A10 - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, December 23, 1998 THAT'S A handheld breathalyzer being handled by Constable Blake Walkinshaw. It's used at road- blocks, Blow red and you undergo a formal breathalyzer test. On the attack RCMP OFFICERS are celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Counterattack program by being out on the streets to stop drinking and driving. “Tf you *re going to drink and drive, you're eventual- ly going to be caught,”’ said Dean Pelkey from ICBC which is paying $9 million in police overtime this year for Counterattack roadblocks. Pelkey says the money is worth it because 30 per cent of all road fatalities involve alcohol. In 1997, alcohol played a factor in 114 deaths i in B.C, and $270 million in ICBC claims, Local RCMP officers set up 91 road checks and stopped 1,800 vehicles from May to Nov. 22 in 1998. They charged six people with impaired driving and issued 79 24-hour driving suspensions. Cnst. Kurt Grabinsky, Terrace’s crime prevention of- ficer, said officers here will also vary the location of road checks as the season gets busier. “We're just there to remind people that it’s not safe to be drinking and driving,”’ he said. SClextends | payments again SKEENA CELLULOSE has once again begun extending its payment schedule, The company has sent out letters to contractors and sup- pliers saying it will end its year-long practice of paying in advance shift to 14-day payment terms as of Jan. 1, Advance payments were brought in on the advice of can- sultant Ralph Torney in an effort to help struggling con- tractors and rebuild Skeena Cellulose’s reputation after predecessor Repap B.C. extended payment terms to 90 days and then left massive bills unpaid. ‘We've been wanting to do this for quite a long time,”’ Skeena Cellulose spokesman Don McDonald said, He said the move to 14-day terms will help the compa- ny’s cashflow and eliminate accounting hassles connected to advance payments. “The difficulty is it's almast double bookkeeping,” McDonald added. ‘‘It’s administratively expensive not only for us but for contractors,’? But contractors aren’t happy with the way Skeena Cel- lulose is simply imposing the change without first talking to them. Justin Rigsby, of Alm-Wood Contracting, says many contractors understood that for business reasons the advance payments would have to eventually be phased out, Dictating new payment terms, however, brings back bad memories of how the company used to operate, “We're reverting back to five years ago when they just said we're paying you in 90 days and that’s the end of it,” Rigsby said. ''There is a lot of history there and there’s still a lot of bad sentiments as far as what’s happened,”’ McDonald said the terms are still a long way from the in- dustry standard of 30- to 45-day payment terms. 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