A8 - The Terrace Stender Wednesday, Ari 23, 2003 Shot man still in hospital. By SARAH A, ZIMMERMAN IT MAY be weeks before a Terrace man ser- iously wounded after being shot by police will be able to waik. The 55-year-old man, whose name has not been released, continues. to recuperate from hand, thigh and abdominal injuries sustained after he was wounded by two shotgun blasts fired by a Terrace RCMP officer March 28. “A full recovery is expected for his abdomi- nal wound; leg - I can’t say yet,” says family friend Dave Bewick. “I'm told it will be a couple of weeks yet before it'll be weight-bearing.” The man had allegedly caused a distur- bance at Caledonia Senior Secondary around 4:15 p.m. the day he was shot, He was de- scribed as being incoherent and distraught, po- lice said. Police went to the man's Benner St. home less than an hour later where a confrontation Rod Taylor Party chooses their man A FEDERAL election may be as much as a year or more away, but one politi- cal party has already cho- sen its candidate. Smithers resident Rod Taylor was unopposed in being chosen March 14 by. the Christian Heritage Party of Canada. Taylor works in the quatity control department at Kyahwood: Forest Pro- ducts in Moricetown. He and his wife, ‘Elaine, have. been residents of Smithers +) since 1987. “I may not be the most articulate candidate, nor the best-looking; I may not have the newest car or the deepest pockets; but-] be- lieve with all my heart: that our community and: our nation can only find peace and prosperity through the proven princi- ples of biblical morality,” said Taylor at the nomina- tion meeting held in Smi- - thers. Taylor also cited a. CHP tax credit plan of $1,000 a month for families in which one parent stays home to raise their child- ren. It would reduce daycare requirements and reduce unemployment by opening ~~ up a million and a half ex-* isting entry-level jobs, said Taylor. : Savings on Employment Insurarice and welfare pay- outs will more than offset - any loss in tax revenues, so the plan will not cost - taxpayers anything and save the estimated $12 to. $15 billion the federal Lib- erals want to spend on day care, he added. 2 The federal Skeena-ri- ding is a bright spot for the « CHP which has yet“to elect a candidate and. : which has yet to nominate — candidates in all the: ri-- ° dings in previous elections. Party leader Ron Gray, who was at the nomination meeting, said the CHP is the only pro-life, pro-fami- ly federal party, The CHP would also re- 48 MONTH SMARTLEASE 118 Gia MAKES YOUR FIRST LEASE ATMENT AND SECUATY DEFOSIT* $1,080 DOWN Far ENT ~ HB MONT SMARTLEASE 298 $2,205 DOWN PAYMERT ensued resulting in the man running from po- lice, down the steep embankment at the foot of Benner St. Police said the man stopped and turned back towards the two officers in pursuit. One officer fired two warning shots into the ground and the second officer shot the man twice. The man was allegedly holding a TENS unit, an electronic device used by physiother- apists, during the altercation at his home. Members of the Prince George-based North District Major Crimes unit say they are near- ing the end of their investigation into the shooting. 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