YOUNG Moms BACK { - ar agi giat qver Lalrar y's armant “Ba yi di nes aul a ® Ml. « ¥ o arid Wioehar ia gy NCL t eas | Kitlope, Khutzeymateen: | Hot ground, Tread lightly — 5 WEDNESDAY, October 30, 1991 Vol. 7, Issue No, 44 Phone 635-7840 Fax 635-7269 75 cents plus GST Serving the communities of Terrace, Thornhill, Usk, Cedarvale, Kitwanga, Meziadin, Stewart and the Nass Valley ALOT OF PIES. Karen Amold-Smith would get the Great Pumpkin prize this year if there was such a thing. She recently pulled the 110-pound vegetable out of her N. Eby St. garden after a growing season of using secret mulches and fertilizers and even a milk-feed drip into the stem using a wick, It fell short of the 200 pounds she had hoped for, but it will still make a Jack O'Lantern big enough to light up the front yard tomorrow night. The Terrace area is overdue for a pumpkin- growing contest, she thinks. , ANOTHER ELECTION Six file for school board VOTERS IN TERRACE AND HAZELTON WILL HAVE ANOTHER board of School District 88. - crack at the polls Nov. 16, this time to elect trustees for the Returning officer Elaine Johnston reported Monday that three ‘ nominations were filed for each of the two seats, currently filled by government appointees whose terms expire Dec, 1. No one was nominated for a third appointed seat, representing the native villages of same date.. -Kitsegucla, Kitwancool and Kitwanga, that becomes vacant on the Running for the Terrace seat are Stewart Christensen, J acques Leblanc and Ken Hansen, Nominated in Hazelton are William Fell, James Robert Pearse and Mary Spooner. Christensen, who currently sits on the board as an appointee, is the |. . director of engineering for the City of Terrace public works . ~ department. Leblanc is a contractor, and Hansen is a welder. . Both available positions on the board have two-year terms, Although the elections are supposed to be held every three years, last year’s - trustee election failed to draw enough nominations to fill the nine — required seats. Terrace-Thomhill positions went by acclamation to John Pousetie, Edna Cooper, Wayne Braid and Laurie Mitchell; Christensen was appointed by the Minister of Education to take the remaining position, Stewart trustee Kirsten Chapman and Hazelton trustee Gordon Sebastian also ran unopposed. Terry Brown was appointed to represent the native villages and Mary Spooner was appointed to the second Hazelton seat. School trustees are paid $5,000 a year for their service; the vice- chairman of the board receives $6,250 and the chairman gets $7,500. The advanced poll will be held Nov. 8 and the regular poll will be held Nov. 16. Voter eligibility will be determined by reference to the regional district and municipal voters’ lists. Questions about eligibility . can be directed to the School District 88 administration offices in Terrace. Jail term, more charges follow shotgun theft A day off, a few drinks, a fed- eral fisheries truck, and a shotgun all added up to big trouble for a 28-year-old Terrace resident last week, Daniel Douglas Hong-Ross was sentenced to two consecutive 14-day jail terms last Friday for mischief to property and will be back in Terrace Provincial Court in December to answer to a total of five weapons and theft charges. According to information pre- sented in court Jast Thursday after- noon by crown counsel Holly Grucger, Hong-Ross broke into a total of 12 vehicles in the Terrace Inn parking lot in the early morn- ing hours of Wednesday, Oct. 23, one of them a Department of Fish- eries and Ocenas vehicle from which he stole a 12-gauge shotgun and a quantity of ammunition. A witness heard the breaking glass, said Grueger, but when he investigated found the barrel of a 12-gauge shotgun four inches from his face. The witness backed olf and Hong-Ross Icfi the scene for his South Kalum residence. Once home, an argument apparcntly began when Hong- Ross became upsct over the way his common-law wife was han- dling the firearm. According to Grueger, Hong-Ross took the shotgun from her, showed her how to use the weapon properly, and gave it back. At some point in the exchange, a 12-gauge slug was fired through the roof of the resi- dence. It is unclear who Fired the shot, but according to Gruéger it docsn't matter, The fact that a shot was fired still constitutes careless use Of a firearm on the part of Hong-Ross, : At 7:15 a.m, Terrace RCMP received a report of shots fired at a South Kalum St, residence. When police approached the mobile home, however, all the lights were turned off and a seige that would last an hour and 20 minutes began. Grucger said police finally brought the standoff to an end when two officers distracted Hong-Ross at a rear bedroom win- dow while two others entered the residence through the front door and arresied him. In his posses- sion, said Grueger, was the stolen 12-gauge shotgun. The safety was off, there was a live round in the The Teen Subculture of the Streets: Reconnect, Page 17 breach plus five more in the maga- zine, and Hong-Ross was found to have several more rounds of ammunition in his pockets. Cal Struyk, the defence attor- ney for Hong-Ross, questioned Grueger’s “colourful language”, saying she describing the incident as something that could almost be labelled as hostage-taking. He said Hong-Ross didn't remember his encounter with the witness and denics he fired the shot, Siruyk told the court that — continued on page 2 Sie ia wee aw + er rr fay ee eer Fg ew we fy :