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Report

HERE ARE convictions
resulting from recent cases
heard “in Terrace provincial
court:

; February 20

~ Robert Vincent Barber
pleaded guilty to two counts.
of failing to comply with a

Barber was sentenced to three
weeks in jail.

Rupert - William Genaille
pleaded guilty to two counts
of breaking and entering.
Genaille was sentenced to one
year in jail,

Norris Dean Skiftun pleaded
guilty to driving with a blood-
alcohol level over the legal
limit of 0.08. Skiftun was
fined $800 and is prohibited
from driving for one year.

Richard Wesley pleaded
guilty to impaired driving and

“sentenced to three months in
prison and is prohibited from

February 24 .

Lauren Ivan Adams pleaded
guilly to theft under $1,000
and was fined $40,

Eric. Guyslain . Thibodeau
pleaded guilty to narcotic pos-
session and was fined $25.

Ingolf Hans Verge pleaded
‘guilly to narcotic possession
and was fined $25,

Kim Dennis Wright pleaded
guilty to impaired driving.
Wright was fined $400 and is
prohibited fom driving for
one year,

Ravinder Singh Chokkar
pleaded guilty to narcotic pas-
session and was fined $400.

February 27

Robert Vincent Barber
pleaded guilty to three counts
of assault. Barber was

prison.

Shirly Marie Friesen was
convicted of driving with a
blood-alcohol level over the.

was: fined $300 and is
prohibited from driving for
one year.

Fishing

ANGLERS ARE among those
who'll feel the pinch of the NDP
govermment’s
budget when they go to renew
their licences,

The basic angling licence fee

stays the same, but salmon.

stamps are hiked from $3.21 to
$10.70. Non- residents will pay
$20.

And steclhead conservation
stamps for non-residents are
being hiked from $10 to $30.

It’s just one example of the
Harcourt government’s efforts to
reduce the deficit and hold the
line on taxes.

Also going up is the cost of get-
ting married — from $60 10 $75,

Driver’s licence go up $5 to

. $40. And vehicle licence fees are

being hiked five per cent.

To keep the promise of no tax
increase, finance minister
Elizabeth Cull is making major
cuts to the civil service.

mew provincial.

Capital budget decisions that
will have a major cffect on the
northwest — what schools to
build, which roads to re-pave,
whether to build a health centre in
Kitimat — won’t be announced
for another month or so.

“It’s pretty much a hold-the-
line budget,”* said City of Terrace
economic development - officer
Ken Veldman, “Its mostly «
rehash of what's been announced
before.”

Veldman called Cull’s forecasis
for economic growth and revenue
for the rest of the decade ‘fairly
rosy,”

B.C. ls approaching the time
when a downturn or at least a
slowdown in the cyclical resource
sector is due, he said, and the
NDP has made little allowance
for that,

“We've got to be due one of
these days,’” he said. ‘“What hap-
pens then?”’

licence fees
hiked in new budget [sillde

The budget shows a small $114
million surplus, although spend-
ing ig up and the accumulated
debt continues to climb.

“It's a good budget,’’ says
Skeena MLA Helmut Giesbrecht.
“It’s balanced — it even has a
moderate surplus, And it
maintains infrastructure and in-
vestments in jobs,’’ .

Giesbrecht said he’s “dise
sappointed that Cull didn’t adopt
a proposal to remove the tax on
automotive repairs,

‘That's an issue that affects
people in the north a bit more
than people in urban areas,’’ he
said.

Victoria’s hype over the budget
glosses over some other facts.

Plans to cut 450 supervisors
from the civil service are being
more than offset by the move of
1,400 health ministry jobs to
regional health boards under the
government’s New Directions
health reform plans,

Land claims talks cost grows

SPENDING BY the aboriginal
affairs ministry and its number of
employees is to grow under the
provincial government’s new
budget released last week.

The ministry’s budget is $33.7
million, an increase of 4.7 per
cent over last year and the num-
ber of employees is listed at 168,
compared to last year’s 143,

Most of the increase is reflected

in the cost of land claims negotia-

tions with $9.7 million budgeted

for this year compared to the

$8,616 million for last year,
That's a reflection of the six ne-

Roses for’ the
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, Easter Bonnet,

gotiating teams established by the ©
ministry last year,
Aboriginal affairs minister

John Cashore’s office budget is to

, remain stable at $322.000.

Also t remain the same — at
$2.9 million, is the First Citizens’
Fund, which provides monies to
Various native groups.

The ministry's budget increase
ranks sixth highest among provin-
cial government ministries.

That 4.7 per cent increase is the
smallest for the ministry in the
last three provincial budgets,

Spending last year increased

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overseeing land claims talks.

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