carmel Terrace residents collected souvenirs of the famous Skeenaview | water tower on Thursday. - pric ps ths Bis Sioa 19 EO wt aD Nae ENS OES Tite TATA entrees ct yota sett mertteent eg OE ea ga oe i: weatssaraie eiciaar, | PARLIANENT SULLDINGS, WICTORIA, 5.C.., ' WSV-LX4 e residents watched : — COMP. 77/78, | sol wt Destruction _. Terrace water tower tat _ Thursday was the first step . in the phase down of the Skeenaview Lodge. Bat fears that long term care facilities are to be phased out totally were allayed last week by Gordon Gailbraith,: executive ‘director of Skeenaview, BC. Health ministry _ will . fund a new 5 bed facility in April'25-26 have been set =e aside ax a day. of protest with a film and speakers set Litwary April 26. Eric Oltoff, of Amnesty International, will. be speaking at the Library arts room along ‘with Dave Martye of Koox | United Church, and Randy Potis of Policeman wounded i in Calgary. shooto tower destroye when be confirmed that the. . oe a A eS for a: public rally at the. the Northwest Community © ry Are - aa Tower’ Ss fall ends an era rade own community for as Jong as’ possible. Currently -¥ Skeenaview serves patients © - throughout the region. 7 Gailbraith . says . he expects a fall start on the. pew facility, with building taking up to'10 months, and. completion. slated for 1982. re While’ Skéenaview ‘isa being - phased: down, | Gailbraith ‘says it” is. bosiness as usual at: the | PePrrriryevirr irs, northwest B.C. ‘The provincial | government has ‘serve citizens requiring’ : - Jong: term care in the = * north,” said Howard. . : Protest rally planned - : held at the Stodents Union : Building al the University of British Columbi Tarde t ete wen ee eaaet facility at Parksville. The Parksville. facility ‘is to = contain ': intermediate : = wil, Howard saysa similar ; 4 an ym CALGARY (CP) —-A RCMB officer and a co victed murderer were wounded by gunfire in downtown Calgary on Sunday night as police tried tostop the convict fleeing in Harvey Harold Andres, 32, a beth hit by. police bullets, police said. For- sythe, a 13-year RCMP veteran, was in satisfactary condition in hospital today. Andres was reported in serious condition. Andres, serving a life sen- tence for the murder of a British Columbia woman, had been the subject of an inteneive manhunt since he seatiuton last ears Insp. John Lewis, a police spokesman, said RCMP _ Officers stopped a car carrying four people near T2th Ave. and oth St S.W. 8 Car. ; about Pp.m. - - Sgt. Ray Forsythe, 33,and . He said three of the occu- pants — two'men and a woman — got put of the car, ‘but Andres slipped into the driver's seat and drove olf. “Aa be. began’ to drive. away police shot ai the vehicle,” Lewis said early today. : “One of the shots struck one of the RCMP officers in the upper left chest: One of the shots hit Aniires In the right side." Eyewitness Sygismund Crawford was returning from an Easter ch ” service when he heard burst of gunfire. « “"T heard five on six or. seven shots,””: Crawiord, a resident = “Thea I saw a car coming nearby the wrong way down Lith . aig His two front tres . : begging him to come out,” . said Thomas. He said the ” man ‘in the alley shouted Crawford said the car pulled into a parking kt near a furniture itere. The driver lept out of the car and ran down an alley. “Within less than a minute there were six or seven " police . cars,” Crawford said. “They - wouldn't, have found him at all bad it act been for their . dogs.” Crawf ord and another eyewitness, construction worker Chuck Thomas, said. at least one shot was fired by someone in the alley before he was arrested. “They (police) were back: "Tm burt.” | Lewis would not comment om the pair's reports, but said Andres was armed with: +@, handgui - when - _ Surrendered to police. he: hiding in a garbage truck. He was serving a life sex tence for the September, 1976, .sexual:"Assault and murder of Shirley Aan - Baker in Winfield, B.C. " Andres was described by" police as — extremely dangerous following his escape: ochre i ten . Terrace District Council has e atowed organizers of the rally use of the library grounds for part of “Unite ut for Survival Day". ss A slide-tape entitled “Making a Killing", will be Poliée did not release the shown. ‘The film deals with names of the‘other three in Canada’s . involvement in the car, but said they were the nuclear arms race. being interviewed by police. The days evenis are ; expected to increase the laden ccnpet Mars general populations security federal peniten- Seed by ancient ans tiary near Edmonton by and the. currently heightened world arms race. , . Arally and workshop will be going on in Vancouver at the same time. Saturday, demonstrators - will march from Kitsilano Park across the Burrard bridge to Sunset Park where workshops and information. geasions will be held. Sunday workshops will be Labor council supports Skeenaview idea The Kitimat-Terrace and District Labour Council voted April 16 to support the establishment of a 55-bed senior citizens home on the Skeenaview Lodge grounds along with special care facilities for the bed-ridden at Mills Memorial Hospital. Although the Terraceview Committee felt that the Mills facilities were not adequate for the job, lacking both the suitable number of beds as well as the physical properties required for long-term care, the committee says that this -was the best deal which could be expected from the present government. ‘The same motion endorsed the Skeenaview location as a heritage site and called for iis renewal and ation. A delegation from the labour couneil is to present its position Terrace District Council at its next meeting, | The council decided to send a letter to Jamea Chabot, minister of lands parks and housing, deootincing the respodse received by the council to quéstions if had raised in regards to the Skoglund Hot Springs development. In particular, the ministries’ potilion on development of the site as 0 tourist attraction, and its refusal to consider . possible energy alternatives. ‘The council beard a report by a member who had recently travelled to El Salvador and decided to support 2 motion which added its name tv a listof others already on a petition denouncing possible US, involvement in that country. Ten dollars was voted to cover publication costs of the petition. . Fifty dollars was voted towards the membership costs of fhe council on the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. ‘The group is an Ottawa based research orgenization which provides lahour- oriented views on policy questions to counter business oriented groups such as the conference board of Canada. The council voted to give §200 to Juanita Hatton’s the Golden Rule Employment agéacy to help it through a funding crisis it is now and acknowledged its debt to the agency for the services it provides’ labour. The council also voted to aid the Golden Rule in its attempts to recéive further. funding. Seventy-five doflars and a message of solidarity were sent by the council to the Canadian Farmworkers Union, which is attempting to organize farmhands in southern British Cokumbia. The council endorsed # motion sent to it by the Nelson- Trail labour Council] which denounced conditions at the Vancouver Post Office and demanded a federal inquiry into oversta fling and delays in mail handling at that plant. The anoual Mayday dance will be beld at the Rod and Gun Club in Kitimat on May 1. The annual pienic will be at the house of Jobn Jensen in Terrace beginning from 1:90 p.m. An auction will be beld t help cover costs. The council noted the removal of the hot declaration from Hobart products and Lafarge cemént, but reaffirmed the "hot declaration on Irland Cement and the boycott of all Husky Oil products., The council also voted up to $100 for a new secretary's briefcase. Nn SUR AR Mtn + ay Westend Food Mart } 6: stare Tipm 635- S274 days ww Service 24 hours Rat 635- 7228 "We Satisty Tummy & Tank 365 DAYS A YEAR” Westend Chevron Service . . 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