AB - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, June 28, 2000 Terrace’s RCMP highway patrol prepares for another busy year (frorn left: Cnst. Warren McBeath, Cnst. Eric Vachon, Cnst. Daryl Ralnkie, Cpl. Larry Burke) Police take to the air to nab area speeders DANGEROUS drivers be warned. The Terrace RCMP highway patrol will be everywhere this summer. The RCMP started their enhanced cor- ridor enforcement program on June 11 in an atlempt lo stop excessive speeding on highway 16 this summer. Every year, the highway patroi unit heads to known speeding corridors with laser radar to pull over speeders and ag- gressive drivers near Terrace and Kitimat. That’s in addition to the RCMP air- craft enforcement program, where officers book an airplane to monitor traffic be- tween a set of painted white lines on the highway and communicate with an officer on the road to ticket speeders. scheduled on clear long weekends on highway 16 east near Shames Mountain and highway 16 west at Gossen Creek and Big Oliver Creek. Drivers planning on staying around town for the summer should be aware that the program is also targeting municipal traffic for the first time. “Driving complaints about people not obeying traffic signs, cutting people off and not signalling make up a large share of what we do,” said Cnst. Warren Mc- Beath of the highway patrol unit. The corridor program is paid for by the RCMP, which dedicates a number of offi- cer hours each summer to traffic enforce- ment and ICBC, which pays for the same Decision day soon on treaty challenge A DECISION is expected any day now in the B.C. Liberal party constitutional court challenge of the Nisga’a treaty, Arguments in the case wrapped up May 29 with each side presenting writ- ten arguments. Judgment has been re- served and B.C. Supreme Court Justice L. Paul Wil- liamson is expected .to hand. down. a..decision soon. B.C. Liberal leader Gor- don Campbell and two members of his shadow cabinet have filed the challenge. It argues that the self- government provisions in the Nisga’a treaty amount to a third order of govern- ment and is therefore un- constitutional. They have also put for- ward concerns about vo- ting rights for non-natives in the Nass valley potenti- ally affected by the treaty and the new government, It’s the first in a number of court cases and chal- lenges poised to take on the treaty. Whatever the outcome, it’s quite possible the Lib- eral challenge will be ap- pealed to higher courts, pushing back a final reso- lution much farther. The federal, provincial and Nisga’a governments are named as defendants in the case, The treaty was passed a This summer, aircraft enforcement is number of overtime hours . year ago by the B.C. legis- Court goes in the bush for tree trial A TERRACE judge took a walk in the woods last week during the trial of a local man charged with dama- ging and removing culturally mod- ified trees. George Charles Halpert was charged last summer under the Her- itage Conservation Act — the first case of its kind in B.C. Halpert, Judge Edmond De Walle, Crown prosecutor: ‘Christirié: Birnie, and defence lawyer. David -Mardiros all went to the site of the modified lrees last Wednesday on the slopes of Kitsumkalum Mountain for what, in legal terms, is called “taking a view.” The request to view the site was put forward by the defence. “It was for the judge’s benefit — so he could see what a culturally mod- ified tree is,” said Mardiros, Under the Heritage Conservation Act a tree must have been modified by First Natians prior to 1846 to be “Classed ‘ as culturally modified. According to Morley Eldridge of Millennia Research, a Victoria ar- chaeological research firm, the stan- dard types of modification include bark peeling, test holes, as welt as partially or fully chopped trees and stumps. Eldridge was on the stand earlier in the day, giving expert testimony. 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