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A2 - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, February 16, 2005

_ Jobless rate creeps up >
_ but that’s no surprise

THE NORTHWEST : unemployment

rate rose in January. ending a months-

long:gradual decline.
But the hike to 9.7 per cent from

December 2004’s.8.7 per cent didn’t’.

surprise Terrace-based federal employ-
ment analyst Patrick McIntyre who
. said a slowdown after Christmas was
expected. 8

“It’s. not at all untypical. It’s re-
‘ally quite small. We've had a few good

months. There’s nothing ‘bad to Tead
into it,” he said in looking at the fig-
ures.

Mcintyre noted the January 2005

rate is better than January 2004 when |
unemployment stood at 13.3 per cent |

for the area from the Queen Charlotte
Islands to Vanderhoof,
When looking at the area, McIntyre re

said it seems there is more’ employ- |
ment at the eastern end than toward the.

coast.

“Terrace and Kitimat El starts have
gone up. Any improvements we’re see-
ing are not around here,” he said.

McIntyre did say the population de-
cline of the past years’ seems to have
stopped.

The population this January was

“fisted at 71,400 compared to 71.500 a

year ago. The labour force of people
over the age of 15 was listed at 50,700
this January, an increase over the Jafiu-

cary 2004 figure of 50,300.

Total employment j in January 2005
was listed at 45,800 people. more than
the January 200-4 figure of 43,600.

“What we're seeing is the labour
force being the same size as last year,
but there’s overall better employment,”
said McIntyre.

~The number of full time worker rs

dropped from 34,500 in December 2004
to 33,200 in January. But the number
of part lime workers rose to 12,600 in

January from 11.800 in December.
MclIntyre said the rise in part time
employment appears to affect’ mostly
women who had been working full
time.
Based on historical trends, McIntyre
wouldn't be surprised if the jobless rate

_ inches up over the next while.

| think it will be fairly steady but I
do‘ihink we'll see unemploy ment in the
10 per cent range for'a few months,”
he said. -

The provincial unemployment rate. ,

stood at 6.3 per cent in. January, up

by .3 per cent from. December 2004 ©

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FEBRUARY 2005

| FEBRUARY 2004 ||

A YOUNG MAN: charged .

. With multiple robberies that —
a store.

‘© included stabbing
employee i is going to Jail for
_ one year. .
“Neil Turner» pleaded

~ guilty to robbing Sangster’s
Health Centre in. Terrace, to

’ breaking and entering with

_ “intent to commit an offence
“ats Danica’s Convenience
Store and to breaking and
entering with intent to com-

. mit an offence al Trigo’ sin?

» Kitimat.
_ An employee of Sang-
ster’s. was ‘stabbed in -the
hand during the course of
the robbery there in October
2004.
Judge Ed de Walle also
“sentenced Turner to,one year
. of probation, == °°
-* 4! De. Walle. said,
co sentencing, he considered
-Turner’s age, his admission
of guilt when arrested, his
lack of a serious criminal re-
cord and his actions to make
amends.
“I deem you to bea risk to

From front

‘buy

‘when’

the community and it's nec- |
essary lo separate you from,

the community with a jail
sentence,” de Walle said.
_A victim impact’ state-
ment showed the owner of
Trigo’s in Kitimat couldn't
insurance for . glass
breakage.

Turner’s damage to the

business ‘totalled close to

$4,000, money out of the
owner’s pocket that can’t be
paid by insurance and which
cuts into the company’s prof-
it margin, de Walle said.

He is to have no contact -

indirectly or: directly “with

Sangster’s employees and:

may not enter the store..
Turner must also pay res-

‘titution of $591.08. to Dani-

ca’s Convenience Store.
‘Turner is prohibited from
entering Trigo’s in Kitimat

or Terrace and must pay res- . .
titution of $3,341.41 to the. .
. Kitimat store.

Turner is*
from owning firearms, other
weapons, explosives or am-

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New adult home
opens its doors

former mental health nurse, said she ‘ ‘could feel’ the laughter
and the tears and the healing that will take place.”

Cutting the ribbon was Brenda Locke, the provincial min-
ister of state for mental health and addiction services.

‘She said the Northern Health Authority is the only such
one in the province to so far fully use the money at its dis-

posable to build community residences as an alternative to

Riverview.

; “They’ve really taken mental health as a health i issue e and
. have moved it to the middle of the desk,” said Locke.
-She paid tribute to the residence’s planners and to those

‘who will work there.

spect,” Locke said.

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Turner’s admitted abuse of
drugs, de Walle noted.

He noted that Turner had’

alcohol treatment programs
available to you,” de Walle
said.

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