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Neighbours set up pickets

to oppose detox

location

By CHRISTIANA
WIENS
ABOUT 20 neighbours of a
Proposed youth detox
centre on the bench stop-
ped talking and started
picketing last week.

The residents say they
chad to as no one at North-
west Addiction Services,
an agency of Terrace and
District Community Ser-
vices Society contracted
to run the facility, was lis-
tening to them after two
weeks of meetings.

So they set up two
picket lines — one at the as
yet unoccupied Halliwell
home May 17 and another
outside the society’s cily
hall office space the next
morning.

But their plan isn’t
working.

“I have no response,”
said Jeanette Anderson,
program coordinator for the
six-bed facility. “These in-
dividuals have a right to
voice their opinion.”

Anderson welcomed
more discussions with the
group but didn’t back down
on moving youth into the
home.

“These _ youths have
right to service and they
have a right to reside
where the program is put -
not in a remote location,”
she said, “That just adds to

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WALKING THE LINE: Al Dozzi, Cheryl Wahl, Bob
Park and Kay Ehses were among 20 neighbours of
the new youth detox centre who picketed the site’s
Halliwell location Wednesday, May 17. Picketers
hoped the pressure would spark conversation be-

tween themselves and Northwest Addiction Ser-
vices, the agency contracted to run the site. The
home was chosen from three sites on Kofoed in
Thornhill and Soucie Avenue in Terrace’s horse-
shoe area,

the stigma.”

The neighbours got
angry last month when
they found out about the
centre’s location shortly
before it was set to be offi-
cially opened.

They say the house pur-
chased for the centre
doesn’t have the right
parking or location to suit
that use and they want it
moved.

The $850,000 facility
was in final stages of pre-

families ministry offer to
delay the opening to June
1. That option was valid as
long as the residents
agreed to accept the
centre’s current location,
said ministry manager
Jackie Stokes.

“But we never got a re-
sponse to that offer,” she
said.

According to neighbour-
hood group Bob Park,
there’ $a good 1 reason for

On May 8, the residents
were told by the city that
the matter was not within
its jurisdiction.

They’ve also written

children and families
minister Gretchen Brewin
and filed a Freedom of In-
formatian request to gain
access to the centre’s con-
tract. A representative
went to talk with Stokes
who is based in Prince
George.
i). She hasn't ruled out
maving: the’centre to an-
other location or, out of
Terrace, despite renova-
tions already in progress at
the home.

“There’s a series of op-

4 "if we
meet with “you, can we
still go ahead,” said Park.
“Some of us are seriously
considering selling our
houses.”

lunteer themselves for a
30-day live-in treatment
program. ,

The neighbours already
turned down a children and

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possible,”

Neighbourhood repre-
sentative Megan Yeo sees
that as a veiled threat.

“That bothers me,” she
said. ““We’re not saying we
don’t want it in Terrace,
we have an expectation to
be able to analyze the
program.”

Reid said the residents
also worry about more than
their property values.

tions, we've made no defi-
nite decisions on thal yet,”
she said. “But at this time
we're proceeding (0 work
with our contractor.”

The ministry awarded a
one-year renewable con-
lract to operate the centre
to Northwest Addiction
Services at the end of
March.

Any delay in setting up
service cuts into the pro-

grams ability |t tO treat “Where's all the money

_ &oing?” she ‘said, .“That
‘see “this -could-pay for eight nurses;
setvice in Terrace,” she “20-beds, 24 hours a day [at
says. “Right now we're the hospital].”

concerned about getting
the service lo operate in
the most effective way

The residents met again
yesterday.

The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, May 24, 2000 - A3

News In Brief

Man dies in Thornhill

TERRACE RCMP and the B.C, Coroners Service
are investigating the death of a Thamhill man who
died while working outside his home at 4110 High-
way 16 east Saturday, May 13.

Stanley Clifford Wilty, 86, is suspected to have
died as the result of heart-related health concerns
and RCMP and coroner Art Erasmus do not suspect
foul play.

Battling beetles
THE GITLAKDAMIX band council in New
Aiyansh has received a $25,000 grant to help con-
trol a beetle outbreak on three of its properties.

As part of a federally-financed program, the
grant is part of the larger program to combat the
mountain pine beetle in the Nass River area.

The money will enable Nisga’a silviculture con-
tractors to cut, burn and remove infected trees in
the region before the beetle populations in the area
teach epidemic proportions.

The program provides forest industry-based train-

nada.

“The First Nations Forestry program has enabled
First Nation communities to contribute their own
unique expertise and knowledge to the process,”
said Nello Cataldo, program manager for the fed-
eral government.

Both the Canadian forest service and and the de-

ment finance programs for projects ranging from
logging to eco-tourism.

Break and enter

TERRACE RCMP are looking for anyone who
might have information about a late-night break
and enter in Thornhill, May 14.

The break and enter happened between 7:30 pm
and 11:00 pm on the 4100 black of Hwy 16 East.

Stolen items include, a 1925 Canadian nickel, a
gold men's wristwatch, an antique ladies necklace
and assorted tools and hunting knives.

Anyone with information can call local RCMP,
638-7400 or Crimestoppers, 635-TIPS.

Women overtake men

THE NUMBER of women going to university in

same.
In 1973, of full time students, there were 153
males for every 100 females at university. By
1998, the figure was reversed with 83 males to
every 100 females enrolled.
Among part time students, in 1973 there were
three males to every four females, but by 1998, the

males.

Overall, there were 54,000 full time students en-
ralled and 23,000 part time students in 1998, an in-
crease of 122.6 per cent in 25 years.

In engineering, male students once outnumbered
women 25 to 1. That ratio is now three to one.

ing and money to native communities across Ca-

partment of Indian Affairs and Northern Develop- |

B.C. has overtaken the amount of men doing the

ratio had’ dropped to twa males to every three fe- -

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