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SARAH A. ZIMMERMAN ._

TERRACE CONSERVA-
TION. officers had the
unpleasant task of putting

down a baby black bear . va

Nov. 3.

The cub had been hang-
ing around the Tempo gas
station at Kitsumkalum vil-
lage for the past two weeks.
and had apparently even
been hand-fed food by hu-
mans, Says conservation of-
ficer Darryl Struthers.

“Unfortunately, at that
stage, once the bear has been
conditioned for human food
it’s no longer a candidate
to go to a rehab shelter,”
Struthers says, adding bears

Suitable for a rehab facility

must be natural bears and
not habituated to humans.

_ The tiny black bear was
foraging for food at the side
of the road when the conser-
vation officers were: called
to the Tempo around 4:45

p.m. Nov. 3.
Area residents _ told
Struthers: the bear cub’s

mother had been shot two’

weeks previously and since”

then had been scavenging
for food.

“We have no idea who:
shot, the bear so we don’t
even know if they knew
it was a sow with a cub,”
Struthers says, _

"“Tt’s another example of
a bear coming into the Ter-"
race area where garbage and ©
other food type attractants
which led to its demise,”
he says. “The community is
located along natural travel
corridors for bear and peo-
ple have to be responsible
with their garbage and other
attractants.”

He noted residents and

-businesses alike have a re-

sponsibility not to leave out
garbage, food, animal food
or fallen fruit — all items
which attract bears.

The large garbage dump- —
ster behind the Tempo, he
noted, was not locked, mak-
ing it an easy food target for
say bears.

piers
.

killed

THIS BLACK bear cub \ was shot by conservation officers last week. Its mother had been killed two weeks prior
and officials received reports it had been hand fed by humans. ,

BIRGITTE BARTLETT PHOTO

The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, November 8, 2006 - A3

News In Brief

"a cash reward,

~ should be raised to $10-.

: ficials.

_ "Struthers says the cost
of relocating a bear is about

$5,000 to’ $6,000 for man-
power,- tranquilizer. drugs,
an ear tag and the use of a

required for relocations to
ensure the bear: is: moved.to
an area where it won't come
into conflict with other bears
and has adequate food sourc-

occur if the bear is not ha-

bituated to eating human

. garbage or food and i is not a

public safety risk.
Money is not an issue
when it comes to telocating

' One Kermode was relo-

cated this year and one black

bear was relocated last year.

Thirteen cubs . were re-_
leased from the rehab facility.

last year and four have been

Many windows broken

VANDALS cost local businesses several thousands of
dollars on Hallowe’en night.

Terrace RCMP are looking for the person; or per-
sons, responsible for broken windows at Mark’s Work
Wearhouse on Lakelse Ave., Staples Business Depot:
on Greig Ave., ICBC on Keith Ave. and The Bear’s
Den on Lakelse Ave after 12:30 a.m. Nov. 1.

Employees at the’Real Canadian Wholesale Club
reported hearing someone break. the front window at
around 1:30 .m. but did not see anyone leave the area.

Police believe the same people are responsible for
this vandalism spree and say the total damage will like-
ly exceed $10,000.

Although schools are often a target for Hallowe’ en
vandalism, there were no reports’ ‘of vandalism at any
local schools..

Anyone with information on this crime or-any other
crimes is asked to call Terrace RCMP at 638-7400 or >
to leave an anonymous lip with Crime Stoppers at 635:
8477, —

Ifa tip leads to a conviction, the e tipster can receive

Higher wage urged

B. C. MINIMUM

wage

an hour, says one of the
province’s top union of-

Jim Sinclair, the presi-.
dent of the B.C. Federa-
tion of Labour, . says the:
raise is needed to “keep.
people above the poverty
line. .

He also says, the $6 an

helicopter.

A helicopter is usually Bear

-.A LARGE survey is underway here to

ask people how safe they feel, whether
they’ ve been victims of crime and what
kind of job the local RCMP detachment

‘is doing. .
RCMP detachment commander In-

spector Dave Fenson describes it,as a
tool to gauge public opinion on how
the police force does its job and where
it might focus resources.

“I’m hoping as many people as pos- ;

‘sible take the time to fill out the survey.

so.we can get the most information we
can,” he said.

The survey is being conducted by
criminologists at the University Col-'
lege of the Fraser Valley and ‘is one of
a number going on throughout B.C.

The 1,200 local residents who re-

es and suitable habitat.

relocations vonly bears, he Says.

ceived the survey were asked if they

feel safer now compared to five years

ago and if they feel safe in'their homes
compared to being out and about.
It also asks people; if they have been

victims of crime, to rate their contact |
‘with RCMP officers.

Just as vital, said Fenson, is getting
the public’s opinion on what the RCMP
should concentrate on when it comes to
either preventing or dealing with vari-

_Ous types of crime.

“Knowing that information is pretty

Important to us,” he said.

One survey section asks residents
for their crime- -stopping priority, prefer-
ence on everything from litter to graf-
fiti to drinking in public to using and
selling drugs.

released so far this year.

Public survey underway here

Terrace is thé smallest of eight com-
munities in B.C.-to be surveyed, says
criminologist Dr. Darryl Plecas of the

University College of the Fraser Val-

ley.
As of late last week, researchers esti-

mated they were going to get back more ”

than.400 of the 1,200 surveys sent out’ to

‘local residents, he said.

“Anything over’the “400 level would
be exciting and more than 500 would be

great,” he said of the ability of research-.

ers to accumulate solid information.

Although the RCMP is financing the:

postal and other costs associated with

~sending the survey and tabulating the
results, it didn’t have an influence over’

how the questions were drafted, Plecas
said.

hour ‘training: wage also
makes no sense.

“The provincial - gov-
ernment likes to crow
about a booming econo-
my, but it’s only booming
for a few,” Sinclair said last week. “B.C s lowest paid
workers have been left behind.”

Jim Sinclair

0

’ Union stats indicate that at $10 an hour, a person (J

working full time would earn $17,494 after income tax

: and deductions, just enough to keep above, the poverty

line. ue ;

Phones disrupted
AN EQUIPMENT failure at the Telus switching 0 office:

in Stewart temporarily cut off phone service in n the com:

munity Nov. 1.
.Two technicians were dispatched from Terrace, one :
on a helicopter and one by truck, to- repair: the problem,
. Says Telus official Shawn Hall. :
Service went out at 10:30 a.m, and the problem was °
fixed at 3:15 p.m., he said. Hall said one person was
sent by truck to pick up the one sent on the helicopter

because declining light meant the helicopter.had to re- ~
-turn to Terrace.as soon as it delivered the technician. ==

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