shaman cna BR AS EEG RR Ee ART RE MEG am te ” Lesislative| Library, Parliament Buildings, - Victoria, BC, V8V 1X4 - Bruneau remanded, ball hearing set — In front of a standing-room- - only crowd in courtroom num- aS three, 29-year-old Terrace “resident: Daniel Joseph Bruneau appeared before Judge P.R. “Lawrence in Terrace provincial ~court yesterday morning.‘and. was remanded in custody to the - Lower Mainland Remand. ‘Cen- ‘tre. to await a bail hearing before “a Supreme Court justice in Van-' _couver on Apr, 28, Bruneau will “again -appear before’ the Supreme Court on May 26 to nave a trial date set. Bruneau .was charged: with ~ second degree murder on. April ~12 in connection with the death Of. Terrace . teenager Crystal. “Council. ponders, ~~-city sales tax - ““TRRRACE- — “It may not come “about,” says. alderman Danny Sheridan, ‘put his Finance, Per-° sonnel and Administration . Committee i is taking a look at an " alternate source of taxation any- way. - be explored. Sheridan says if the’ ‘idea were : to become reality, the city would _ impose sales tax on items such as _ liquor, gasoline and hotel and motel rooms in order to raise money for tourism develop- ment, He pointed out, though, that at the present time. the. Municipal Act doesn’t permit municipalities to levy a tax on . According t to , Mayor Jack Tal- - - stra the idea came out of earlier ~ budget discussions and. should r “guarantee they will be used for . ‘meeting of the Union of B.C. Municipalities. - before we go too far’. He added that some people he’s spoken to - -say there’s no objection, pro- Hogg last November. His: arrest followed a lengthy: investigation. in which RCMP Cpl. Don Woodhouse says 387 tips were’. investigated — some from as far away as Prince Rupert, Van- couver, and even Oshawa, Ont. According to Woodhouse, the RCMP had little to. go on until about three weeks’ ago when they received. a tip. identifying Bruneau, Following: an investi- gation on this new information, Bruneau was stopped and. ar- rested while driving his vehicle.in the Terrace area. Woodhouse says that. RCMP believe that § Hogg died of strangulation and | her: body later left at the airport. gasoline but it is.on the list to. be discussed at the -next At a. joint council/Chamber -of Commierce meeting Monday . night, however, he told local businessmen not to get too ex- cited yet. He promised that the city would “‘try to come up with a good consultative process vided all revenue goes into tourism development, while others suggest that after the tax dollars are collected there is no the tourism function. | _ City says, ‘can do’ cele the. ‘Chamber wants it, | they got it.’’ This is what Mayor “ Jack. Talstra said following -a “discussion, of the downtown - parking situation. during | a joint __ city: council/Chamber of Com- merce meeting Monday night... o What does it. mean? It may not be too. long before you're fined --or your vehicle is towed away if -you’re-in violation of parking ‘bylaws that are being totally i is- fored. _ But. before: this actually hap- pens there will be more talk, and Monday night’s discussion may - give some indication of. what's to comie, The parking problem is Young Authors’ Week: the kids write — page 7 in part the result of a relaxation . of existing bylaws a few years ~ ago in specified - areas. of the downtown. core. City. council’s. thinking at-that time was that by removing the requirement for _members say employees of © downtown business are causing the problem, but. at the same " time they admit that their em- ployees do have to park some-: off-street parking-new develop- ment could: be encouraged. “But what has happened in- ‘stead i isa parkirig problem that’s got: evéryone frustrated. Shop- pers can’t park their cars and that hurts business. Chamber The cenotaph In front of city hall was restored to its proper position by public works crews last week with the aid of a crane. The weighty monument was knocked out of place a few weeks ago when a motorist missed the turn at Eby St. and smashed into it at high speed, knocking It about ameter off its base. Photograph by Ray Tremblay. on parking law enforcement where, walk,” men can’t, solve: the’ -problem " themselves by’ having illegal ve- hicles. towed. “Towing :com- panies won't. do it,” he says, “They don’t want ‘the bad publicity. * . So what’s the solution? Park- ing meters. were. suggested but “no one wants parking mieters”’ says alderman Ruth. Hallock. Chalking tires is another idea atid ‘it works in Prince Rupert’” says alderman. Danny Sheridan, ’ sporting a recently earned ticket. “But seople + won't park and’ says alderman. - Dave. Hull. ‘But: he-adds that business- “Alderman: Darryl Laurent suggests the: private sector should be ‘asked’ for ideas. “There might be an opportunity here for «somebody with paid parking lots,” he says. And finally, alderman Ruth Hallock suggests the city should hire a bylaw enforcement offi- ’ cer, to which Talstra replied the city would be willing to enforce the bylaw and ‘'take the heat” _ from angry motorists for the first few months. But first, the ‘city and the Chamber have to discuss the options. ‘The Chamber of Commerce ‘also’ asked for enforcement of another city bylaw — the No Smoking Bylaw. But. “We don’t intend to enforce that,” ‘says. Talstra, “It’s impossible to en- force.’’ He explains that the No Smoking Bylaw was introduced to help local businesses encour- age smokers to butt out before they enter the building. But the bylaw does have teeth, he adds, and smokers can be prosecuted if there’s a complaint. In the mean time, the city is investigat- ing the possibility of supplying local businesses with No Smok- ing decals complete with the bylaw number to help educate smokers. eg 82g rete ed anne rreg en Nar hi Bate ph me pi Be Be atwhSindktnake It ty ee ks On. a sige Sp “lay Se nen) -Eer ee 28 ae