Woman died naturally, inquest says A 77-YEAR-OLD woman who died March 26 while po- lice searched her Thornhill home for a marijuana grow op- eration died of natural causes. + That's what the j jury of the first coroner’s inquest bere in 10 years decided Sept, 23. Jurors also recommended that RCMP officers maintain current CPP. certification levels. - Alma Thyra Krumm died of a ruptured blood vessel in her skull and a hardening of the arteries that surrounded her heart. The vessel near her brain ‘could have ruptured at anytime,’ said pathologist Dr. Wayne Donn, adding it was impossible to predict how much longer Krumm would have lived, : And all three police witnesses, Cpl. Anders Udsen, Con- slable Troy Keen and Constable Michael Hacker were asked repeatedly by lawyers for the police and for coroner Paul Monaghan about how loudly and abrasively the Search was conducted. : They said their tone of voice was raised but not Joud énough to be considered yelling. : ‘Things were kept as quiet as possible,’’ said Udsen Who knew about Krumm’s conditions and briefed officers about it before they entered the home. *Udseu said he opened the unlocked front door of the Krumm residence, a mobile home on McNeil, announced his entry and said he had a search warrant. He then asked two people in the dining room to get on the floor. Both people listened, he said, and police didn’t have to force their cooperation, : According to Alma’s son, Sonny, police then threalened to rip the panels off the mobile’s walls if he didn’t show them where his grow equipment was. He admitted to cooperating partly because ‘‘they would have found every- thing anyway” and partly out of concern for the condition - of his mother. : Meanwhile, Constable Keen searched the home for more occupants. He found Alma Krumm sitling on the edge of her bed in a room at the end of the hall. : Alma Krumm, he said, was calm and lucid as he arrested her and asked her if she wanted a lawyer present. Al-na ' Krumm then put on her coat and walked down the hallway- with Keen to the kitchen where she poured herself a cup of coffee and smoked a cigaretle while officers discussed whether to bring her to the detachment for questioning. ‘They decided she could stay home but to record her slatement before they left. She returned to her bedroom. ‘ Keen said Krumm was fine when he temporarily left ber to get his tape recorder but found her asleep on the bed when he retumed, : He shook her lightly, called her name and took her pulse but she didn’t wake up. “‘] know she was breathing alright because she was snoring and her chest was rising and fall- ing,’’ said Keen. : Keen called Udsen when he noticed Krumm’s breath was. slowing. Keen, who took CPR upgrading this January, and Udsen, who underwent CPR upgrading in the fall of 1993, then tried unsuccessfully to resuscilate Krumm until an ambulance arrived 15 minutes later. "The inquest is required by law in all deaths that take place in police custody. Sonny Krumm faces a preliminary hearing in February on criminal charges resulting from the police search, PACE BEE Hale Ramee COUPONS: Stu Muir, Safeway manager, and Dave Reniero, assistant-manager, hold a B.C. Sharing coupon. The coupons can be purchased at the checkout counters of local supermarkets, Money raised goes directly to local food banks. Coupons to help needy as bank opens early - COUPONS BOUGHT at supermarkets in northem B.C, have raised more than $42,000 in products for food banks in the area, says Kim Kettyls, senior manager of market development at ihe agriculture and foods ministry. The B.C. Sharing Coupons, worth $2, can be purchased at local Safeway and Over- waitea check-out counters. They provide a simple way for people here to donate to the city’s two local food banks, The Terrace Churches Food Bank and the Salvation Army’s on-going assistance program. The coupons represent credits which the food banks then spend at participating su- permarkets on any B.C. food products they need, “T know last year the B.C. 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And if there is enough money to buy potatoes, rice and pasta, they will be included as well. Donations to the churches food bank can be made through local churches. The province-wide program, which is the only one of its kind in North America and was introduced last year, has helped food banks across the province buy about $700,000 worth of B.C, food products for food banks this year. Kettlys said the B.C, Sharing Coupon, program is on track to raise $1 million worth of B.C. food products by the end of its first year. aa S65 Cross The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, October 7, 1998 - A3 News In Brief New traffic light THE NEW TRAFFIC light at the intersection of Kalum SL and Park Ave. is to be powered up Oct. 14. Originally the cily bad planned to install lights. at both the Park and Lazelle intersections with Kalum, be- cause of heavy traffic congestion in both spots. That plan changed to a light at just Park, says city director of enginecring Stew Christensen. “There's no doubt Lazelle is even worse (han Park, but a light at Lazelle would not have helped Park,”' he said, “We felt this will help both intersections.* He said there will be signs set up alerting drivers to the change at the intersection. The new lights bring to nine the number of intersec- tions within Terrace controlled by traffic ‘lights. There’s 10 if you count the pedestrian-controlled light at Kalum and Scott. Where will the next ones likely come? Christensen says the prime candidates are lights on Eby St. at Lakelse Ave. and Lazelle Ave. intersections. Air quality suffered WHAT HAD been good air quality reports for the past while in Terrace ended in September, The measuring device installed by the environment ministry on top of the access centre on Eby recorded three hours of poor air qualily in September, contribut- ing to only a ‘good’ rating for 77 per cent of the month. The ministry concentrates on the presence of what it calls inhalate particulates in the air. Too many of these can lead to health problems for people already suffer- ing (rom breathing difficultics, Trial delayed LAWYERS for BC Tel asked for a one-month con- tinuance Thursday in a court case that could see the company pay up to $1 milftion in fines, BC Tel faces one charge of introducing waste into the environment after 4,000 litres of diesel fuel that spilled from a repeater station near Meziadin Lake Provincial Park. The next hearing is set for Nav, 3 ina Smithers. Photo radar cuts speeders PHOTO RADAR works, says the latest police moniloring report. The number of speeders at photo radar siles across B.C. is now less than half of what it was in 1996, By March 1998 only 28 per cent of vehicles were speeding at photo radar sites said Inspector Kerry Ben- nington of the Integrated Traffic Camera Unit that op- erates photo radar. 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