Election aftermath Lagi slative marti ament Victoria B.C. y oy | October 17 was a landmark evening for Gail Murray, the culmination of a year and a half of ™ running the Helmut Giesbrecht election § campaign. She and over 100 NPD supporters § and volunteer campaign workers gathered to Be watch the polling results come in and, ™ eventually, celebrate on election night. +L eer Ye Buildings LX CT NEL TEN WEDNESDAY, October 23, 1991 Vol. 7, Issue No. 43 , Phone 635-7840 Fax 635-7269 Serving the communities of Terrace, Thornhill, Usk, Cedarvale, Kitwanga, Meziadin, Stewart and the Nass Valley 75 cents plus GST Harcourt - Following the defeat of the Social Credit government in last week’s provincial election, Dave Brocklebank of the Kitimat- Stikine regional district’s Eco- nomic Development Commission called for a review of the Sustut- Takla timber licence decision. The rest of the commission mem- : bers liked the idea, A resolution was passed asking the yet- y unformed NDP provincial cabinct t J f] } r UT } | | -to review and reverse the contro- versial decision made in 1988 that : gave the Sustut-Takla forest licence to a consortium of Prince George forest companics. | That decision created outrage and bitterness in Hazelton; the tf 400,000 cubic-metre-per-ycar 1 licence is geographically much ; closer to Hazelton than Prince 4 George and it was widely believed in that community that the timber q could have kept mills and cmploy- Thanks to a local hunter, Ter- closed down a well-organized, : Continued on ..... Page 2 race RCMP raided and effectively one-acre marijuana plantation | north of Rosswood Monday aficr- FARM RAID. RCMP Cpl. Garry marijuana plants worth about $ rE Food Bank to go trick-or-treating | 2°07 Seco an ie ijuana The Terrace Food Bank will be nonperishables like cereals and plants with erect value of some: . tting teens to work Hallowe'en boxed soups. . Fight. Food bank spokesman The Food Bank will have its £0 000 Se re touking Co Douglas Ginn says seven to eight first opening Nov. 18 to 21, the owner or owners of the planta- Terrace youth groups will be According to Ginn, the demand tion : divided up to cover the city from: rises each year. He says youths RCMP Cpl. Don Woodhouse : 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Hallowe'en collecting for the food bank can} 4. the detachment has been night. he identified by pin-on buttons “aware of the existence of the plan- 3 ’ Instead of can dy , they will be bearing the message, “Treat the tation’ for some Lime, but il was t 7 + ~ Llgoking for canned oods and Food Banke a well hidden, Tt wasn’t until a Ter- Moritz (above) was one of four polic 0,000 to $30,000 from a plantation nort hobby farm was discovered by a local hunter over the weekend, launching the a Northwest marijuana plantation in the past three weeks. Pot plantation goes to the blade ~ 7 race hunter accidentally stumbled onto the plantation Saturday and reported its location that they were able to organize the raid. Using four-wheel drive vehi- cles, four RCMP officers were able to get within a one-mile hike of the plantation, After walking into the site they found six plots of marijuana plants linked by a somewhat sophisticated irrigation system, Police officers harvested the §50 pounds of marijuana plants, ticd them in bundles, and curried @ officers who seized 550 pounds of h of Rosswood Monday. The narcotic third successful police raid on them back to their vchicles. But not all the plants were there. The owner or owners of the plantation had apparently harvested about two-thirds of the crap over the weekend, Police calculate that in total the plantation originally grew about 1,500 plants with a street valuc somewhere belween $60,000 to $90,000. Woodhouse says the plantation has been operating for some time, at feast the current growing sca- son, and thai the marijuana wis Continued on ..... Page 3 a woo os - a At i Cl cea a ene ae CA EG io as a ot ve 7 a a abe Fe cae ae ca tan eo Be ug x pe eT ae neers erumirst rarities ere “Sy