Mel Couvelier

TERRACE — Social Credit
party leadership candidate Mel
Couvelier told local delegates
he'll need their support: at ‘the
party’s. leadership. convention
that gets underway tomorrow,
The former finance. minister
was in town last Wednesday to
woo the 25°” Skeena.’ region
delegates,
“I believe [ll have the sup-
port of some of the delegates
here,” Couvelier said. “1 am
going to need a lot of help in
Vancouver on the convention
floor.” ° an
Couvelier is believed to be
trailing Grace McCarthy and
premier Rita Johnston, =~
He told delegates of his plat-

for Northern su

government, shrinking cabinet
to a set of nine super-ministries.

His. plan of governmental
reform includes provisions for
the recall of elected “officials,
free votes in the legislature, fix-
ed sitting dates and’ election

_ dates; and a Freedom of Infor-

‘mation act. ~:. .

He said his plan also calls for
the elimination of jurisdictional
overlaps between the province
‘and ‘the federal’ government,
“Mrs, Johnston seems to be
coming around to agree with me
on this and I’m pleased about
it,” Couvelier said of similar

. Statements the premier made

here two weeks ago,

Local backs the Premier

TERRACE — A local member
of the Young Socreds threw his
Support. last week behind
Premier Rita Johnston in her
bid for the party leadership.

- , Chis Lindseth, _ 20, who
works at’ Bytown Diesel, has.
been a Young Socred for four

years. oe
He says Johnston is a decisive

_ Native opinion w

TERRACE — The forest ser-
vice is seeking native participa-
tion in drawing up a new

" Management plan for the South
-Kalum forest area..

_ District manager Brian
Downie said information
packages had been sent out to a

dozen native organization in the

-region and each had been asked
 tolook at:how they could take

“part inthe process.

- They included the Tsimshian,

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“She usually comes up with
an answer and it’s usually yes or,
no, rather than the usual -run-
around.””

. Lindseth has met Johnston.
twice, most recently on her visit
to Terrace this two weeks ago.

‘She was friendly,” he
recalls. “It was nice to know ;

Nisga’a’ and ~ Gitksan
Wet'suwet’en groups as well as
band councils throughout the
area such as the Kitsumkalum
and Kitselas. ;
Although the forest service
hasn’t: had’ an opportunity to
talk with any of those groups
yet, Downie said it has arranged
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that they’re not just faces on the

news. She kind of reminded me
ofa grandmother,”

Other factions of the Young
Secteds have formed groups
supporting other leadership
candidates, ot

‘The leadership convention‘

Slarts. tomorrow.

anted |

talives of the Eagle clan of the
Gitksan.

Expressing the hope ‘other
native groups would. also be
able to take part in drawing up
the new management plan, he
added, ‘We need to find ‘out

what values are impé¥tant to _
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He said there's a subtle -d
ference between his statements

‘ship candidates,’

and those of the other leader-

“So far they’re all saying the

objective is to defeat the NDP
in the election, I’m the only can-

didate sayiig the first objective.
is to defeat ‘the public's percep- .

tion of ‘our party and govern-
ment.*" ~~, :
“We've been under attack for
SO long, we've tended to hunker
down’ and resist change,"’ he
said of the party. “Change is
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political organization.”*

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TERRACE — Sadie Parnell is

leaving. her post of executive
‘director at the Kermode Friend-

ship Centre, -
She's taking a one-year leave

Of absence from the job to |

return to school in Prince

Rupert, where she owns [a °
house. Parnell has-been ac- <
cepted into Northwest Com-| i.
Munity College's business ad-

ministration _Program at its
Prince Rupert campus, 7
. The ‘centre’s board has not

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Skeena River with represen. - ;

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set up on Hwy37 to check '
motorists Feturning, from “,
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Officers said most’ of the
200 drivers they checked ©
were returning from a day on -
the beach. a

Police laid four charges
under the Motor Vehicle Act,
men, Police said alcohol was and issued a dozen warnings
a contributing factor, for various offences during
i kkk: the Sunday evening

Terrace RCMP say they roadblock at the intersection
were pleasantly surprised to of Hwy16 and 37.

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hospital July 6.

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