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- From front

you start securing it. Do ev-
erything in your. power to
eliminate attractants on your

: _ property,’ ’ Thin says. .
‘Pet food and sticky bar-

becues are tasty treats for
" bears: and need to be kept
inside. Bird feeders can also
attract bears. :

foot fence in their backyard
to get into their garbage.
“Bears can climb a tree.
:.. They .can. sure. as’ heck go
over a fence that’s four feet
: high,” he explains.
Unfortunately black bears

relocation.

“Just generally speaking,
they have a definite inhibi-
tion to being relocated. They
“want to return, to the areas

* where they were trapped.”

_* . 6 he says, adding that definite
.« ¢ efforts are made to relocate

“1 walked through the. door, whether. it.

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“It’s. bear’

» town,” Thin says.
“Tt’s safe to say there’s
- bears in every area of Ter-

, Face and every area of Ne,

“Don’t wait for a bear |
: to hit your, garbage until

Thin says he still encoun- -
ters people who are surprised.
that a bear cleared the four- °

-aren’t good candidates for

grizzlies, .

_ - who are more predictable. -

. _ Even though it *s Septem-
>. ber, bears will continue.to be ”

7 present in town for another

: couple of months.” ~ «..

season in

More bears d

estroyed

danger to people.

district.”
As of Aug. 30. Thin had

two bear traps set in Terrace |
_and two in Kitimat.

which
he would monitor a couple
of days and then remove if
no more bears are spotted.
Thin says he and his col-
leagues are so busy that
Smithers conservation offi-
cers are responding to bear
reports in the Kitwanga area

-tohelp them out... ;
@ Aug. 30, a male black

bear is destroyed in the area
of Straume Ave. after it. took

refuge under the’ deck. of a:

house.
‘“T think it may have got-
ten caught in there while for-

aging in the evening hours ©
- and when daylight came, it
wanted to keep a low pro-—

BEARS looking for. something tasty to eat can pose : a

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file aiid hid under the deck."
Thin says, adding that chil-

dren lived on either side of

the residence. making the
bear's presence a safety con-

cern,

a Aug. 27, Thin respond-
ed to a call from Terrace
RCMP after a bear cub went

"up a tree at Uplands School...
arrived and tran-:

Thin
quilized it. The animal fell
asleep. in the tree and Thin
had to call Terrace Fire De-
partment, who called Thorn-
hill Fire Department to bring
its ladder truck so the bruin*
could be removed from the
tree. It was taken away and
destroyed.

The cub .was too young
to survive on its own in the
wild, lacking the necessary

survival instincts and would

only have been preyed upon
by wolves and bigger bears.
if relocated, Thin says, add-

_ ing there wasn’t time to wait :
for the sow to return to claim ...
it.

bear was destroyed after be-
ing trapped in the Willow,
Creek area where it had been
eating chickens and chicken |
feed in a chicken coop. .

The female was one ‘of
a set of twins and once: she
was destroyed, the second
bear showed up, and Was de-—
stroyed too. ©

“Aug. 24, a male black
bear was destroyed after be-
ing trapped on Queensway
Drive. He had been feeding
off fruit trees, berry bushes
and garbage in the-area.

@ Aug. 19, a female
‘black bear was. destroyed

in a trap on Munroe Street.

Thin believes the’ bear had:

been eating fruit off trees |

along Halliwell for a while

beforehand. ‘The female had

lost all fear of humans.
M@ Aug. 18, a male:black.

_bear was treed in a residen-
tial front yard on Graham St?

where Thin shot it. |

“This bear was very bold.
It was walking down the.
street during the day in ar-
eas where people do a lot of
walking,” he says.

@ Aug. 25,a female black —

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: From. front

“Giarinino was quite overwhelmed —
by the response — when-he was feel-

: _¥ ing really down about things he would

:. think about those people and he would
: feela little better.” -
' Mike and Diana Carlyle live a ‘short
: drive from the gas station.
Mike says Giannino gave the same
customer service to anyone who

was a lawyer in a suit, popping in for

: acoffee fromthe adjacent court house -

: or if it was someone down and out on
” their luck.
He believed Shell was responsible
for the contamination and decided to
* join the rallies to Show his support.
* “You see the way Shell presents it-
’ self of wanting to give back to the com-
* munity and until this point in time they
: had been going in a different direction
’ that way — we are certainly happy that
: things are coming to an end,” Carlyle
says.

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* paign asking it to take responsibility for

the contamination and either buy Pretto
out or pay to clean up the site. He's go-
ing to miss having Giannino Pretto’ 8
trademark customer service.

“For many years it has been very

convenient to shop for.specialty items
in their unique store, to be able to buy

gas at.a convenient location with such
a friendly, personable. atmosphere,”
“Gowe-says:““It will-be a shame to lose -

this, but at least we will have the satis-
faction of knowing that what has been
accomplished is morally right.

The impending demolition of the .

building he’s worked out of for more
than 24 years is bittersweet for Pretto.

He's happy to see the lengthy ne-
gotiations between himself and Shell
coming to an end but saying goodbye
to his livelihood, and the people who
supported him for more than two de-
cades, is tough.

“People say it’s a bad part. of the

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treated.everybody with respect, one of

the reasons we never got any vandal-

ism or ‘problems with people’ was we >
treat everyone with respect,” he says,

_adding dealing with customers from ~

the neighbourhood was a highlight of

“his career there.

“It was the bond we have with some

customers and the people I guess, that °

was the nice part,” Pretto says.*- © =~
“Everyday you have a new face

and an old face and it’s the people that

make it fun.” ,
Pretto’s station may be closing but

he’s not entirely out of the service in-

dustry yet.

' The auto repair shop that currently
rents the garage at Pretto’s station, 4
Sure Automotive and RV Repair, is
moving to a new location on Greig
Ave. and Pretto’s going with them.

He’ll be getting back to the vocation -
he. was in when he first bought the sta-

tion 24 years ago — mechanics.

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