IQBAL SINGH BHINDER and other local Sikhs noted the founding of Khalsa, the pure ones, ata ceremony in front of city hall April 13. The order was formed in the 17th century by Guru Gobind Singh as a defender of the Sikh religion. Thereafter, each Sikh male carries the name of Singh which means lion. Five symbols — a kirpan, long hair, a bracelet, a comb in the air and long shorts for riding horses — made the order distinctive and served as a rallying point in their cause. POLICE ROLL-END REMNANT SALE! Aprit 10 - 27 ROLL ENDS - Totem S Televisions Priced From . Tarace Standard, Wednesday, Apri 17, 1997 — Page Ag Inions oppose | ~ school builder ‘TERRACE — Local building trades union members are going - to be asked not to work on a school district buiiding project. Fred Glover of the B.C. and - Yukon Building and Construc- tion Trades Council says the school board erred last week when it gave a $607,000. con- struction contract at Kiti-K’Shan school to Tri-City Contracting of Kamloops. Tri-City's workers are represented by a union Glover said signs contracts that favour the employer more than it does employees by paying lower wages and benefits than do most other agreements. Although the Canadian Iron, Steel and Industrial Workers Union (CISIWU) won bargain- ing tights to Tri-City workers earlier this year, it’s not recognized by traditional con- struction unions, They say CISIWU acts more in the interests of emnployers than it does workers by signing what they call “sweetheart”? contracts. Tri-City’s bid to build three classrooms and make renova- tions was the lowest of eight submitted for the project. The next bid was $25,000 higher. “I'm disappointed,”’ said Glover. '‘For four per cent dif- ference, our tax dollars would be a lot better spent (on another firm),”’ Last year, local union members were asked not to work on the United Buy and Sell store built by Tri-City. Its workers then weren't organized by any union, ‘“We can make it very: dif- ficult for Tri-City to operate in this area,’’ Glover said. Glover said the provincial employment standards branch found that Tri-City didn’t pay its workers overtime on the coypreantet Cyabs ' |50°% OFF REMNANTS $9.95 L par. aq. yard cans A NEW WORLD OF COLOR AND DESIGN ~ ~~ % YOUR DECOR - Terrace Carpet Centra. " 3202 Munroe Street at Hwy.’ 16W - TERRACE) 635-2076 . television. Celebrating 50 Yeon of Television | Catch the playoff action in vivid color this year on a RCA Choose from 20”, or the giant 46” screen. And with a RCA VCR you'll - never miss a game! United Buy and Sell project and failed to do so on another pro- ject in the northeast. ““They have a record of employment standards viola- tions :.. It’s a sorry day for the northwest,’ he said. The school district wants con- struction work to begin in a couple of weeks and finish this fall. Most of the sub-trades lin- ed up by Tri-City have union contracts. School board chairman Edna Cooper said trustees had to ac- cept the Tri-City bid. “We considered that there may be labour problems as a result,” Cooper said. ‘“‘But we felt that legally we had no grounds to refuse the bid. We can’t just say ‘We don't like you.’ ” She said the school board must take the lowest bid unless there are very compelling reasons not to. “He (Tri-City) was the lowest Fred Glover bidder. He was bonded. He did everything correctly with respect to the bid. And he was a union contractor,’’ she said. **We had no ather option but to accept it.”” Probe continues TERRACE — The RCMP could be getting a little closer in their 16-year-long hunt for the killer of Monica Ignas. The 15-year-old Terrace girl disappeared from downtown Terrace in December of 1974 while hitch-hiking. Her strangl- ed body was found in a wooded part of Thornhill the following spring. A massive investigation at the time failed to solve the murder, and investigators didn’t make significant progress again uatil a year ago when some new tips came in, “We have surfaced some suspects and there’s an ongoing investigation into these people,” RCMP Cpl. Don Woodhouse said Friday. ‘*The bn neat comm tana 28", 33”, FURNITURE & APPLIANCE LTD. Since 1963 \ Special Playoff Savings on ALL T.V.’s & V.C.R.’s IN STOCK! | $409 - $2969) case certainly isn't dead,"’ - Woodhouse and two other local officers have been working with Prince Rupert’s RCMP subdivision and Vancouver police’s serious crime unit on the case for the past several months. They now have all the information on the case entered on a computer system to help organize and cross-reference what they’ve collected. “We believe we have put together Monica Ignas’ last hours fairly solidly up until she was picked up by the vehicle,"’ Woodhouse added, RCMP have also been trying to trace a B.C. licence plate number obtained from a witness placed under hypnosis. ‘4501 Lakelse Ave. 638-1158_