Police report

Accidents take two lives

TERRACE «A local logging
truck driver was killed last weck
in an accident near Old Remo.
Dead is 31-year-old Adrian Ed-
ward Wensvoort, of Terrace,
Police - ‘said ‘Wensvoort’s 1984
Westem Star loaded log truck left
the road and the load slid forward
crushing the'cab.

The fatal” aécident happened at
Mile 16.5 of Whitebottom Road,
in. the Old Remo area, RCMP, the
coroner and the Workers’ Com--
pensation Board are investigating.
* * * *

A former: ermace man: is dead
after. a tragic ‘accident while driv-
ing up a sleep 1 trail in Thornhill. :

Buddy Potter; 21, “now of
Courtenay, was killed when his
four-wheel-drive. pickup truck
failed to negotiate a curve and
plunged 200 feet down an em-
bankment to land on Crescent St.
His - passenger, 22-year-old
Mare Zagar of Terrace, was taken
to- ‘liospital with neck and back in-

juries. He was released from hos-
pital last week.

RCMP said the accident took
place at 7:33 a.m. on Saturday,
May 16. Potter’s 1987 Nissan 4x4
pickup, valued at $15, 000, was
destroyed,

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Thieves in the night unbolted

- and stole the Kermodej Bear

Lodge’s trademark _ carved
wooden bear from atop the
lodge’s sign on Hwy16 west of
town.

- Trene Voelker says nobody has

JTeturned the bear, which was ap- |.
. parently stolen the night of Apr.
» 30,

She said'they had the bear since
opening the lodge three years
ago.

There are no plans to have a re-
placement bear carved. ‘‘The
same thing might just bappen
again,’’ she explained,

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Police are warming cyclists to

New RCMP posting
still in Smithers

TERRACE -- Lobbying by
Smithers ‘town council may have ©
stopped a plan-to move an RCMP
identification officer - position
from there to Terrace,

The reallocation of that special- ~

ized, officer to: . Terrace += because “be made by officials at the

there wasn’t enough work for him
in Smithers -- would have bol-
stered the Terrace detachment’s |

‘ident unit to three officers from /

two.
-Ident officers assist imvesti-
gators by taking photographs, lift-
ing fingerprints and examining
crime scenes.
‘ "Apparently
Smithers has: some
- 2 eyebrows," said Terrace RCMP
Staff Sgt. Zohn Velgman. "Et’s all -

the town of

raised

up in the air right now as to what
will happen."

"There may be nobody com-
ing," he added. "It7ll be a political
decision."

_ He said that decision will likely

RCMP’s ’E’ division head-
quarters in Vancouver.

If the change went ahead, the
Terrace ident unit would cover
‘the lower part of the RCMP’s
Prince Rupert subdivision from
Kitimat to Houston.

‘According to Prince Rupert
subdivision superintendent Bob
Fenske, an audit last year con-
cluded the Smithers workload
didn’t warrant a fulllime officer.

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be careful on city streets this
spring.

RCMP say numerous com-
plaints about careless cyclists
could soon prompt them to start
charging bike enthusiasts who
don’t obey the rules of the road.

A $75 fine can be imposed. on
cyclists who:

@ Ride on the sidewalk.

@ Fail to ride on the right side
ofthe road,

@ Ride two cycles abreast.

@ Ride without hands on the
handlebars,

© Carry extra passengers,

@ Ride while hanging onto a
car or being towed by one.

@ Ride at night without light
and rear red reflector,

@ Ride without due care and -
consideration,

Police also remind cyclists to

have their bikes marked to help _--.
identification if it is stolen and |

later recovered, Bike marking is
done free of charge at the fire
hall.

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