Sex offender
back in fail
after warrant
was issued

JUST TWO days after provincial carrections officials
issued a public notice regarding a sex offender living in
Terrace, RCMP picked up the person and he has now
‘been transferred to jail in Prince George.

Patrick Joseph Rinsma, 33, allegedly breached a con-
_ dition of his probation by not attending a scheduled ses-

‘sion with a counsellor.

~.. He was detained Aug. 7
‘and. moved to Prince
George the following day.

The notice was issued
 Aug.°5, telling people that
Rinsma, 33, must abide by
certain conditions.
’.Rinsma was most re-
‘cently convicted of sexual
“assault. involving a 14-year-
-:old'girl last year, He was
sentenced July 26, 2002 to
-a/15-month conditional sen-
“tence.

“He spent [2 of those
months-under house arresi
‘in Terrace and had just
- Started three months of be-
‘ing .released out of: his
“house as long as he fol-

v lowed. certain conditions.
“<°Those conditions restrict who he may have contact
“with and prohibits certain behaviours.

~The conditional sentence is considered a jail sen-
‘tence even though it is not served in an institution,

The notification says Rinsma, who has a criminal his-
_tory-of sexual offences against both teens and adult fe-
_ Inales, is not allowed to have contact with anyone under
the age of 16 and he is prohibited from consuming any
drugs covered under the Controlled Drugs and Substanc-

es Act.

“We stand by the pubiic notification,”
tions branch spokesman Derek Tangedal, even though
Rinsma-is behind bars at least until a hearing is held

Aug. 25,

“The corrections branch considers public safety to be
paramount and in cases where there is a cause for con-
cern for public safety the branch will proactively notify

the community.”

He said the public notifications are not common prac-
tice and are issued only seven to 10 times per year in

B.C.

“In determining the need for public notification we
will consider risk factors such as offence history, treat-
ment attendance and success, substance abuse issues
and whether an individual is compliant to supervision.”

Police had actually picked up Rinsma earlier, on
Aug. .1, but he was released shortly thereafter pending ¢ a

court appearance.

Details of that situation were not immediately avai-

able.

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A CORONER is investigating the drown-
ing death of Jachin Estes, 18, after an ac-
cident on the Nanaimo River at Nanaimo
on Vancouver Island Aug. 3.

Estes and two friends were using a
rope swing tied to a 25-metre train trestle
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News In Brief
Off to the Kitlope

TWO NORTHWEST Community College instruc-
tors are taking 20 studénts into the Kitlope Valley
near Kitimat as part of a two-course summer offer-
ing.

Students are taking an anthropology course and a
geography one, which will give them six credits
when complete.

“We have 20 signed up and 20 on a waiting
list.” college anthropology instructor Sheree Rona-
sen said in advance of the program which began
Aug. 12, Gord Weary is teaching the geography
course,

The two courses are being offered i in conjunction
with the Na-Na-Kila Institute, the Haisla and Al-
can,

Students will have regular classroom sessions in
addition to their Kitlope journey which begins Aug.
16 and concludes on Aug. 20. They will also visit
the Nass Valley.

Fire benefit tomorrow

CBC RADIO is airing a benefit concert tomorrow
night in aid of the North Thompson region's forest
fire victims.

Musical acts are still be lined up and the plan is
to stage a 90-minule concert on the main. network
beginning at 8 p.m., CBC producer Beatrice Brett
said.

Listeners can make monetary donations by
phone and the crown corporation is working on a
plan to accept on-line donations, she said.

“We're hoping people will be generous,”
Brett.

In the meantime, CIBC has made a $25,000 do-
nation to the Red Cross in aid of those affected by
the forest firés. As well, the Bank of Nova Scotia
has set up an account, useable at any of its
branches, for those wishing to make donations.

Save on Foods also held barbecues in the North
Thompson area over the weekend in support of fire
victims.

said

Disaster aid wanted

SKEENA ALLIANCE MP Andy Burton wants the
federal government to move quickly to provide dis-
aster relief to those affected by the North Thomp-
son forest fires.

“At this time every effort is being put farth to
control these disastrous fires and again [ urge the

_federal, government to act quickly in reponse to the
upcoming disaster relief requests from the provin-
cial government,” he said last week.

Eligible costs under the federal disaster assis-
tance program include restoring public works to
their pre-disaster condition and replacing or repair-
ing basic and essential personal and business prop-
erty and farmsteads.

The program works by the province assessing
damage and paying for it and then having the fed-
eral government reimburse a portion of those ‘Pro-
vincial expenditures,

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