LOCAL ELECTIONS:

The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, October 13, 1993 - A3 .

andidates quick off mark

EARLY FILING by four candi-
dates for council and the certainty
of a mayoral race suggests next
month’s municipal election will
be one of the liveliest for some
years.

First in the starting blocks for
council spots were incumbent
Bob Cooper, one-time alderman
David Hull and newcomers Rich
MeDaniel and ‘Val George. ;

Hull previously served on coun-
cil from 1988-1990 but failed to
get re-elected.

Altributing that defeat to his
failure to campaign adequately,
he said he won’t be making that
mistake again and will mount a
‘visible and aggressive campaign.

Onc of his main platform
planks will be the apparcnt prob-
lems with the new Official Com-
munity Plan (OCP).

Disappointed it look so long to

get into place, Hull said recent
protests over land development
plans near Howe Creek suggested
it already was in trouble.

“People shouldn’t have to be

constantly reading the newspaper
or running to city hali to find out

what's happening in their neigh-

bourhood,’’ he said.
He noted developers were get-

ling just as frustrated with the

situation.

Huil’s other concern is the lack
of long term direction in
maintaining and expanding the
city’s infrastructure.

The city was sceing numerous
new sub-divisions built and many
streets still in need of repair, yet
the public works department’s
long range paving plan had quiet-
ly disappeared from view.

Conceding such a plan had a
cost attached, Hull said it should

still be possible to make it work
within the financial constraints
faced by council.

Having an agreed direction
would be preferable to ‘““wander-
ing from budget to budget,” he
added.

Although this is Rich
McDanicl’s first run at a council
seat, he’s no stranger to local in-
volvement. -

“Having served on the city’s

recreation and economic advisary
commissions, he's been heavily
involved over the past year in ef-
forts to save the Deep Creck
hatchery.

Describing himself as ‘‘a good
listener’, he sees a council posi-
tion as an extension of that com-
munity involvement.

This is also Val George’s first
shot at council bul he has been in-
volved in local politics before

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having sat on the school board.
Gcorge says his main reason for
running is the belief ‘‘it’s very

important people be really
represented on cowncil.’’
Too often, he maintained,

politicians, once elected, forget
about the people who put them
there ‘‘and follow their personal
agendas,”’

There is a guarantee of at least
two new faces on the next coun-
cil, councillors Danny Sheridan
and Darryl Laurent having al-
ready declared ihey will nol be
seeking re-election.

Incumbents Ruth Hallock and
Rick King had not filed papers as
of the weekend but both earlier
indicated they would be going for
another term.

Mo Takhar, the remaining sit-
ting councillor, could not be
reached for comment on his in-
tentions.

As of Friday, schoo! trustees
John Pousetle and Laurie
Mitchell had filed nomination
papers io run again.

There are five Terrace seats up
for grabs on school board,

No-one had yet put their name
forward for the two local seats on
the board of the Kitimat Stikine
regional district.

Up for election are directors’
positions for electoral area E
(Thornhill) and electoral area C
(Lakelse Lake and other rural
Terrace areas). ,

Incumbents, respectively, are
longtime director Les Watmough
and Sandy Sandhals who got on
in the 1990 election.

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Driver jailed

A FORT ST. JAMES man
has been given 21 months in
jail for the death of a Ter-
race resident.

James Joseph Maruschak,
29, was killed after his
vehicle was struck by one
driven by Chester Terry
Prince, 26.

The accident happened
30km cast of Vanderhoof
Sept. 4 after Prince’s truck
struck the one being driven
by Maruschak. Injured in
the accident was ‘Terrace
resident Sandra Collier, a
passenger in the Maruschak
vehicle.

Prince pleaded guilty to
impaired driving causing
death and impaired driving
causing bodily harm before
Judge D. W. Ramsay in
Vanderhoof Provincial
Court Oct. 6, He drew a 21
sentence for each charge, to
be served concurrently,

Charges of dangerous
driving causing death,
dangerous driving causing
bodily harm and driving
while having a blood al-
cohol reading of more than
.08 were stayed.

Break

enter

A 21-YEAR-OLD Terrace
man has been sentenced to
more than two years in
prison for his role in a
recent series of downtown
break-ins. Michael Patrick
Corbett pleaded guilty to
three counts of break-and-
enter,

and

Two of the counts related -

to break-ins over the sum-
mer — one on July 8 at
Spotless Cleaners, and onc
on Sept. 2 at the offices of

Carlyle Shepherd and Co.”

where more than $4,000
damage was done. He
received one year in prison
for each of the two counts.

Corbett received an addi-
tional three months in prison
for the third charge, which
felated to a two-year-old
break-in. .

Police used fingerprin
found on evidence to crack
the case and force guilty
pleas.

33RD ANNUAL
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