AG - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, December 11, 1996

News in Brief | Medal given
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Arbitration avoided

A group of tenants who had planned to take their land- i h

lord to arbitration in order to get repairs done scem to O ic i a e re

have found an alternate solution,
Woodlands Apartments tenants on Kalum were com- A LONG time local correc-

plaining about repairs not being done on time or done tions branch official was

at all. They became particularly mad when the land- presented with a national

lord, Lloyd Wittkowski, raised the rent. award in Victoria last week. ;
But it looks like the landlord and renters are sorting Rob Watts, the provincial CASSETTE DECK DISC PLAYER

their problems out, says Roseanne Pierce, a residential corrections branch’s district

tenancy advocate with the Terrace Anti-Poverty Group. director, received the ex- Model# TOW 118 Modeli# ALF 252
She was acting on behalf of approximately 10 tenants emplary service medal from dual cassette 5 disc carousel changer

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Pierce says that may not be necessary, as Wittkowski e award recognizes .

is making sure the repairs are getting done. many judicial and other auto tape selector wireless remote
‘‘He was not aware of how bad things were,” Pearce areas. in which Watts has

said of the Wittkowski’s reaction lo the complaints. been involved since be

joined the corrections
branch in 1974, =~ ae

1 ‘‘He’s made’ a number of Rob W

Vote time changed distinguished. contributions. ae atts

WE'LL BE going to the polls at a different time when He’s regarded as one of the University continuing edu-

the next federal election is called. pioneers of pniting a proba- Cation body.

Members of Parliament have given the nod to dif- tion officer on the traveling | Walts was the only north-
ferent voting times in each of the country’s time zones. court. team,” said Ben €fer among the 31 provin-
The intent is lo roughly equalize voting times. Stobbe, his immediate supe- cial and federal corrections

In B.C,, for instance, voters will be voling from 7 rior last week, officials given medals last
a.m. to 7 p.m. instead of the present 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. That traveling court team week.

Our beginning time of 7 a.m. roughly matches the is the one which heads up He moved to Terrace in
Newfoundland start lime of 11:30 a.m. Hwy37 north and into the 1975 and has been a proba-

The move is expected to answer critics’ charges thal _ far central region of the pro- tion officer and a family
Brilish Columbians can find out how things are going vince. ; court counsellor among var-
— and perhaps even fine out who the governing party Watts has also done much ious duties,
will be — prior to casting their votes. to solidify aboriginal justice | Watts was also instrumen-

Also changed is the length of time of an election programs in the Hazeltons, tal in the moving of the
campaign, from 47 days to 36 days. has been involved in several community correctional

legal education projects and centre to new facilities in
served on a Simon Fraser the early 1990s.

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