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“CITY COUNCILLOR Rick

“King and his 12-year-old son

Paul were killed in a tragic car
accident on Hwylé West. King
was-a union president and a
mitor hockey organizer.
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. THE PINE MUSHROOM Task
Force began investi galing ways to
monitor and control the pine
mushroom industry.

‘The main goal is to prevent
destruction of the resource. The
task force is to have ifs recom-
mendations ready for cabinet by

_ spring.

Options under considgration

_fange from providing education

and. information to developing

regulations controlling the trade

and coliccting licensing fees.
‘Local mushroom picker Allan

“Grier responded by starting to

organize an advisory commilice

. Of pickers and buyers to give the

task force their side of the story.
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_GITKSAN AND Wet’suwet'en
hereditary chiefs have appealed
their land claim court case to the
Supreme Court of Canada.
. The B.C, Court of Appeal lasi
June overtumed parts of Justice
Allan McEachem’s earlier ruling
in the Delgaam Unkw case.
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’ HEALTH MINISTRY officials
asked northwest hospitals to try
to reach a consensus on where the
orthopedic surgeon
should be located.

They warned Victoria will
make the decision, probably by
year’s end, if the areas involved
are unable to do so.

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COLLEGE INSTRUCTORS
fearful of erosion of college jobs
to UNBC called on Victoria to
meet with them.

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RETIRED SKEENA MP Jim

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Institute,

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Fulton is living in Victoria and
commuting (0 work in Van-
couver.

The institute is. developing a
five year plan for B.C. to become
economically and’ ecologically
sustainable.

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THE FOOD BANK was
swamped when nearly 700 people
showed up over four days.

It was more than twice as much
demand as the food bank usually
gets during the November open-
ing.

The cupboards were left nearly
bare by the demand.

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MAYOR JACK TALSTRA
was te-clecied to a fourth term,
narrowly defeating challenger
Lynda Bretfeld.

Talstra received 1,104 votes to
Bretfeld’s 976, Francisco Trigo
received 431 votes.

Councillors elected were Ruth
Eallock, Rich McDaniel, Ed
Graydon, Gordon Hull, Val
George, and David Hull,

School trusices clected were:
Roger LeClete, Stew Christensen,
Laurie Mitchell, Gary Turner, and
John Pousctte,

Peggy Julseth was elected
wgional district director for
Thornhill. Sandy Sandhals was
re-clected as area C director,

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A SEARCH for 28-year-old
Marris Ford, missing since Nov,
21, was called off after a week.
He had been 4xding with
friends west of Lakelse Lake and
became separated from them after
the truck broke down on a remote
creck, .
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THE CITY celebrated the offi-
cial opening of the CT Scanner.
The community — raised
$621,000 to buy the high-tech
medical = scanner for Mills
Memorial’ Hospital, 0

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IT TOOK MORE thant four years, burt Terrace finally raised S6aT, 000 to buy a oT Scanner for Mills Memorial Hospital, That

Thomson checking out the inside of the scanner before they turned on the power and started taking patients in November.

December

PREMIER MIKE Harcourt an-
nounced a series of changes to the
‘Year 2000 program of educa-
tional reforms,

The changes came under fire
from outgoing school trustee
Edna Cooper, who said they un-
dercut the grassroots work done
by many people in the system.

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A LOCAL WOMAN protested
Vicloria’s ew. Forest Practices
Code, calling it: nothing but a
public relations gimmick, and
charging that the forests ministry
is unfair to small business.

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orthopedic surgeon David Kuntz
made a court appearance at his
judicial hearing in Vancouver.

But his case to have his licence
la practice reinsiated was ad-
journed to an as yet undetermined
date in the new year,

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SKEENA MP Mike Scott faced
his first challenge on Parliament
Fill — geiting a recalcitrant NDP

MP to vacate the office to which -

he was assigned,
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THE ANGLICAN Church
returned several Nisga’a artifacts
lo. the Nass Valley. .
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THE LACK OF a northwest
regional coordinator for the Uni-
versity of Northern B.C. sparked
Tenewed calls for the university to
fill that position.

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SCHOOL DISTRICT officials
turned down a puppet show about
AIDS that organizers wanted to
show in local high schools,

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THE TERRACE-KITIMAT air-
port put the final touches on its
terminal expansion.

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PACIFIC REGENERATION
Technologies shut down the
Thornhill nursery.

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THE TERRACE PUBLIC li-
brary is waiting for word on Its
provincial grant, applicalion. . i,
7 “The low. bidder er —r Wayne Wats

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son Construction — agreed to
hold his bid untit Jan. 25, more
than a month and a half beyond
the bid’s original expiry date. _

If the application. is approved

‘and the projeci’s costs can be

reduced further, construction
would begin as soon as possible.
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MENTALLY HANDICAPPED
school district worker Levem
Chinn keeps his job under an
agreement reached between
unionized maintenance worker
and the school board. ,
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‘SEVEN SISTERS VENTURES
Ltd. signed an agreement with
threes chiefs from Gitwangak to
work together on a plan to build'a
multi-million dollar wilderness
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