3 aS. ?., ‘a split lip, chipped front teeth, cuts to his face and . - bruises after a driver hit him in front of an apart- ment building at 2602 Tetrault Street around ic 30 The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, January 18, 2006 - A3 Pi s %. HH Home’ wrecker | |) THE house at 4827 Lazelle Avenue is demolished on the morning g of Jan. 12. The 5 house, ordered boarded up ‘by the city’s building _ inspector since-a fire on March 2, 2004, was used in the production of methamphetamine. “It’s the. end of my. nightmare,” said Scott- Miller, manager of the Sandman Hote! and’ Inn behind the house. — : ‘DUSTIN QUEZADA F PHOTO" o Bo By MARGARET SPEIRS | A TEEN sufffered a concussion and injuries to his face after a car struck him as he and a friend walked home one evening earlier this month: »Tanner Mamela, 13, sustained a jagged cut to his forehead that required seven stitches to close, p.m. Jan 72 , While riding their skateboards on the Side of 7 the road, Tanner’s friend,. Marshall ‘Van Horne, hit a rock, sending his board out from under him and into the middle of the road. -. Tanner. looked before going to retrieve the : = skateboard and saw that the driver was far away: * He picked up the skateboard and was handing - it back, to Marshall wheri he heard tires on gravel and saw the car suddenly there. The vehicle hit Tanner and threw him 10 feet backward after leaving 30 feet of skid marks in the middle of the street and almost up onto the © “lie ee eo! 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HALF | PRICE! “To me, she can’t be a nurse or:she wouldn’ te Forsythe said, adding shé’d - understand if the driver was’scared: °° Forsythe. said she would have expected the leave him like that,” woman to phone for help or call to inform her _of the accident; instead, she heard about it from Marshall, who called her after the boys went to, . the hospital. . Terrace RCMP Const. Rob. House said it’ S not known yet whether the accident can be considered a hit-and-run. . ~ “We're still waiting to talk to. the driver. We, : still need more details from her,” he said. _ . . Measurements taken of the skid marks appear to show that the driver’ wasn t exceeding the 50 kri/h speed limit, he said. ° Police describe the driver as a caucasian female. : _ in her late 20s to’ early 30s, with shoulder-length, streaked dark hair, medium build and about 5’°7” , tall. The-vehicle is is described as an older, white car « with Pop- uP headlights. ‘FOOTBOARDS Dye pala da yeaa pacts 4 Furniture Warehouse, News In Brief ‘Justice arrives NORTHWESTERNERS WILL no longer have to trav- el south to take some Justice Insitute of B.C. courses. It and Northwest Community College have struck a deal to offer a conflict resolution certificate specializing ‘in negotiations here. Some of the courses are ‘also being 7 offered in Smithers. - Five courses are being offered now and five i in the fall with: each one taking up an intensive three-day block. " “We know that. a lot of people Pe south for this and that costs money for travel and accommodation,” said NWCC official Margo Van Der Touw. “And we’ve had a lot of requests to offer conflict-sesolution courses.” ’ The courses can be taken as a group to work towards the certificate or as separate courses based on an indi- vidual’s interest. o Fewer missed flights. THE VALUE of installing a new instrument landing system at the airport in late 2002 continues to be dem- onstrated because there were only 16 missed flights last year That's a dramatic decline from the 2 missed flights |. in 2000, the. 139 in 2001, and the 142 in 2002, says [. Northwest Regional Airport manager ‘Laurie Brown. - After the ILS went into service, there were just 37 . _ missed flights in 2003 and 32 in 2004.” -“And that was the total number of missed. flights. : “Some of those would have been for. mechanical or other oe reasons,’ ’ said Brown. | » Brown estimated that each missed flight’ would cost . the aircraft’s operator between $4,000.and $5,000. - He:said it would.be impossible to calculate then mon- etary and other impacts on passengers resulting from oy not being able to > land a at the anport here. Gem mining promoted — TWO PROVINCIAL ‘studies: indicate there’s the po . tential to find diamons.and emeralds in the’ north, Says pe - provincial mining minister Bill Bennett. - Speaking at the Fourth Annual Natural Resource Fo- rum in Prince George last week, Bennett said the north. . has yet not been the subject of. diamond and’ emerald: Oy prospecting. . - “But recent discoveries in “Alberta and the. Yukon . with similar geological landscapes are very encourag-. ing,” *he said. « *. va Emeralds have recently been. found: in ‘the ‘Yukon’ a “near the B.C. border, and a study conducted by the Min-~ ‘istry of Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources’ ‘evalu- ates the potential to find them in British’ Columbia. - “’ a _ it’s enough of an encouragement for Bennett. and: TL. others to encourage an. ‘increase. in gemstone Prospect, . cing. in'the north. a oo _The Northwest Territories has receiitly developed a “thriving diamond mining’ business and the government ‘there has also encouraged a secondary’ industry i in cut- ting and d polishing the diamonds Be RIGHT TO THE BARE WALLS! FLOOR MOOS fe MODELS REDUCED T0 CLEAR SALE STATS