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highway crash

A FORMER CITY councillor and one-time mayoral
candidate is recovering at home after a head-on colli-
sion last month,

Gordon Hull’s life nearly ended on a loncly stretch of
Highway 37 near Williams Creek Dec. 9. Hull’s wife
Cindy was driving and he was in the passenger seat of
the couple’s full-size Mercedes sedan heading for Ter-
race. It was just after 7 p.m.

An oncoming = truck
drifted into their lane.
Cindy swerved to avoid it,
but there wasn’t time and
the two vehicles collided
with tremendous impact.

“The next thing | re-
member the air bap was
going down,’’ Hull says.
“The car was crumpled
right to the windshield on
the driver's side.”’

Cindy received only
minor injuries in the acci-
dent. The driver of the pick-up, who has since been

charged with impaired driving, and his pass
also largely unhurt, 6 passenger were

Gordon Hull

Hull was not so lucky. Although his spinal cord was
still intact, his neck was broken, After a brief stay al
Mills Memorial he was flown to Vancouver for
surgery. Pins were inserted in his back, fusing three
vertebrae together so they could heal without damaging
the delicate spinal cord.

Hull spent eight days in the spinal cord wnit at Van-
couver General Hospital, and says they were some of
the worst in his life. He in a great deal of pain, but he
was also in a room full of other spinal-cord victims —
some of whom would never walk again.

“Talk about a depressing place,” he says. “I think I
was more thankful to get out of there than if] had been
in jail.”’

Hull retumed home just before Christmas. He has
muscle spasms in one arm, and bas to wear a neck-
brace. It prevents his vertebrae from shifting and
damaging his spinal cord.

The brace also prevents him from turning his head or
moving it up and down, so Hull can’t drive or fly, At
night he wears a different brace and has to sleep flat on
his back. The gear has to be wom for at least three
months, “I’m pretty much at my wife’s mercy,’’ Hull
says. ‘I don’t want to get her mad or she won’t let me
out of bed,”

Hull credits his big, heavy car for saving his life and
preventing more serious injury to, ie ife, It was also
equipped with ‘dual air bags that ie
impact of colliding with’a full-sized’ ‘ad truck.’

“I'd say that if we hadn’t been driving that car we'd
be dead,’’ he says.

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Accident claims life
of former peacekeeper

BILL TAYLOR, a former Canadian naval
chief petty officer and United Nations
peacekceper, died the evening of January 8
while driving home from Kitimat.

The single vehicle accident occurred on
Hwy 37, just north of Mi. Layton Hotspr-
ings. Police say Taylor appeared to lose
control of bis vehicle on icy roads while in
a passing Jane. His vehicle rolled off the
road and down a 25-foot embankment.

Taylor, aged 43, was the lone occupant of
the vehicle, He was pronounced dead on ar-
rival at Mills Memorial Hospital. The cause
of the crash is stil] under investigation.

Taylor moved to Terrace about two years
ago after retiring from 25 years in the navy.

He served in Cambodia in 1992 as part of
an international United Nations effort to es-
tablish order in the country before elections
could take place,

In an interview before Remembrance Day

School set

THE TEEN Learning
Centre, a school of last
resort for students who
don’t fit into the normal sys-
tem, is moving this spring.

The 35 students enrolled
at TLC currently squeeze
into a small building on
Park St., near by the library.
Their new home will be the
former Northern Healih
Care building, on the corner.
of Kalum and Greig.

Andrew Scruton, director
of instruction for the dis-
trict, says the new location
is much larger and easier for
students to get to. The dis-
trict leases TLC’s current
home and would pay a bit
more rent for the new loca-
tion.

The Teen Leaming Centre
is for teens and pre-tecns
who've dropped out of the
regular school, system and
from the alternate school,
The students nced extra al-
tention and time to cssen-
tially get their lives in order.

“Tt’s there to reconnect
kids with the school sys-
tem,” says Scruton, The al-
mosphere is very informal
— students aren’t required
to attend regularly — in-

gram, where

trict decides

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contact

Students learn to be
respectful of each other and
adults, use appropriate lan-
guage and leam how to

trust. The centre includes a
breakfast and lunch  pro-

lifeskills, like cooking and
shopping together.

The new building is in
good condition and also pro-
vides room if the school dis-

rollment at TLC.

seems
definitely a need for expan-
sion. The district hired an
oulreach worker this fall to
students
dropped completely out of
the school system. Mona
Dykes, a former youth street
worker with Reconnect, has
contacted about 17 teens
and pre-teens, most under
the age of 15, In order to

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last year, Taylor said he was proud of the
impact his unit had in northem Cambodia.
His role was to identify jungle hide-outs of
the Khmer Rouge and to get the guerrillas
to surrender their weapons.

His unit had a marked impact on piracy,
allowing local commerce to flourish.

Some of Taylor’s most powerful
memories were about the help he and others
were able to give individuals, He dove into
a highly contaminated river once to save a
pair of grandparents and a baby whose boat
had flipped over.

During the six months he spent in Cam-
bodia Taylor couldn’t recall how many
times he was shot at, He also endured a
helicopter crash, being bitten by a snake
and having a bridge blown up underneath
him.

Taylor is survived by his wife Julia and
children Rachel and Marshal?.

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pay Dykes’ salary and ex-
penses, the school district
has registered these students
with TLC. But there’s no
room for them to attend,
However, Scruton says
that’s not a conflict for the
foverument. The school dis-
trict is required to have an
educational program for
registered students, and just
making contact with these

students learn

te expand en-

there’s

potential students and
families meets that mandate,
who've he says.

The school district will
start renovations on the new
Teen Learning Centre build-
ing in February and will
transfer students over in the

spring.

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Across B.C., special interest groups and
individuals with an axe to grind are using
recall campaigns to grind our political
system to a halt.

It’s a waste of our time and money, and

it’s just not fair.

It was only a year and a half ago that we elected representatives to work for our

communities. we gave them a job to do - creating employment, helping
businesses, maintaining health care and education, representing our point of
view to government and other communities - and we gave them time to do it.

But now individuals and special interests are using recall to hold this system to
ransom. It’s unfair to our elected representatives who have to spend valuable
time and energy defending themselves, and it’s unfair to you and me because
the work our community needs is being forced aside.

No Thank You. |

“We don’t support this recall campaign.

"Authorized by the Financial Agent for Helmut Giesbrecht: Jerry Reitman.
Skeena Taxpayers Association 638-0062