a Usk land buy is unopposed A KITIMAT resident’s_re- quest to purchase Crown land in Usk has met no opposition from the regional district, A‘ tecreational lease was originally issued in 1976 for the 0.6ha. parcel on Usk Store Rd, James Mackenzie is the current-lease holder and has a small house ‘on ‘the ‘property which he uses for recreational purposes, Although - the. parcel ‘does not_ meet. the 10 acre mini- mum size requirement of the area’s- zoning, the. planning department. pointed out it was created in 1922, al the time of railroad construction and long before: the zoning by-law _ came into effect. The-majorily of lots created at that time have since been sold and developed. Ultrasound grant okayed THE REGIONAL district bas agreed to give Mills Memoriat hospital a $40,000 grant towards the cost of new ultra- sound equipment. In a letter to the board, Ter- race. regional health care sociely chief executive officer Michael Leisinger noted the province had agreed to come up with $60,000 toward the cost: of the ‘‘state-of-the-art”’ equipment. The balance of $74,000 would come from the Dr. R.E.M. Lee Foundation. Travel plans approved TRAVEL PLANS approved by .the board include sending a director to next month’s Ca- tadian Hospital Association conference in Calgary (estimated cost $1,775), ad- ministratar Bob Marcellin to the Municipal Officers Asso- ciation’ annual meeting in Whistler ($1,435) and Thom- hill acting fire chief Guy Belanger to -three training seminars ($1,780). : A10 - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, May 24, 1995 Centre eyes new role THE LOCAL correctional centre could also house people being kept in custody while waiting to make court appearances. A proposal being made by local correctional officers says such a move would do away with having to transport people back and forth from a remand centre in Prince George. And that would save money in transportation costs and staff time, says regional corrections of- .. ficial Rob Watts, Some people facing charges are remanded in custody until court appearances. That’s because the court feels they may be a danger to the pub- lic or there’s a chance the person might not show up for subsequent appearances. But Watts said the type of per- son thal might be kept in remand here won't be considered a danger to the public, “Basically the kind of person for remand here would fit the same kind of criteria of the per- son being sentenced here,” he said. Yet the centre would need some improvements to make it suitable as a remand facility, Watts added. Chief among those is a fence around the centre building be- cause it would deter people on remand from walking away. ‘A person on a sentence knows there is an end. A person that has been remanded for two weeks conceptually doesn’t know when there Is going to be an end,”’ said Watts, “They may not have a lot of impulse control and that j increases their chances on going for a walk,” he added. “A person that has been remanded for two weeks conceptually doesn’t know’ when there is going to be an end,”’ WATTS. Not having a fence to deter walkaways would not please judges who would wonder why a person was not in court when they Were supposed to, Watts continued, The remand proposal has yet to receive fulf approval, “It’s a matter of spending money up front for a savings down the road,’”? said Watts. The centre has 30 beds based on a plan for a 24-bed steady oc- cupancy with six kept in reserve Northwest gets claims watchdog A FORMER Kitimat mayor is the watchdog for a committee of lo- cal governments formed to keep an eye on northwest land claims. George Thom was named to the Skeena Treaty Advisory Com- mittee last week. He'll be attending negotiating sessions with provincial govern- ment negotiators and reporting back on issues affecting local governments, Nine communities and regional districts are on the advisory com- mittee and their interests ‘are the Nisga'a, Tsimshian and Haisla land claims. The Nisga’a is the only claim of the three under active negotiation. LEARN TO FLY! Private; Commercial; Multi-Instrument; Instructor. GROUND SCHOOL CLASSES ON GOING Start Anytime! FLIGHT TEST EXAMINER ON STAFF 4 SEAT AIRCRAFT FOR RENT. Check Out Our Flight Simulator. Courses Tax Deductible. 635-9050 Out of Town 1-800-320-4566 Mnirodiacine .. anew MMIicCULLOCH. 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Watts said those beds in reserve could be used for remands. There’s also a side benelit to the remand plan — a possible revival of the electronic monitor- ing program. That program featured electron- ic anklets wom by pcople sentenced to serve their terms at their homes. They sound an alarm at a cen- tral office should the person leave their property. It was cancelled here last year when the number of people on the program didn’t justify its cost, Those people who would have qualified for the electronic monitoring program now face doing their terms at the correc- tional ceatre. “If we do start having people on remand here instead of being sent to Prince George, it would ” then be cheaper to bring back electronic monitoring,'’’ said Watts. “The plan would be to have an institution at 30 beds plus having five or six on electronic monitor- ing.”? : “From the government point of view it would not only save money but it would keep local people in the arca,’” said Watts. 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