M@ Driver charged A HEAD-ON collision on Halund Ad. in Thornhill at about 4 p.m. May 9 sent two 16-year-old girls in the westbound car to hospital with minor injuries. RCMP Staff Sgt. John Veldman said the 35-year-old Terrace man driving the eastbound car was arrested and will appear in Ter- race court June 9 on charges of impaired driving and refusing to provide a breath sample. Police turn to hi tech THE TEAM of RCMP officers assigued io a probe of past physi- cal and sexuaj assaults at native residential schools is building up a computerized data base. **There’s so much information, ‘you have to depend upon a com- puter. IVs the only way to go,”’ ‘said Corporal Glenn Magark. ~Magark, one of the lead officers involved with the probe, travels with a personal computer, “I can just plug it in and trans- mil the data. It saves tinie, espe- cially with the amount of in- formation we’re dealing with.” The amount of information, al- ready large, is expected to grow substantially once the probe goes into high gear. Announced late Jast year, the probe is described as the RCMP’s Single largest criminal investiga- lion ever in B.C. Up to 30 officers are involved already in one aspect of the probe or another and that number will grow in the coming months. “So far we've handled 400 - 3500 inquiries from people. Not all are victims (of sexual assauit). It docs given you an idea of the in- terest our there,’’ said Magark. The RCMP announced the in- vestigation last year at the request -of the Nuu-Chah-Nulth Tribal Council on Vancouver Island. Officers will interview those who. attended 13 residential schools. Two of those were in the northwest, Lower Post 1951 and 1975 and at Lejac near Fraser Lake from 1910 to 1976. Both were. operated by the Roman Catholic church, It was once federal government policy to take native children from their families and put them in schools run by churches, In ad- dition to the Roman Catholic church, schools were run by the Anglican and United churches. “The first of these schools opened in 1890 and the last closed in 1983. . Under planning now is how to best set up phone lines across the province: for thase wishing to give information to the RCMP. When that’s done,’ the probe will receive its official start. Magark said an original plan for a province-wide 1-800 system has been replaced by another plan to use already existing victim ser- vice lines. “Crown counsel already has a -1-800 line for victim services, for’ example. It might be better to use that because there are already trained people experienced in the fleld,’’ he said. But what might have to be done, Magark added, is to estab- -Hsh specific lines to cover areas which don’t have victim services, *Tt?s really important from the _ ouiset that we establish the best possible way for people to make connections,’’ sald Magark of discussions on setting up a phone contact sysicm. _ The provincial government has also’ assigned a senior crown counsel to handle prosecutions, The Honourable Glen Clark *.: Mister of Caiploymentiond brvestinent The Honourable Bill Barlee : oon > Minister of Sniall Business, Touristirind Cadre. : BC 21 Community Projects make community visions realities. 21 Building B.C. N on-profit organizations, local for the government bodies and community 21stCentury organizations can apply for small or large capital grants, up to $1 million coverin, up to 1/3 of project costs. _ The next deadline isJuly1,1995. oo, Cote ae For applications and information contact: BC 21 Community Projects Community Grants Branch . 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