“TERRACE — A we've gota big. bear: ‘problem: this:. -year... and ,. they’ re ‘larger, wiser bears,’ 7 conservation officer - - Terry McGunigle said last week. The Terrace landfill site came to public attention dgain in con- nection with: bears in late July . when three: slain: grizzly cubs _ were found .in.“ garbage... bags .. _: there. That incident came to:a __ bizarre ‘conclusion a’ few days . ago. when McGunigle . deter- ‘man. Eric Powell said there was -|- no evidence: to support -thée — mined that the cubs had actually. been shot under permit: in: 1987 at a logging camp in. -Prince Rupert; the permit holder, how-. ever had kept the bodies in a. freezer instead of.burying them’ ” in accordance with the permit . conditions. .- _ McGunigle said in. an. tet yo. Racism charges. dismissed The B. c Council of Human Rights has dismissed outright a - complaint of racial discrimina- tion against Skeena Cellulose — Inc. by John Pifer ~In a judgement” releaged in Victoria recently, council chair- charge against S@I laid by-a former employee, Balbir ‘Singh . Buttar. Buttar, who describes himsélf as an ‘Indo-Canadian, was laid © off in November 1982 from - SCI’s (formerly Westar Timber and Canadian Cellulose) “py ‘mill in Prince Rupert after seven - -years. He was offered a job as a 1 eney + machine utility man in the “‘A” mill in May 1983, but turned it - down, citing a fractured bone in his foot and acrophobia (fear of heights) as the reasons for rejec- ting it. _ Three years later, when SCI re-opened the “B’’ mill, Buttar applied; but he was not rehired. The company received about. 1,000 applications for the 133 jobs available, and Buttar agreed that SCI was under no obligation to rehire him. _ A human rights hearing on the | case heard testimony from SCI industrial relations manager : Robert Black, who said Buttar’s file was ‘marked in 1983 ‘‘not to rehire”’, but it had no bearing on. _ his, race_or disabili ' Malhotra, testified that he had never detected any evidence of racial p prejudice in Black’s hiring ractices. _Epp, told the hearing that Buttar » was a. poor grader and ‘‘rated in the bottom 10 percent’? of the -. sinployees he (Epp) supervised. - could ‘not find any evidence -that (Buttar). was treated dif-. _ ferently by (the company) than, ~~ others in similar situations’’, - justified.” d year all ar view last week that the man: probably held: .onto - them in hopes of getting a taxidermist to do an illegal mount of. the - grouping. He added that it’s a credit to local taxidermists that the individual. in“question went: two years without being able to persuade ‘one of them: to do it.” He is still. contemplating the - laying of charges; all. the. evi- just a matter. of going. through the procedure. “the Wildlife Act, illegal posses- sion of dead wildlife. McGuni- dence is assembled; he said, it’s ‘The. charges. . - would .be under, séction 34(2): -of gle said the: penalty will probably - - be in the order of ‘$100. : Beyond the dump, however, there are -an unusually large number of nuisance bears har- assing residents-in the outlying zareas of. Terrace. McGunigle said the marauding bears are not . concentrated around. the land- fill. There’ s one that raided a “chicken coop in New Remo the other day, one that’s been raid- ing garbage cans out on Queens- ot _ way, -there’s one that’s been terrorizing people on-the Bench, and . the usual. action: -behind und f for: bears. nr Terrace Sonbada’s ‘(restaurant on Lakelse Ave.).”’ ‘Bears normally invade devel-: oped areas in large numbers _ only during-years when the berry- crops in the bush are low, McGunigle said, but this year . the berries are healthy. and the much . the same - for: ‘the. ee involved. There’ is. no: place ‘the immediate vicinity - -of Te race to relocate ‘trapped: be McGunigle says, so the cap! ones are also destroyed. He is at a loss to explain this: . year’s bear problem. A popula. invaders are a different type of - tion increase wouldn't account, bear — wily, and experienced. “It's a lot harder to trap a larger, older bear than it is to trap a two-year-old,”’ he noted. - The Terrace conservation of- fice has two bear traps at its disposal, but whether trapped or shot on the spot, the outcome is. for the fact that the bears caus: ing the problem are mature ani- mals who could hold down terri- tory in the bush if they wanted. An increase in the hunting’ lie censes. issued for’ black beats. would probably have little. fect, he said. . ‘€f- NN oA arti Main Boag. The ‘assistant operations - ‘supervisor at the mill, Dennis . - Chairman Powell ‘said he ~ “and he: tuled thé complaint un- Driving's more enjoyable when you know your vehicle will start and run smoothly, _whatever the weather. So get in tune for the season now. Our ignition Tune-up includes 21 services to ensure that you have a great season on the road. 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