News In Brief Workers vote to strike MEMBERS of the Telecommunications Workers Union (TW) have voted 84.5 per cent in favour of striking, if necessary, lo sepotiate a revised col- lective agreement with Telus. When Telus began ils restructuring plan there were 62 Telus employees in Terrace who were members of the TWU. The TWU represents 17,000 Telus workers in B.C. and Alberta. The strike vote was held at meetings from Oct. 26-Nowi.13. 0.2222 fo Buyout offers were made to 11,000 company employees, or roughly 40 per cent of Telus” tota! work force. The TWU says the wark force reduc- tion is leading to major culs to the quality of ser- vice for Telus customers. The union also accuses Telus management of mismanagement and bad investments which lead to the thousands of jobs lost.’ Airport aims to increase its security THE TERRACE airport has been named as one of 89 across the country that must install more advanced se- curity systems by next September. What kind of system goes in here will depend on the findings of a team of consultants now studying this air- port’s requirements, says airport manager Rick Reed. The airport already has an explosive detection system in place for carry-on baggage here. Reed says {t consists of an X-ray machine plus an ion detector that can sniff out explosive substances. Suspicious or unknown substances can be passed by the ion detector. The next phase, Reed says, will be a security system for checked baggage, “ft could involve anything from a hand search of alt checked bags to a sophisticated X-ray. device with ex- plosive detection equipment,” he said. Consultants are studying passenger numbers here and how much baggage they carry to determine what sort of system is justified here. ‘ The new measures are being overseen by the Cana- dian Air Transport Security Authority - a new Crown corporation in charge of security at designated airports. CATSA is also to pay costs of all work from the con- sulting to any new construction that may be required at the airport, Reed said. The security agency’s work is being financed by the new $24 air travel security fee now in place on round- trip flights. Reed said a plan is to be presented to CATSA for the extra security system here by the end of the year. CATSA has also put out to tender contracts to provide passenger screening at various airports, including Ter- race, by Dec. 31, Airports in Prince Rupert, Smithers and Sandspit are also to get CATSA security improvements. Trustee bows out THE FACT she did not rin for re-election says it all, outgoing Terrace school trustee Marj Brown told colleagues at her last board meeting Nov. 6. She’s served two consecutive terms on the Coast Mountains school board. “I would say two rough terms, might 1 say that?” acting chair Peter King queried. “I'm not running again,” Brown replied. “I guess that says it.” King then presented her with a wrapped gift from the board thanking her for her service. “My reaction to this gift is, ‘I hope it didn’t cost much!’” Brown said, alluding to the millions of dollars in cuts coming in the next while. Brown served on the board during some turbulent times. She was first elected following the pro- vince’s decision to amalgamate the Kitimat and Terrace school districts. She was also on the board when the district cul the elementary school band program and when the district underwent an efficiency review. And !ast spring, the district was forced to close five schools and delay opening a sixth, brand-new elementary school in Terrace. EATER ERAS HIGH-TECH SNIFFER: A trace explosive detection unit at the airport can sense the possible presence of explosives, Air Canada Jazz customer service agent Lorna Taft operates the equipment by passing a wand over carry-on baggage. Convicted of manslaughter By SARAH A. ZIMMERMAN ROSSWOOD prospector Paul Wadsworth is free from jail afler being found guilty of man- slaughter in the shooting death of Alberta man Don Pears. Wadsworth was originally charged with second degree murder and his trial wrapped up in B.C. Supreme Court in Vancouver Nov. 12. Mr. Justice Randall Wong found Wadsworth guilty of a lesser charge of manslaughter and sentenced him to time served in jail, two years probation and ordered Wadsworth to provide a DNA sample for the national registry. Wadsworth had been in jail for three years and six weeks by the trial’s end. : He was given double credit, for, his, time, served adding up to six years three months. Wadsworth was also given a 10-year fire- arms ban. However a special provision may allow him to apply for a firearm if it is deemed necessary in his work as a prospector, said Crown prose- cutor Grant Lindsey. Wadsworth was accused of shooting Pears and then burning the man’s remains at a small mushroom picking camp at Ritchie’s landing, 60 km east of Terrace Sept. 28, 1999. It was the end to a iengthy trial which began here in June, was adjourned, and re- sumed in Vancouver Nov. 4. Pears’ wife, Kalhy, testified June 20 to see- ing Wadsworth fire shots towards her husband the day he died. She said Wadsworth fired one shot at her husband followed by. two more. , “I started screaming and.yelled ‘you shot ., him,’”.she said. “He pushed me away and went around the table where Don’s head would be and he shot him twice more,” she testified. But Supreme Court Justice Randall Wong was not convinced Wadsworth intended to kill Pears, said Lindsey. “The judge accepted Kathy Pears’ evidence except he was not convinced beyond a reason- able doubt about Wadsworth firing those last two shols,” said Lindsey. Kathy Pears testified she did not see the last two shots hit her husband because her , view was obscured by a table. Mr. Justice Wong determined Wadsworth did not aim the gun with the intent to kill, ra- ther, he handled it recklessly, Lindsey said. He added Wadsworth’s defence lawyer ‘Peter Leask argued Wadsworth: was acting in woman at the camp when he shol Pears. ’ Pears and his wife had been arguing and got into a physical confrontation just before the defence, of himself, Kathy, Pears. and another \ New name given A TERRACE elementary school that was turned into a permanent home for alternate high school programs is petting a name change. Parkside Ele- mentary School is now known as Parkside School. The decision to move the Teen Learning Centre and Lakelse Junior High to Parkside, a Kindergar- (en to Grade 4 school that was closed due to bud- get cuts last spring, was controversial among par- ents and neighbourhood residents. School trustee Diana Penner said alternate stu- dents also expressed a desire to rename the school “to honour their historical legacy, ] suppose,” She added she thinks the schcol’s newest stu- . dents will approve of thé ‘few! name Parksidd “SCHOOL. pre pe boty tg niet eds The school is also home to a brand-new outreach program using computers and aimed at students under 19 who weren’t going to school. nf shooting, court heard. 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