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The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, August 14, 1996 - A3

= Fish cops

THE BOYS IN green are ott in full force this summer,
on the lookout for poachers and environmental law
breakers. These officers from the Department of
Fisheries and Oceans have already held two road-
blocks this summer, nabbing quite a few folks for
_ overfishing, fishing without a licence and other infrac-
tions. The officers have also caught anglers for not
having thelr licences on them both while they were

fishing, and when transporting fish. The fisheries of-
ficers want to remind anglers that they must have
their licences on them when taking fish home; not just
when they're on the river. DFO officers will be making
regular patrols in the Terrace and Kitimat areas
through the summer. They will also be performing
more random spot-checks and roadblocks in search
of more law-breaking anglers.

Defib units critical to survival

Heart attack victims helped

: FIREFIGHTERS AND ambulance personnel
‘ dealing with people having heart attacks have a
new edge to help them out.

Two aulomated external defibriflation units
are now in use by the Terrace fire department
- and the provincia] ambulance service.
> The fire department’s ane is based with the
~ First Responder vehicle and is designed to be
‘used in rugged circumstances and in all kinds of
‘ conditions. — "

The one based with the ambulancé‘érvice i is
‘mare advanced and is to be used by the ser-
‘vice's paramedics,

The two units cost $13,500 money for which

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service in conjunction with service groups and
businesses,

Placing one of the units with the ambulance
service now means two of its three vehicles will
have one.

Terrace fire chicf Randy Smith says the two
units provide a bridge between manual cardio
pulmonary resuscitation delivered on scene
prior to emergency personnel arriving and treat-

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Survival that are closely interconnected,” said
Smith.

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tivation of the emergency medical system, CPR,
defibrillation and advanced cardiac life support
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Smith said the acquisition of the two units will
become more important as the area’s population
ages and as it becomes more attraclive to people
who retire,

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News tn Brief

Angling licence returned

A FISHING guide is back in business after he success-
fully appealed a fish and wildlife branch decision to
withhold his angling licence.

Stan Sowa of the Bear Paw Resort, south of Dease
Lake, had his licence denied following a conviction
eatlicr this year for guiding in a provincial park without
a permit Sowa, part owner of the resort, has had a
lengthy dispute with provincial parks. officials over
pennitting,

After that conviction, Sowa’s licence was denied, cs-
sentially putting. him and the resort out of the fishing
business.

“Tn this case, because of the convictions we decided
not to issue a licence,’’ said regional fish and wildlife
manager Bob Hooton. ‘‘When there have been trans-
gressions of acts or laws relating to the activities (of
applicants), then we scrutinize the applications pretty
carefully,”

But Sowa, in a three-hour hearing, used client and
personal references to convince wildlife officials his
dispute was with the parks branch and did not stem
from any abuse of the wildlife resource.

Rain record broken

JULY PROVED to be a fairly typical weather month
wilh the exception of a rain record set on July 18, Air-
port weather office figures indicate 26.8mm of rain fell
that day, breaking the previous record of 14.2mm of
tain.

“That 26.8 was just under half of the total 63mm of
rain we received for the entire month,’’ noted weather
official Andy Schmiedel.

All in ali July’s various weather figures came in
about average, despite a beginning of the month which
featured very cool temperatures.

The mean temperature (half of the temperatures were
over this figure and half under) was 16.1 degrees com-
pared to historical norms of 16.2 degrees,

The sunny weather toward the end of the month did
produce 28 per cent more sunshine than normal,

Butt out, eh

ONTARIO SHOULD keep its hands off our softwood
lumber export business to the United States, says
Premier Glen Clark.

Clark’s miffed that Ontario is trying te take some of
the share now allotted to B.C, under a new quota sys-
tem that came into place earlier this year.

And he’s worried that federal Liberal MPs from
Ontario are working on their own government to ac-
complish their goal.

“T therefore ask for your assurance that there will be
uo interference by MPs in this process, and that final
allocations will indeed be based on the history of ship-
merits ,,.,’" wrote Clark in a letter to Prime Minister
Jean Chretien last week.

Skeena NDP MP Mike Scott joined in the criticism of
the campaign by the Ontario Liberal MPs. ‘IF residents
of British Columbia see the federal government, domi-
nated by MPs from Central Canada, once again putting
regional interests and fairness ‘oti’ 'the ‘backbumier! dire
consequences will result,?? he said in a letter to
Chretien.

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