Diplomas, certificates.

~~ out to people who use intra-

. “What we are seeing in

. engaging the services of sex. °
‘diseases can be contracted
_ take the appropriate precau- °

" tions to avoid transmission. »

' bodily fluids.

Post Secondary

and degrees earned by a °
number of Terracites |
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Medical’ mission
Medical supplies from
Terrace and Kitimat to”
help the needy i in Africa
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Big time biking

More riders are hitting
mountain trails to have
fun and test themselves.
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$1.00 PLUS.7¢ GST ,
($1.10 plus 8¢ GST ~~
outside of the Terrace area)

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THE ‘NORTHERN “Savings -Credit, Union

“is “expected: to construct: a building here »
" large. enough to handle its: current Terrace «
_ Operations and those: .of. the: Terrace. and: i
“Terrace. and District: Credit Union has. 20

* District Credit Union now ‘that the.two have

" merged.
‘Northern. Savings chief executive officer
‘Mike Tarr said a new building is considered -.
‘a better. option than enlarging ‘that credit -
union’s. current.location or. renovating the —

~ building now containing the. Terrace: and .

: District Credit Union.

“When we looked at the dollar. costs, there ;

was very little difference between the three

options but a new building would be part of -
_ having the employees from both learning to _
nomic downturn caused,: in - ‘Part, by: the

"work together;” he said. ;
He said construction plans would firm up

° Within’ the next year to year and a half. and .

a

HIV rate |
soaring

_ THE ‘NORTHERN “Health - :
- “Authority ‘wants people who
~ Jead ‘a risky. lifestyle to get
tested for HIV following. a.
rise in the local infection 7
‘rate. .
Two new cases were dis-
covered within a single week |
_,this month,~.twice. th
“ly “average of cases
discovered, says Dr. David ©
Bowering, the authority’s -+
chief medical officer.  °
‘Between 1995 and 2005.
only one new case of HIV :
infection; - which causes. ”
AIDS, was recorded in
Terrace each year. That’s .
compared to roughly 100: °
cases reported in the Prince ;
George area over that same
10 year period. ©
The call for testing went

~ venous ‘needle drugs, meet
.with ‘prostitues or who have _
~ had unproteted sex.

fhe north kind of parallels”
what we were seeing in the
downtown east side in the
1990s,” Bowering says. “A~
sharp upswing related to
intravenous ° drugs, partly
cocaine and in particular, in
the aboriginal community.”
He says people who think -

trade workers in north is saf-—
er than elsewhere are simply
wrong, that HIV and other

through sex trade workers

cent: margin ‘of. the’ 315 people: who -cast

“quarters are ready. The Terrace and District
‘Credit Union began looking: fora. merger

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union’s board... ot a

“The Terrace” branch of the Northern Sav--
ings Credit Union has 14 employees and the: >
employees. ; "
“ The merger was- ‘approved: by a 94 per”

votes either leading. up to the June 14 annual.
general: meeting of. the. Terrace and District Q
Credit Union or at the meeting itself, -..

.. It becomes effective. July. 1 and both: cur- |
rent locations. will remain ‘open ; until new,

partner last year. after experiencing an eco-

downturn in the local economy. 3
“Its, directors felt that the: éreiit union’ s

anywhere, and people must

_ People . contract HIV
through contact with an in-.
fected. person’s blood or

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s Drummer boy |

THE Gitselasu Dancers, who are all related, performed in their traditional dress

as part of the National Aboriginals Day celebration in George Little Memorial ’
' Park June 17. Cyrus Morrison | is one of the troupe’s male drummers who

played while the women sang.

ee)

t union see

% would first have to approved by the credit.

"_ went up there and thought i

= it, up,” ‘Christiansen sai
“We really need- to: look at:

: -items,such as city. travel ex
~~ penses:be ‘cut and the sav

. maintenance. ot

_ SARAH ARTIS PHOTO ’

3, 800 members _would be. “served : better

through seeking a larger partner.
The credit union also placed itself: tinder:

~ the financial watch of the: Financial. Institu-. |
-. tions Commission of B. (os which is respon-

‘sible for the economic viability of credit .
unions in the.province. °”.”.
The Terrace and ‘District ‘Credit’ Union —

~ now has approximately $43 million in assets .

. which, when combined with those of North-

em Savings, will create an. institution with.

close to $350 million in assets.
> But when ‘the two. ‘mortgage centres .
* Northern Savings has ‘in: Kelowna and in.
_ Victoria are added, the asset base expands to
more than $515 million, said: Tarr.

“We'll be the largest credit union north of

a Kamloops,” said Tarr of the merged entity.

“And numiber 12 or 13i in B. Cc.”

“BY SARAH A. ZIMMERMAN

“CITY COUNCILLOR Lynne .Christiansei
“Wants more money spent on landscaping. and.
. lawns at city-owned facilities after a relative:

..cut.the grass .at.the.city. cemetery. before. a.

- family funeral recently. a iw ae

_Speaking ‘at the June 12 council ‘meeting,

~~ all departments have experienced cuts.

” Christiansen said her family was. dismayed :
' at the state of the cemetery.

‘The: Teirace ‘and District Credit: Union
» decided i upon Northern Savings late last De-'
-cember after evaluating proposals from sev- 7
‘eral other. credit unions. Sept ae ora

The intervening period leading ip to ‘the @
, June 14 final vote was occupied with draw-_
ing. up plans of how.a merger. would work...

