A2 - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, April 10, 1996 STOP Press Sex assault charged TERRACE RCMP have a 27-year-old Prince Rupert man in custody following a sexual assault ear- ly Easter Sunday morning, Police say aman was giving a 2l-yvear-old woman 4 ride home when he took her to an isolated area in the Copper River subdivision and attacked her, Police say the 1wo did know each other. She culled police after the assault, and a suspect was arrested a short time later in the Terrace area, The accused man is scheduled to appear in court next month to answer to the charges. 45 laid off in Stewart FORTY-FIVE workers at Westmin’s Premier gold mine in Stewart are out of work as of this Friday. Layoff notices went out last Thursday following Westmin’s decision to close underground mining operations there, : The remaining 27 workers there will continue mill- ing ore and concentrate for other mining operations in the region. . Westmin vice-president Bruce McKnight said the Premier mine did not produce the ore the company expected since reopening it as an open pit in 1988. The open pit operation was scaled down a few years aga. and McKnight said they continued ona “hand-to- mouth” basis by extracting small-ore pockets left by previous operators. ©” “ That has been ar best a breakeven prospect: but loss- es are now mounting. McKnight estimated the mining operation lost more than $1 million inthe last thrée months. “We can't stand losing that much on a long term basis.” he said, But McKnight said they’re working on drumming up more business for the ore mill in Stewart; Its major customer is Cominco's SNIP gold mine on the Iskut river, Which barges ore concentrate to Stewart. nines in the hopes of milling more ore. Vandals sought TERRACE RCMP are following a trail of broken glass. trying to find vandals responsible for a number of incidents last week. Sometime between 3:15 and 3:45 a.m. on Friday morning culprits threw rocks at living room windows of three homes on McConnell, Sparks and Benner slreets. In each instance a small, grey car. with a noisy exhaust was reported to have been at the scene. ‘- «People driving a-car of the same description were also reported to be involved in a number of vehicle break-ins that same morning, Police say a number of vehicles in Terrace and Thornhill had their windows broken, and thieves then took whatever they could get their hands on. Giesbrecht gets the nod ABOLT 50 New Democrats showed up at the Canadian Auto Workers Hall in Kitimat Thursday night to annoint Skeena MLA Helmut Giesbrecht as the party’s candidate. Also there were small business. tourism. and culture minister Bill Barlee and Cariboo North MLA Frank Garden. Barlee called Skeena key to the government's chances of victory. “Skeena'’s a swing riding and the union movement will decide what happens.” he said, Ul cuts protested ABOUT 50 people staged arally at the Skeena Mall parking lot Saturday morning to protest federal cuts to unemployment insurance benefits, The event was organized by the Kitimat-Terrace District Labour Council. which bussed in protesters from Kitimat, 4 Wwe SS Vf as WA _ S SKEENA VALLEY FaKMERS MARKET MeKnight said they're negotiating with a few other CREME ||| STOPPERS Terrace Crime Stoppers are asking your assistance in solving the theft from Caledonia Secondary School located at 3605 Munroe St, Terrace, B.C. The investigation has revealed that an unknown individual or individuals gained access to the chemistry classroom and took two Mettler electronic weigh scales, model BB2400. These scales cost $400.00 each. If you know the identity of the person(s) responsible for the vandalism to these vehi- cles and building, Crime Stoppers would like to hear from you, Crime Stoppers offers a cash reward of up to $1,000.00 for information leading to an arrest and charges laid against an individual in this or other unsolved crime. If you have any information call Crime Stoppers at 635-TIPS, that’s 635-8477, Callers will not be required to reveal their identity nor testify in court. Call 635-TIPS Tenants get evicted | from Thornhill suites A THORNHILL landlord who’s Tenting out illegal suites is finally bowing to the law. Helmut Reinert has been involved in a dispute with the regional district since eari ¥ this year, He owns property on Lakelse Lake Road, just past the Thornhill dump. It is zoned to allow just one home on it, But besides his own home, Reinert also has three trailers on the land which he rents to five tenants. And that’s illegal, Earlier this year the district told Reinert he'd have to mave the trailers or. kick his tenants out. Now, it seems the latter will come to pass. “Pm tired of fighling,’’ Reinert SAYS, He plans to give each tenant an eviction notice, giving them until the first of June to move oul, : 'T don’t want to be fined or taken ta court and take on regional district,’ he says. That could cost a lot’? Initially the district set February 1 as the eviction date, but later bumped that up to April 1 to give both sides more time to try and work out a compromise solution, On April 1 regional district bylaw enfor- cement officer Don Oldham visited the property and told the district’s lawyers the tenants were still there, Reinert was then told he had two more weeks to come up with a final proposal or ihe district would pursue legal action. But Reinert says his lawyers have now said there is no other way around the prob- lem. He will give his tenants their eviction notices this week, “It’s not up to me anymore,’’ he says. “ll now be up to the community to put pressure on the district.” Transport studied THE FEDERAL government is sponsoring a study that'll look at transportation issues along Hwy16 leading to Prince Rupert. On the list are airports due to lose their federal subsidies, VIA Rail, highways and port facilities al Prince Rupert, says Trans- port Canada official Boris Pavlov. And it'll include the provincial govern- ment’s plan to spend more than $100 mil- lion building a bridge and road network connecting Prince Rupert to its Digby Is- land airport and several coastal com- munities. ‘Everything will be looked at in view of the fiscal realilies communities face,’’ said Pavlov. The idea is to delermine how various transportation methods can cope with changing situations, he added. A key part of the study will look at vari- ous port facilities in around Prince Rupert. 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