A2 - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, November 8, 2000

Pictures on ballots for first Nisga a vote

NISGA’A VOTERS are
using a different kind of
ballot today as they
choose their Lisims, vil-
lage government and urban
local representatives.

It'll not only have the
names of those running but
their pictures as well.

The goal is to provide
information to younger
people who might not read
Nisga’a and to older voters
who might not read Engl-
ish, says Ed Allen, the
chicf executive officer for
the Nisga’a Lisims govern-
ment.

For this reason, the
names of those running are
in English for younger vo-
fers and the candidate pic-
tures are on the ballot for
older Nisga’a who may nat

read English.

“We want to ensure we
clearly communicate who
the candidates are to the
electorate,” Allen ex-
plained.

“It gives the voters a
clearer understanding of
who the candidates are,”
he said of the ballots.

The Lisims government
took advice on the ballot
structure from a person
who also helped the South
African government frame
its constitution and set up
its electoral operations,

Pictures on ballots are
used in developing coun-
tries were literacy rates
are low, added Allen.

Today’s election is the
first since the Nisga’a
signed a land claims treaty

From front

Stewart backs
mining road

But proponents are treading carefully because of ex-
pected environmental opposition to the opening up of the
area with a new road, and from Prince George forestry
interests who fear timber in that area could flow west in-
stead of east.

Meanwhile, the mines ministry’s senior mineral eco-
nomist is also studying the road idea to see whether pro--
vincial involvement is justified.

“We are not pushing the road but we are trying to find
out what the facts are,” says Duane Anderson.

He said the ministry is conducting a preliminary fi-
nancial and socio-economic review of the road idea.

He cautioned that it’s very early for people to get ei-
ther excited or alarmed about the idea.

“This is one of several projects we’re involved in at
the moment,” Anderson said.

From front

Trespassers
risking lives

sent a proper role model, he said.

Bailey’ Ss most glaring example of that is what hap-
pened after CN spent $154,000 to fence off a section of
tracks in Kamloops.

The fence was barely finished when Bailey caught a
woman cutting a hole in it sa it would’ be easier for her
children to cross the tracks to go to school.

- “T' charged: her-criminally for that,” said Bailey.

In Terrace there are only three legal places to cross
the tracks ~ the Sande Overpass, the regulated crossing
at Kenney St. and the unregulated crossing at Frank St.
heading west of town,

Everywhere else is illegal and there are plenty of
signs up indicating that CN property is private property.

By far the most popular illegal location to cross is be-
iween the A & W/ Esso station businesses on the south-
side of the tracks and the general area of the old Co-op
site on the north side.

It fits the general pedestrian pattern of people who
live on the south side looking for the easiest raute to the
cily centre, says Constable Kurt Grabinsky, the local de-
tachment” s community policing officer.
> Tronically, it was also once a level crossing location
connecting South Kalum to Kalum St. proper.

: Grabinsky, Bailey and Mahoney say the situation is
tio better when it comes to drivers using approved level
crossings.

- Each has their own stories of vehicles racing to beat a
train coming through.

* “Every week two people are killed and that’s just in-
volving CN,” said Bailey.

What frustrates all of them is that despite continued
education and prevention efforts, people still cross the
tracks illegally.
> “You can keep doing it but eventually you’re going to
get caught,” said Mahoney.

' “And the price you’re going to pay is with your life, If
you" re lucky, you may lose only a limb.”

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with the federal and pre-
vincial government.
-Nisga’a voters here, in
Prince Rupert/Port Ed-
ward, in Vancouver and in
the four main villages in

choosing local government
representatives.

There are three people
running for the top position
of president of the Nisga’a
Lisims government.

“We want to ensure we clearly com-
municate who the candidates are to the

electorate.”

the Nass Valley will be
choosing top representa-
tives for the Lisims gov-
ernment which has re-
placed the Nisga’a Tribal
Council, ;
Nisga’a in urban set-
tings will be choosing re-
presentalives for the Li-
sims government and vil-
lagers in the Nass will be

‘of the tribal council,

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They are Joe Gosnell,
the interim. Lisims presi-
dent and the last president
Kin-

colith chief councillor
Gary Alexcee and New
Aiyansh educator Shirley
Morven.

Other Lisims govern-
ment positions to be filled
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Also to be elected are
trustees to the Nisga’a
Valley Health Board.

Polls opened at 8 a.m.
today and close at 8 p.m.
The voting station in Ter-
race is at the carpenters
hall on Sparks,

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THREE TELEVISION
crews, including one from
Austria, are in the area to
do. some filming. on the
Nisga’a and to cover the
election.

- The Austrian one is
spending the longest in the
area and is making a do-
cumentary to be aired
across Europe, says
Nisga’a Lisims public re-

lations official Eric Grand-

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He said a tour of Europe
by Gosnell to explain the
treaty in late 1998 raised

] the profile of the Nisga’a

there.

Also in the area for the
election today is a crew
from Fairchild TV, the
Chinese-language TV sta-
tion in Vancouver.

The third crew is from
the Aboriginal Peoples’
Television Network in
Winnipeg.

It’s here not only for the

Nisga’a election but to -

speak to federal Skeena
NDP candidate Larry Guno
who is a Nisga’a.

“They were also inter-
ested in Mike Scott,” said
Grandison of the Alliance
MP who lead his party’s
opposition to the Nisga’a
treaty.

Scott has retired from
politics.

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