- £2 - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, November 13, 1996
STOP Press | decide fire
NEWS late
ee -N WHO. RURAL RESIDENTS liv-
. ing beyond the current
Thornhill fire protection dis-
: Suspect charged . trict could cease to have fire
' A YOUTH has been charged in connection with five protection this weekend,
car break-ins that happened early last Friday at the depending on the result of

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Northern Motor Inn, ae Saturday’s referendum.
Terrace RCMP Staff Sgt. Doug Wheler said the juve- Those residents will be vot-
; nile ~ who cannot be named — faces charges of posses- ing in a referendum on
: sion of stolen property, possession of breaking instru- whether to expand the cur-
, ments, and breach of an undertaking. rent fire protection area, and

Police nabbed the youth near the East End Chevron borrow $1 ‘million ‘to
after a witness at the hotel saw a suspect flee in that purchase fire-tighting equip-
direction. Wheler said police also recovered a laptop ment and fire halls.

computer valued at $6,000 that had been stolen the The expansion would hike
week before. The juvenile is being held in custody. a $100,000 home’s property
Wheler said the arrest brought to two the number of taxes by $300 a year,
Suspects charged in connection with car break-ins in the However, fire insurance
, last two weeks, But further police calls over the wee- | sates will likely decrease as a
kend indicate there are more perpetrators out there. result of the new protection.
Wheler said thieves broke into 14 vehicles in town if residents vote against

over the long weekend. In some cases CDs, stereos or fire protection and the resul-
other items were stolen from within, and in at least two ting tax increases, their
' cases the ignition was tampered with in an attempt to homes won't be protected as

: steal the vehicle. of midnight, November 16,
: The bulk of the incidents happened on Hallwell Ave., That’s when the Thornhill
downtown, on Graham Ave, and at the Sandman Inn. volunteer firefighter’s asso-

Wheler said the rash of vehicle thefts is in its third ciation will stop answering
week and reminds drivers to lock vehicles and keep calls oulside the boundary.

valuables out of sight. The association has been
paying for the costs of pro-

Roads spending drops tecting the outlying areas

DON’T EXPECT the same amount of local road pav- oro us own finds. And the
: ing and reconstruction in 1997 as went ahead this year. some aff rd todo that
: City council has passed a provisional budget that calls If the referendum results
for $2 million worth of capital projects next year — are in favour of expansion
down from the record $4.25 million the city earmarked ervice to the outlvin areas
for roads, water, sewer and other projects in ‘96. s ill b 3 he the

The huge number for 1996 was a result of council Thornhill Fite Dex attrrent
pulling $1.7 million from the city’s accumulated sur- Residents affected by the
plus. A number of projects didn’t go ahead in 1995, but roposed expansion will
the money for them was thrown into this year’s budget. ve this Sat ms Polls are

The $2 million figure for ‘97 may still be optimistic, M n from 8 ain fs 8 pm
as it’s not yet known how much provincial grant money Pe m. pan.
the city will lose due to budget cuts in Victoria.
Councillor Val George said the city fears cuts could be wi
as high as 20 per cent of the $700,000 the city gets in J

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: Dan Miller, deputy premier and employment and invest-
ment minister in whose riding is located the Watson Island
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