A - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, February 25, 1998

One family’s scary night

Driver shouldn't have left

An open letter to:
Ao unknown driver

Dear Slr;

You don’t know me and J don’t know you, but
let me introduce myself, I am a mom of a sixteen
year old boy. Not just any boy, but the one you
hit with your car on Tuesday night, Feb. 17,

It was approximately 9:15 p.m. and it was of
course dark. My son had been to the show and
was walking home. He walked most of the way
with a friend, dropped him off at his home on
Pear St. and continued his two-block trek home.
He crossed Graham St. and was walking on the
side of the road as there is no sidewalk there. It is
a very poofly lit area and like most teens, he was
wearing dark clothes.

He heard you coming and glanced over his
shoulder. He knew he was going to be hit and
tied to jump out of ithe way. Unable to do so,
your vehicle struck him and threw him upon
your hood. His head hit your windshield, You
immediately stopped and asked him if be was
okay. He answered a quick ‘I’m fine’, and you
proceeded along your way, Let me tell you the
rest of the story.

He continued his walk home feeling very
shaken and confused, About four houses from
our home he began ta feel very unsteady and had
to crawl the rest of the way, My husband and I
were not home at that time so he sent his brother
to get my neighbour,

Thank goodness she was home and was able to
call us from our lap swim to meet her and our
son at the hospital. When we arrived we found
him in a neck brace and trembling. He was very

Open
a Bay,
please

An open letter to:
Mayor and Council

Heilo: \

The recent purchase of K-
Mart by the Hudson’s Bay
Company gives our com-
munity a golden opportunity
to encourage a betier quality.
retailer to set up shop in
Terrace.

City council should ap-
proach the Hudson’s Bay
Company and ask them to
consider converting the K-
Mart locailan | in Terrace to a
Bay-store.-- . ee brane matey

The - nearby communities
of Smithers and Prince
Rupert already have Zellers -
and as we in the north have’
to drive seven and a haif
hours before encountering a
better quality retailer, I am
sure that the Bay would be
well supported.

Also, let us remember that
the Hudson’s Bay Company
was founded on serving
remote communities. They
owe their very existence to
the hardy souls of the fron-
tier — let’s have-a chance to
prove we can support the
Bay,

Christine Crawford,
Terrace B.C,

Skills
taught

A TRAINING centre with
two different kinds of stu-
dents opens here in April.

Calied the Centre for
Leadership and Technology,
it’s connected to the Kitimat
Skills Centre, a facility
opened earlier this decade to
provide industrial training
for employees of large in-
dustry in that city,

Alcan, Eurocan and
Methanex support the centre
and now want their employ-
ces who live here to have
the same kind of op-
portunity as the ones who
live in Kitimat.

Employees in Kitimat
have. access to an engincer-
fag technology program at
the Southern Alberta In-
stitute of Technology. The
skills centre in Kitimat of
fers the course in a unique
internet-based distance
learning cnvironment. The
same is planned for the new
Terrace centre.

The centre will also pro-
vide training and leadership
courses for natives,

It’s doing so under con-
tract from Pacific Northwest
Employment, Training and
Development, {formerly the
Skeena Aboriginal Manage-
ment Board).

That’s a group formed to
take over employment train-
ing programs for natives
from the federal govern-
ment,

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Never assume that someone who
has just been hit, Is able to make
rational statements.

frightened and confused. Bleeding from cuts to
his forchead and above his eyes he began to cry.
The doctor was very concerned. At the very least
he had a bad concussion and was in shock. Blood
was drawn and x-rays were ordered,

My husband and [ waited and prayed that
everything would be alright. At midnight we
were told that nothing was broken, but they
would like to keep him overnight for observa-
tion. He was given an I.V. and taken to a room. I
spent a very long night with him as he was
awakened every hour by the nurses to take vitals
and check his pupils. The next day he was
reledsed and told to take it easy for the next
couple of days.

He is very sore and has a headache off and on
but other than that he will be okay. I hope he has
leamed a lesson from this experience and will be
more careful to walk further off the road. doubt
I will be able to make him give up his dark
clothes,

What I am hoping for is that you and many
others will learn a Jesson from the terrible night

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that our family endured, We are in no way angry
with you for what happened, unless of course
you had been drinking. My son remembers very

little about you or your vehicle, which after such
a blow to the head is understandable.

I realize he told you he was fine, but obviously
he was not. What should have been done was
this. If you didn’t want to move him, go to the
nearest house and call either the police or the
victim’s home. In many cases, a ride home
would be in order. Never assume that someone
who has just been hit, is able to make rational
statements. | know you were very frightened at
what had just taken place, ] know how shaken I
have been when having close calls of hitting
someone,

Thanks to God that our son TJ. is going to be
okay. I wanted you to know his name. It was au
experience that [ hope none of us ever have to go
through again, including you.

Sue Hailey, Terrace, 3.C.
(received vic e-mail

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