_Early.on, both credit | unions announced":
there would be-no staff layoffs. a ee
» Two Terrace and District Credit Union «
board members, Nirmal : Parmar: and: Jim
“Steele, are to be added.to the. existing 10- »:
/ member Northern Savings board. -

- And the sum of $61,000 which i is $1; 000
‘for each year the Terrace and District Credit”
Union has been ‘in business, will be used to -;
create ‘a community. legacy fund bearing the:
credit union’ sname. * a

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~ Exacerbating the situation’ is that: ‘since:
his department was.cut back’ years ago, the

_ city has acquired more park land...”
“What happens is we get 1 more and more
“green. spaces and: we. all love ‘that,:but.as the ..
green space. grows our, actual. gardens and ‘
_ park’ staff has shrunk; so how ‘can: they: be

expected to keep it up?” Christiansen asks.::
Although council ‘didn’ t

_ “Twas up there for my un- :
cle’s funeral and I said, ‘oh,

"it looks great at this end of
the cemetery,’ and someone.
- said my cousin’s daughter:

looked so bad she got a lawn ° :

“mower ‘herself. and tri

our’ green spaces “because :
-. i's getting really bad,” °°
Christiansen suggested
‘ings diverted to. Tandscape:
-Though . the . cemetery’

“maintenance budget: hasn’t chariged recent’

have gone up.

werk ". says Milnthorp.

- hours a week at the cemetery, he added. .
. “That’s 10 per cent of our resources and

that does not-include burials and all of the
- tasks that go along with that.” ~

.Milnthorp did ask city council for more
money for his parks and leisure services. de-
partment this year but the request failed.’

|» “think that the city has:faced some very -
- Serious economic challenges | over the last
three to five: years,” says Milnthor, agen:

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ote

_ Lynne Chri tiansen_

“ing assisting with special events: ‘such as the
ly, ‘city. official Ross Milnthorp. acknowl- .
edged that complaints about its condition _

“ “We have had more complaints this ‘year’ “urban forest i in. terms of trees on our down-.
despite the’ same level in maintenance. and -

in fact a somewhat increased level of main- :
. - our quality of life,” says Milnthorp., *
ity employees spend: a minimum of 24 7
' and on the Grand ‘Trunk Pathway haven't
° been turned on in years, he says:

. eration takes a Significant amount of main-

the millennium trail), George: Little. Memo-. 7

Been identified’as areas:which require extra ;
‘attention this year a

|. provide . Milnthorp with ©

. emore money when it did the
city budget this spring, near-
__ ly every other councillor ‘at
J: the June, 12° meeting. joined
Christiansen - in saying ‘peo-
: ple are upset with weeds and °

. ponsible. for. items st te
ee -’ -parks:. maintenance: includ- |

chamber of commerce trade show, ary, grad

‘and Riverboat Days. |=, °!-.s.
“In addition to that we have a. significant’

town streets, in our parks ‘and presently. these.
trees are’ not” being. trimmed ‘and - ‘pruned —
properly but they are-a: significant. factor i in-

‘Irrigation systems at George Little Park

“Bringing ‘those’ systems back. into op:

tenance and. work, ‘
- The.-Grand_ Trunk. ’Pathway: (known as”

rial: Park, Christy Park-and city. hall have all”

Video surveillance part c of |
| city crime fighting strategy |

By SARAH A. ZIMMERMAN

of the vandalism: happened between if something took place that stiouldn’ t
: — Thursdays and Sundays. Those figures - have,” explains Copperside’s. general
THE CITY of Terrace and merchants. don’t include unreported incidents. manager Fraser Mackie. °°
will soon employ video surveillance, City officials and local RCMP say = “We can-usually get a very good pice
cameras and other measures to combat ‘the use of strategically placed video ture and it’s particularly effective with
vandalism and crime in the downtown surveillance helps catch perpetrators ‘gas and dashes, we can usually identify:"
core. and gives officials the evidence to press the -individual and remind them that
The move to promote the use of charges. Businesses that already have they have to pay for their gas.”
video surveillance comes after the city cameras in place say they are effective Other businesses have already got
gathered statistics on vandalism fora in preventing crime because would-be . surveillance cameras on order. -_
six month period ending April 30. trouble makers don’t like being under Bob Park from All Seasons Sotirce |
Those statistics show 35 incidents of __ the watchful eye of a camera. ' for Sports says he’s putting them up
vandalism reported to police, ranging The Copperside chain of ‘stores in. as soon as they:come in. His business
from broken and kicked in windows to Terrace has been using video surveil- _ has been the target of broken windows,
oF - damage to vehicles. lance for years. break and enters and other vandalism
- Of those instances 28 involved bro- “If we see some suspicious: activ- over the years.
ken windows and 82 per cent of those ity that we can’t address, the cashier “He’s particularly concerned about -
incidents happened between the hours _ will make a note of the time and view crimes.of opportunity steniming from” rocks they say should be removed from vacant lots around to avoid. them. being _
of 9 p.m. and 4 a.m. while 74 per cent the tape later to see if we can identify Cont'd Page A2 used dby\ vandals. ; ‘SARAH A. ZIMMERMAN PHOTO
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LAKELSE AVE. businessman ob: Parka