A14 - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, October 6, 1999 Erom front Shooting charge motorist who then contac- ted the RCMP. An extensive RCMP manhunt followed, invol- ving first regular members of the Terrace RCMP de- tachment and then two po- lice Emergency Response Teams, one from the-north- west and the other from Prince George. Those officers cordoned off the arca that night until a search could be conduc- ted in safety at’ ‘daybreak yh the next day. When officers discovered Wadsworth’s abandoned ATV at the end of the trai! the next morning and’ his missing Zodiac, they expan- ded their search to a 50 ki- lometre radius of the erime scene, Learned said -the extre- mely dangerous search re- quired was chaltenging and al one point required an apen-water crossing of the Skeena. “We had to move cau- tiously because of ‘his ac- cess to explosives and the knowledge he had a long- barreled shot gun,” said Learned of the search for CIRIVIE | au STOPPERS 635-TIP CONSTABLES Lothar Bretfeld and Bill Casault get ready to fly into the site of the Sept. 28 fatal shooting north of Ritchies Landing. ithe suspect, But on the afternoon of Sept, 29, Wadsworth: con- tacted RCMP negotiators from a friend's home three east of Cedar-. kilometres vale. He surrendered peace- ‘fully at 4 p.m. that day. Wadsworth is in. custody until his next court appear- unce here Oct, 15. Terrace school population stable despite overall dip STUDENT ENROLMENT across the district is down by 132 full time students this September compared to last year. Director of Instruction Andrew Scruton said 7,401 children are currently en- rolled in schools across the district compared to 7,533 students last year. “We knew it was going down,” Scruton said. For that reason, the school board budgeted on 7,345 students enrolling this September. The mini- stry projected a 7,491 stu- dent enrolment. “We built the budget very conservatively,” Scruton said. “The impor- tant thing is we’re above the budget figure” He explained that the dis- trict will have more reve- nue than the budget antici- pated, bul because enrol- ment was up in some schools, additional money was spent adding classes. The greatest increases in STEREO Model RVB-99 JVC PORTABLE * Built In Guitar Amp 52 Watts of Power «Auto-Reverse Cassette *Digital Tuner ¢CD Player KEITH AVE, MALL TERRACE KITIMAT TERRACE 635-5333 632-5000 635-4948 enrolment are at primary schools. An additional tea- cher was hired at Copper Mountain Elementary to get rid of a three-grade split classroom there‘and td alleviate) wait--lists at Thornhill Elementary and. Thornhill Primary. This summer the district. also added a Grade 3 class at E.T. Kenney Primary be- cause of a significant -in- crease in enrolment there. Two halftime kindergar-~ ten teachers were added. to E.T..Kenny and Kiti K'Shan ; Primary. A187 full-time equiva: lent teacher was also hired at Skeena, and two. tea- chers were hired “in Kil- wanga and Hazelton. "Pye added considerable numbers of teachers which. means we muy have got an increase in enrolment; but ! expect, we've spent more than the increase would fenerale,” Scruton said. The district had to re- moved a French immersion CITY CENTRE said: This Week's SKEENA MALL icacher at Cassie Hall be- cause French immersion numbers dropped. when the new francophone education program opened this fail. _A classroom was also re- - moved at’ Alexander Ele- mentary-in Kitimat, due to’a “$0-student ‘drop in enrol- ment. “In Terrace, enrolment i is down by only about 30 stu- dents. compared: .to last “year, but numbers were ex- ‘pected to drop since 36 stu- ‘dents: werecul: from: the” Teen © Learning Centre’s roster. Terrace * also” lost... the: 20 children “who ‘are: currently enrolled” at Jack “Cook, the. French ‘school operated by the: Franca- phone Education Authority. “So. it really isn’t a really loss: of enralment,” Scruton “Ht doesn't represent peopic leaving the Terrace ~ community,” Instead, there’s a stable or slightly enlarged enrol- ment.in Terrace, he said. 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