Ags - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, December 18, 1996

Radar
pitch
made

RCMP SHUTTER-BUGS
have asked the Kitimat-
Stikine regional district to
consider using photo radar
in the rural area.

The controversial radar
takes a picture of speeding
motorists and sends them a
$100 ticket in the mail.

Constable Doug Leshures
told the board there were
approximately 550 fatal ac-
cidenls in BC last year,
along with 47,000 injuries
and 100,000 total accidents
which cost the province
some $2,4 billion.

He says the 35 photo radar
cameras recently brought
into the province are ex-
pected to save about 50
lives this year, along with
between 200 and $400 mil-
lion in social costs, The
cameras will he aperated by
104 new police officers.

“We need communily
support for this program,"
Leshures said, “Il recom-
mend creating a traffic
safety committee that will
work with the RCMP to
target areas that have a his-
tory of speed-related acci-
dents,””

Leshures said the cquip-
ment could then be
deployed in those areas,
with the regional district's

permission. The cameras
would be sct to ticket the
fastest 15 per cent of
vehicles,

Directors have not decided
what to do yet.

IT LOOKS like a toonie and feels Jike a
toonic, but it isn’t worth anything close to
the value of a Canadian two dollar coin.

An Italian 500 lira coin, was passed off
as two bitcks last week at a local service
Station. The coin, which is only worth
about 4.5 cents Canadian was pawned off
at the Terrace Esso on Lakelse Avenue.

Like the toonie, the Italian coin has a
silver ring around a yellow center.

The coin is slighily smaller and lighter
than a loonie, but without close inspec-
tion, the Italian coin could easily pass for
the Canuck bucks,

Slation co-owner Laurence Kelso says

TERRACE ESSO'S Laurene Kelson compares a toonie to an Italian look alike.

ltalian twin turned in

it’s hard to notice a single coin when the
cash register gels busy,

‘‘When you're busy, you don’t stop to
examine every coin,’’ she says.

Kelso also says she thinks that it could
have been an honest mistake by a hurried .
world traveler or coin collector,

‘I’m an eternal optimist,” she says, ‘‘]
hope it was a mistake.’’

Terrace RCMP say this was the first,
and so far the only time the Italian coin
has been used in place of a toonie here.

“The similarity is incredible,’’ says
constable Tracy Harvie. ‘‘It’s easy to see
how you could mistake the two.’

Thieves heist wine jugs

THREE THIEVES broke into a Terrace
home two wecks ago and pilfered several
jugs of wine.

Terrace RCMP say that at just before 3
am. on Dec, 4, a home on the 4400 block
of Little Avenue was entered and four gal-
lons of wine were stolen. The home owner
saw one of the men and called the police.

An investigation resulted in the arrest of
three males living in (he immediate area of
where the break-in occurred,

The men, aged 17, 23 and 29 were held

for court appearance later in the day.
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A pizza delivery man fended off two at-

tackers who tried to steal his wallet Dec. 7

on the 2600-block of Pear St,

The 20-year-old man beat off the attack
by punching one assailant in the face, while
the other bit his arm, Medical attention
wasn't required,

Police are looking for the pair.

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