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Terrace’s auxiliary police revived

THERE’S 12 more people
in uniform hitting Terrace
Strects now that the RCMP
auxiliary policing program
is in full swing.

The program sees mem-
bers of the community vo-
Junteer to work with the
police.

_. Auxiliary constables
have a variety of responsi-
bilities which include
going on patrol with regu-
lar on-duty members, con-
ducting classroom talks,

shopping malls or partici-
pating in other community
outreach projects.

| Prior to 1998 auxiliary
side
arms. The decision to re-
move sidearms from auxil-

_-iary volunteers led to the

dismantling of the program
in Terrace.

“We -decided auxiliary
policing is a very impor-
tant part of the community
so’ we got the program
running,” said Sgt. Jaz
Basi: who is heading up the
program.

» Twelve volunteers — in-
cluding four former Ter-
race ‘auxiliary constables —
are already in action.

. Kim’ MacDougall just
finished her training as an

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KIM MACDOUGALL and Dave Jephson are two new auxiliary police officers. SARAH A ZIMMERMAN PHOTO

auxiliary constable.

She says it’s something
she has wanted to do her
whole life.

“I’ve always wanted ta
give something back to the
community, so auxiliary
policing, community poli-
cing — it made sense,”
MacDougall said.

She signed on because
She believe auxiliaries can
help improve the image of
the police force.

That means an in-
creased presence in the
community including noon
hour walk-bys at local
schools.

“Just being seen helps
control the drug issue,”
she posits.

She also joined because
she believes the police are
overworked,

She said auxiliaries are
not and can not replace re-
gular members who have

specialized training, rather
they complement the
force.
. Dave Jephson agrees.
“If we wanted to be po-
lice officers we would go
to Regina (where the

RCMP training academy

is) and move away from
Terrace,” Jephson said.
“The difference is we want
to help the community we
live in.”

Jephson, a fire fighter

and water search and res-
cue member, says auxil-
iary policing is one more
way he can help out this
community.

Auxiliary constables
wear the same uniform as
a tepular RCMP member
but they wear a badge on
their sleeve which identi-
fies them as an auxiliary.
They still don’t carry side-
arms but are armed with

pepper spray.

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The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, July 31, 2002 - A3

Push is on to open Copper road

By SARAH A, ZIMMERMAN

’ OFFICIALS will open a tempor-

ary access road along the Copper
River by the end of September but
the plans aren’t moving ahead fast
enough for some user groups.

A mammoth rock slide June 8
swept dawn a mountain blocking
the Copper forest service road at

’ the 15 kilometre mark.

The road is used by a variety of
recreational user groups who say
they’re concerned about when the
road will open.

Darryl Tucker, organizer of an
upcoming whitewaler kayaking
event, says the Copper and Clore
rivers are popular among kayakers
looking for a moderale river to
run.

“As far as I'm concerned that
road is really vital for us,” Tucker
said. “Obviously fishermen need
to use that road, kayakers want to
use that road, hunters go up there,
there’s ATV riding.”

Jim Culp, a local fishing guide
said the road closure coincides

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with fishing guides gearing up for
the busiest part of the steelhead
guiding season on the Copper.

“The prime time is end of Au-
gust, September and early Octo-
ber,” Culp said.

Until the temporary access
road is opened access to areas
past the slide is limited to heli-
copters. Culp said hiring helicap-
ters will mean more costs for
those guides.

Forest service acting opera-
tions manager Dave Bewick said
he understands the concerns of the
user groups in getting the tempor-
ary road established.

“Steelhead fishers are probably
getting fairly anxious about get-
ting that road open,” Bewick said.
“We're attentive to that and we
see that as something to work
towards.”

The debris from the slide also

obstructed a portion of the river’

and severed a Pacific Northern
Gas gas line in the process.
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foot stretch of road.

Just upriver from the debris pile
the road is submerged beneath up
to three and a half metres of
water.

A temporary gas was put in
place within days of the slide but
it could be months before a per-
manent, buried line is in place.

“We don’t expect to be out of
there until some time in Novem-
ber,” PNG operations manager
Russell Wintersgill said.

Because there are exposed
high pressure lines in the area it’s
too dangerous to allow public ac-
cess near the site.

The forestry ministry is working
on a plan to develop a temporary
access toad for controlled, light
weight vehicles which will bypass
the affected site.

The road will incorporate an
old logging road and should be

‘open by the end of September,

said Bewick.
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said.

Another concern is the timing
of building a permanent road over
the affected portion.

Bewick said plans are to fill
the area which is under water with
rock fill.

But that work can only be done
at very specific times to avoid
disrupting the spawning cycles of
fish.

Andrew Smith, FOC’s acting
habitat technician said there is a
narrow window when the work can
be done. He said forest ministry
officials can doa an assessment in
Seplember and may be able start
work in the spring after the
Spawning season is over.

“Tt looks now like where the
road is submerged that it’s not
good spawning habitat,” Smith
said.

lf. all goes according to plan

Bewick said he anticipates the
permanent road io be built next
spring.

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News In Brief

Alcan, CAW strike deal

ALCAN has reached 4 deal for a new contract with
its unionized workers.

The agreement came July 24 after a four-hour
strike amid intensive overnight talks. It averted a
total shutdown of the smelter,

The new three-year contract provides Canadian
Auto Workers local 2301 members with wage in-
creases of three per cent, 2.5 per cent and 2.25 per
cent over the lifetime of the deal.

The union said it also achieved major gains in
language restricting the potential for. contracting
out work to non-union workers.

Members ratified the new contract by a 74 per
cenl vote.

Looser regs for mills

B.C. PULP MILLS won’t be forced to eliminate all
discharpes of a certain type of effluent as original-
ly planned.

The previous government had brought in regula-
tions requiring zero discharge of AOX — or haloge-
nated organic compounds — from pulp mills by
Dec, 31, 2002.

Toxic forms of AOX, such as dioxins and furans
are created when chlorine is used in the pulp-
bleaching process.

New repulations set out a maximum discharge
60 per cent below the ald limit.

“Under the rules established by the NDP, there
would have been immense costs and job losses,”
said North Coast MLA Bill Belsey. “Here in the
northwest, those rules might have made it imposs-
ible to ever reopen Skeena Cellulose.”

He said studies showed the zero-discharge rule
would produce no ¢lear benefit, and said the deci-
sion shows a commitment to the enviranment and
common sense.

Fishing gear disappears

A LOCAL angier will have a tough time reeling in
any fish after culprits stole fishing gear from a ve-
hicle parked on Sande St. in Thornhill.

Police say sometime between the evening of
July 14 and the morning of July 15 culprits stole an
Ambassedeur 7000 reel on a Browning rod, an Am-
bassedeur 7000 reel on a Skeena King rod, a black
chest wader and one grey tackle box.

Anyone with information about this crime is
asked to contact Cnst. Bob Lang at the Terrace
RCMP detachment at 638-7400.

Social workers celebrate

BEGINNING THIS Fall, things will get easier for
Terrace students hoping to become social workers.
Students in Northwest Community College’s Inte-
grated Human Services program will now be able
to transfer credits to UNBC’s Bachelor of Social
Work Program. Previously, only university courses
and select IHS courses were eligible for transfer.
College president Stephanie Forsyth says the
" partnership allows students to pursue degree goals
while achieving practical and professional skills.

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