Page A10 - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, April 21, 1993

Statutory shopping issue continues

Store miffed at RCMP |

TERRACE. — A local store
wanis compensation after the
RCMP mistakenly shut down ils
tackle shop portion Good Friday,

Agar Red and White’s Brian
Patrick said the store lost at least
$5,000 in sales after an RCMP
officer told the store it con-
travened the Holiday Shopping
Regulation Act,

That limits by size and category
the kind of store that can open on
statutory holidays.

Patrick said his store isn’t large
enough to be qualify as one that
must close. —

But he said the RCMP officer
declined to listen to his reasons. -

“He said I would be charged if
[ continued to stay open. In effect
I was charged, juried and fined by
one officer. As far as I’m con-
cemed, my rights were infringed
upon,”’ said Patrick.

. The -sitnation became compli-

Vandals
hit parks

TERRACE — Rowdy vandals,

have destroyed $4,500 worth of
picnic tables and facilities at the
Lakelse Lake picnic sile.

. B.C, Parks area supervisor John

Trewhitt sald the lables, firewood
and garbage conlainers were
burnt and vandalized on the night
of Thursday, April 8.

It’s not a good start for 1993, he.

noted, adding last year’s
vandalism bill at area. provincial
parks was $10,000.

‘We're well on our way to Last
year’s total,’’ he said.

The gates have been opened at
Lakelse - Picnic Site, - Gruchy
Beach, Exchamsiks and Kleanza

Creek provincial parks but those ..
sites are not yet stafied, Trewhitt ;

said.
The gates will remain closed’ at

the Furlong Bay campground,

however, - until - opening : day,
icnlatively set for: May 1. -

. “We've: gota’ fair dollar’ in-
vested in- the facilities - there,”

Trewhitt said, ‘and unsupervised .
access to the public could proba-. -

bly Gause us grief.”
4Tf the vandals can’t be stopped,
ie armed, the. other. parks may
be closed and gated shut until.
May 15 when B.C. Parks staff be-
gin supervising and patrolling the-
provinclal parks.

“If this kind of thing continues,
we're going to have to close the
gates until mid-May,” he. said.

"We don’t want to do that butit
looks like that’s our next option”? ~

- He ‘said’ the parks ministry.
doesn’t. havea large enough
budget ‘to staff the parks all the
time. © ;

The Good Friday incident com-
es nearly a year after a group of
Terrace merchanls representing
large retail outlets and the city-
sponsored tourism and economic
advisory commission asked coun-
cil for a referendum on allowing
large stores to open on statutory
holidays.

Although the shopping act Is a
provincial slatute there are provi-,
sions for municipalities to hold
votes to change the regulations.

The proposal contained two ex-
ceptions, Easter Sunday and
Christmas Day.

Merchants said — Terrace’s
reputation as a regional service
centre was suffering because of
the statutory closures.

There’s been no aclion yel on
that request, Terrace. mayor Jack

Talstra said last week.
In the meantime four large -
stores — Canada Safeway,

Kmart, Overwaitea and Wool-
worth face charges under the act
for being open July. 1 and
Thanksgiving of last year.

They closed this past Good Fri-
day and were also shut Easter
Sunday.

Ironically. it, was Patrick who
went public last year to point out
that the large stores shouldn’t be
open under provisions of the

shopping act.

“The RCMP won't tell who
laid the complaint and I have no
way of finding out, but I’m sure it
was one of them,”’ he said of. the
RCMP visit lo his store.

“The law is there to be en-

: foreed, If we want to change. it

fine, let's change it,’’ Patrick

continued,
cated when Patrick “tried but

failed to get in contact with a
higher ranking RCMP officer.

He then closed the tackle shop
portion of his business and went
fishing in the afternoon.

Patrick returned at 7:30 p.m., to

find a store clerk had taken a

message from the RCMP asking
for the size of his store.

'“T called but the shift had
changed and the new shift officer

didn’t know anything about it,”

he said,

Tt wasn’t until last Tuesday that
Patrick was officially told by the
RCMP that the officer had erred
and an apology given.

‘Staff Sergeant John Veldman
said officers visited Agar Red and
White and other stores that day.

‘It was a misinterpretation of
the act. The officer had good in-

tentions, An apology has been .

given,’” said Veldman.

He said the stores were visited .

SUMMER HOURS

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Monday - Thursday 11am -9pm

“ 1 am -9 pm

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11 am - 10 pm

‘10am-9pm

after a complaint was made,
“We're obliged {o.investigate if - J
there is a complaint, *? added
Veldman.

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