set up

TERRACE — Again this
year local and area
residents will experience
CounterAttack road-
blocks.

by Constable
Ewen Harvie, Crime
Prevention Coordinator

In 1985 Terrace
RCMP arrested 274 peo-
ple for impaired driving
and related offences.
With the changes in the
Criminal Code for drink-
ing and driving, penalties
have increased.

With the implementa-
tion in Terrace, Kitimat
and Prince Rupert areas
of the roadside breath
analysis unit or
A.L.E.R.T., the chances
of further convictions
have increased.

These units are being
put into place for use not
only during Spring
CounterAttack but year
round. This instrument,
along with the
breathalyzer and blood
samples, now makes be-
ing caught and convicted
that much more of a
reality.

Police are interested in
making the highways
safe, all year round and
so the stepped-up
CounterAttack program
not only takes place at
Christmas but at this
time of the year as well.
Road checks will be set
up day or night and at
different locations
throughout the area.

The following are
some sobering facts
about drinking and driv-
ing in B.C.: .

@ Upon conviction fora
first offence, you will
lose your driving
privileges for six months,

Roadblocks

you could go to jail for
up to six months, and
your fine could be up to
$2,000.

e If you are convicted a
second time, you will go
to jail, from 14 days to
one year.

e If the Crown pro-
ceeds on an indictable
offence, the maximum
jail term is five years.

@ If you are convicted
of driving. while im-
paired, you will have a
permanent criminal
record, which could keep
you out of some coun-
tries or professions.

e If you cause an acci-
dent while impaired,
ICBC will not cover the

cost of repairing or

replacing your vehicle.

e@ If you drive while im-
paired and injure some
one, new federal laws say
you could spend up to 10
years in jail and lose
your driving privileges
for up to 10 years.

@ New criminal code
legislation says if you are
guilty of impaired driv-
ing causing death, you
could spend up to 14
years in prison and lose
your licence for 10 years.
@ If you injure or kill
someone as the result of
driving while impaired,
ICBC will sue you to
recover the cost of your
victim’s claims. Such ac-
cidents can feature
awards of hundreds of
thousands of dollars,
and you could be repay-
ing those damages for
the rest of your life.

e@ If you are charged
with impaired driving,
you have a 90 percent

chance of being con-

victed. One third of the
people sentenced to a
B.C. prison are there for
drinking and driving of-
fences,

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School claims

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‘smoke free plaque

The Thornhill Primary
School became one of
the first this year to
claim a “smoke free
spaces’’ plaque and flag
as the prize for being a
totally smoke free zone.

by Daniele Berquist

Jim Steel, principal of
the school, commented
very proudly on having a
staff of 22 and all non-
smokers. ‘‘Not even our
substitutes smoke,’’ he
said. I feel that children
are less likely to want to
start smoking if peers

Smoke-free place

Thornhill Primary School
teachers, Jacquie Reld (left,
bach), Barbara Howe and
Joan Cox with some of the
kindergarten children proud-
ly display their flag and pla-
ques, presented by the B.C.
Heart Foundation dectaring
the school a “Smoke Free
Zone”.

and adults around them,
who influence their lives,
don’t smoke, Steel add-
ed.

Smoke Free Spaces for
Kids is the B.C. Heart
Foundation program to
provide incentive awards
to areas that are either
wholly or partially
smoke free. Co-spon-
sored by the B.C. Home
and School Federation,
the program began last
year in schools on Van-
couver Island and in the
lower mainland. It was
found to be very suc-
cessful and was then
opened to the ‘entire
province this fall.

All areas where young |
people gather are eligible

for an award, if the area
is either partly or entirely
free of smoking places.
For more information,
contact the B.C. Heart
Foundation.

Malcolm Hilcove, owner of McDonaid’s in Terrace, presents cheques to representatives of the Terrace and Kitimat Child
Development Centres and Mills Memorlai Hospital. The community organizations shared a total of $2500 which was raised

during the McHappy Day event held in Terrace at McDonal
dasignated for Ronald McDonald House in Vancouver. Ma

d's April 2. A total of $5,004 was raised. The additional funds are
rgaret Dediluke (back, left) accepted funds on behalf of the Ter-

race Child Develoment Center, Cheryl Groves for the Kitimat Child Development Center, and Dorothy Lewis, Mills Memorial
Hospital Auxiliary along with Norman Carelius, executive director for Mills Memorial Hospital, accepted cheques on behalf

of the hospital.

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