News In Brief

Scott slams Hill media

MIKE SCOTT isn’t impressed with how the big city news orga-
nizations cover politics on Parliament Hill,

“I think it’s despicable,” Skeena’s Reform MP said last week.

“The big media are swarming around Parliament Hill like
flies,”’ Scott said. ‘Not with a view to informing people, but
with a view to catching people off guard and embarrassing
them.’”

Reporters ‘‘pounce Hke cats on mice”’ when MPs make a mis-

take or slip up, Scott said.
~~~ And he said he believes the major central Canadian news out-

lels are deliberately targetting Reformers for that kind of treat-
ment.

“They are intent on portraying Reform MPs as a bunch of
country bumpkins who don’t know which end is up,’’ Scott
said. “They seem to feel we're unsophisticated, unpolished and
semi-Ilterate — and they’re oul to prove thal hypothesis.”

Recall report defended

SKEENA MLA Helmut Giesbrecht says Liberal and Socred at-
tacks on recent recall-referendum recommendations smack of
political opportunism.

He also pointed out no Liberal or Socred member of the all-
party committee which put ihe recommendations together op-
posed them at the time.

Noting Socred MLA Jack Weisgerber had suggested lowering
the number of signatures needed for recall to just 20 per cent of
the registered voters, Giesbrecht said that would allow abuse of
the system.

“Even the federal Reform Party accepts the 50 per cent plus
one threshold,’’ he added.

Police protest

TELEGRAPH CREEK residents will continue to have sporadic
RCMP service.

The Kitimat-Stikine regional district had written a letter to the
RCMP protesting the periodic lack of police service in
Telegraph Creek when that detachment’s only member is away
on leave,

Area director Dave Brocklebank said the entire community
knows when the officer is away, and a corresponding increase in
crime results,

When the officer is away, the nearest RCMP response to
trouble in Telegraph is more than an hour away in Dease Lake.

“T certainly understand the anxieties of not having immediate
police response when our member is absent,’? RCMP super-
intendent R.W. Fenske said in a letter to the district,
“Unfortunately, however, I am unable to offer anything other
than our response from Dease Lake detachment.”

He said the Dease Lake detachment does nat have enough of-
ficers to replace the Telegraph Creek officer when he is away.

Mines manager named

THE NORTH now has it’s own mining regional manager.

Ted Hall, formerly mines inspector in Smithers, last week
started work in the posi, one of three created in the province by
the ministry of Energy Mines and Petroleum Resources,

He will continue io be based in Smithers but also have respon-
sibility for the ministry’s Prince George office.

A mines inspector for the past 15 years, Hall has Speciailznt in
reclamation and mine development firdjéct't Heviews.”

in the next few wecks,

Compartments.

them.

painted on the exterior.

within the next month.

predecessor, he emphasized,

planned layout eliminate

predecessor.

Fire chief Bob Beckett said
there’s still a few jobs to be done
yet such as customized shelving
of the interior and outside storage

He explained it was easier to
get those jobs done here than hav-
ing the Surrey manufacturer do

The department’s name and
vehicle number have also to be

Beckett anticipated the work
would be completed and the truck
join the departments active fleet

The $130,000 vehicle is a
marked improvement over its

In particular, the larger overall
size of the new truck and a better

overcrowded conditions of its

+] . Shelving in the rear of the old .
ore left only a narrow’ aislé down

The terrace Standard, Wednesday, January 12, 1994 - A3

FIREFIGHTERS have good reason to be pleased at the arrival of
the department's new rescue truck (left). The customized layout

the centre, making it difficult for
firefighters trying to get equip-
ment in and out of the vehicle.

For example, the metal cutting
equipment, known as the Jaws of
Life, had to go on the floor and in
a comer.

Pointing out that equipment was
quite a weight, Beckett said it
was hardly an ideal spot but the
cramped quarters offered no
alternative.

That kind of problem dis-
appears with the replacement
vehicle. Heavy equipment will
now be stored on sliding trays in

compartments which open fom |

the outside,

Other equipment stored in the
interior will be easier to organize
as well given the increased room
and customized shelving.

Other features include ad-
justable floodlights at both the
front and rear of the building,

Beckett pointed out the rescue
truck is often called to the scene

‘of night highway accidents.

’ Now'the firefighters’ will be

means wrestling equipment out of the cramped quarters of its
predecessor will be a thing of the past, a welcome change.

Bob Beckett

able to illuminate the scene more ~

effectively. The ability to pump
water or foam also means théy
will now be able to deal with any
fires at the scene. .

Finally, the problem of dealing
wilh a vehicle that was un-
derpowered * forthe Mo#@™it_was
expected to haul ‘alsoiisappenrs.

‘heen a made yet."

New rescue truck arrives

THE FRE Department’s new
rescue truck will be ready to roll

Old truck is
being eyed

THE OLD rescue truck may
no longer fit the bill for the
Terrace fire department, but
it’s not without its admirers.

Chief Bob Beckett said the
Jocal Search and Rescue
organization and the Stewart
fire department have both
expressed interest in
acquiring the vehicle,

The rescue truck would
allow Search and Rescue to
replace the two trucks it has
mow, one of which is 30 years

old.

Beckett said it could efther
he sold to the group or given
to it on the understanding
the fire department could
call on it anytime it was
needed.

However, , he added, no
decision on disposition ‘has

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