A2 - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, February 22, 1995 Gun regs no solution News In Brief Budget on TV TONIGHT BRITISH Columbians get a chance to alr their views on the economy and suggest what , Kind of budget the province should bring down this year. The hour-fong “electronic town hall meeting’? will air on BCTV beginning at 7 p.m, The show will feature premier Mike Harcourt, finance minister Elizabeth Cull and University of B.C. professors Jon Kesselman and Angela Redish. Viewers from around the pro- vince will be able to phone in and put questions to the panelists. Seminars to outline WRP THE WATERSHED Renewal Program (WRP), financed under the province’s Forest Renewal BC, will be the subject of a series of seminars next month. There will three distinct semi- mars, one targetting forest workers, another the general pub- lic and the third for those inter- ested in developing or being in- volved in monitoring WRP projects. ; . In Terrace, the general public gets its tum Wednesday, March - 8, 7-9 p.m. Project managers put in a full day — 8:30 am-430 pm. — March $ and that evening the series closes with a 7-9 ».m, ses- sion for forest workers. Anyone interested in taking part should phone Carmen Wheatley at (604)847-8833 or fax (604) 847-3537, Fire agreement gets first test A LOADER FIRE on Braun's Is- land Jast week was the first test of the coordination of area firefighters under a new fire pro- tection agreement, Tertace fire chief Randy Smith said a man there was welding on a loader when sparks ignited” some.material: beside it, which in turn ignited oil on the-loader: . qe said the man had enough | fire extinguishers on hand to put out the fire. Terrace and Thomhill fire fighters arrived minutes later to cool the smoking loader. The fire protection agreement ensures Braun’s Island and some rural areas north of Terrace are protected “Tt worked very well,” Smith said. ‘““Thornhill was right on the ball. They were right behind us. Had it been an actual fire, there would have been a good response." Tires blown AIR B.C. flights blew tires on the Terrace airport runway two nights in a row last week. Both planes landed safely, but passengers were delayed. Air B.C.’s evening fight 559 on Feb. 12 was the first to blow a tire when the Bael46 touched down at 6:55 p.m. The same thing happened the next evening when another Bae146 blew a tire upon landing. Air B.C. spokesman Hal Cameron sald in each case the company chartered another plane and flew two mechanics and two replacement wheels up to Ter- race, Passengers continuing to Prince Rupert were sent by bus. Pas- sengers flying out to Vancouver were shifted to Canadian Air- lines. The main landing gear consists of a pair of wheels under cach wing, so loss of onc tire isn't crit- ical. -Rec cards get relook THERE'S BEEN a huge response to the city’s offer of free recrea- tion passes for people on social assistance. “The popularity of the recrea- tion card pass has taken recrea- tion staff by surprise,’’ said coun- cillor Ed Graydon. The program was launched on the basis it wouldn't be am extra costtothe city, **It now appears there will be a cost to the city and that’s what we will be addressing,’’ committee chairman Rich McDaniel said, THE FEDERAL government’s proposed gun control legislation is more smoke than substance, charges Rod and Gun member- ship chairman Terry Morris. Addressing a recent chamber of commerce luncheon, Mortis ¢m- phasized some of the provisions the government was intraducing as new were already in place, For example, the legislation in- cludes a mandatory five year jail term for using a weapon in com- mission of a crime to be served consecutively to any other sentence.” ” Morris pointed out existing legislation slrcady provided for a one-to-five year term, also con- secutive. “Prosecutors never push it,'’ he added, saying they frequently agreed to drop the weapons of- fense in exchange for a guilty plea to, for example, a robbery charge. Rather than go to the time and expense of drawing up the new legislation, the government could simply have told the court system to implement the law that was al- ready in place. As for claims the legislation will keep guns out of the hands of criminals, Morris noted an Ontario Provincial Police survey Dry kiln gets the go-ahead COUNCIL HAS approved plans fo construct a controversial dry kiln on Terrace Pre-Cut’s Braun . St. property, However, the development pemnit to be issued will lay down a series o£ conditions which owner Mo Takhar has to abide by: ; @ A two-metre solid fence must conducted in 1993 found more than 80 per cent of the guns used in criminal activity bad been smuggled into the country from the United States, . “He (federal minister Allan Rock) is blowing smoke at us, trying to fool us that he’s doing something, “Taking all our guns away is not going to keep a single, solitary gun out of the hands of criminals,” he added. As for declaring certain weapons prohibited because. of the way some people used them, Morris maintained, “What we do should determine what happens to us, not what we own,’ As an example, he applied the same logic used in the gun legis- lation to the ownershlp of cars. That would mean the govern- ment, having seen statistics that showed a certain make of car was involved in more accidents than any other, could declare that vehicle prohibited. Therefore, you could find your car confiscated by the govern- ment even though you had done nothing wrong. Morris also pointed out the registration of guns is not pro- posed to begin until two years after legislation is passed and _ Rest Insured even then be phased in over a five | year period, “TE it’s so important, why not do it right away?’* he asked, Morris suggested the answer was a licensing system similar to that used for drivers, Like driving tests, there would be various levels, the lowest al- lowing ownership of a .22 calibre, the highest a permit to cary a gun for personal reasons. 4s with driving, the individual would have to prove competence at cach level to be licensed, Home Owners Policy Tenants Auto Plan Snowmobiles Lagging Equipment Liability & Commercial TRIMARK CANADIAN FUND performance aso For more information on Trimark’s RSP Mutual Funds contact: MUTUAL FUNDS WE MANAGE, TO OUTPERFORM, Great Pacific Management Co. Ltd. C.G. (Bud) Hallock 5133 Agar Avenue, Terrace, B.C. 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