' ‘ poy, oats Asap UES we as F . AG a ie STOP Press Assaulter sought TERRACE RCMP are looking for a tall male with a thin build after a nine-year-old boy says he was grabbed while walking alone on Eby St. between Davis Ave. and Walsh Nov. [6 at approximately 6 p,m, Police say the man came out from a back alley and car- ried the boy down the alley. A brief struggie ensued and the boy escaped with minor injuries," The suspect is described as tal! with a thin build. He was wearing all-black clothing and a black ski mask, , “Anyone with information should call us,” said Cpl. Blake Walkinshaw yesterday, “We need to know who this guy is.” Those with information are-asked to call the RCMP or Crimestoppers at 635-8477. CFNR on the Net PEOPLE WITH an internet connection can now listen to CFNR 92.1 FM in Terrace on-line thanks to a deal arranged with Kermode Net Inc., Terrace’s first full-serv- ice Internet provider. The two organizations tested the service aver the last two weeks are now undergoing a six-month trial. Anyone with a Pentium-class computer and an Internet connection of 28.8 or greater can listen to CFNR, no mal- ter Where in the world they are. To check out the audio feed, Internet users need only to set their browsers to www.keimode.net/nnb or connect through Kermode.net at www.kermode.net, Click on any sidebar drum on the CFNR First Nations radio website. Listeners will need a pentium class or equivalent com- puter with 32MB RAM, a sound card and speakers, an Internet connectian of 28.8 or higher (connection speeds of 56K and up will get better results), Microsoft Windows Media Player 2 and Internet explorer or netscape versions 3.0 or higher. There is a link to Media Player 2 to dawn- load it. The service may be expanded to support Real Audio format. A2 - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, November 18,1998 Gitanyow head back to court GITANYOW natives say efforts to mediate their overlap with the Nisga’a are a sham and they're once again heading to court to protect their interests. Gitanyow chief negotiator Glen Williams said they goto B.C. ~ Supreme Court next week tc seck protection of Gitanyow rights from violation by the Nisga’a treaty. The upriver neighbours of the Nisga’a say the treaty hands to the Nisga’a ownership of key land sites and hunting and fish- ing rights in an area also claimed by the Gitanyow. It was hoped a mediation effort overseen by mediator Glen . Sigurdson would result in a quick resolution of the long-run- ning land claim overlap, But Williams said there have been no meetings, there are no plans for any, and he’s convinced it’s all a government ploy to try to keep the Gitanyow quiet while the treaty is ratified. “The strategy of government is just to entertain us and move us out of the media spotlight and have this mediation as their way out of questions posed by the public and the media,’ Williams said. “The court is the best option we have right now lo protect our interest, to protect our process and we're all gearing up for court on the 23rd." The five-day hearing will consist of a trial by exchange of affadavits, he said. The judge hearing the case - Supreme Court Justice L. Paul Williamson —turfed out some Gitanyow claims in earlier hear- ings over the summer, but also indicated he takes seriously potential infringement of overlapping native claims by treaties. Williams said he’s also taking issue with the government's television ads promoting the Nisga’a treaty. “It’s very misleading and not accurate, particularly Mr. Suzuki's statements that the Nisga’a people have given up so much,” Williams said. He said the Nisga’a original claim of 25,000 square kilome- tres of land included much Gitanyow and Gitxsan territory that they would have never gotten anyway. If you factor out the contested territory, he said, the 2,000 square kilometres of land in the treaty amounts to 24 per cent of “legitimate” Nisga’a territory, not the eight per cent figure widely claimed. “Their people did not give up all that land ~ it was not theirs to give up in the first place,” Williams said. Mediator named to prosecutors’ dispute TWO MEDIATORS have been named to settle terms of a new contract for B.C.’s Crown prosecutors. | Vince Ready and Judy Korbin wiil try to finalize the contract before Feb. |, 1999 or else the Crown counsel Association will seek arbitration, says the graup’s president Wendy Stephen. Prosecutors have been working in without a contract in B.C.since April |, 1998, Se The decision to hire mediators comes / Why you need to act now RRSP, RESP, TAX STRATEGIES $7200 Education Savings Grant Mutual Fund Investing Financial Planning Seminar and ' Open Forum featuring James Brown of Mackenzie Financial Corporation ' Tuesday, November 24, 7:30 - 9:00 Best Western Terrace Inn, For information contact: Jacques Pelletier Investment Advisor: (250)635-0515 Paid for in part by: ) = + | / GREAT f°] Mackenzie Von Building Financial Independance CoLTp, GEM ENT Member CIPF E-mail: j.pelletier@kermode.net after meetings with the Assistant Deputy Altomey General, Ernie Quantz. The meeting also deferred a job action that was to have started here Monday. That job action would have the prose- cutors refuse to take cases they felt they were unprepared for — returning them _ instead to the regional Prince George office, said Crown counsel Brad Tomlin. 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