Az - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, January 4, 1995 FOURTEEN. PEOPLE were reported. sick from salmonella poisoning two weeks ago after eating ata local restaurant. Health inspectors suggested the restaurant shut down to clean up, said Ron Craig of the Skeena Health Unit, adding that because it closed voluntarily he would not release the restaurant name. The restaurant closed fer two days and then was allowed to reopen by the health ‘nspectors. kk kkk A GROUP OF Gitksan natives are demanding a pubiic inquiry into how their leaders are spend- ing millions of dollars on an in- land fishery on the upper Skeena, They accuse the leadership of spending $2.4 million in the last two years without providing financial statements or any ac- counting of how the money has been spent. wk kkk THE RESIDENTS OF North , Terrace and Brauns Island want fire protection and reduced fire insurance rates, And while both the city and regional district are prepared to meet the request, the residents are waiting for local insurance agen- cies ta decide who will receive reduced rates. wk kkk THE MOST SERIOUS forest fize of the season in the Kalum districl claimed 150 hectares at Hault Creek in the Upper Kitimat Valley. It was caused by a snapped cable in the cable-yarding logging operation, said fire protection of- ficcr Joe Katasonoff. A second fire was reported June 23 at Little Oliver Creek east of Terrace and spread over eight hectares of second growth. and- slash piles... ct A OR GITSKAN NATIVES want to begin regulating mushroom pick- ing in their traditional territories. And they also hope to set up a mushroom co-op to cut out the middlemen and get better, more stable prices for northwest pick- ers, vk kkk THE CITY is going to end up owning a chunk of the Terrace- ° Kilimat airport, predicts mayor Jack Talstra in reaction toa feder- al government announcement it intends to sell off the facility. And as a first step Ottawa will reduce the amount by. which if subsidizes the airport over a five year period beginning in April of next year, ek kkk A PERSON who filed a human rights complaint against the city has received an apology and $1,500. ' Dawne Kay alleged the city dis- criminated against her on the basis of age, family status and re- © ligion when unsuccessfully ap- plied for the position of city eco- nomic development officer. kkk kk A 26-YEAR-OLD Terrace man was found guilty of second de- gree murder by a Supreme Court jury in Terrace. Dwain Elliot Taylor received a life sentence with eligibility for parole in 10 years for the murder of 31-year-old Gale Annette Mor- rison. thkkk SNAKES WILL be -banned from Terrace within three months once a proposed. by-law takes hold, according to city by-law en- forcement officer Frank Bowsher. Bowsher received several let- ters and calls from residents con- cerned about a snake owner bringing his pet to a public park. The city’s finance committee has recommended that city coun- cil create a by-law banning the selling and owning of snakes in Terrace, kkk kk THE. UNIVERSITY of North- em B.C. will begin full opera- tions this fall with five instructors in the norihwest, Four of them will be based in Terrace und the new university will offer five third- and fourth- ears courses this fall in English, First Nations studies, geography and psychology, ~ AUGUST THE NISGA’A TRIBAL Council has been offered hundreds of mil- lions of dollars and 780 square miles of land to setile its claim to the Nass Valley and surrounding area, according lo Skeena Reform MP Mike Scott. The cash amount, says Scott, amounts to $200,000 for each of the estimated 6000 Nisga'a citizens, The 780 square miles amounts to approximately & per cent of the 12,000 square miles originally claimed by the Nisga’a. kkk kk ‘THREE FIREFIGHTING. jobs will be cut at the Terrace airport fire hall if a Transport Canada plan is put in place, The draft Emergency Response Service policy proposes reducing the number of firefighters at the airport here from seven to four. Ak kkk A LOCAL MAN is being recommended for a lifesaving award for the July 24 rescue of a man and his son from Lakelse Lake. Tim Judd responded to the man's cries for help alter he and the boy fell off of an air mattress near the buoy line at Furlong Bay beach. kh kkk FEDERAL INVESTIGATORS have begun the difficult job of determining how and why a plane crashed just north of Terrace nearly four years ago, The wreckage was spotied Au- gust 5 east of Lava Lake by the pilots of a plane on forest fire patrol, The Trans Provincial Airlines twin-engine Piper Navaho flown by local piloi Max Neubacher and carrying three passengers dis- appeared in bad weather while on a fight from Telegraph Creck to Terrace October 22, 1990. kkkkk OVER 100 DANCER: from Giowinksiblkw lefi August 13 to perform at Victoria's Com- monwealth Games. Through donations and fundraising the dancers have raised over $65,000 for the trip. kkkkk SURRENDERING culting rights to the Kidope won’t cost local mill jobs, according to West Fraser Timber officials, The company announced it will give up, without compensation, all rights to log the 317,000 hec- tare valley south of Kitimat. kkk THE DEATH OF a lacal woinan has brought railway safety discussion to the forefront. Mabellene Abou, 23, was killed August 12 while crawling under a tain car in the Terrace railyard. Trespassing on railway property is a criminal offence with a maxi- mum fine of $10,000 and/or 12 months in prison, said CN police officer Bob Teolis. He said he has caught over 150 people trespassing in the Terrace tallyards over the last two years. kaekkk THE CITY set a record for building permit values, For the seven months up to July 21, $15.6 million in permits were issued. That’s more than the $14.7 mil- lion issued for last year’s January to July period, kakke