-—— BRIEFLY
Poacher

fined
A LOCAL man has been
fined $2,500 for poaching
moose.
Carl Schmidt pleaded guil-

killing moose during a closed
Season, killing moose
without proper licences, ex-
ceeding the provincial bag
limit for moose, using so-
meone else’s hunting licence,
‘discharging a firearm within
the Hwy16 quarter-mile no-
‘Shooting area, failing to
retrieve edible portions of
‘meat, and unlawful: posses-
sion of wildlife.

Schmidt, who didn’t have
‘a moose- “hunting licence,
‘shot a bull moose near the
-highway Oct. 25, and then
“took a cow moose as weli, ac-
cording to district conserva-
tion officer Peter Kalina.

Offender
jailed

* - THE MAN who once
headed local mental health
‘services has been sentenced
‘to four years in prison for
“sexually abusing a young girl
here, ;

William Dawson Herriot,
48, was sentenced Friday in
‘Vancouver one four sexual
‘assault counts.

The offences against the
10-year-old girl took place in

‘Terrace between 1973 and
1975.

Canada Day, eh
A LOCAL person wants to
do something special to
recognize this July | as
Canada’s 125th birthday.

And so Mary Swilt is plan-
‘ning a March 5 meeting to in-
“vite ideas and plans.

“This is an important time
in: Canada’s history and a
-pivotal time in the nation’s
future,” said Swift last week.

She said there is money
‘available from the federal
government for whatever
plans are made.

The March 5 meeting takes
place at city hall and begins
vat 7:30 p.m.

“More information is
available from Swift at
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Varieties vi

THURSD/
FEBRUARY 27_

CALIFORNIA GROWN
BROCCOLI

Terrace Standard, Wednesday, February 26, 1992 — Page A3 |

A MOTHER WAITS

Abortion death
probe continues

TERRACE --- Why?

That’s the question Maureen
George has been asking for the
last five months — since her
19-year-old daughter Myrna
died following an abortion at
Mills Memorial Hospital.

She: still. hasn't gotten -an
answer,

Coroners, hospital: workers,
and investigators have been
looking into the death since
Sept, 14.

Coroner Jim Lynch said last
week that no decision has been
made yet on whether a

. coroner’s inquest should be held

into the death,

Myrna George suffered inter-
nal bleeding for three days at
Mills Memorial Hospital
following her Sept. 11 abortion
before she was transferred to
Vancouver Sept. 14. She went
into a coma and died that night
in St. Paul’s Hospital.

“It’s not going to bring my

“daughter back, but I need to

know what happened,’’ George
says. “‘Some days everything
comes back to me and I go

-- through it all over again. I feel

like I’ve been robbed of
something.”

The ordeal of waiting in the
hospital still haunts her.

‘There are times when I get
off work, when I’m walking
home alone and-it just hits me.
And I can still hear her last
words to me before she went un-
conscious at the hospital.”’

‘““Miom help me.' That's all
that ] could hear, ‘Mom help
me.’ But I couldn’t help her
then — she was in so much
pain.”

When Myrna was taken in for
a second operation to determine
where she was hemorrhaging,
Maureen said the family was
told Myrna was ‘‘asleep and do-
ing fine’’ and it was suggested
that the family go home and do
the same. 4;

But. Maureen stayed and wat;
ched her Mak i pik fnteicive
care. She found" out ‘then: that

Myrna George
Myrna was in a coma.

That night Myrna was flown
south to St. Paul’s Hospital.
The family flew down on a
separate flight.

When they found Myrna —
being wheeled on a gurney by

-hospital staff in Vancouver —

George demanded to know
whal was happening.

“When they said her heart
stopped beating f£ just went
crazy,’” she recounted.

Myrna wrote poetry, enjoyed
life and was always happy, her
mother says.

“Her and (boyfriend) Ron
had planned to get married,’’
she said. ‘‘One day I founda list
of who her bridesmaid was po-
ing to be, who was going to be
her maid of honour.”’

George said she heard about
another abortion complication
that took place at Mills
Memorial earlier this month.

“They moved a lot faster this
time than they did with my
daughter,’’ she notes. ‘I guess
they figure I’m just going to
drop it and forget about it. But
something has to be done.”

Myrna George leaves behind
her two children — three-year-
old Alyssa and one-year-old
Tristin,

“She loved her children,’’
George said, ‘Bul my grandson
is. not going to ‘know | his
mother.’

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