Sad news for bears A stroll in the park Days of thunder The power is up and even the An unsightly stretch of road is A quadraplegic finds the freedom I wiliest dump bears are now out of much improved with a face to move at the Terrace luck\NEWS PAGE AIO lift\COMMUNITY B1 Speedway\SPORTS B6 WEDNESDAY 93¢ PLUS 7¢ GST JULY 3, 1996 NDARD VOL. 9 NO. $2 Loggers put screws to Repap lly JEFF NAGEL es, ' ' HAZELTON-AREA loggers are crank- "It's bad enough having a one- ing the heat up on Repap as the company Late payment policy linked to Orenda hearings industry town, let alone having just one prepares for public hearings on its pro- The move guarantees the payment Rick Carlo, one of the stump-to-dump three months down the road it can be a operator," Webster added. posed lmrchase of Orenda Forest Pro-- schedule will be a hot issue when the contraclors who signed the petition, says real hardship," Webster said. "You "We feel as contractors in this area ducts. Orenda hearings get underway -- likely Repap's policy of waiting 40 to 45 days have to have a pretty friendly banker to that they're putting alot of mosey out on Virtually every one of Repap's con- later this month, to pay logging contractors is starting to pack you for three or four payments." capital expenditures without looking tractors in the Hazel|on area have signed The meetings will hsppen on two or take its toll. While workers and contractors struggle after the day-to-day stuff." a petition that opposes the transfer of three weekends in Terrace, Hazelton, "It's impacting tim community quite a to meet their payments, Repap continues Carlo sent the petition to forests minis- Orenda's forest liceace until Repap and possibly Stewart, according to bit," he said. "I should be buying new to make more capital expenditures, Carle ter Paul Ramsey on Friday. changes its policy of delaying payments Skeena MLA Helmut Giesbrecht, who is tires attd stuff like that, but I've got to said. He said word that the Northwest Log- to its contractors. one of the northern MLAs who will sit save my money to meet the payroll." "They bought out Buffalo Head, gers Association and Giesbrccht were "We feel that we should not have to on the panel. Road-building contractors are waiting they're in the process of buying out speaking out on the issue prompted the subsidize their expansions any longer Repap wants to buy Omnda and its 90 days, says Dave Webster, of DJ Hobenshields'. Now they're buying out petition target|lag the dreads hearings. through these schedules," says the peti- Meziadin-area lieeaee for up to $25 mil- Trucking, and also mayor of New Orenda," he said. "They're getting "When we heard Terrace was going tion, signed by 29 contracting finns and lion and further secure its northwest tint- Hazel|on. more and more of a nmnopoly but after them we figured it was a golden op- their owners. bet supply. "When you don't get a cheque for they're not changing thek pay schedul- Continued Page A2 Ac,c:used man to take stand By DAVE TAYLOR from the scene to the detachment, where he A LOCAL man accused in the drunken kill- proceeded to interview him. McKay said that ing of a mentally handicapped woman in he did not notice Taylor limp or have trouble Thornhill is expected to testily in his own walking, nor did he notice any signs of defence this week. alcohol. Dwain Elliot Taylor, 28, is charge d with MeKay taped the interview, which was second-degree murder in the beating death of played to the jury. The tape was flawed Gale Annette Morrison on the morning ol~ because it was recorded from a steno's dicta- ....... ~::~...:4;~:: :::: :..i:::::::::::::::::::::::::. April 11, 1993. phone that was not meant for this purpose. .... "'.;.?':.'i.:'.:...' The jury heard police officers testify last McKay said that no other recording device week that Taylor admitted to them that he was available. killed a girl. During the interview, Taylor'says lhat he :.....'.L But police tactics in gaining that evidence, had been at a stag party the night before, and Taylor's degree of drunkenness that night, that he had been drinking. He also says that and the state of the woman he's alleged to they went to the bar Hanky Panky's and the have killed are expected to be critical ele- Terrace Inn. He explains that he got kicked ments of the case. out of Hanky's and laughs. Later, he says, he The killing took place in a recently-cleared went to a party in Thomhill, near the wooded area in Thornhill near the end of Thomhill Pub. Lavina Street. But Taylor says on the tape that he doesn't Several hours after the discovery of the remember when he left that party, or much body, Special Cons|. Tom Urbanowski was afterwards and