POOR RETURNS of pink sal- mon have prompted federal Gisheries to close the commercial fishery and slap a calch-and- release restriction on Skcena sports fishermen. . The no-kill prohibition cover: the entire Skocna watershed. ka kkk THE PROVINCIAL govern- ment has backed up its plan for local decision making on health care with $1.035 million. This money will be used for community-based services to re- place more expensive services being offered by northwest hospi- ials, DAVID ANDREWS thought the city's proposed by-law that would have banned the selling and owning of snakes was unfair. He was prepared to fight the by-law so he could keep his pet Burmese python named Sid. SEPTEMBER LOCAL. MEMBERS of the Socicty for. the Prevention - of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) have shut down operations. Spokesperson Bob Child cited: lack of support and a heavy work- load on the seven local volunteers as reasons, As of September 6 ail calls are being referred to the Terrace and Thornhill animal shelters, conser- vation officers and the RCMP. kkk kk THE LAST EVER inceting of the Terrace Regional Health Care Society will be beld this month. It's due to disappear when a ~ new community health care coun- cil to handle ail health care issues comes inlo being. kak kk A LOCAL RESIDENT is doing what he says government has not done, Jim Pushie has leased a vacant house on the Bench and is turning it into.a recovery home for drug and alcohol abusers. He calls the project Paving the Way and started financing the $1,200 a month rent out of his own pocket. But he now faces the threat of eviction if be doesn’t come up with $700 in unpaid rent. kKkKA KK A 23-YEAR-OLD Terrace man convicted for the rape of a local woman was sentenced: to - four years in prison. ts Ler. Mills © Memorial A jury had convicted him July 1 on. charges of sexual assault caus- ing bodily harm and forcible con- finement, ek tek THE PSYCHIATRIC ward at will receive seven new beds if a recommenda- tion to health minister Paul Ram- scy ifapproved, : Following the closure of River- view Hospital in the lower main- land, 50 beds are to be allocated to central and northern B.C, kakkk GRANTING TERRACE Preeut sawmill a special use permit so it can use an adjacent property for lumber storage is unacceptable, according to ils Braun St. neigh- bours. . . The retidents told city officials the expansion would change the character of their neighbourhood. kkk kok CONSERVATION OFFICERS received 53 bear complaints in Terrace during one week. That’s more than one-third of the 140 bear complaints they received from January-September this year. kk kkk THE GREAT SNAKE debate ‘was put to rest al last. City councillors voted Sept. 12 to *fcease and desist” their ef- forts to draft a bylaw banning the keeping of dangerous animals and reptiles. DISPLAY OF CULTURE, strength and pride marked the ap- et , a ee THE DISPUTE OVER a4 recovery house.on the bench has ended with an eviction of ils oc- cupants. Jim Pushie was out of the pro- vince when the eviction took place, ending the saga of his Paving the Way recovery house on Munthe Ave. kkkkk WORK ON THE library was stopped after it was learned that some of the structural design had not been approved by an enginecr. Work will resume if the work is approved by another enginecr- ing fim, Adam Engineering. kkk MORE THAN 250 people came to MP Mike Scott’s land claims meeting at the REM Lee Theatre, Scott billed the session as ‘‘Let the People Speak,’? saying he wanted {o give constituents a chance to speak out about land claims. kk kkk TWO THORNHILL residents appeared in Terrace provincia] court charged with the first de- gree murders of Jean Gosselin, 66, and his son Yvon, 25. George Bliss Hawthorne, 28, and a 15-year-old male are al- leged 10 have killed Yvon Gos- sclin first on Sept. 10 and then his father, Jean, on Sept. 26. Jean Gosselin’s stabbed body was found in the ashes of his Mil- ler Ave. home after his house was torched and Yvon’s body was found in a shallow grave just off Beam Station Road. kak kk " against CITY COUNCILLORS voted by a narrow margin lo. reject-the - latest request by Terrace Pre-Cut {o open up Pohle Ave, between homes on Braun St, The narrow lance is only a bush trail, but would have given Ter- race Pre-Cul owner Mo Takhar a fastcr route to move wood from the mill to another property off Keith Ave. for storage, kak ik ‘TERRACE RCMP say they won't let themselves be dragged into a political confrontation over native allempls to control the Jucrative pine mushroom trade. Stalf Sgt, John Veldman said police will not seek charges Gitksan natives who moved the boats of non-native pickers who had been picking 6Ckm upstream on the Skeena River, | | KKKKk TERRACE AND Kitimat mayors altacked Liberal leader Gordon Campbell for pledging to scrap the billion-dollar Kemana Completion Project if he’s elected premicr, 4 kkk kok .THE LONG standing. con- traversy of access to the Kitselas Valley should be resolved soon, says city administrator Bob Hallsor. Halltsor said the city is about to close a deal to purchase a 33{t. right of way running from North Sparks St. to the municipal boundary,, , Kitselas access has been the subject of heated exchanges and a blockade for more than a year, LOCAL SOCIAL WORKER Jim Pushie had hoped to turn this house into an alcohol and drug recovery home. Before being evicted for failing to keep up with the rent, Pushie intended to run the Paving the Way program for up to 10 people at a time. cad Members of the audience joined the dancers In one segment of pearance of the Nisga‘a Gitwinksihlkw Four Crest Dancers from their performance in Lower Litlle Patk and money was collected the Nass Valley al this past August's Riverboat Days in Terrace, to help finance the dancers’ trip to the Commonwealth Games.