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STILL EMPTY and still for saie is the now- “closed regionai correctional centre.
Various groups, including the Terrace Nisga’a Society, have looked at the
complex but to date, there have been no offers. Asking price is $1.69 million.

Jail buyer still sought

THE PROVINCIAL gov-
ernment has so far been
unable to find a buyer for
the Terrace correctional
centre,

The jail was shutdown
last spring as part of gov-
ernment spending cuts.

“It’s still on ‘the
market,” said B.C. Build-
ings Corporation commu-
nications director Kathleen
Elliot. “Anybody interested
who has the the money is
of course going to be wel-
come to submit a bid.”

The asking price for the
former jail site is $1.69
million, she said,

Environmental remedia-
tion of the property has
been finished, she said,
adding it was offered first
to aboriginal groups, B.C.
Housing. and ‘the City of
Terrace. None of those
agencies were interested,
however,

The single story build-
ing is nearly 1,000 square
metres in size, with a 140
square metre workshop.

The Terrace Nisga’a
Society, which serves
Nisga’a people living in
Terrace, had expressed in-
terest in the former jail
last year.

The society indicated in
envisioned turning the
centre into a youth trans-
ition and development
centre,

But Elliot said the
Nisga’a society did not bid

Inquest
date set
for May

A CORONER'S inquest
into the death of a man
who hung himself in cells
at the Terrace RCMP de-
tachment in the summer of
2001 has been resche-
duled.

The inquest into the
death of Richard William
Allen, 29, starts May 12 in
Terrace Supreme Court
chambers and could last
several days.

It was originally set for
Oct. 21-24, 2002 but was
postponed at the request of
Allen's family, said regio-
nal coroner David Cover-
dale.

A coroner's inquest is a
public hearing of the facts
surrounding a sudden
death.

Inquests are rare but the
B,C. Coroner’s Act re-
quires they happen any
time a person dies in po-
lice custody,

Allen died shortly be-
fore 10 p.m. July 4, 2001
after being arrested for im-
paired driving, refusing to
provide a breath sample,
theft over $5,000 and pos-
session of stolen property.

Police said Allen was

driving a stolen vehicle
when he was arrested.
’ He was then housed in
a cell - also known as the
drunk tank — at the Terrace
RCMP detachment.

Inspector Doug Wheler,~.

the commanding officer at
the Terrace detachment
when Allen diéd, said the

man hung himself by” -

threading his underwear
‘through the cell bars,

The last death in cells.
in Terrace prior to Allen's -

occurred in 1983,

in the end, and there are
no bidders presently.

~ The Terrace Nisga’a
Society had also been
close to a. deal to pay
$262,000 to buy a one-acre
property at 4625 Davis

Ave:

; But realtor Viv Steele

says that deal has col-

lapsed and no further ne-
gotiations are expected.

The society had sug-
gested it would build a
four-storey building with
commercial and commun-
ity uses on the ground floor
and three floors of apart-
ments above.

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