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An accident in the early moming hours

of March

5 in front of Terrace city hall moved the

Cenotaph backward more than a meter (the cleared area is where it used to stand). Gabriel
Mann, a 19-year-old Telegraph Creek resident, falled to make the turn at the end of Lakelse
Ave. and struck the stone monument at high speed In his 1981 Datsun. Mann was flown to

hospital In Vancouver, where he js In satisfactory condition.

_Newhawk mine explosion |
no accident, police say

The explosion at the Sulphur-
‘ets gold mine north of Stewart
Feb. 2 that killed two miners and
seriously injured three others is
being investigated as a possible
homicide by the Prince Rupert
subdivision of the RCMP.

Sgt. Wayne Watson, head of

General Investigation Services
for the subdivision, said in an
interview Monday, “We can’t
come up with an accidental
cause, there’s no evidence to

support that.”
' The blast resulted from the

kilograms of explosives in one of
the underground shafis and
killed mine foreman Claude
Weber of Richmond and Cana-
dian Mines Development super-

visor Otte Sawatsky of Win-

nipeg. Mike Anderson, a

20-year-old Terrace resident,

was also underground when the

explosion occurred and is cur- |

rently recovering at home from
multiple bone fractures.
- Watson sald the RCMP are
now regarding the Incident as
one of ‘‘suspicious death’ and

quest. On Monday Watson was
waiting to hear from Stewart
coroner Russell Earl, but he ex-
pects the Inquest to be handled
by a regional coroner, possibly
in Terrace, .

Over the past month police
have interviewed dozens of peo-
ple who were in the vicinity of
the mine at the time of the explo-
sion, and some of those
witnesses have been given
polygraph tests.

' The Sulphurets mine is oper-
ated by Newhawk gold, a divi-

detonation of more than 300. have called for a coroner's in- sion of Northair Miues,.

4 Caledonia war
of exam results

Following the writing of gov-
“ernment exams in January, the

of three B.C. school districts
where students had missed
school time due to labor dis-
putes. They spent a whole morn-
ing on the. Caledonia Senior
Secondary School results, how-
ever, and, ‘“‘found no evidence
that the: January results were
any different than would be
expected.’’

But Caledonia principal Bill
Sturn disagrees with this assess-
ment and has to date had school
staff spend more than 20 hours
tabulating past results in order
to establish the evidence on
which an appeal can be based.

“I am pleased that the school
was above the provincial aver-
age,’’ says Sturn. ‘‘However, J

-| do not agree with the Board of

Examiners’ statement... particu-

| larly onthetopend.”-

. This difference in opinion i
based on how past performance
statistics were used by the Board
of Examiners. Sturn acknowl-

Caledonia mark was above the
provincial average. And based
on the school average, which
places the January, 1989, stu-
dent results. at 12.8 percent
above an 80 percent grade mark
and comparing that to 11.6 per-
cent, which is the average. by
which Caledonia students have

Highway

Ministry of Education Board of ©
Examiners reviewed the results ie

edges the fact that the average

CHARLES BAVERSTOCK:
It’s like a kick In the side,

exceeded that 80 percent mark

over the last four years, the

board’s decision could be
deemed fair. The board could be
led to believe that the January,
1989 results were no different
than ‘‘would be ordinarily ex-
pected’’, ,

According to Sturn, however, |

this is an erroneous conclusion.
He says that of the 329 exams
graded by the government in
January, 1988, 35 were given
marks of 90 percent or better.
That’s 11 percent of the students

continued on page 22

tragedy

takes three lives

Sarah Bevan, a well-known and highly respected member of the
Terrace community, her 16-year-old daughter Kelsey Cootes, and

45-year-old Norman Gill of Terrace, all died in a traffic accident
near Vandeérhoof over the weekend. - c

The Vanderhoof detachment of the RCMP reports that the three
were killed as the result of a two-vehicle collision 26 kilometers-west
of Vanderhoof on Highway 16. The occupants of the other vehicle,
a pickup truck, sustained injuries and remain in hospital.

The accident occurred March 4 at about 2:20 p.m. as the vehicle
carrying Bevan, Cootes and Gill was eastbound and collided head-
on with the truck. Police say road conditions and visibility were

good at the time.

The cause of the accident is under investigation, but RCMP have
ruled out alcohol as a contributing factor.

Index
Business Guide 12
Church Directory 16
Classified Ads 19-22
Gomics”~ - 18 -
Coming Events 14
Crossword 2
Dining Directory 6
Editorial 4
Horoscope 18
Sports 8
Talk of the Town 5
Weather 2

HERITAGE HELP: The city
ls considering funding for
a full time paid director to
run Heritage Park during
the portion of the year
that really counts... page 3.

CITY OF CHOICE: New.
hawk Gold says they're
going to use Terrace as
the main supply base and
Staging area for thelr
Sulphurets mining project
north of Stewart... page 13,

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