Terrace Standard, Wednesday, April 25, 1990 — Paga A Video charges _ get dismissed | ng up garbage, others built boxes for _ fecycling pop cans, and still others were reflecting on the ‘huge form of a blue whale they chalked onto the pavement. Earth Day — the day everyone is supposed to think about the planet’s fragile future and what they can do to help — was ac- _ tually on Sunday, April 22, but many schools’ ran en- . Vironmental activities Friday. More than 40 Grade 11 “students from Caledonia Senior Secondary helped clean up __ Howe Creek — once a prime salmon Spawning stream, now “slittle more than a runoff ditch choked with garbage. They pull- ‘ed cut a truckload of trash (at right) that included three shop- _ ping carts, dozens of tires, oil filters and even a driveshaft and ‘transmission. Caledonia principal Tom Hamakawa said the cleanup is the first stage of a plan to revitalize the creek and _ Make it fit for fish once more. Meanwhile, at Copper Mountain | . Elementary (above), children were drawing the more than - 100-foot-long life size image of a: blue whale. : Whether : Children were cleaning up their part of the Earth, or drawing » Posters about the environment, allshad “a chance’ to think, Will handle them. : about Such problems and how they — the next generation =— Or Wing Steak. | Fire Up the Barbeque and Cook Up this Juicy Steak. Cut From Canada Grade A Beef, TERRACE — Charges that a local video store illegally rented out pirated videotapes were dismissed by the trial judge last week, The charges against Terrace Video Stop and owner Jim Wold alleged five of the 19 ren- tal videos RCMP seized in December 1988 were illegal copies. They were dismissed at the trial last Thursday because there was no evidence to support them, The tapes were found through technical analysis to be illegal copies, Stephen Cartland, director of film and video security for western Canada, told the court. He testified the tapes were recorded with the tell-tale sign of an il- legal copy — two sets of “‘swit- ching points’’ instead of the Single set found on original videos, But the Crown's caée fell apart when defence lawyer Jack Talstra noted the Copyright Act states the person must ‘‘know- ingly” rent or sell the bogus tapes, a lets The prosecutors didn’t prove that the tapes weren't tampered with. by .a customer or the wholesale . distributor, ‘Talstra argued in calling for the charges to -be- dropped. The judge agreed, “There is not one scintilla of evidence’® that Wold knew the tapes. were illegal copies when he rented them out, Provincial court Judge Paul Lawrence rul- ed. “The no-evidence motion is upheld — charge is dismissed,” Speaking after the decision, Wold said the case should have never gone to court. He said jit ‘cost him in the form of legal fees and damage to his reputa- tion. : “There was no doubt of the outcome right from the beginn- ing, so 1 don’t call this a vic- tory,”’ he said. “I lost either way. But I think the outcome was just and fair.” City faces suit — TERRACE — A local motorist involved in a car accident this winter is suing the city for $800 because she says piles of snow in the middle of Lakelse Ave. were to blame, , Betty Barton says the snow obstructed visibility, causing an accident between herself and another driver at the corner of Lakelse and Atwood Dec. 23, “Despite a police report stating the cause of the accident was the snow bank and they charged neither driver, ICBC has ruled that I was 100 per cent responsible for the accident,’? Barton says in her statement of claim filed with the small claims court. She wants reimbursement for legal fees arising from the case, a $200 deductible insurance charge, and the $556 she calculates the accident will cost her in higher premiums over the next three years, The case has been adjourned to May 2, when the city will ask the court to: set aside an automatic ruling favouring Bar- ton, according to Gordon Crampton, the lawyer acting for the city’s public works depart- ment. The city had inadvertent- ly failed to dispute Barton’s claim, he said. Contract given TERRACE — A $6.728 million contract to bypass the Carnaby CN level crossing on the other side of Gitseguecla and build truck lanes has been awarded to Ledcor Industries of Van- couver. The project includes building 9.2km of two lané highway and is scheduled to start next month. It’s expected to be com- pleted in the summer of 1992, NINE TO FIVE BOUQUET The-perfect way to say “Thank You" to your secretary on Natlonal Secretaries Day, April 25. Triple Supreme (9.68 kg. 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