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Page A16 ~ Torrace Standard, Wednesday, February 28, 1990

New jail site chosen.

TERRACE — The B.C,

Buildings Corporation (BCBC)

has chosen the site for a new Terrace correctional centre and is riegotiating with its owner for an option to buy the land,

spokesman John Murphy said

last week, ; Disclosure of the site's loca-

tion is being delayed by the pur-

chase’ negotiations, he said

Thursday. BCBC won't an-

nounce the chosen: site until it

has secured an option to buy the. -

land. ©

The corporation — which handles. government land leas- ing and sales — now probably won't be at that stage until at least the second week of March, Murphy said.

Killer toured | region

TERRACE — An escaped sex killer now back in custody and facing extradition to the United States travelled through Terrace before he was arrested last month in Edmonton.

David Fisher — known then as- Michael Porter — made a stop in Terrace as part of a business trip last year, accor- ding to his former boss. He was an encyclopedia salesman for a Vancouver-based company and made sales in Prince Ruperi, Terrace, Kitimat,. Burns Lake, Williams Lake, Fort St. John and Dawson Creek.

RCMP say Fisher escaped in 1974. from Washington State Penitentiary, where he was serv- ing a 20-year prison sentence for the 1970 sex-slaying of a 13-year-old Tacoma girl.

Prince Rupert RCMP Sst. Wayne Watson said Fisher was captured last month in Edmon- ton after a tip was phoned in following atelevision episode of Unsolved Mysteries.

He said American officials are beginning the process of having Fisher extradited to the U.S. Meanwhile RCMP are tracing ‘the 49-year-old salesman’s footsteps to check for possible connections bet- ween him and a string of un- solved murders in B.C.

Teens, AIDS worries physician

TERRACE — More than half of the people in the northwest who tested positive as AIDS carriers in 1989 were teenagers, according to the Skeena Health Unit's medical health officer.

“This is a much higher pro- portion of teens than we ex- pected,’ Dr. David Bowering said. ‘‘The virus is cer- tainly around.”

He said five northwest ®

But Murphy maintains the length of the negotiations does hot necessarily mean the land is privately owned, "We buy and sell at the market price,” he said. “‘If it’s Crown land, we

_ have to negotiate with the ‘ministry of Crown Lands,” _. Any purchase would be sub- ject to city council approving ‘any necessary .rezoning, even though the. solicitorsgeneral’s

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“rectional centre —:can override local zoning. aa . Murphy has not. said how many of the three properties on BCBC’s list of selected sites are being negotiated for. When

’ talks are complete, only-the site -

at the top of the list will be released. If that site turns out to

be unsuitable, he said, BCBC . ‘will try the next one,

‘Don’t miss the opportunity to drive away with a great deal from McEwan GM!.

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Murphy

acknowledged. two. sites."— - Frank's Field across from Nor-_ -thwest Community College, and

a 30-acre Crown land parcel on

the other side of the college — _

as being-on the list.

A group of residents on the bench who believe the new. cor- rectional centre will be built there say they will oppose any

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year as carriers of the HIV virus that can lead to AIDS, and three of them were teenagers. “And those are just the ones that we’ ve tested — not the total number of carriers.’’

Bowering said he is extremely concerned about the number of teenagers now carrying the virus, and consequent danger to Other youths, -The recent numbers point to the need for more AIDS education among young people, he added. ~

He called the perception that AIDS is a Vancouver-area pro- blem — not a Terrace problem — completely faise. ;

Nearly two per cent of people .

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“It’s quite misleading to say that we have only one case of © AIDS here,” he’ satd. “The numbers ate skewed because _ cases from here are being listed as Vancouver cases,’? _

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