2 ferrave Review —— Wednesday, November 13, 1991

FRIENDS IN NE

& Report from the B.C. Ambulance Servi

With a total of 20 calls for assist-
ance, it has been a relatively quict
week for BCAS paramedics. Three
of those calls were due to a variety
of household and other types of
-accidents, while only one call was
related to injuries caused by a
motor vehicle accident. In that
single accident, however, is a
reminder of driver responsibility
and a holiday season that is not
that far away.

A 45-year-old Terrace woman
has now been released from Mills
Memorial Hospital after being
treated for injuries received in a
two-vehicle accident Saturday
night at the intersection of
Emerson and Lakelse. The cause

of the accident, police say, was

excessive alcohol consumption by
the 35-year-old driver of the car in
which she was a passenger.

According to RCMP Cpl. Garry
Moritz, the accident occurred at
5:40 p.m. on Saturday Nov. 9
when the driver of an eastbound
1982 red Chevrolet pickup stopped
for a red light. The driver of the a
red 1980 Mercury automobile,
however, failed to stop and rear-
ended the pickup. The damage has
been estimated at about $5,000 and
Moritz says the RCMP charged
driver of the car with impaired
driving and driving with a blood
alcohol level exceeding 08. All
those involved in the accident were
residents of Terrace.

Moritz says two other drivers
where charged with impaired driv-
ing earlier Saturday. In the first
instance, a 35-year-old Terrace
man was charged with impaired
driving, driving with a bload alco-
hol level over .08 and failing to
remain at the scene of an accident.

According to Moritz, the man
was attempting to park his vehicle
near the intersection of Kalum
St. and Scott Ave. when he col-
lided with a Dodge Minivan caus-
ing about $300 in damage. The
RCMP were phoned, but when
they arrived the driver was gone.
He was located at Terrace Shell

minutes later, however, at and after
registering over .08 on the breatha-
lyser was charged.

‘A case of mistaken identity in
the in the incident above is little
consolation for a 50-year-old
Hazelton man, While police where
searching for the driver of the
vehicle involved in the motor
vehicle accident, they spotted a
vehicle leaving the area that
matched the description of the one
involved in the hit and run on
Kalum St. — a blue and white
pickup truck.

The officer stopped the vehicle.
Although it turned out to be the
wrong one, the driver was
impaired. Another car was called
in to deal with the motor vehicle
accident while the first officer on
the scene charged the driver he
had stopped with impaired driving
and driving with a blood alcohol
level over .08.

BCAS Transfers in/out of Ter-
race including local, inter-city,
medevacs transfers: 14

Medical Emergencies such as

seizures and shortness of breath:
Two.
’ Trauma such as household acci-
dents, violence or substance abuse:
Three responses, three people
injured. ,

Trauma due to motor vehicle
accidents: One response, one per-
son injured.

Total number of Terrace BCAS |

responses for the week: 20.

BCAS FIRST AID TIP: All
bums should be treated immediate-
ly with water to prevent further
injury and relieve some of the
pain. Following this initial treat-
ment, cover the burn with lightly
secured clean cloth. If the burn

appears serious, the victim should

be taken to hospital the hospital for
examination by a doctor. If you
need assistance, phone the ambu-
lance emergency number 638-
1102.

“FIRE REPORT —

Following a couple of wecks
of relative quiet, the Terrace and
Thornhill fire departments each
had a few fires and a motor
vehicle accident to attend to as

. November began.

The Terrace Fire Department
dispatched their rescue vehicle
to the scene of a motor vehicle

‘accident west of Terrace at

11:58 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 29.
The driver of a white Ford pick-
up truck apparently lost control
of the vehicle on a section of
highway between the Kalum
River and Remo flats. The truck
plunged down a 100-foot em-
bankment and then came to rest
in a shallow section of the
Skeena River. The male driver
of the vehicle was apparently not
injured.

POLICE REPORT

Terrace RCMP are searching
for two individuals who

The Thornhill fire. department
assisted police and BCAS
paramedics when two people
were injured in a head-on colli-
sion between a logging truck and
a small pickup truck. The inci-
dent occurred on the Copper
River logging road about 1.5
kilometres south of Highway 16
Oct. 31 at about 2:30 p.m.

