- The Terrace Standard, Wednesday. February 5, 1997

More police a possibility

THERE'S A chance of having one more of-
ficcr patrolling northwesiern highways
thanks to a re-organization of the RCMP.

The intent is to collapse the force’s ad-
ininistrative levels and put more officers on
ihe sirecis, says Steve Leach, commanding
officer of the local detachment,

“What's: being talked about is transfer-
ring two positions from Prince Rupert —
one for our highway patrol. and another [or
our communications centre,’’ explained
Leach last week.

The overall plan, for instance, will group

the force’s administrative headquarters for —

the north in Prince George. More authority
will be given to detachments for adminis-
trative tasks that once rested elsewhere.

Adding one officer to the highway patrol
section will increase its strength to five af-
ficers, said Leach,

“The new officer is an accident

reconsimctionist,’’ Leach said.

That's a highly skilled position involving
painstaking work to piece together causes
and effects of accidents.

The addition of a highway patrol officer
has been long-wanted,

‘Over the course of time we’ve been able
to compile Statistics and accident rates and
we've known we could use. another of-
ficer,’’ said Leach.

The highway patrol section’s territory ex-
lends north. to Atlin, west to the Queen
Charlotte Islands and east to Hazelton.

Also under consideration is -adding anoth-
er person. in the regional communications
centre based al the detachment.

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Aside from the above, Leach is anticipal-
ing ‘having two new ‘identification section
officers arrive soon. That three-officer sec-
tion has just one person an duty now.

Steve Leach

Recycling plan in the dumps

come up with other long

A PROPOSED district-wide
recycling program went oul
with the trash now that the
City of Terrace has dropped
out of the program.

Mayor Jack Talstra says
the cily simply can’t afford
it’s share of the $400,000
start-up casts and $200,000
antiual operating costs of the
program.

Regional district manager
of works and services Roger
Tooms says he wasn’t sur-
prised Terrace apted out of

overseeing the solid waste
Management plan, to find
other ways of helping
reduce the amount of waste
that ends up in area land-
fills,

Tooms says Kitimat coun-
cil asked the commitice lo
find ways of maximizing
current recycling - facilities,
work to educate the public
about reducing wasle and

term strategies to deal with
garbage.

Kitimat council suggested
hiring” a recycling coor-
dinator to achieve those
goals,

The death of 2 regional
recycling project for this
year means that the Kitimat-
Stkine district won't meet
provincial requirements to

have a recycling program in
place by 1997.

However, Tooms says it’s
unlikely the environment
ministry will come . after
them.

“They've been hit by cuts
pretty bard themselves,’’ he
points out, ‘Regional recy-
cling will have-to wait for
now. We have some pretty
good reasons,’’

the plan.

‘Recycling costs us
money in the north because
of the vast distances and
sinall populations,’’ he says.
‘Plus, the province has
dropped most of their incen-
tives. Thal makes recycling
a pretty tough sell.”’

The province originally
promised capital cost incen-
lives for things like trucks
and educational material.

“Those are all gone
now,’* says Tooms,

With Terrace aut, the cost
of implementing a recycling
program in the region fell
on the two other partners in
the project — the Kitimat-
Stikine regional district and
Kitimat...

‘Kiliinat“dropped out with
its council saying that while
it supports the idea of a
regional recycling program,
it can't afford the project
without Terrace’s share.

Instead: Kitimat’s council
has asked the committee

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THE DISCOVERY OF two

dead puppies has angered a

local animal control officer.
“That's just cruel,’’ said

Terrace’s Frank Bowsher
afler the two puppies were

found in cardboard boxes
underneath the Kleanza
bridge.

“Adoption is a much bet-
ter option.” ,

Two cross country skiers
came across the boxes while
skiing under the bridge,

Skier Karin Groth
estimates both were a few
months to a year old.

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