Page A10 — Terrace Standard, Wednesday, February 26, 1992 POLICE ~ REPORT - Driver charged _after death THE DRIVER alleged to have struck down a college student on the Sande overpass in December faces charges relating to the incident. Christopher Doeleman, of Terrace, is charged with driving without due care and attention, and failing to yield to a pedestrian in a crosswalk. Twenty-year-old lan Patrick LeRoss was killed Dec, 4 when he was hit in the crosswalk by a car turning left onto Greig Ave. The fatal accident prompted the highways ministry to change the traffic lights at the intersection. Traffic is now held back for 17 seconds while pedestrians use the crosswalk, and pedestrians have a no-walk signal while cars are turning left. Doeleman is to appear in court here in early March. Bootlegging charges laid TWO LOCAL men face bootlegging charges following a small RCMP sting operation last week. Frank David Miller, 63, of Straume Ave., and Jean Gosselin, 62, of Miller Ave. are charged with illegally selling liquor from their homes. The sting was carried out on Saturday, Feb. 8, The two are to appear in court Mar, 27. Unsafe cars” checked TEN PER CENT of the vehicles checked by police in a Feb. 5-7 roadblock safety inspection were deemed unsafe and were taken off the road. Const. Gary Swanson said 250 vehicles were checked by RCMP and the regional vehicle inspector. Twenty-four vehicles were immediately removed from the road by tow truck. Another 22 drivers were given notices ordering vehicle inspections within 30 days. Another 56 drivers received ‘‘fix-it’’ tickets ordering them to repair minor defects on their vehicles. “The two main reasons for vehicles being removed from - the road. right away was inadequate or no brakes, or loose and worn steering components,” Swanson said. - RCMP advise motorists to have their vehicles checked regularly. Owners who fail to comply with mandatory inspec- tion notices face a $500 fine, loss of plates and having their vehicle impounded. . Skeena Cellulose looks for Westar purchase word soon TERRACE —Skeena Cellulose wants a deal wrapped up to buy Westar’s Carnaby mill near Gitseguecla and its cutting rights for the operation by the end of March, says a company official. And it wants to set up a joint venture with a native group within the same time period, said Reg Lightfoot. Opened in 1988, the $42 million Carnaby mill has suf- fered because of an inadequate wood supply. It’s now running on one shift instead of two, But that would change if Skeena Cellulose takes over because it would feed wood from other parts of the region into the mill, said Lightfoot. “We would bring in the right log diet, the right size of log by expanding the fibre base,’’ he said of Carnaby which is set up to cut wood between 16 and 40 centimeters in diameter. Skeena Cellulose is selling the proposal based on mixing in the Carnaby mill with its sawmills in Smithers and Terrace and with its pulp mill at Port Ed- ward. It’s particularly important to the pulp mill because it now gets 30 per cent of the wood chips needed from Westar. That kind of integrated operation will add to employ- ment stability in the Hazeltons and im other areas, said Lightfoot. “The real picture one e has to keep in sight is the possible dire consequences otherwise in the entire northwest,’’ he said. Such a mixture of timber and pulp production by one com- pany means a better balance in that one sector can buffer the other if needed, Lightfoot con- tinued. The end of March timetable is important because Skeena Cellulose has financing in place up until then, he said. Lightfoot declined to identify the native group with which it is negotiating but did say it will have to put up some money to become a joint venture partner. The Skeena Cellulose plan acknowledges: that there is a surplus of milling capacity in the Hazeltons area when com- pared to the quantity and kind of wood supply Westar has under licence. Its plan doesn’t include Westar’s Kitwanga mill which has been closed because of in- adequate wood supply. Skeena Cellulose has yet to strike a deal with Westar which says there are other offers for its Hazelton area operations. And any deal to transfer cut- ling rights has to be approved by the provincial government. It ean attach conditions to the transfer. For its part the province is waiting for a report, due the end of this month, by a commission Reg Lightfoot set up to examine what should happen to Westar’s Hazelton rights. University says regional fears totally unfounded TERRACE — University of Northern B.C. (UNBC) of- ficials say there’s no reason to believe the institution won't receive money to expand beyond its Prince George base this year. That fear was raised by a group of northwesterners at a UNBC board meeting last month. The concern is that the budget-conscious NDP govern- ment will either postpone or greatly slash the university’s se- cond pliase budget — earmark- ed for the regions — leaving on- ly the central campus in Prince George. ‘Times are tough,”” UNBC regional operations director’ Dennis Macknak said Friday. “‘That is one of the major things that’s generating a lot of con- cern among people in the whole of our region.”” 1e Colonel's Combos 83 69 each. Colonel’s™ Two-Piece Chicken Combo, Chicken Sandwich Combo. Colonel's Chicken Sandwich, Two pieces of chicken, fries, coleslaw and bread. fries and coleslaw, Hot Wings Combo. Five Hot Wings and a regular soft drink, 3 fontatey” oR . , ae ? of Otthen 2 | _ Nobody’ ¢ Cookin Like Today’ | KIC. *Phustax. Limited ein dy Ai parikpitng festnurants. - But Macknak said he is cer- tain there will be a budget for the regional! part of the universi- ty this year. ‘How much money is another matter, It’s crystal ball time as far as that goes.” “But to have a regional university without regional operations is a bit silly. That is not in the scenario as far as we're concerned.”’ The university won’t know how much it will receive until the provincial budget i is released this spring. The delegation that visited UNBC last month will meet again with university governors Feb. 28 in Prince Rupert. “The concerns that those people brought here on January 18th were taken very seriously,"” Macknak said, “Some of those issues are issues that will never go away because we’re inven- ting a new kind of university here, There are no blueprints. There is no pattern or mold, because no one has really done anything like this anywhere else."” He said the university will have to justify all expenditures very carefully to Victoria. “The provincial government has said that the Prince George campus is a piece of the-Univer~ = 7 sity of Northern B.C. and not the only piece. They have made a commitment to the whole of the university including the regional operation. And we're going to hold them to that.” Macknak said the university could have regional coor- dinators in centres across the north — including Terrace — as early as May 30. “We're not enemies — we’re on the same side,’’ he added. “We're not the people who need convincing. And so far we’ve had no indication that the people in Victoria need any moré convincing.’ is at its best. 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