—apri MA CITY BACK- hoe was responsible for sunken graves” and cracked and tilted headstones at the Terrace Munici- pal Cemetery re- cently, The backhoe drove over the graves during the - winter to clear snow. in the reserved sec- tion, city parks and recreation director Steve Scott con- firmed. HCRIMESTOPPERS has set up a phone line at the Terrace RCMP detachment. The program is a partnership between the RCMP and‘a_ community-based Crimestoppers board. MA $1.5 MILLION settlement has been teached to compen- sate the Kitsum- kalum band for land expropriated for construction of the railway and Hwy16. BA SIXTEEN year old youth has pleaded guilty in re- lation to the deaths of Jean Gosselinand - his son, Yvon. Chris Williams pleaded guilty to second degree mur- der and accessory after the fact. HM CRAMER - ST. home-owner Rich- ard Colborne says a letter he received from the city declar-° ~ ing him guilty of having an illegal suite is insulting and degrading. Colborne says he does not have an illegal suite in his home. ° MA PROPERTY tax exemption given The second half of our look back — — from July to: “December of 1995 — will be published in the. Federal and provin- cial. negotiators agreed the band was inadequately © compensated. for the Iand when the - Original route. was established. ™ TERRACE INN employees are back at work after seven days of picketing to protest unpaid back wages and the lack of contributions for pension and medical. - benefits. The hotel’s electricity and heat had been cut off due to unpaid bills. MNEARLY 100 “people turned out to attend a rally oppos- /ing the planned tougher federal gun Testrictions, known .as Bill C-68. Speak- ers from. the major political parties at- tended. @ WINNERS OF the 1995 Terrace . Volunteer of the Year awards were Aileen Frank, Vi Timmerman “and Pamela Straker, The program was spon- sored by Overwaitea Foods and the Ter- race Standard, HA 19-YEAR-OLD . Terrace hunter, Ronnie Richard Elorza, was fined $850 for illegally killing a well-known local Kermodei bear last year. MLESSTHAN 5 PER cent of B,C.’s land base is going to be included in land claims treaties signed with natives, says a provincial government position paper,” BA NATIVE EDU- cation council and School District 88 are in dispute over how the monies al- lotted for native students should be " spent. une— the Skeena Valley - Golf and Country club amounts to nearly $13,000. MA 44-YBAR-OLD Terrace man is being held in custody and denied bail after fac- ing charges of sexual assault with a weapon, forcible confinement, and break-and-enter with. intent to commit an indictable offence. MREPAP IS TURN- ing down sugges- tions from the forest ministry that itneeds permission to take over another north- west forest com- pany. Repap gained’ majority share own-' ership ¢ of Buffalo Forest Products this Spring, which has a licence to log 342,000- metres of wood a year — north Meziadin. ‘BA 16-YEAR-OLD youth charged in last fall’s double murder will be raised to adult court. The youth is charged in the crossbow killing. of Yyon Gosselin ’ and the later stab- bing of Jean Gosselin. Also charged in both kill- ings is 28-year-old George Bliss Hawthorne. THE CITY HAS issued a. three-year contract for its paving : cubic. of CRIMESTOPPERS coordinator RCMP Constable Rose Burpee, above, announced the introduction of the new community-based program in April. CASCADES OF copper poured into the Terrace and District Chamber of Commerce's Penny Power. barrel at its May trades fair. The money went to Ottawa to help pay off the national debt. Pictured here are postmaster Dale Walker and chamber presi- dent Barb Kerr. projects to Terrace paving — the same company that's done the work for. several years — at a lower rate than before. RLOCAL AND tourist traffic is snarled as the 6- week-long recon- struction of the Dudley Little bridges commences. Drivers waited be- tween. 22 and 40 minutes to cross the single-lane route. HMILLS MEMO. — tial hospital and other hospitals across the north face further cutbacks after being held to 0 and 0.5 per cent increases in their] 995-96 grants. Jan. 3, 1996 issue of The Terrace Standard. Year End In Review Brought To You 6 «By These Community — POWER OUT, NO HEAT? Then you need a Natural Gas or Propane freestanding heater or fireplace insert. _ CHOOSE FROM REGENCY, LENNOX, HEAT ‘N’ GLOW OR OSBURN* “FINANCING AVAILABLE OAC ~ Minded Businesses. u MEMBE} s: the ‘Terrace Beauti cation “Society told city councillors it’s- time for CN Rail-to contribute their fair share toward devel- oping along the railway strip through town. MAN ECONO- mist’s study says that taxing mushroom pickers’ would unfairly hurt the industry and the Tegion’s economy. © BTHIEVES HAVE stolen six handmade teddy bears, esti- mated to be worth up to $100 each, from the Terrace Public Li- brary display case. parkland. profits © F...Ml THE ANIMAL. helter facés an in- flux of unwanted kit- tens after 35 cats. were found caged up in a small car, The creatures had been in. the vehicle for at least’ three hours, said ani- mal control officer B@ TAXPAYERS will no longer pay for city councillors to bring spouses with them when” they travel on city business, saving about $2,500 in air fare this year. @.C. Tel wants to jack up local phone rales by more than 40 per cent. It says long dis- tance phone compe- tition has cut profits and that's increased pressure to find additonal revenue sources. HERITAGE PARK Museum faces pos- sible cutbacks in hours and its ability - to offer tours this summer, because the society did not receive a federal government Chal- lenge grant this year. MPOLICE SEIZED two semi-automatic hand-guns from a group of Prince Rupert youths at the Furlong Bay camp- ground. BKEITHAVENUE ~ “merchants say the, expected one-way ~ ‘traffic snarls caused by roadwork on the Dudley bridges. next month will badly hurt their businesses, - Little . HM FOREST SER- VICE firefighters -battled 25 large fires. - along riverbanks at the north end of Lakelse Lake. RCMP investigators say the fires were set deliber- ately. THE TERRACE Inn owes an esti- mated $544,000 to suppliers, employees and government de- partments, according to the receiver. MA DECISION BY the provincial gov- ernment to hold back 20 per cent of the money targeted for native students has prompted local teachers and school board members to visit Victoria. BEDNA AND BOB Cooper have been awarded the Order of British Columbia, the highest provin- cial government award given to citi- zens who’ve made outstanding contrib- utions to the prov- ince and their com- munity. MORENDA OFFI- CIALS announced the death of the,pro- posed $45 million deal with a New York. . syndicate which would have seen some of Orenda’s wood from the Meziadin area Frank Bowsher.. may— feeding a newsprint - mill on Vancouver island. Local politi... cians and Skeena: *: Cellulose officials criticized the deal, saying _ northern: ” wood should stay in” the north, © - NTERRACE WILL. get seven new psy-- chiatric beds under a province-wide plan”. to improve service. outside the lower” mainland. | : BA CITY BUILD-. ing inspector says a number of houses. are being built on the south side of town that don’t con- - form to floodplain | requirements. BSCHOOL BOARD officials in the Nass Valley are refusing to comment on Tumours that they have hired a Surrey administrator who resigned amid alle- gations of sexual ha- rassment. . @ SIGNIFICANT. cuts are predicted for School District 88’s proposed bud- get this year. Teacher’s union president. Cathy Lambright estimates that up to 10 learn- _ing assistant posi- tions could be cut in the Terrace district this year because of budget cuts... - . MOTORISTS: CURSED and work- ers perspired as | work began on the wea redecking of the Dudley Little Bridge in the heat of the summer. Backed- up east and westbound traffic .-| meant delays of up 2)" te 40 minutes for / vehicles to cross the Hwy16 bridge. “Poor people do not stash their money in offshore investments. 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