act throws animal on top of car

Driver pinned by moose =

By CHRISTIANA
WIENS
TERRACE RCMP say a
local man’ is lucky to be
alive after -a-moose landed
on lop of his car after hit-

ting it Oct, 28;

_, The moose’s legs were
knocked out from under it
and it was thrown up into
the air before falling on
the front windshield and
top of the car."

The 32-year-old driver
was pinned by the moose
carcass and had to be
‘freed by RCMP,

» He escaped with a bro-
ken jaw and‘ facial lacera-
tions, said Terrace RCMP
Constable. Warren Mc-
Beath:

The car was tolalled,

“He’s very lucky,” Me-
Beath-said of the driver.

~The accident happened
as the man was driving
south on Hwy37 toward
Kitimat around ? a.m. Oct.
28:
“When he got to the hat-
Springs he passed’ a log-

ging truck and didn’t see
the . two-year-old’ moose .

until it was too late.

’. The moose = or salva-
geable parts of it - was
donaled.to needy families
in the area. -

~ RCMP are warning dri-
vers not.to overshoot. their
headlights and to. drive
slow enough so they can
stop within the viewing
distance of their head-
lights.

McBeath added that
Hwy37 south to Lakelse
Lake and the Nisga’a Hwy
north to New Ajiyansh are
common places to run into
a moose.

“Slow down, especially
in the early morning and
evening hours,” said Mc-
Beath. “It’s that time of
year when wildlife comes
down from the mountains

CRASH LANDING: This two-year-old moose was hit

_and killed near the Mount Layton Hotsprings early

Thursday, Oct. 28. Miraculously, the Terrace driver

The Terrace Standard, Wednesday November 3, 1999 - A3

News In Brief

escaped with only a broken jaw and cuts to his face.

because of snow.”

Local conservation of-
fice records “show three
moose hit and killed. on
Hwy37 south this month; a

‘bull moose on airport hill

Oct. 18, another near Wil-
liam’s Creek Oct. 25, and
last Thursday’s fatality at
Mount Layton Hotsprings.

One moose was repor-
ted dead near the airport
July 31 and three more
kills were reported on
Hwy 37 south in August
and Seplember.

Slatistics show moose -

collisions near Terrace
drop in April and begin to
escalate in October.

Bear kills German angler

A GERMAN TOURIST
killed by a black bear north-
east of Dease Lake in early
October was a victim of a
random and isolated incid-
ent, say conservalion offic-
ers.

Helmut Rudolf Weiland,
71, was staying alone at a
remote trapper’s cabin when
he was mauled to death by
the 200-pound black bear.

An angler, Weiland had
been in the area for about
six weeks. A visiting friend
discovered his body Oct. 7.

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The autopsy revealed
Weiland died of his wounds
up to 48 hours before he
was found.

Conservation officer
Gordon Hitchcock flew into
the scene, recovered the
body and did an acrial search
for bears before it got dark.

He set traps Oct. 8 and
snared an adult male black
bear not 20 meters from the
mauling site.

The bear was shot and its
carcass was taken to Dease
Lake to determine whether

the bear was involved in the
mauling. DNA testing .on
hair and saliva found in
Weiland’s wounds will
prove the right bear was
caught.

Hitchcock said timing
and location also indicate
the bear wis involved.

Peter Kalina, a Smithers
senior conservation officer,
said where fatalities ure con-
cerned, the offending bear
has to be caught and de-
stroyed.

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Liberals.com

FEDERAL LIBERALS in the Skeena riding now
have their own website.

I's wimeskeenaliberals.com and is one way of
keeping in (ouch with people over a very large terri-
tory, says Skeena Liberal constituency association
president Ray Jones,

“We must work extra hard to include all.¢ communi-
ties in our discussions about issues and-in our
policies,” added past president Rhoda Witherly.

Also on the site fs demographic and other informa-
jion about the Skeena riding.

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Cards coming ‘*

Elections B.C, the Provincial agency in-charge of
provincial elections, is mailing voter registration
confirmation cards to all those who have registered to
vole, have confirmed or who have updated their regis-
tration within the past [8 months.

All told, 1:3 million cards are being mailed, says
Chief Electoral Officer Bob Paterson.

Those qualified volers who don’t receive a card by
the middle of this month should call Elections B.C.
at 1-800-661-8683. To be eligible to vote, you have
to be 18 years of age or older, bea Canadian citizen
and have lived in B.C. for six months,

Wanted: nurses

THE PROVINCIAL government is being asked to
finance a office that’ll look into why there is a-nurs-
ing shortage and what to do about it.

The recommendation was one of several released
last week by nurses and employers.

They also want the provitice to add more, nursing
seats to post secondary institutions. .

The province has said-it will will 1,000 nurses us-
ing $50 million Ta date, $20-million has been spent,
$30,000 of which came to the: Terrace Area Health
Council.

In the meantime, nurses have started ; a campaign to
cul back on non-nursing duties,

“At atime of a serious nursing shortage, it is com-
pletely unacceptable for nurses to be required to spend
excessive amounts of time photocopying, faux, answer
phones, cleaning equipment, delivering meal trays and
other duties that could easily be done by support staff,
says B.C. Nurses’ Union president Cathy Ferguson.

Money approved

THE NORTHWEST Regional Hospital District,
which raises moncy through taxes for health care
spending, has giver given its approval for the money
to replace Kitimal’s aging hospital.

The new facility will feature 22 acute care beds, 36
multi-level care beds, a community health centre, an
emergency ward, one operating room and a trauma
treatment room which can be converted to use as an
operating room.

Total cost is $38.3 million, 70 per cent of which
comes from the provincial government and 30 per

cent from the hospital district.

The main floor MUST be cleared

WALL TO WALL

Any sensible offer will not be refused

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