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- Parks around town sprouted some new playground additions:
(shown here) and are constructing a memorial sign for ai
| “Little in the southwest corner of Lower Little Park, both paid
“for by‘city grants. A new merry-go-round at Kerr Rotary Park

Kerr's. estate.

Monkey business

this month. City workers installed’ monkey bars at Elks Park -

was the purchase made Jast year with money donated from: 4 -

rears

Accident
kills two

TERRACE — A fatal crash on

Hwyl6 Aug. 5 was one of
several accidents that recently
plagued the Terrace area. ,

James Scodane. of Terrace
and Shane Scodane of Prince
Rupert were killed 28 miles west
of Terrace‘in a head-on colli-
sion, Three people were injured.

The Jaws of Life were used to
temove a trapped victim from
one of the vehicles.

* Mark and Maurice Aaeger of
‘Prince Rupert were’ taken to
Prince Rupert Hospital by-a: :
‘private vehicle before police ar-
rived, and Loretta, Genaille of ~
Terrace was taken. lo Mills
Memorial Hospital for ‘treal-_
ment.

~ The cause of the accident is
unknown and RCMP and Cor-
oner Jim Lynch are still in-
vestigating.

“We're still awaiting results
from the (blood) tesls sent down
to the crime lab in Vancouver,”’. . §
Terrace Constable Kevin Pod-
bisky said.

Hwyl6 was the scene of a se-
cond accident the next morning
when a 17-year-old Prince
Rupert youth lost contro! of his
Chevy Camero and drove off.
the left side of the-road: ~

The car flipped into the ditch _
and slid approximally 56 metres
on its roof, RCMP reported.
+ The. driver suffered ‘minor
‘onlising on his back, arms and
legs. « a
The accident, which happen-.-:
ed about 25 km west of Terrace,. -
dstroyed the car. 7

That day was a bad one for -
accidents, ‘as. just over two °&
hours laier a car failed to stap at
a stop sign‘on Park and collided ~
with a pickup trick southbound .
on Kenney.

Both vehicles were moderate-
‘ly damaged and the 81- year-old ;
woman driving the car, was -
charged with failure to stop at a
stop sign. ;

“TERRACE _ The RCMP @
detachment’ 5 new second-i -in- . &
‘comfmand should be.on the job -
“by the end of the month.
Staff Sergeant John, Veldman’.
is in the process of moving ‘from |. :
- the Vernon area, says: detach- :
“ment commanding. officer. In+
_ Spector: ‘Lawrence Yeske.
‘The iiewjob'also'comes with. §
a: promotion, : ‘Veldman — had’:
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TERRACE — Former White
Cane Club president Felix
Goyette says he has been wrong-
ly branded a crook by its parent
organization, -
Council of the Blind (CCB).
Goyette was president of the

local club for the blind last fall

when its plarined Christmas ©
variety show fund-raiser failed °
and all the money raised disap-.

peared.

The show was the original
idea of promoter. John A,
McDonald, who police are con-

tinuing to investigate in connec- -

‘the Canadian

tion with the incident, Ticket-
holders were turned away at the
door when they tried to see the

.. show Dec, 15,

Since then, the local club has
voted to kick Goyette out and
ihe CCB executive has expelled
him as a member. Goyette ap-
pealed that decision, and failed,

“There's been a kangaroo

‘court that I haven't been allow-

ed to attend,"’ Goyette said last
week. “I’ve done . nothing
wrong and I haven’t been allow-
ed to tell anyone my side."

- He says he no longer wants to

Vote challenged

TERRACE — The Department
of Indian Affairs is in-
vestigating an allegation of

voter irregularity during the ..
. Kitimaat band’s May vote for

the position of chief councillor.
Albert Robinson, one of

, three people who ran for the

job, says three people who
voted are ineligible because they
don’t live within Kitimaat’s
boundaries.

The vote ended in a tie bet-

cillor Gerald Amos and Robin-

son.

The tie was broken in favour
of Amos by the Department of
Indian Affairs official who con-
ducted the election.

“It’s obviously something we
don’t like to do. — cast the
deciding vote, but it does hap-
pen and there is provision for
that,’* said Gerald Cook, the
official in charge of the in-

vestigation.
ween incumbent chief coun- —

His report will be sent to
department officials in Ottawa,

Terrace Standard, Wednesday, August 14, 19917 — Page A Ag

~ Expelled club president
wants his name cleared _

have anything to do with the
local club, but he says he needs
to clear his name. Otherwise, he
said, he could be barred from
future dealings with. other
organizations such as the Cana-
dian National Institute for the
Blind (CNIB).

Goyeite was expelled for
“conduct unbecoming a.
member of the council,’’ said
CCB divisional president Stan
Bradshaw from Prince George.

“[ feel sorry for Felix,”
Bradshaw said. ‘‘I really like the
guy. But I don’t want to see the
whole club go down the tube.”’

Goyette continued to co-sign
withdrawals from the Christmas
show account after McDonald .
refused to give him weekly
financial statements to show
where the money was going.

“T couldn’t make him give
them to me,’’ Goyette said.
“What was [ to do?”

Bradshaw said he repeatedly
told Goyette to get those
statements from. McDonald,
and said Goyette shouldn’t have
cooperated if McDonald refus-

“A lot of this is not Felix’s
fault,’ Bradshaw said. “I’m
positive he's been duped and
manipulated just like everybody

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Felix Goyette
else. But the responsibility has
to go somewhere,””

Brian Gregg, a friend of
Goyeite’s, says the CCB’s ex-
pectations were unrealistic.

“'They (local club members)
made him president because he
was the one that was willing to
go down to the meetings in
Prince George,’’ said Gregg.

*"Now that things have gone
wrong, they want a scapegoat.
And they're picking Felix.as a
scapegoat in this and I won’ t
stand for that,”’ he said.’

“They've had him. charged,
tried and convicted as a crook in
this, and now he wants his name
cleared.

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