Jailed child molester ducks

FINE
scheduled parole hearing DINING
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TWO DAYS before he was from Terrace. other notorious sex olfender Mom's feel spectal at
fo appear before the parole Oatway was known in — Robert Gordon Stevens, SOMEPLACE ELSE
board, Kevin Oatway pulled Terrace as Robert Roland The two are said to have Because they are .
the plug. Willoughby —- a local married each other in prison A dinner like Mors,
The Terrace child musician cventually ex- and Stevens changed his FOR MOM'S!
molester, in jail since 1985, posed as a child molester name to Bobby Oatway. Mother's Day Speciais!
postponed his April 16 who preyed on local chil- Thal name sends chills 12
parole hearing. Is now dren in the 1970s and carly through his victims in the
tentatively scheduled for 1980s. Fraser Valley and has been
October. He was sentenced in 1985 in the news often.

Parole board spokesman

Debora Kihara couldn’t dis--

close why Oatway pulled
out.

She said prisoners up for
parole have the option of
postponing their hearing —
up to the Jast minute — and
many do,

“Sometimes they just
don’! want to go through

to eight years in prison for
sexual assault and gross in-
decency.

Two years later he was
sentenced to life imprison-
ment for having sex with
girls under 14.

Judge Paul Lawrence at
that time cautioned parole
officials to exercise caution
with Willoughby, noting

IN the 1970s,
Kevin Oatway was known
in Terrace as Robert Wil-

BACK

Bobby Onatway was
released from prison in
Toronto after serving two-
thirds of a 10-year sentence
for buggery, bestiality, rape
and gross indecency. Public
outrage, however, forced
him to return to prison.

Victims fear the two could
both be released and end up
together in the same com-

The Terrace Standard, Wednesday,

April 30, 1997 - AS

The secret .

with it at that time,” she psychiatrists had labelled foughby. This picture munity.

said. the fixated — bisexual dates back to that period. —_—- Willoughby became
Observers who had ap- pedophile a ‘‘very high” eligible for full parole in in redient | 5 | :
plied to be present al risk to reoffend. Agassiz, Willoughby 1991. That means he’s now :

Oatway’s hearing included
at least one of bis victims

During his 11 years at
Mountain Institulion near

changed his name to Kevin
Roland Oatway and met an-

entitled to a parole hearing
every year ifhe wants one,

Phone line rates set to double

under new B.C.

By DAYID TAYLOR
TERRACE RESIDENTS will see the line charges on their
telephone bills double over the next three years.

The increases are to come in following approval by the
Canadian Radio and Telecommunications Commission
(CRTC) of B.C. Tel’s plan to change its fee structure.

B.C. Tel customers pay different rates according to
where they live. Right now there are some 11 different rale
groups across the province. Those prices range from
$12.35 to $25.80 per month for a single linc residential
customer.

In Terrace, the current rate is $13.50. But B.C. Tel says
that doesn’t even come close io the actual cost of the ser-
vice.

‘Right now the price we charge in many arcas does not
cover our costs,”’ says Michelle Gagne of B.C. Tel. ‘‘And
there isa wide discrepancy between rates. We are trying to
make it more equitabic.””

Unfortunately, making things equitable is going to cost
Terrace residents,

The rate increase this year will raise the monthly bill to
$15, But over the next three years residents can expect to
see thelr bills double — to between $25 and $30 fora
month of phone service.

That’s in line with what B.C. Tel estimates to be their ac-
tual average monthly cost.

“Tn the past, revenues from long distance subsidized Jo-
cal service,”’ Gagne says. ‘‘But with today’s competition

Tel schedule

The rate increase this year will raise the
monthly bill to $15. But over the next
three years residents can expect to see
their bills double — to between $25 and
$30 for a month of phone service.

that’s not possible.’’

Businesses-in Terrace will also pay more. A single busi-
ness line here right now costs $28.55 per month, With the
CRTC approval, that will rise to $32.80, amd could go as
high as $45 by the year 2000.

Businesses using multiple lines will see an even more
substantial increase, from the current $43.55 to $52.15,
and possibly to $65 over the next three years.

However, at least some people in the northwest will see a
considerable decrease in their phone bills.

That’s because B.C. Tel is also proposing to eliminate
the extra mileage levy currently charged ta customers
living great distances from a telephone exchange.

Those charges affect about 1,000 residents in the
Kitimat-Stikine regional district, including Kitwanga and
Cedarvale, Right now some of those rural residents are

paying up to $50 per month in mileage charges on top of
their regular phone bills.

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