Al4 - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, October 18, 1995

Police
Beat

Purse
snatched

RCMP ARE looking’ for: a
purse-snatcher who attacked a

on Friday moming.

Police said the woman was
locking ber vehicle at about
8:20 am. when, she was
knocked down from bebind,

The thief got away with her
purse, which contained per-
sonal property, jewellery and
cash. .

RCMP said a man with short
black hair, black jacket, jeans
and a packsack fled the scene
headin; towards the back of
the mall. ;

- Anyone with information is
asked to call police at 638-
0333.

Charged ©

A GRAVEL TRUCK’ driver
has been charged with failing
to use caution at a railroad
crossing after the truck was hit
by an eastbound CN freight
train Oct, 10,

Police said Garvin English
was charged. :

Frank St. near Hwy 16. There
was only minor damage to the
train and truck.

Logs on fire.

A LOGGING TRUCK caught
fire.about 40 kin east of Ter-
| race on Hwy16 last Wednes-
day.

Terrace. RCMP said. the
loaded logging truck owned by
Holist Contracting Ltd. of New
Hazelton was westhound when

The resulting wheel fire
spread to the ‘logs on the
trailer, and the blaze took 40
minutes for © Thombill
firefighters to extinguish.

There were no injuries to the
driver . passenger, but
‘damage: wo the ‘truck ‘WAS €X-
tensive. ~: ;

Trailer fires

FIREFIGHTERS are . investi-
gating the second trailer fire in
twoweeks, ,

The latest one happened at
10:23 a.m. Oct. 11 in a mobile
home at the North Kalum
Trailer Court.

It came after a similar trailer
fire at #24-4310 Marsh Cres,
on Sept.29. |

In both cases the trailers
were vacant at the time and no-
body was injured.

Police are continuing their
investigations.

woman in front of Overwaitea |

its right rear brakes caught fire...

City can’t afford —
the cost of twins”

THE CITY of Terrace can’t af
forda sister,

City council last week ‘shot
down councillor Ed Graydon’s

idea of twinning with a sister clty ;

somewhere,
Graydon suggested the German

affinity for sportsfishing on the —

Skeena might» make a. city in
Germany a’ ‘good ‘candidate for a

~ sister...

AY. understand ‘it may be’ ex- |.
pensive ta visit there once in a
while, but I think there aré eco- |
nomic opportunities and -I think ”

it’s a good idea,’®. Graydon said.
He said it’s ‘time to ‘broaden
our interests a bit’ and “put Ter-
race on the map someplace else.’?
But the idea was quickly
canned,’ with: councillors Val

George,” Gordon Hull, Rich |
_ McDaniel, and David Hull voting

against.

“I find it difficult. to: ‘support
when we = can’t: send-. enough."

people down to-.UBCM: (the
Union of B.C. Municipalities an-
nual convention),””. said

 -MeDaniel. ---
_ David ‘Hull echoed that senti-

ment.
* “lt would ily to the point where
we have to spend $15,000 to-go
to Japan and it would die right
there.”

Graydon said it woildn't t neces-
sarily have to be a city overseas.

“Maybe” even 8

- Grove Tip. from Ewironmont Canada

The incident happencd at .

city in-

" Alaska,”’ he said. -

“Fyder’s nice) and close,”
replied David Hull. °

Let's. twin with Usk,”? joked
George. .

‘The Jast effort at lwinting was
10 years: ago. when. then council-
lor George: Clark explored the
idea,

They: locked at twinning with .
the city. of Hitachi, in Japan,
home to the home electronics

manufacturer of the same name,
and also: the destination of much
of Repap’ 's wood from the. north-
west, |

TE never. went anywhere,”
Says Clark.”

Expenses were never quite.

determined, plus Hitachi was
much larger than Terrace,

“It was going to'be a little like
the minnow swallowing the
whale,”” he said.

Clark said normally * a ‘winning

“society” is established that coor- . F
dinales various exchange trips.

‘A city. delegations would go

back and forth every couple of

years.
And although nothing happened

‘then, Clark thinks. council. dealt

too abruptly with the subject.
“T'still think it bas a lot of
meril,”’ he said:
_ Still unknown, he noted, is ex-
actly. what’ benefit in terms of
tourism’ or investment such a

twinning would produce,

K- the car, but
try taking the
bus to work. Olten
you can get there

faster, and it helps
the environment.

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