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By JEFF NAGEL

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By HEATHER COLPITTS
and JEFF NAGEL
A PLEA BARGAIN deal gives a
16-year-old killer parole
eligibility after seven years in
exchange for testifying against

another man.
Christopher Charles Williams

tured and waved to his father

last Wednesday before being led
away to prison for murdering 66-
year-old Jean Gosselin last year,

Supreme Court Justice Robert
Errico sentenced Williams to the
mandatory term of life
imprisonment, but apreed to
submissions from Crown and
defence lawyers that Williams be
eligible for parole after seven
years.

Williams . pleaded guilty to
second-degree murder in June
after he was raised to adult court;
If convicted on the original
charge of: first-degree murder he
would have no chance of parole
for 25 years,

Tm extremely’ sorry for whatI

did,”’ Williams told the court last:

Wednesday in Prince, Rupert,
‘And to the family, | wish that
Jean and Yvon. were with us.
They should be able to live their
lives.” ,

The Terrace youth suid he could
have saved 66-year-old Jean
Gosselin’s life if he had gone to
police after the crossbow killing
of Gosselin’s 25-year-old son
Yvon two weeks earlier. —

“Jt makes me mad at myself,”
he said, adding he will have to
live with the Thomhill double
murders for the rest of his life.

“And 7 know that I deserve to
be punished for my involvement,
but I was a mixed-up kid, I was
young, I was: constantly
threatened.”’

*T would like a second chance
to prove that I can be
successful.”’

Crown counsel Mike Fulmer
told the court Williams will
testify at a future trial of 28-year-
old George Bliss Hawthorne, who
is charged with the first-degree
taurder of Yvon Gosselin.

He was shot and killed with a
crossbow and left in a gravel pit
near the Terrace airport.

Two weeks later, on Sept. 26,
1994, Williams stabbed the father

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over the next 11 years consolidat- government study.
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Hospital doubts deep cuts can be made

MLA willing to help Mills”

SKEENA MLA Helmut Gics-
brecht says he hasn't been asked
to help Mills Memorial Hospital
in its budget battle with the health
tninisiry.

But Giesbrecht said he’s open
io a meeting with the hospital
provided it can come up wilh the
tight financial information for an’
effective lobbying campaign.

All the Ggures Giesbrecht has -
come fiom the health ministry.
which counter the hospital's:
financial claims. .

‘The information suggests they
are being treated fairly. The min-:
istry’s suggesting there are ef-
ficiencies Mills isn’t prepared to
do, They are being asked for in-
formation which — they! aren’t
providing,”’ he said lust week.

deadline, the third since the sum- :
mer, set by the ministry for Mills
to present its financial cases
Mills officials estimate -the hos-
pital will run-a deficit approach-

said Giesbrecht.: z

ing $600,000 this ycar,
They had predicted 1 balanced
budget for this year but now say

that increased demands have ff

forced cast increases,

“Its up to them to:-provide the
ammunition, if you like, for more
money. They haven’t done that.
It’s ‘hard: to ‘lobby on ‘behalf of
something when they're not hold.
ing-up their part of the bargain,”

. sald Gicsbrecht.

. He said he finds suspicious that
Mills and. others ‘have. started a
public campaign for’ help in ad-

. vance of providing, figures.

“There's a. certain election

‘fever in the alr. Maybe they think

we're a litle vulnerable and will

‘respond, ” Glesbrecht added.
oo. The: MLA: said: Mills:has_con-
That’s a reference to a Nov, 15 ;

ducted: lobby’ campaigns. before,

~ particularly. in’ the ean. 1990s, for
: more money,

Terrace
7 Society which runs.Mills, doubts

Fitean ‘Make the cuts nécedda
toe “completely

deficit.

the region we service with: any
more cuts,”’ said Power.

$100, 000.

Brerereh

Mills . officials... - have; “also

Wy .

since the carly. 1990s.

equivalents : eresed:

‘Helmut Giesbrecht.
Olga Power, the chair: ‘of the

Regional —_ Hospital ay

“eliniinate « vthe fu

rash len costs millions

plan says nearly $3.3 million is
needed in the next year alone to
Upgrade a series of existing
dumps, including Thornhill, and

to create new landfills or transfer

stations at Telegraph ‘Creek,
Kispiox and Meziadin. ’

The Terrace - landfill: would
close in 1997 and all. greater Ter=
race garbage would be diverted to
Thornhill starting that year.

Another $783,000 would be

spent in 1996 — and more than
$250,000 each year thereafter —
to set up a system: of. recycling
. drop-off bins; .and * haul, recycl-
ables to acentral depot,
The plan would also: distribute
subsidized backyard composters
to tesidents at a cost of nearly
$200,000'a year, -

. I's all aimed at meeting the
provincial government. objective.

of reducing the amount of. gar-
bage going into B, C.'s landfills
by 50 per cent by the year.2000.

