A2- The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, November 24, 1999

Area’s first drug-free zone planned
to take effect at Caledonia school

A GROUP wanting tougher
penalties for drug dealers
and users caught in or
around Caledonia Sr, Sec-
ondary School are bringing

in their first’ drug free~

zones Nov. 29.

It's meant to act as a
deterrent to drug activity
and to highlight federal le-
Bislation which can pro-
vide for harsher sentences
for narcotics offences in‘or
around schools,

A signing ceremony at
the school Nov. 29 is to
declare the zone in effect.

Groups expected to sign
the agreement include stu-
dents, school staff, par-
ents, school board reps,
police, city council, and
prosecutors, said city
councillor Ron’ Vanderlee
last week,

Judges’ won't be Sign:
ing, however.

“They’re in agreement,
but they can'l sign be-
cause they have lo treat
each case individually,”
Vanderlee said,

When somecone’s con-
-icted for activity in a

From front

drug free zone, prosecutors
will ask for double the nor-
mal penalties for simple
; ssession and triple the
1 gular sentence for drug
licking within a-zone,
Local judges won't be
able to guarantee those
penalties will be enforced,
Vanderlee: said, but the
existence of the zones will
give them stronger grounds

to impose stiffer than usual
penalties.

Signs are going up
marking the zone boundar-
ies, and pamphlets are to
be’ distributed to students

and all houses within’ the

drug free zone.

“What this: means is
that 24 hours a day, seven
days a week, every day of

‘the year, the public is say-

ing they want this to be a
drug free zone and they
want the courts to take
that into account in sen-
tencing,” councillor David
Htull sys.”

Its ‘expected drug tree
zones will’ be established
around other local schools
after Caledonia.

Schoal trustees agreed

Zones tried three years ago.

THE SCHOOL district first
attempted to create drug
free “zones around its
schools ‘three years ago,
- but was blacked because
that would involve’ chan-
ging federal legislation,
says acting ‘school district
schaals
Sharon Beedle.

This time things are dif-
ferent- because- relatively
recent federal legislation,
the Controlled Drugs and

. Substances: Act, passed: in
1997; does provide for har-
sher penalties for narcotics
offences’ in and. around
schoals.

Nisga’a also
eye artifacts

“TL would think there is
something about it.”

cansiderable time left to do

Hill said the Tsimshian aren't calling for return of the
objects to the northwest, only that they be acquired,
brought to Canada, and properly preserved and exhibited

by a Canadian museum.

Harry Nyce
Actifacts categorized as “Tsimshian”
aren't, he added, because Tsimshian, Nisga’a and Gitk-
san nalives are sometimes referred to collectively as be-

ing part of the “Tsimshian”

Also scrambling to find
out more about the Carey
collection are the Nisga’a,

4 who think it may contain

some Nisga’a artifacts,

“We suspect that there
are artifacts there in the col-
lection that. are Nisga’a,”
said Harry Nyce, who heads
Nisga’a efforts to repatriate
artifacts. We: ‘Te anxious ta
get a listing.”

/Nyce says - Lobjegtg, ware
given or traded back- and
forth between northwest trib-
al groups, who had exten-
sive trade dnd travel. con-
nections.

culties 4

sometimes

language group.

He was in Ottawa last week for a ceremony in which
the Nisga’a were given ownership:of. the Nisga’a ‘arti-
facts housed at the Canadian Museum of Civilization.

Eventual transfer of artifacts to the Nisga’a from Ca-

nadian museums is one of t
treaty.

Nisga’a efforts to trace
cussed on known museum
vate holdings.

He said private owners

he provisions of the Nisga’a

artifacts have primarily fo-
collections, rather than pri-

can’t be forced to give up

their collections, but said some can be persuaded
through goodwill to turn over artifacts.

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Beedle’ said she has na
problem cooperating with
the latest moves to create
zones of two blocks in ra-

dius) around educational

facilities.
“In fact I think its a
great idea,” she said.
Three years ago the
school district’ wanted to

focus on drug: traffickers |
-who, preyed-on schools and

vulnerable children.
School trustees agreed
that drug traffickers who
are’ caught dealing near
schools should be charged
with stricter penalties than
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In order to protect the
safety of children in
schools, the board reques-
led the provincial and fed-
eral governments to’ insti-
tute higher penalties for
people charged with drug
‘trafficking inside a de-
signated school “bubble
zone” than for similar of-
fences committed else-
where.

However, Beedle said
ihe federal Attorney Gen-
eral denied the board's re-
quest because it would in-
volve changing Canada’s
Criminal Code.

to support the plan at a

commitiee meeting last

Wednesday,

The idea sprang from
conferences city council-
lors attended: this year
dealing with. community
crime prevention.

For more on drug
free zones, please see
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