wheler in an interview Friday. gather municipal decisions on the attxiliary back for Halloween they'll report, record and observe what's going He added the Terrace detachment is short options from across the province in six to eight on." seven officers who have transferred out of the weeks to make a final decision. By CHRISTIANA WIENS The city made the request while tbrmally detachment. UNARMED, UN-UNIFORMED auxiliary The process is part of Attorney General Ujjal approving an RCMP review panel's option to Gollan said he wasn't sure when new arrivals Dosanjh's report on Auxiliary policing within RCMP officers will be back to work for one arm and unitbrm auxiliaries as long as they .whowill be transferred from across the prov- B.C. released last week. night only on Halloween. were suPervised directly. .............. ince will show up.. , The report also includes an attempt to have Their presence comes at the request of Mayor "This is an important safety issue" said coun..... Some of them are protn0tions and some are municipal governments pay tbr part of any extra Jack Talstra who moved Friday that city council cillorVal George. lateral moves;' he said. auxiliary training needed, said Wheler. ask auxiliaries tbr their help on Halloween with The other option - to have unarmed auxilia-, But the detachment desperately needs officers e re stt I concerned about satety and even the understanding that the city supports their des work in community policing and crime pre- because of a Canada-wide RCMP hiring freeze, more so on Halloween, however we felt this position, vention with varying levels of police supervi- "We're hurting and we're hurting bad," was the best we could do," said Debbie "They've decided to come out in civilian sion-wasn'tfeasible. Wheler told city council Friday. Scarborough, an organizing auxilliary member. Inspector Doug Wheler Two Terrace trustees out budget action School board conflict charge fallout doubles By ALEX HAMILTON "He has no problem with cutting secretarial FORMER SCHOOL board chair Roger positions in Kitimat and Stewart, but he dis- Leclerc and trustee Gary Turner have agreed to agrees with cuts to the board office here," King abstain from current budget related discussions said. in order to avoid risks of real or perceived con- King said he wondered whether Leclerc flict of interest, says newly appointed chair would be able to impartially look at administra- Linda Campbell. tive layoffs at the Terrace board office. The move leaves the Terrace area with just Leclerc said legal counsel assured him that two of its four trustees able to participate in neither he nor Turner had been in a conflict of budget deliberations. interest in the past and the only way they'd be At a bpard meeting..Oct, 7, Kitimat trustee in a conflict in the future is if they voted in Peter King accused Leclerc of being in a con- areas dealing directly witli their spouses'jobs. flict of interest when dealing with administra- To help the board deal with the sevei'ity Of life tive cuts because his wife is an executive secre- budget deficit and to avoid further accusations, tary in the Terrace board office. Continued Page A2 Treaty compensation talks to hit high gear THE PROVINCE is moving to fast-track negotiations to compensate forest com- panies and logging contractors affected by the Nisga'a treaty. ,p Premier Glen Clark named Bruce MeRae, an assistant deputy minister of forests, to negotiate for the province with businesses that will lose timber and work in the Nass Valley under the treaty. "Although the treaty itself has not yet been ratified by the Nisga'a or the federal and provincial governments, I believe it is essential to begin negotiating compensation as soon as possible," Clark said. "I also believe that loggers should not be asked to bear a disproportionate share of the cost of settling this treaty. I have therefore KEN HOULDEN of the Northwest Loggers Associa- asked Mr. McRae to begin tion wants to ensure independent owner-operators discussions in this regard aren't cut out of treaty compensation talks. with the Truck Loggers As- sociation." tion it would recognize truckers survive, he said, but BROKEN ARROW Society member Carl Healy shows some turrets with the rusting twin barrels of 20mm can- Although the Truck Log- compensation beyond major the last one on the list loses nons taken in September from a 48-year-old B-36 bomber crash in the Kispiox mountains. The group has been gers Association (TLA) forest licence holders like all his employment. formed to eventually get the items displayed for the public. represents a number of large Skeena Cellulose. "It has the potential of logging contractors in this "It's certainly encourag- hitting some individual con- area, it doesn't represent ing," Houlden said. "We tractors a lot harder than many smaller outfits and were under the impression others." Bomber relics need a home owner-operators. we were getting absolutely The compensation costs Many of them are nowhere." are to be evenly split be- A NEW SOCIETY is being formed to how the bomber -- with three engines garage," Borutski said. "We want it • represented by the North- A key issue, Houlden tween Ottawa and Victoria. bring a piece of Cold War history out afire -- turned and flew a huge 320- to be on public display. west Loggers Association says, is what happens if The province in the sum- of the wilderness and into public kilometre arc to the northeast before Rather than being in a regular muse- (iXn,VLA), who were un- Skcens Cellulose trims the mer released a range of $18 view. crashing high in the Kispiox um, he said, it should be in an aviation aware of the announcement amount of work all its major to $25 million as its The Broken Arrow Society came to- mountains. setting. until it came out Oct. 14. evergreen contractors get to estimate of what it will take gether Oct. l0 after three gun turrets, The mystery surrounding the crash "We don't want it to be tucked NWLA president Ken evenly distribute the pain of to compensate forest indus- each holding two 20-millimette can- has fascinated aviation buffs for away in some forgotten spot next to a Houlden said his group timber-cutting lost under the try interests affected by the nons, were removed in September decades and in recent years items combine said. or a farm tractor," he wants to be fully involved in treaty. Nisga'a treaty. from the wreckage of an American B- have been pilfered fi'om the old "We want to give it a higher profile The effect could be 36 bomber that crashed in the wreck. the talks and not merely McRae is to begin talks than that." devastating on some inde- mountains north of Kispiox in 1950. have , its members with Skeena Cellulose, the Broken Arrow Society president Bomtski said the group didn't real- represented by the TLA's pendent truck and equip- Because the plane first dropped its company most affected by Barry Borutski, an avionics technician ize the site was protected under the negotiator. ment owners. atomic bomb over Hecate Strait, the the treaty. with Central Mountain Air in province's ~Heritage Conservation Act "It sounds like we'll be Look at what happens, incident has always been classified as Smithers, says the group wants to set when they removed* items from the Any agreement developed directly involved," Houlden Houlden said, when a con- a "broken arrow" the U.S. milita- up permanent displays of the artifacts wreck. with affected logging con- said Saturday after initial tractor normally cutting tractors would form the ry's code word for an accident involv- it removed at the Smithers airport and The cannons and other artifacts were discussions with MoRan, 150,000 cubic metres and basis for discussions with ing nuclear weapons, in Terrace, possibly at White River slung out by a Bell 206 helicopter who could come here as ear- using five independent logging contractors and con- The crew bailed out over Princess Helicopters' base. owned by White River and carried to ly as this week. truckers to haul the wood tractor associations affected Royal Island and set the autopilot to : "We don't want people to think this a contdiner at the company's corn- Previously, hesaid, the faces a 20 per cent cut. take the plane out to sea, but some- stuff is'going to end up in somebody's Continued Page A2 by future trestles in other government gave no indic.a- The four most senior regions, Clark indicated. A2-The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, October 21, 1998 Treaty faces STOP Press court test Liberals, fishermen launch court Mill closes again challenge on constitutional grounds CONTINUING POOR market conditions are again clos- ing down various Skeena Cellulose operations. THE B.C. Liberal party has joined a commercial fishing Its woodlands division began a two-week shutdown Oct, organization in asking the B.C.

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