| News in brief Youths charged “TWO YOUTHS have been charged in connection with a crash that sent several people to hospital Oct. 27. Police confirmed witness reports that two pickup trucks were ‘drag-racing side-by-side down Lakelse Ave that night when they met a westbound car. - One of the trucks hit the car outside the Royal Canadian Legion. Firefighters had 10 work for 30 minutes to free the occupants of the ‘car, 24-year-old Janice Henry, 67-year-old Vera Henry, and 14- year-old Sandra Henry. All were hospitalized. _|:..Charges were laid last week against 18-year-old Dwayne Etzerza, | of. Telegraph Creek, and an unnamed Terrace youth, who cannot be “idéntified under the Young Offenders Act because he was 17 at the [time of the incident. Both youths have been charged with one count each of dangerous : driving and one count each of criminal negligence causing bodily harm. > They are to make a first appearance in Terrace provincial court Aprit 30. Heroin caused deaths HEROIN SUBSTITUTED for cocaine was responsible for the “deaths | last month of a Kitimat man and two Prince Rupert men. Coroners last week confirmed the three men were victims of heroin overdoses. |John Theodore (Teddy) Mutch, 28, died in Prince Rupert Jan. 31. "|. Vernon Graham Nelson, 37, died there on Feb. 1. | Forty-year-old Harold Thomas McCormick died a day later in a Kitimat. | © Prince Rupert RCMP Staff Sgt. Tom Gray said a recent large J shipment into Vancouver has produced a glut of heroin, and a cor- responding fall in the price of the drug, | -“The heroin prices are so low it's profitable for certain drug dealers to sell it as cocaine,’ Gray said. ‘‘fl’s supply and demand.” “Users not expecting that they’re using heroin find themselves in difficuity,’? he added. -.]- Const. Duncan Hewitt said analysis determined the dng was | straight high-grade heroin — it wasn’t spiked with poison as had earlier been suspected. | “Down in Vancouver people were dropping like flies at the same lime because of the purily of the product,’’ Hewitt added. -UNBC costs soaring UNIVERSITY OF Northern B.C, cfficials are facing a new round of dramatic cost overruns on construction of their central campus in Prince George. First phase construction costs came in at $23. 3 million — nearly | 25 per cent over the original cost estimate of $18.7 million. Most of the first phase costs related to site preparation, and water . Ff and sewer line installation. ’ “Now bids have come in on the university’s second phase of con- _ [struction there and none of them were within the $50-million budget. Low bidder was Foundation Building West Inc., of Burnaby, at --f $58 million. The other four bids came in between "$58 million and | $67-million. The total budget for construction of the entire university campus in Prince George is $137 million. 4 Prince George city council has also approved spending an extra ‘] $3 million to shore up the sliding main road into the university. TERRACE — VIA Rail wants to change the times its Skeena passenger train runs between Prince George and Prince Rupert. It's suggesting that the train leave Prince George at 8 am. three times a week to arrive in Prince Rupert at 8 p.m. The train would then leave Prince Rupert at & a.m., arriving in Prince George at 8 p. m, three times a week. Such a schedule would eliminate late night or very early morning arrival and departure times from Prince George and make the route more desirable for locals and tourists, says Skeena NDP MP Jim Fulton who met with VIA officials last week. “With new daylight hours and a proper marketing strategy VLA and the towns in the northwest could see a major boom in the tourist industry,”’ said Fulton. Those awkward arrival and departure times from Prince George are because the Skcena’s schedule now begins and ends in Jasper. There are no stop overs in Prince George. Under the new schedule, pas- sengers would overnight in Prince George before heading for Prince Rupert or before continuing on to Jasper. Sleeping cars now on the Skeena ma would be taken off and replaced by coaches under the proposed new schedule. The dome car would remain as would meal service. TERRACE — Local teachers have rejected the school district’s latest contract offer. And they’re meeting March 24 to come up with an action plan and to decide when to take a strike vote, In talks last week the teachers presented a comprehensive pack- age that withdrew several out- standing issues and reduced their salary demand to an increase of 2.3 per cent in each of two years. The school board responded “with an offer including salary in- COMMUNITY PROGRAM WORKER'S COURSE — ARE YOU INTERESTED IN PURSUING A CHALLENGING CAREER IN THE COMMUNITY CORRECTIONS FIELD? THIS INTENSIVE 75 DAY PROGRAM MAY BE OF INTEREST TO YOU. The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, March 17, 1993 - Page A3 VIA wants schedule shift Chain reaction EACH LINK in a huge paper chain that stretched around Parkside school last week represented one book read by a student or one book read to a student by a parent, The read- ing all took place at home, making for a huge effort on the part of the 195 students that go to the school. Peering through some of the links are, from the left, Thomas Monteith, Sabrina Dosanjh and Chris Chapman. creases of 2,3 per cent in the first year and 1.8 per cent in the sec- ond. But Terrace District Teachers Union president Cathy Lambright says the board doesn’t understand the importance the union places on the issue of mainstreaming — the integration of handicapped children in regular classes. *'They really don’t seem to un- derstand,”’ she said. Lambright says the concessions the board has made on tmainstreaming ‘are worthless be- cause school district officials would retain the right to veto the identification of special needs children. ‘Victoria will only recognize four per cent of the children in a district as special needs children for budget purposes. Any more than that and the school district must pay the full cost of providing teachers’ aidcs in classes with handicapped chil- dren. “If you don’t identify them, you don’! have fo pay forthem, owe Lob pe eh bps Teachers ponder strike vote date she explained, “‘and that’s exact- ly what we're afraid would hap- pen.” Teachers also want a class size reduction of one for every special necds child in each class. - “We made major, changes,’”’ Lambright said. The union pulled its latest offer off the tabie afier sceing the board's response. The board’s contract offer remains on the table, No new dates for talks have been schedulediv- sie major Loyale... . 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