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. By CHRISTIANA WIENS ‘NORA AND JIM LeCleir -say they would rather go to “jail than register their guns,

“T have firearms and I’m not going to register them,”’ said Jim LeCleir, ‘I’m ab- solutely prepared to go to jail.’

The LeCleirs were two of almost 100 area residents at the Law-Abiding Un-

_ ‘fegistered Firearms Assacia- tion. (LUFA) meeting at Elks Hail July 20.

At-least 38 of those at- tendees paid $20 to join the Alberta-based group, which is on a northern B.C. mem- bership drive,

When speaker Bruce Hut- ton, the president of LUFA, asked if there were any RCMP officers in the audience, three people raised (heir hands.

The group hopes to unite people interested in fighting Bill. C-68, the federal firearms legislation that re- quires gun owners to regis- ter firearms by Jan. i, 2001,

A member since the group started in November 1998, LeCleir said the law is un- constitutional and ineffec- tive when it comes to fight- ing crime,

‘*More people are killed:

and injured with knifes than they are with firearms,”’ said LeCleir. ‘‘Are they going to make knives illegal next?"

He stands behind associa- tion president Hutton, an ex- RCMP olficer and small businessman from Rocky Mountain House, Alberta, in his four-step plan to defy the legislation.

That plan includes creat- ing a list of active members lo raisé money and boost lobbying clout, obtaining in- tervener status in support of Alberta's Supreme Court appeal of the registration law, attacking Members of Parliament who support the bill in their bome sidings and, if necessary, going to jail.

By forcing RCMP to ar-

Infocentre at t

WITH JUST a few tourism infocentres left to check out, the one here is at the front when it comes to service.

“They did extremely well,’ said Tourism B.C. official Margaret McCormick who manages a program whereby inspectors pass themselves off as tourists in order to grade infocentres. The local one, run by the Terrace and District Chamber of Commerce, scored 96 per cent on its check.

There will be two evaluations this summer conducted by Tourism B,C, ofthe 113 infocentres across the province.

‘*Phe evaluations are very intensive. There’s a grading system which looks ai things such as washrooms and ac- cess lo the building, the quality of the service and the na- ture of the service — all things a tourist would look for,”

said McConmick.

What made the local infocentre stand out to the “evaluators was ihe service, she said. “The person who served them did such a good job she convinced them to slay overnight. And that’s exactly what an infocentre’s supposed to do,’? McCormick added.

“The idea is that a person comes in looking for some- thing and leaves with more than what they were looking

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Travel counsellors last week were taking queries from more thiih 55 parties making up 100 people-each day: +

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“Come and arrest us’

jail before registering

rest the group’s 12,000 members, Hutton hopes to bring Canada’s RCMP, legal aid and judicial sys- tems to its knees,

“We can tie up the courts in this country forever and the politicians know that,’ Hutton told the audience.

He urged the audience to walk into their local detach- ments, admit they own weapons and force their own arrest.

“Stand up and be ‘counted,’? Hutton told a cheering audience of local residents. ‘‘They are not forcing us to bury our firearms.’*

Hulton compared state- ments made by federal cabi- net ministers Allan Rock and Lloyd Axworthy to those of Adolf Hitler, saying the government wants to know where weapons are so they can confiscate them at will.

Bill C-68, he added, vio- lates the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, the Canadian

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BRUCE HUTTON, president of a group out to defy gun registration, spoke to nearly 100 people here July 20 about his plans to set up mass arrests.

Constitution, provincial property rights and allows federal officers to search homes without a warrant. Hulton plans to align the

group wilh First Nations and Metis groups, who he said also have to register their weapons.

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News In Brief

Police get radar

NEW HAZELTON RCMP have a new radar unit to improve their ability to target speeders and aggressive drivers thanks to assistance from ICBC.

The $2,900 unit comes from a cos! sharing, program uadertaken by ICBC which this year is worth $400,000.

It follows a series of initiatives undertaken by the provincial crown corporation to cut down on speeding and other unlawful driving habits.

Hair salon moved

THE CONTRACT of a hair salon in the basement of Mills Memorial Hospital will be up for tender as soon as it expires, say hospital administrators.

“The contract should be looked at,” said Tom Novak July 21. ‘‘That’s the only right way to do it.”

He added that until then Angelica’s Hair Salon will be moved to the hospital lobby, where Novak hopes to rent space to a number of venders, selling everything from coffee to hair cuts.

The salon drew altention from hair stylists last spring because it uses equipment donated by stylist Jann Mason. She left the equipment to the hospital when she died, asking that it be left for area hair stylisis who reg- ularly come in to style the hair of hospitalized patients.

Local hairstylists circulated a petition in April, highlighting the problem and asking ihe hospital for use of the equipment. Having retail sales in the hospital is Inlended as one way of increasing its revenues.

Fire hazards

FIRE FIGHTERS at the Northwest Fire Center in Smithers reported a low fire hazard in the northwest July 23 after a busy weekend July 17-18.

The fires include an abandoned campfire four kilo- metres up the Exstew forest service road and five lightning fires in the Burns Lake and Houston area.

Initial attack crews put out most of the fires while they were still at spot size, but onc fire, in Tweedsmuir Park grew to 30 hectares and had to be bumed off, to contain the fire to its natural boundarics,

The six fires make up more than 25 per cent of the 20 reported fires this year, compared to 101 fires at this time last year.

While conditions here have been.calm, center repre- sentatives say northwest fire fighters have been busy in other parts of the province, with the Hazelton crew busy in Fort Nelson, in the northeast.

He might go Down Under

SKEENA REFORM MP Mike Scott’s thinking of visiting Australia to learn more about that country’s handling of aborigine land claims.

Scott says he gol the idea while being interviewed recently in Otlawa for a segment concerning land claims on an Australian 60 Minutes-type TV show.

“There appear 1o be many parallels with what is hap- pening there to what is happening here,’’ said Scott. “It might be a good idea to fly down there, at my own expense, for seven to 10 days, You could probably get a good sense for what is going on.” ,

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