A2 - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, May 6, 1998 STOP Press ” Caught at REM Lee TWO 18-YEAR-OLD men face charges of possession of stolen property and theft under $5,000 after two cars were entered May 4 at the R.E.M. Lee Theatre. The cars belonged ta peaple who were part of the crowd inside the theatre telling school trustees to save the district's elementary band and music program. RCMP report that one man was caught inside a vehicle by a high school student. Truck totalled A 1997 stolen 4x4 pickup has all but been written off after it hit the ditch while being pursued by police near St. Croix Creek east of Terrace May 1. Three juvenile girls were arrested at the scene and spent the next several days in jail, say RCMP. The truck was taken from the 4800 Block Loen that eve- ning and RCMP began looking for it and three juvenile girls who were reported hanging around the area, Calling Penny Priddy TERRACE MAYOR Jack Talstra is taking telephone advertising to heart by reaching out and touching someone— specifically health minister Penny Priddy. Talstra has set up a telephone conference call May 15 between local officials and community groups and Priddy to talk about the need for more money for Mills Memorial Hospital. City council in the past few months has become increas- ingly worried about the ability of Milis to take care of patients given a big deficit and tight budget. FRBC projects here FOREST RENEWAL B.C, money announced for this area includes: $1.3 million for an enhanced forestry project for Skeena Cellulose to space an estimated 1,000 hectares employing Nisga’a crews. An estimated 66 full-time seasonsal jobs are to be created, @ $1.06 million for brushing and weeding in the Kispiox Forest District by Skeena Cellulose. W@ $180,000 for West Fraser to restore a watershed on Princess Royal Island, @ $100,000 for the Nisga’s Tribal Council and B.C. Parks to develop a 10-20 site campground in Nisga’a Memorial Lava Bed Park. Wi $50,000 for the Tsimshian Tribal Council to conduct a forest sector strategy study. Commissioner in works THE LONG-AWAITED northern commissioner may finally be in the works, along with a $2.5-million price tag. Dan Miller, newly appointed minister for northern devel- opment, announced a plan to send a bill through the legisla- ture that will set up an office in the north with a “direct line” io government, Miller made the announcement at the North Central Municipal Convention in last Friday in Smithers. He expects the bill will take about three weeks, The northerm commissioner will have a budget of $2.5 mil- lion, Miller said. The commissioner’s job will be to give northem concerms a stronger hearing in Victoria. Hiring a northem commissioner is the second of three sug- gestions that came out of last fall’s Premier’s Northern Summit in Prince George. The first was to create a northem ministry and another was to set up a northern advisory board to report to the commissioner. Miller hinted that the advisory board would follow once the commissioner is in place. People will be able to go to the commissioner's office or to members of the advisory board to raise a concem they have about the north, The commissioner will then bring the mat- ter to the attention of the government in Victoria. Goodacre said it would be nice to see the commissioner based in a small town like Smithers rather than Prince George because the office would be more authentically tural, WMothers D & Lay.. 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A $15,3-million cut to the Skeena- Bulkley region's funding is merely a step toward taking investments back to self-sustaining levels, according to officials. Although this year’s $51.3 million for the Skeena-Bulkley region — and $517.5 million province-wide — is still above average, FRBC cautions industry not to expect the same further down the road, FROM FRONT ~ Council favours condom access medical health officer David Bowering, who said condoms are effective in pre- venting both pregnancies and disease. Asked by Vanderlee if they require spermicides to be effective, Bowering said most condoms available, including ones that are installed in machines, are already coated with a spermicidal lubricant. Vanderlee aiso questioned the possi- ble liability to the city if a condom fatled, adding he’d heard cases of law- suits in the U.S. “I don’t think it’s any different from slippery sidewalks or snow on the roads,” Talstra responded. Bowering said he’s never heard of anyone successfully suing a distributor, He supported the idea on installing the machines, noting high rates of teen pregnancy here and the reluctance of teens in small communities to be seen buying condoms ina drug store. Bowering estimated 60 to 80 per cent of teens are sexually active by the time they leave high school. He characterized the installation of condom machines as a small thing that can be done to make a difference, DeLeeuw said a Smithers business- man who maintains condom machines in the region would be able to install and maintain them at no cost to the city. She added that he normally turns over a portion of the profits to the owners of the building where the machines are installed. The school board is set to vole tonight in Stewart on whether to make J condoms available in high schools, Last year's investment of $66,6 mil- lion in the Skeena-Bulkley region, and atotal of $625 million throughout B.C,, was a record in FRBC’s history, says Butch Morningstar, acting regional director for Skeena-Bulkley, More money was injected to help those affected by the limping forest sector. This year investment in forest- dependent communities took one of the biggest. hits, plummeting to $750,000 from $4.6 million fast year. Enhanced forestry lost $4.3 million, leaving funds at $6.8 million, while watershed resto- ration funding falls $1.5 million to $6.4 million, The cuts will have effects on contrac- tors, like Terrace’s McElthanney Engineering, which expects to reduce their staff by about five employees wha had been working on watershed resto- ration projects. “The program has been gutled,” said McElhanney's Pat Bolin, pointing to cuts to projects in the Kalum, Lakelse, Kitimat and Nass river watersheds. “There's nothing feft.” Meanwhile, the value-added sector sees the biggest gains, getting $1.1 mil- lion, almost double last year’s amount. tie It’s the most money FRBC has ever." invested in value-added projects, >= Morningstar says FRBC decided to °- cut major funding from community programs because il felt by* funding’ environment, land and employee pro- grams it was also indirectly Supporting communities. - Reductions in stumpage fees are - fie, expected to cut costs in the northem + interior by $3.50 per cubic metre and... reduce FRBC revenues, bul Forests Minister David Zimbhelt said it's yetto . be seen how the stumpage reductions will shake out at the FRBC level. na VALUABLE COUPON [fo ee een gasoline Valid only at the real Canadian Wholesale Club gas bar location. 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