Page A2 - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, January 27, 1993 Community has no organized protection Fire destro SMITHERS A Bandstra Transportation employee from Smithers is the Christian Heritage Parly’s Skeena. candidate in the next federal election, =; Louis Kwantes defeated Smithers Repap lumber. ‘grader Rod Taylor 24. voles to 19.at a nomination meeting held Jan. 22 in Smithers, — Both candidates referred i in their speeches to abuse of public of- fice, public deficits and lack of political accountability. . Kwantes urged those at the meeting to help him stand firm and declare ‘‘moral absolutes’’ thal are applicable to all Cana- dians. _ He asked for the support: of those at the meeting to help spread the party message. “Together we can Iet the riding of Skeena. know | we are the credible ‘altemative,” said Kwantes, ' - Chairing the meeting “was for- mer national party president Ed - VanWoudenberg, In a speech, he said the Chris- tian Heritage. Party and the Reform party had planned to merge last year but found them- selves too far apart on some is- sues. “I can assure you if all Chris- tians stood together coast to coast and voted for the (Christian Heritage Party) we would have a block of people that would proba- bly hold the balance of power,’’ he said. The Christian Heritage Party first ran candidates for federal of- fice in the 1988 election. It was represented in Skeena in that election by Tom Brophy of Terrace. The party did not elect any can- didates. Local killed TERRACE ~~ A series of motor vehicle accidents in the Hazeltons last week ‘have left three people dead, One ig. from Terrace... Atety: A Killed Jan. 19. After, his. “empty, ‘ with. an ‘unloaded “‘‘B’? trai semi-trailer. is Sterling famed Haugland, 29, of Terrace. The accident, between Kitwanga. and Gitsequecla, sent the driver of the other truck, Ralph Harris of 100 Mile House to St Paul’s Hospital in Van- couver. He: died the following | day. Owen Edward Brandl, 68, of Ketchikan,. Alaska, .was killed Jan, 20 when his vehicle went off the road east of New Hazelion. According to a. police report, Hartis’s semi-trailer was cast- bound on Hwyié when it failed to negotiate a right hand corner. t then travelled into the oncom- ing Jane’ and -‘collied. with . Haugland’s” westbound truck. That vehicle caught fire, The Jaws of Life. from’ the Hazeltons was used to extract both drivers. Haugland was dead on the scene. New Hazelton RCMP continue to investigate the accident and - say weather conditions and speed seem to be contributing factors. . Brandt's. vehicle” rolled alter - travelling off the road. He Was dead at the scene. | New Hazelton RCMP are inves- . tigating that accident. They say seatbelts weren't fastened.’ . The Thornhill TERRACE — Two houses in Usk bumt to the ground last weck because the community has no organized fire protection, Fire. Dept. received the call for the first fire at 6:30 pan. Jan, 19 but did not respond because their equipment cannot reach the north shore of | the Skcena River. “There was just no access for us to get over there,’* said Thom- hill fire chief Art Hoving. Tce on ‘the river prevents the ferty ‘from -running and the de- partment has no equipment port- able enough to be carried across the Usk acrial tramway. ~ “Is one of those frustrating and = =impossible _ situations,’’ Hoving added, ‘'There was simp- ly nothing we coula do about it.” Fire struck again the very next night, buming a small -house to the ground just east of Usk at Chimdcemash Loop. Thornhill firefighters got the call at about 5:12 a.m. Jan. 21 and arrived just after 5:30 with two tankers, a mini-tanker and a pick- weeThe house was totally gone,”’ Hoving said, “It was burnt right down by the time we arrived,” Firefighters concentrated on saving an outbuilding and cooling down the remains, The lone occupant, Louella Campbell, escaped without in- jury. Hoving said there's no indica- tion so far what caused the blaze, The house’ was heated by a woodstove, but Hoving said there’s no indication yet that it was to blaine. He predicted there will be renewed interest in starting up some kind of fire department for _ Usk, “Every time there’s a fire there it sparks some interest but it al- Medals given out TERRACE — Medals celebrat- ing the country’s 125th anniver- sary have been issued to promi- nent norlhwest cilizens. ; Terrace citizens who have been awarded the medals . include: Juanita Hatton, Wilma Costain, Gerry. King, Vicki MacKay, Aileen Frank and Norma King, Nisga’a Tribal Council mem-..’ bers Rod Robinson and Frank: Caider-also received the medais, as well as Hazelton mayor Alice Maitland. 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