Two people riding in the pick-
up were slightly injured. The
cause of the accident is not
known at this time but a witness
says the logging truck appeared
to slide on a patch of ice on a
narrow section of the road.

The Thornhill Fire Department
was called out at about 1:30 a.m.
Nov. 1 for what was reported as
a chimney fire. When they
arrived, however, they found

much more.

There was a chimncy fire, but
there were ‘also cardboard boxes
of household goods that had
caught fire and been extin-
guished by the home owner
using a blanket.

The Terrace Fire Department
was called out to Mur-Ford
Contracting Ltd. at 11:35 a.m.
Nov. 2 but found things under
control when they arrived. A
welder accidentally ignited a
nearby open container of Varsol
but the container was dragged
from the building and there was
no damage, other than to the
pride of the welder. A fire de-
partment official says the inci-
dent was a reminder of the haz-
ard of using welding equipment
near inflammable liquids.

every year, placed the decals on
21,000 vehicles, of which only

attempted to use two stolen 21 were stolen, A vehicle with
credit cards before driving off the decal is 40 times less likely
without paying for $20 of gaso- to be stolen than one without it,

line. The incident occurred at
about 4 a.m. Tuesday morning at
East End Chevron in Thornhill.

Police are seeking public assist- |
ance to locate the two persons

last seen in the vehicle, a 1982
Camaro or Firebird with gold

wheel mags and a louvred rear :

window.

A new auto theft prevention
program has been adopted by the
Terrace detachment of
RCMP in conjunction with other
B.C. detachments and ICBC.
Called the CAT (Combat Auto
Theft) program, it involves issu-
ing decals to automobile owners
who don’t not commonly drive
their vehicles between the hours
of 1 a.m. and 5 a.m. If a patrol-
ling officer sees a vehicle with
the decal being driven in the
early morning hours the vehicle
will be stopped and checked.

Crime statistics show that most
auto theft occurs during those
hours. A CAT program launched
in New York City, where
115,000 vehicles are stolen

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police say.
Registration forms for the

program are issued by the B.C.
Automobile Association and can
be picked up at the Terrace
RCMP station. The registration
form goes to the BCAA office,
which then issues a decal to the
registrant.

Vehicle Act states:

the owner.

WITH the weather we have experienced, the'thought of winter
being just around the comer can’t escape us, and with snow
comes the necessity to. keep our roads clear. You can help to
make this job easier by parking your vehicle off the streets when
snow clearing is in progress. Section 189(3) of the B.C. Motor

Where a vehicle is standing or parked in a position that causes
it to interfere with the removal of snow from a highway by a per-
son authorized to do so, the person so authorized may move the
vehicle. All costs for removal, care, and storage shall be paid by

In British Columbia IT’S THE LAW.

being used wisely.

ludicrous.

isn’t.

Terrace area since 1974.

| WANT SOME ANSWERS.

Our taxes are an investment. Like any investors,
the taxpayers have a right to expect a return. We look
for progress reports and evidence that our funds are

| have received no reports from the board of
| trustees of School District 88 on its spending or
policies. On the evidence | see in our students, | am
not satisfied with the return on our investment.

The chequebook is an accurate portrayal of a
person's priorities, and in the same way expenditures
are indications of a school district's priorities.

This Is probably the only area in which a locally-
elected school trustee has any measure of control... and
even that is limited by fixed expenses, the School Act
| and other government restrictions. To approve a policy,
initiate a program, then deny the funding for personnel,
training or equipment — as in special education — is

If anything is worth doing, It Is worth doing
well. If it is unproductive, let’s make It history. Let's
determine what's worth supporting — and what

VOTE FOR KEN HANSEN,

SCHOOL TRUSTEE NOV. 16

KEN HANSEN: has worked in logging, the primary
industry of our region, as a logger, mechanic, millwright
and pipe welder. He has paid proper _ taxes in the