‘ ’ , a Kicking out TEACHING YOUNG CHILDREN to kick and scream ‘Help! Po- lice!’ or 'Heip! Stranger!’ was part of a Street Proofing Our Kids course held last weekend. Children were taught what was a safe distance to stay away from a stranger and how to run to a safe place if they felt threatened. Course instructors also taught the children about good touching and bad touching. Arbitrator awards workers $18,000 TWO FORMER employees of the Skeena Pub are $18,000 richer after an arbitrator rujed they were fired unjustly. Vince Ready of the provincial Labour Rela- tions Board ruled pub owner Skeena Enterprises ‘must pay Tracey Potter $10,000 and Larry ‘Kuemper $8,000 for firing them without cause ast fall. "Potter worked at the pub's cold beer and wine ‘store for 11 months when she was let go last ‘August. Kuemper, fired a month later, had been “with the company for 18 years. In submissions to arbitrator Ready, Potter said She was fired for bringing ber problems to work. ‘She denies that. _“Larry and I had) been dating,” she .said.“‘And one afternoon he came into the store atid started arguing with me. Fred (Fred Kovits of Skeena Enterprises) told me to take a break _ and go home, and said he’d deal with it.’” By the time Potter got home, Kovits had left a message on her answering machine telling ber not to come back lo work, Kuemper was fired for allegedly mistreating Terrace Northmen Rugby Club members who frequent the pub and for sexually harassing and making racial slurs against fellow employee Geraldine Harkins. In a letter to Ready, club member David Hull says the mistreatment allegation wasn’t true. ‘It is fair and honest to say that the service provided by Larry Kuemper to myself and thc fcam members accompanying me has been nothing but satisfactory and in fact at most times excellent,’’ Hull wrote. “T am personally distressed to learn the club has been used in some labour disagreement citing facts which,simply not true,” Kovits dectined ‘to’ comment, saying only that nothing is ever settled to everyone's satisfac- tion. The pub’s cold beet and wine store was unionized in May 1994 and tbe business agent for the Hotel, Restaurant, Culinary Employees and Bartenders Union says Potter’s problems began then, “She never had any problems before,’’ says Wilma Redpath, ‘‘She’d never had any reprimands.” Potter received a pay raise of $1.26 per hour under the union agreement, bringing her wage up to $9.26, Redpath also said Kuemper had been an ex- cellent employee wilh no marks on his record, In a statement, former beer store manager Robert Bee says when Kovits learned the store had been certified he told Bee to get rid of everyone involved in the certification as soon as possible. And Bee claims Kovits singled ont Potter as an instigator. Ready’s ruling on the grievance completely clears Potter and Kuemper of any alleged wrongdoings. Potter hasn't found wotk since she was fired and says she may have to leave town. Our new building is complete and the move has been made. You Can Now Find Us At 3210 Clinton St. The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, January 31, 1996 -A3 News In Brief Nick’s doing just fine THE MAN who was burned out of his basement suite in a Christnas Day morning fire is back on track. Nick Sidhu, 42, says he has a new place to live and has started getting new possessions to replace those lost in the blaze. “I’m very fortunate. Terrace is a great place to live and I have nice friends,’’ he said. Sidhu was awakened at about 6 a.m. Christmas mora- ing by a hot sensation at his fect, “Ll opened my cyes and saw an amber glow around the room,’’ he remem- bers. Sidhu thought it was morning and was tempted to go back to sleep. “But J think a higher power, I’m a very spiritual person, woke me up.”? Sidhu woke up the tenants who lived upstairs and all got out safely, The list of lost possessions includes a TY and VCR and a family heirloom in the form of a pendant. Also lost were paris for an instrument panel of Sidhu’s Sub- aru and ils heater. “If you have those, cheap, I’d sure like 10 buy them,’’ he said. Teen drinking probed THE RECENT death of 18-year-old Leonard Victor Patelas is causing the Terrace Child and Youth Com- mille to look again al teen alcoholism. Paiclas had methanol in his blood, something com- monly found in anti-freeze or windshicld washer Ovid. He was partying with friends when he died. He had also been cating cherries soaked in Everclear. His death comes on the heels of the July 1994 death of 13-year-old Sandy Spencer. Spencer died of lethal alcohol intoxication. After Spencer’s death the committee recommended a number of steps be taken to combat teen alcoholisin, At a meeting on Monday, Feb. 5 at 7 p.m. in the Skeena Health Unit Auditorium, the youth committee will see how well those recommendations have been carried out, “We'll be addressing the issucs, not the person,” said Mazg Anderson of the youth committec, The committee is run by volunteers and is an um- brella group for various organizations who deal with youths, A number of other issues will also be discussed, in- cluding suicide prevention and how to help youths within the context of their home environment, Local student honoured KATHERINE MILNE of Terrace is one of 15 winners of the 1995 Premier’s Excellence Awards for achieve- ment in Grade 12, The awards are presented cach year to one Grade 12 student from each of B,C.’s 15 college regions. Premier Mike Harcourt presented the award to Milne at a ceremony in Vancouver last Saturday. The awards are based on academic fxcellence, and : communityand achoot: service. * Milne was given a medal of recognition and a $5, 000 | scholarship. ERRAC! STANDARD Our New Building is (almost) complete and we're ready to move in. Please bear with us. TO THE OLD BRIDGE coe 4 TO THE 4600 BLOCK — LAKELSE AVE. We’ll be CLOSED on Monday morning countarunor | fal ‘county FURNITURE TERRACE g STANDARD 3210 CLINTON ST. (Jan. 29). But we’re open again as usual at 1:00 p.m. on Monday, January 29 at 3210 Clinton St. - Ww ra he | | - TO THE LEGION New Address: 3210 Clinton St. Terrace, B.C. V8G 5R2 Same Phone & Fax: Ph. (604) 638-7283 | os Fax (604) 638-8432 | i Modem oS Dos - 638-7247 Mac - 635-0946