a] Police probe flurry of break-ins TERRACE RCMP freed up staff last weck lo investigate a string of commercial break-ins in the area they fear may be related, In the last month at least four businesses — Terrace Paving, a veterinary office, The Falis Gallery and the Skeena Valley Golf and Country Club. have been robbed. “It’s unusual. to get this many of them within this lime frame,”’ said Staff Sgt. Bob Solvason. “TE people see anything suspicious they should let us know.?’ He said some of the break- ins involved the same meth- od of operation — cutting telephone-based security systems to de-activate the alarm. That was the case at the golf course May 26 where thieves pried a back: door deadbolt and stole up $14,000 of store mer- chandise, cigareltes, al- cohol, money and equip- ment. Included in that grab was GOLF CLUB assistant ‘Kevin Jeffrey is beefing up security at the golf course , after thieves looted the building and stole this golf cart. a privately owned $6,000 golf cart, paris of which were later found on the golf course. Thieves tumed off the security alarm system by breaking phone lines con- nected to the club’s securily system. “They knew what they were doing,’’ said club as- sistant manager Kevin Jef- frey. ‘‘The police came and took finger prints but they were wearing gloves.”’ The golf course is replac- ing their Jocks and adapting their securily system with a cell phone connection at a cost of approximately $2,000. “We're a non-profit orga- nization and that money ‘is goue,’’ said Jeffrey. “We're hoping the insurance will cover it,” Land finally hits table at Tsimshian treaty talks TSIMSHIAN natives hope to flesh out their vision of land and resource control around Terrace at open treaty talks here June 29-30. > “We hope to lay outa fair picture of what we see for Jands that can sustain Kit- sumkalum and Kitselas in an economic and social fashion,’? Tsimshian chief negotiator Gerald Wesley said, Negotiators have only recently staried drawing lines on maps demarcating proposed lands and resources for the future Tsimshian trealy, Up ta now, Wesley said, the lalks have been largely bogged down. on process aud procedures. “The pace of. negotiations fb slow,” hé admitted.” * Rather than the one con-° ‘tiguous -chunk of, 2,000 - square — Kilometres: of : Nisga’a lands allocated in the Nisga’a treaty, Wesley said the Tsimshian lands “just (geopraphically “ rated — they have distinct. Gerald Wesley will likely consist of a num- ber of satellite arcas. That’s because Tsimshian villages are widely dis- persed up and down the coast and as far inland as Terrace, rather than situated in one valley, > The''seven villages. aren't issues and im some cases want the treaty customized to the needs of each village. That’s been a major issue in the negotiations, because Enter To Win BRAIN QUEST 1. 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