A2 - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, February 28, 1996 City wants B.C. Tel explanation for cuts CITY COUNCIL is asking B.C, Tel president Brian Canfield to explain why 24 jobs are being cut at the phone company’s Terrace office. B.C. Tel workers and their employees packed council chambers Monday night to request support from the cily. Eleven employees have been told their jobs in Terrace will end this year and that they can take a job somewhere else — most likely Vancouver -# or accept a voluntary separation package. Another 13 positions are to be cut by the end of the year. . Telecommunication Workers Union spokesman Larry Sippel said the Terrace workers were handling calls from all over the province - something made pos- sible by high-tech networks, “B.C. Tel, the “technology leader” in communica- tions seems not to believe what they have been preach- ing to the public,” Sippel said. “They seem to believe thal the information highway is a one-way street to Vancouver.” He claims B.C. Tel has focussed its cuts on northern communities where employees have more seniority — and are therefore more expensive. “They've picked on communities where they know people cannot move or will not move to achieve this downsizing,” Sippel said, Councillor Gordon Hull wanted the request for a meeting be made carefully to avoid giving the impres- sion the business community is accountable to council. But councillor Ruth Haltock attacked that idea. “T would venture to guess that if Repap announced tomorrow they were laying off 150 people and pulling up pins, there would be a great hue and cry from every- one in this town,” Hallock said. “We should be equally concerned for their (the B.C, Tel workers) welfare as we would be for the forest industry.” “Mr. Canfield has a duty to explain to the people of Terrace why they’re doing what they’re doing,” coun- cillor Rich McDaniel added. Attacker jailed one year AN 18-YEAR-OLD Terrace man has been sen- tenced to 12 months in jail for stabbing another man during a house party. Clifford Frank Bill has pleaded guilly to assault with a weapon causing bodily harm. ina trailer home February 22, At around 10:30 that night RCMP responded loa call that a 19-year-old man had been stabbed in the chest. A short time later Bill tumed himself in. The victim has since recovered from his injuries. Socred enters race SOCIAL CREDIT association president Dave Serry confirmed Monday he will vie for the party’s Skeena nomination in a meeting to be held Mar, 25 in Kitimat. Serry put current membership at 40 in Kitimat and about 100 in Terrace, the latter being about one quarter of the:party’s previous strength there. The Socreds here have a sizable warchest left over from the 1991 provin- cial election, in which MLA Dave Parker went down to defeat. Serry has foiled in previous efforts 10 win election to city council in Kitimat. “A lot slipped over to Reform and the Liberals,” he said of party membership, but added that trend has reversed and new members are now signing up. fi He was among’ group of people who were. partying |. fee and CORRE AVARE |g SFOPPERS Terrace Crime Stoppers are asking for your assistance in solving the vandalism and theft to a series of mail boxes between Old Remo Road, Kreston Road and Haaland Avenue, in the early morning hours of February 17, 1996, in around the Terrace, B.C. area. The investigation has so far revealed that witnesses saw a light blue compact car, pos- sibly a Mazda or Nissan, around Old Remo Road, shortly after the damages were noticed. Damages and theft were reported to have involved upwards of 100 individual mail boxes. If you know the identity of the person(s) responsible for these crimes, Crime Stoppers would like to hear from you. Crime Stoppers offers a cash reward of up to $1,000.00 for information leading to an arrest and charges laid against an individual in this or other unsolved crime. If you have any information call Crime Stoppers at 635-TIPS, that’s 635-8477. Callers will not be required to reveal their identity nor testify in court. Call 635-TIPS From front Newest recruit The third pup was dropped because of bad clbows. Tracking and searching are the primary uses of po- lice dogs, says Bretfeld. Bretfeld recalls searching the bush near Kitimat a few years ago for a mentally handicapped woman who had wandered away in the fall. ; She’d been missing three nights and four days and Bretfeld was returning from . another day of searching when Cody began to act strangely. ‘I was too bagged to un- derstand he was trying to tell me something,’? Bret- feld says. The police dog went back into the bush and Bretfeld then heard a faint cry. Cody had gone and bitten the woman to make her cry out and get his handler’s at- lention. “That’s when ] clued in and found her,’’ he said. Another incident saw Cody and Bretfeld sniffing for clues at the scene of a downtown Terrace business break-in. Breifeld was talking to witnesses and not making much progress when he heard thump, thump, thump sounds behind him. He tumed around and looked up to see Cody dragging a teenage culprit down a sct of stairs where he’d been hiding. In narcalics training, the dogs are taken to the airport, the bus stop or Loomis and are tested in their ability to find hidden drug packages. Sometimes they find more than the test package, Bret- feld adds. ‘‘The odd time you hit on the real stuff,’” he says, ‘‘and that starts an in- vestigation.” Efforts to fool the dogs’ sniffers with grease or cof- such “generally don’t. Bretfeld says. ‘ Cody sniffed out $20, 000 worth of cocaine in an inci- dent here last year, Bretfeld says. ‘‘We wouldn’t have found it wilhout the dog.”’ Other breeds besides Ger- man Shepherds can become police dogs. Bretfeld says work,??.. Belgian Shepherds are sometimes used, and Labrador retrievers are renowned for their ability to search for explosives and drugs at airports. Success is ofien not when the dog catches the bad guy, but when the dog finds a critical piece of evidence that ensures the bad guy will be convicted in court. Brelfeld says a police dog can quickly find a weapon that a suspect threw away just before police made the ares. Bretfeld and Cody work for all 17 detachments in the Prince Rupert subdivision. BC Time Jo Play. see pg, A13 .SCemS,. | he finest in town! 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