ae 7 The Insurance Corporation of British Columbia has announced . a 22 percent insurance rate in- crease in an attempt'to catch up - to a soaring number of injury- ‘related claims in the province. “private passenger vehicles ~ will increase by about $90, depen-~ by: Tod Strachan ’ .- “ICBC. has announced that this. increase is effective immediately » . On new .business:and-on Jan. 1, .~ -1988,. for regular. renewals. Ac- cording. to information released by ICBC. the rate increase will mean -the average. premitim -for ding.on the. vehicle and the ‘coverage purchased, ' According to ICBC President Ted.Holmes, the cost of injury-- related claims had soared by 61 _ ‘percent to -$472, million. by. the end of. 1986 and--the cost of . repairing vehicle-damage had in- creased’ by: 27. percent. in the same. petiod to a total of $290 million. ae '. Holmes said this pattern con- tinued. into. 1987: and will pro- - bably continue into .1988, mak- . ing insurance rate increases in- - evitable. According to Holmes the “‘modest increases” of the past _preventable.”’ to keep pace with this trend. “In the five years since 1982, ~ the average. Autoplan premium has increased from $345 to $385, a total of only 12 percent,”’ said - Holmes. ‘‘It can be noted that in. dustry estimates suggest that ‘ auto insurance premiums have. increased by about 65 percent on — [,: average..”’ " , Holmes said, .‘‘We must face . the -reality. that our driving habits in B.C, are not as good as they: ‘should be. The latest. '- Transport - Canada | statistics . show that B.C. continues to lead the country in the rate of injuries: and fatalities.” : “T believe we must all examine. - | our driving habits. Speeding, ‘inot:signalling a lane change or a ‘[, ‘turn, :following too closely, run-_ ning yellow and red lights cause. accidents and they: ‘are all “All: that is needed is:a return to obeying the rules. of. the road,” hesaid. © ~~. To help ease the burden of the rate increases, Holmes announc- ed that short term insurance and -licences introduced for seasonal- use vehicles in 1987 can now be purchased for most vehicles pro- five years:are no longer. enough viding coverage for periods from “According to RCMP Cpl. Rick Plantinga, most two-car auto accidents are the fault of both drivers and could be prevented by one of the two watching the road ahead. Defensive driving and concentrating on what you're doing ‘can prevent accidents at Intersections such as Sparks and Lazelle, one of '- the more.dangerous Intersections in town according to Piantinga. Sparks, a throughstreet except for this one intersection, and Lazelle, a street . where you expect a stop sign at every major intersection, is an incon- sistency that can confuse the preoccupled or unwary driver and creates a ' -trap-in-waiting-for the inattentive driver: The Pacific Northwest Music Festival recently announced that - a three-day series of Speech Arts: ‘workshops will be held on Jan.. 21 - 23, 1988 from 5 to 9 p.m: on the Thursday and Friday, and on. Saturday from 9 a.m. to 4 . p.m. The first two evenings will present ideas for working with dramatic and lyric poetry, bible reading, mime, drama, and pro- se. Saturday’s workshop will focus on choral speaking with class demonstrations in the afternoon. Individual consulta- tions will be available during the . day on Thursday and Friday. Clara Hare, a well-known speech arts adjudicator and ‘drama teacher from Edmonton, will conduct the workshops. Mrs. Hare has a B.Ed. in Drama and a diploma from the Central School of Speech and Drama,,. London. Her background in- cludes a wide range of ex- perience as an actress, director, speech arts adjudicator, and drama teacher. She is presently a lecturer in Creative Drama at Grant. MacEwan College and. Head of the Film and T.V. Ac- ting Program at John Casablan- cas Career College in Edmon-_ ton. oe ‘Festival: representative Eila George said, ‘‘Fhis is the first comprehensive Speech Arts ‘workshop sponsored by P.N.W.M.F. in many years, and we hope that .all interested teachers, parents, and students in the festival region will take advantage of this rare oppor- tunity. The registration fee is very reasonable and subsidized by the Festival’’. Terrace Review — Wednesday, December 2,. 19873 4 an ’ Ontario, in the same period, in- “|. .- "°° | Bad drivers fuel high insurance rates Crunched we According to ICBG. President, Tom Holmes, “B.C. continues to lead the country ‘in the rate of injuries and fatalities.” The estimated cost of injury-related clalms soared by 61 percent ta $472 million:batween 1983. and 1986 and the cost of-vehicle repairs increased to $290 million, a 27 percent increase, during the same perlod. The trand continued into 1987 and will probably continue i nto 1988,and as a result ICBC has announced an immediate 22 per- - cent increase in our ‘auto Insurance rates. _ six to eleven’ months. ICBC also released examples to indicate the extent of the in-. crease, Terrace residents driving 1975 vehicles. or older, to and from work, will be paying about ~ $374 (an.increase of $88), about $556 for a'1984 or 1985 economy model car (up $102) and for the average new vehicle about $647 (up $116)... >: - With the:.-increase, north- western B.C: and northern. Van- _ couver Island residents fit into the mid-range area of insurance costs, with southern Vancouver. Island paying less and the Lower Mainland paying more. Significant. in figures released by ICBC was that the under-25_ driver in B.C. enjoys the lowest insurance: rates in Canada. One example given was a 17 year old’ | driving a 1987 medium priced ° vehicle. paying $654 in Van- couver, $2,133. in Calgary, — Alberta, and $4,210 in . One week left to register | - for festival speech workshop | ‘Information . has been ‘distributed to the schools in Ter- race, Prince Rupert, Smithers, — and Kitimat. Registration forms are available from the schools by calling Bertha Watmough, . Festival Secretary, at 635-6989, or writing to Box 456, Terrace, - V8G 4B5, Registration closes on December 11, Trailer park proposed Terrace council has sent a rezoning application for the development of a new trailer park in the horseshoe area to the Planning and Public Works Committee for further study and recommendation. Filed by Ronald Parker on behalf of Tom Olson of Horse- shoe Developments Ltd. of Ter- race, the application requests the rezoning of an_ eight-acre residential plot on the northeast corner of Sparks and McConnell intersection to make way for the development, Situated adjacent to ‘the new Christy Park soccer fields, Parker described the proposed — development as a 50-pad trailer court with an additional 10 ~ pads on McConnell Ave. which would be sold as private sites for mobile homes. According to Parker, the pro- perty was listed in the official community plan as a residential- rural area. It is presently being used for agricultural purposes. A committee recommendation on the application is expected to - be made to council at its next regular meeting on Dec. 7. Hamilton, Ontario, ° ‘This compared with the over 25 driver who paid $584 in Van-- _couver, $554 in Ottawa, $746 in Toronto and $834 in Windsor. . According to Terrace RCMP “Corporal. Rick Plantinga, B.C. drivers’) can take . control - of escalating insurance premiums by simply re-assessing their driv- ing habits, oo. Plantinga said that -by:simply thinking about, what we’re doing | while in control of a motor vehi- cle, driving defensively, wearing seat belts, paying attention to ° existing road conditions . and obeying the basic rules of the road, motor ‘vehicle accidents and injuries: would drop Significantly, «°°. - He added that if-the public were to report the circumstances of all incidents“to the RCMP when bad drivers were creating a safety hazard or ‘breaking the basic rules of the road, it could — jean a significant saving , to everyone...in. dollars “and. in lives. © 8:00 “ t ~ IN CONCERT R.E.M. Lee Theatre Monday, December 7th Tickets $15.00 available at Sight and Sound | presented by: (AM RADIO) | _ travels AIR CANADA __-Executive Class p.m. = aeiry fs S Ltd illite soheomad insta amd. 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