that he'd been drinking. He guarding the scene. Urbanowski testified that also says that he returned to where the girl Taylor and his brother Michael Rhode- was killed because of "bad feelings". approached him. The day after the interview, MeKay said Urbanowski told the jury that Taylor asked that he talked to Taylor again, this time in his if an Indian girl had been found there, and if cell. she had been hit on the head. Urbanowski McKay said that when he spoke about says he then asked Taylor what he knew. and Taylor's mother, Taylor broke down crying Taylor replied, "1 think I did it," then broke and said, "I don't know why I did it. I've got down into tears. two kids for Crissake. I trick a life." According to Urbanowski, Rhodes asked if Later, McKay said, Taylor's mother came in the girl was OK. and he replied that she was and they both cried. When she asked him in the hospital. why, McKay says that Taylor said, '1 don't Crown prosecutor Mike Fulmer asked if know, it's like a bad dream." He also said that ========================::.::.... Urbanowski had noticed any signs of alcohol he didn't know the girl or even how he met on Taylor and he said that he hadn't. her. Under cross examination by defenee lawyer Laliberte attacked MeKay's testimony dur- : ' ,'.~::. ~ .-i: !: :": :::? .-=:. :%(// :.:. :::::: Terry Lalibene, Urbanowski admitted that he ing cross examination. McKay admitted that had not been looking for signs of alcohol, and throughout his taped interview with Taylor, may not have noticed if there had been any. the defendent repeatedly said that he wanted Cpl. Rob MeKay, the lead police investiga- to speak to a lawyer, yet McKay continued tor in the case, testified that he took Taylor Continued Page B2 ::.i::~ ':' "i~::":iri~- . ................ :.... : : : :!~..~::i ...... ': .~ ....... • . ., ~:'~::i'?~ : ::; q:::.::::i:~:.~!~::4:;=:~:ii~i:;;::~:i:::[f:: !:i':.,!~~~---. ~::."i:: ~-_---~- I •Architect found guilty of ~ " ~°~;.:.... .... ::.:: .......... -~,,,~,~~~;~i~,~ unprofessional conduct CHECK UP: Local mini-blind retailer Joanne Link inspects mini-blinds at local elementa- THE ARCHITECT who caused a costly engineering documents and ultimately take over the job. ry schools to determine whether they need to be replaced. delay iu Terrar'e's library expansion project has been cited for unprofessional conduct. On the Kitimat elementary school and the Alan SouL'Jr will be removed from the Gusto's restaurant project, Soutar filed register of the Architectural Institute of what's called a schedule C, assuring that British Columbia effective July 15. the work is substantially fitgshed and is in The decision of the institute's disciplinary accordance with the plans and permit. Schools chec-k blinds conunittee stems from Soutar's conduct on "He submitted those schedules before three projects: the Terrace library expan- construction even began," Ernest said. IIUNDREDS OF people around Tile blinds, which are made in Bowering said lhe blinds only sion, "construction of Gusto's Restaurant, "When you say that construction is com- Terrace ripped plastic mM blinds off China, Taiwan, Indonesia. Hong present a danger 1o children, since and renovations to Roy Wilcox Elementary plete and you've done all your inspections their windows, I'ollowing a report Kong and Mexico, present a danger adults aren't likely to ingest the dust. School in Kitimat. and construction hasn't even started, from llealth Call.Udii that they pro- because they contain lead. However, pregnant women are The committee found him guilty in each you've got s pretty fundamental gap ~ and seined a danger to children under the When the blinds are exposed to warned to be curcful, slid avoid case of signing engineer's drawings or doe. one that this place did not take kindly to." age or six. sunlight, heat and cold they can activities like cleaning the blinds; umeuts, or giving assurances which he was The Institute said Soutar may apply for When school district oflkials deteriorate; producing a lead dust Stores arc|rod TerraCe Which sell rehmtatement after one year, learned of the warning, they commis- film. the inexpensive blinds stripped them not qualified to give. But he can't work as an architect in the sioned Joanne Link :from Link Ira child licks the blinds, or runs from Iheir Shelves last week, "He's not an engineer,', explained meantime, and he'll have to take extra Window Coverings tii check each Of a finger along them and then licks the Some stores, Such as Klnart, are Michael Ernest, the institute's director of the 30 btnldnlgs in the Ferrace dis- finger, he orshe is ingesting the lead; giving refunds for il~e blind& Other professional services.