Stage 2 of the plan’ ‘being

prepared for the Kitimat Stikine
Regional District ‘wag. released

last month and .projects 4.33 per.

cent reduction in the ‘waste stream
here if its recommeitdations, are
followed.

~ Regional district ‘officiel. ADANR- =
doned as foo expensive the goal

of a 50 per cent reduction.

Instead, . the. plan. says. “the
regional ‘district will .“strive:.to.:

contribute” to the ‘province-wide'
goal of a 50 per: gent “gurbage
reduction,

Even a 33-percent cut to: ithe. :
amount of garbage piling up will
cause a-big increase to taxes. at di

every community in the: tegion:.

Exactly how cosis would be’ .

distributed is undetermined. -

But the rcport says the total pro- ;

ject would cost an’ average’ of
$1.8 million a Year from m now un-

wins or 8 million

A HEAVY. DUTY mechanic

. from: Greenville who. won :$2.8

million in the lottery’ Friday
won't ‘let: the. money stop. him -
from finishing his next job. . .
Norm: ‘Stephens,:. 40,. says. he.
promised - to ‘convert: a riend’s

Stephens: was: laid off f

job as “a~ marine mectanic in
. Prince Rupert two weeks ago.,

‘He was .. dreading” the. cold

Weather. because. the: plumbing’ in
his home burst Jast winter’. seed
a TE was, pretty worried about this.
coming : Witter. I” don’t have" to.
worry al ut anything n TOW?

* the’ money with their famili

gas station. and garage ‘in. Green-
- Ville, ee:

new. house; ‘perhaps’ getting'a’ new: e

til 2006. Lon
That would boost.
average household by a 1
$120 per year in ever
unincorporated . -area -
regional district. \2:/!5 32200:
‘But about haif of the total price.
tag of $20 ‘million fo
waste -Matiagement: -ayste
cludes dump operations. © a
- That would replace’ some exist-.;
ing ‘costs to’ municipalities’ and . -
electoral’. areas, and: could: mean
the tax” hike won't be, as Righ: ag
Projected. ..
‘And since ‘costs will ‘be. Appar:
tioned ‘according to 3 formula, °
some: homeowners, w be hit:
that. hard, and. ‘others will be. hit.
harder.” ni :
“The 33° per ‘cent ‘peduictio by ;
the year : 2000 is to come from:
| ke » Reduction »- Vand sen
measures — 15 per cent.
‘T= Recycling — 9.2 ‘per. ‘cent, was
Composting — 8.9, percent...
-Door-to-door . ‘‘bluebag?), recy :
cling woulda! the part of the plan, - . .
however. | a ne
~The feport: recommends ys:
tem of drop-off. recycling bins for” -
the Kitimat: -Tertace-Hizelton |
corridor, a 4
oy Planners. ‘also hopé. various, eae
‘cation ‘measures will: help: ang
* attitudes aiid: -persuad people: ‘to
-Feduce and reuse things.’
The. plan: also calls. for:a’:
“bag dimit ‘on garbage . collection
anid’ a-user ‘charge. of, $7 8
“fo additional, ‘gulag over the:

30, 134 tonnes - = = up p from 80
in 1991.

“He went to the Terrace. Co-op:
fora Thanksgiving. turkey and got:
a $3 Lotto:.6/49. quick” Pick * that:

paid $2,849,873.20, °°" 7

“He and wife Charlene will ‘gl re ah

Stephens. has plans to

Saran oe

He: estimates I. cost)
$200,000 — leaving: plinty-for a’

truck, and afew investments...)
“Stephens said‘ he. “was: first ‘told? 1
he?d-won $28,000 by, a lottery, 8 j
-tondant: but. that. the: person then®
“said: he had: made | ‘a mistake: and :
: real fig igure Was 128 million,

“We can’t see how we can op-"
erate for the community and for -

She did offer hope hospital
managers could find: more ef-
ficiencies-but sald. they probably ee
would amount to: ap roximately s

countered claims: by ‘the: minisuy at
that the number. of employee
hours has crept up'despite 2.33 | ‘cause the church doesn hye:
per cenit. decline: in: pationt days,
Ministry statistics. that the num-~ | °
ber of full. time: ertiployce: ved

“Hot meal

HEALTH REGULATIONS.

‘stopped a Jocal, chirch . from |

feeding - “needy mn
‘Thanksgiving Monday: og
"The Terrace’ Pentecostal As

‘Yet health regulations forced
@ cancellation : this: -year:-be- “

8 commercial kdichien:
We had: nine turkeys ast’ -

-sembly’s Thanksgiving dinner.
“|, was fast becoming ’a iradition . een 6
“The church ‘now. had plans’ i a
- put in'a commetcial. kitchen to. |

: be cooked site...

“year and they: were cooked in’. ~ has,found
| nine different kitchens. guess": The’ cori
. | what the health: department “its ~ 60¢
oop was: looking: cat: was::ihat if weeke
a : somebody got 8 lmone
os the -

canned]

“McAl ister last week,
is

food available to the pubtic en

will, be ietlvered to ae
ci dy families’ iv thi
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