The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, September 15, 1993 - Page A3

News in brief

Airport lights up

THE DEASE Lake Airport Society has been given up {o $600, 000 to but and install lights at the airport in Dease Lake.

“‘Dease Lake is the only site in the Stikine available for medical evacuations,’’ said provincial transportation and highways minister Art Charbonneau. ‘‘The airport lighting will ensure medevacs can be handled 24 hours a day.”’

He said the lights will also help during the long, dark winter months. , ,

The airport has already received more than $2 million under the provincial government’s alr transport assistance program. The lights: should be installed by next June.

Vision clears up

THE VISION network will stay on the local cabic system.

Skeena Cablevision at first thought it would have to pull the network because Vision was switching the way its satellite signal i is delivered.

Thal would have meant buying Skeena Cablevision having to buy new and expensive equipment.

But Vision has agreed to help with the purchase and the equip- ment should be arriving any day.

‘We are able to keep it. We’ve reached an accommodation,”” said cablevision manager Sharon Taylor las! week.

Vision is switching to digital video compression, a system {hat reduces the amount of space a TV signal takes on a broadcast band. Tt also reduces a network’s expense in satellite transmission time.

Skeena Cablevision’s expense is compounded because it has six locations around the northwest in which cable signals are received

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of national n native broadcasters, It'll be the first t official function for the hall and Northern Native Broadcasting Is playing host for the event.

NORTHERN NATIVE Broadcasting officials William Wesley, left, and Ray Jones, middie, pose with Kitselas chief Mel Bevan outside the nearly-completed Kitselas community hall. Workers are getting the hall ready for next week's convention

Many events planned

TERRACE — The area plays host to more than 100 people next week when the National Aboriginal Communicalions Society holds its annual gener- al meeting here. ,

The 18 organizations belong- ing to the society operate newspapers and radio and tele- vision stations across the coun-

Delegates, observers and guests also have the. op- portunity to take four tours of the northwest, says conference organizer Ray Jones, general manager of Northern native Broadcasting (NNB) based at Kitselas.

The theme is ‘indigenous optimism prevails.”” .

Yet Jones said ‘the societies

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continuing cuts to budgels from various governments.

‘Ti’s survival, We have fo meet the demand to keep up the pace we did at the begin- ning. We can’t slow down, We have to keep up the ievel of production expected,” said Jones.

NNB itself lost two people in April and another in July.

Broadcasters have benefited from a loosening of federal ad- vertising regulations.

Commercials were once restricted. to sponsorship type content. They can now men- tionsales items.

The annual general meeting begins Monday with an open- ing ceremony, and . continues

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Wednesday is set aside for tours while there will be semi- nars on Thursday and clections on Friday.

Banquels and entertainment.

take place throughout the week. The R.E.M. Lee Theatre is the place Tuesday evening for a cultural performance and

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Keynote speaker at a banquet Friday evening . is Frank Brown, organizer of this year’s’ gathering of canoes at Bella Bella. oo,

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one meeting between NNB and broadcasting counterparts in the Yukon, Northwest Terri- tories and Alberta.

He expects an informal ar- rangement of sharing program- ming and pooling resources will take a more formal struc- ture.

That could lead to the pack- aging and resale of programs to other prondcasters, said Jones.

NNB signed on in the north -

in 1985 and now serves more than 40 communities through FM repeaters which receive signals via satellite,

NNB can be heard in Terrace at 990 on the AM dial, There are now plans to convert to an FM signal.

for distribulion by wire.

All six require new equipment to translate the new Vision signal.

Skeena Cablevision does get a rebate from YTV to help pay for: equipment when that network compressed its signal.

Taylor said all satellite TV deliverics will probably be by way of digital compression in a short period of time.

Cablevision customers S pay four cents a month to receive the Vi- sion network.

Man charged in death

A FORT ST. JAMES man faces five criminal charges following the death of a Terrace man in a Sept 4 motor vehicle accident near Vanderhoof.

Chester Terry Prince 26, was charged after a vehicle he was driv- ing struck a truck containing James Joseph Maruschak, 29, of Ter- race and Sandra Collier, 32, of Terrace. Maruschak was ‘killed j in the collision while Collier was injured.

Prince faces charges of dangerous driving causing death, dangerous driving causing bodlly harm, impaired driving causing death, impaired driving causing bodily harm and driving while hav- ing a blood alcohol content of more than .08.

Vanderhoof RCMP said Prince was attempting to pass a vehicle when his vehicle went out of control.and struck the truck containing Maruschak and Collier,

A memorial service for Maruschak takes place 1 pat Ith, Sepl. 18 at. MacKay’s Funeral Home.

Prince was denied bail last week. A trial date is to be set this week,

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