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- KEN Earl has his hands full at the Skeena Valley Rotary Club's eighth annual pumpkin fling. Rotarians host the gouird- tossing event as a post-Halloween way to mark the end of the holiday. More than 100 people were on hand Nov. ‘A,

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The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, November 15, 2006 - A3

News In Brief

Wanted man captured TERRACE RCMP report the successful capture of a wanted local man thanks to a. recently-begun Crime Stoppers Most Wanted poster campaign. ,

Edwin. Arthur Guno, wanted for a review of his sen- tence as the result of past convictions for break and en- ter, was captured and remanded.in custody Nov. 9.

~ On Nov. 8, police released a notice with a photo and description of Guno and information about the. reasons | for police interest in him. » Aconcerned citizen saw the photo and reported Gu- no’s whereabouts to police Within 24 hours, said Ter- face RCMP, -

Local police and Crime Stoppers thank the public for its prompt action in this matter, said Sgt. Bill Casa-- ult of Terrace RCMP. 7 =

Highway fatality

POOR HIGHWAY conditions are being blamed for the: _ death of a Gitanyow man, who died after his logging truck crashed into a‘ semi- ~tailer unit in the ° early eve- ning of Nov. 6. . “ _ The driver of a semi-trailer travelling west on Hwy16 _ about 54 kilometres east of Terrace lost control of the vehicle while going down a hill and collided with the empty logging truck travelling east around 4:20 p.m.” ‘The logging truck driver, who was trapped in his vehicle, succumbed to his injuries at-the scene-of the. accident, say Terrace RCMP. Police, fire and ambulance c crews. attended the scene _ and the highway was closed for several hours while po- ' lice investigated. _ The survivable life space in the passenger compart- _ ment of the logging truck was limited, say police, who” withheld the name, of the deceased as of Nov.7.- : ~The driver of the semi-trailer, who was from Prince — George, was not injured. Police continue to investigate.

=| | Chain-reaction crash — : no A DRIVER was charged after three vehicles collided _

in a chain- reaction crash on Keith Ave. east of Kalum

‘St. Nov. 1. " i A motorist heading east attempted to tum left off the

‘SARAH A. ZIMMERMAN PHOTO highway into the Honda dealership parking lot when a

THE REGION’ S unemployment rate

. Tose to 7.2 per cent in October from

* 6.5 per cent in September, making it _ the labour force rose from 20,900 in

the highest in the province. The next highest rate was 5. 5

" per cent in the Kootenays while the

overall provincial rate fell from 5 per cent in September to 4.7 per cent

‘in October. - fe "In terms of numbers, 3, 300 peo-

ple declared themselves as unem- ployed in October, an increase over

_ the 3,000 who did so in September.

Overall, the labour force in. the area from the Queen Charlotte Is- lands to just this side of Vanderhoof dropped from 46,400 in September to 45,700 in October.

Within those totals, the number of people working fell from 43,400

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in September to 42,400 in October.

At the.same time, the number of

people who took themselves out-of

September to 21,400 in October. The October figures continue a

trend that sees the region continu-

ing to struggle economically, says

Terrace-based. federal: ‘employment

analyst Patrick McIntyre.

“The only thing that is holding us . up is construction,” he said after a detailed survey of employment cat-

egories. Construction activity ranges from large-scale projects such as the con- tainer port development in Prince Rupert, through to commercial proj- ects such as the Northwest Regional Airport’s expansion and renovation

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. project. “Actually, I think there is more construction than in. previous years . but the service sector is weak,” said

McIntyre.

October's numbers are. further evidence of a decline in the north- west’s population because people

have left to find work;-he continued.

‘McIntyre has compared employ- ment data to find that the, number of employed people in October 2004 about matches the number from this October.

But other data such as the area’s population and the number of peo- ple who are unemployed tell another story.

October 2004’s population figure of 69,600 has now dropped to 67,100

- ple has also. dropped, from 6,000 in exact same labour market now as in 2004,” said McIntyre.

"is about half and while it isn’t exact, it matches the drop in population.

_|- second vehicle that had also stopped was struck from . |. behind by a third vehicle, causing it to plow into the : lead vehicle, say Terrace RCMP. : The third driver was charged for following too, closely, according to police. . : Two local men, who were driving the lead and sec-

~, pond vehicles, were examined at hospital and released.. and the number of unemployed peo- 4

Tractor-trailer rolls’:

THE DRIVER of a tractor-trailer. unit. travelling v west.” on: Hwy16 east ‘of Kleanza- Creek’ park is recovering . after an accident Nov. 4.: ;

“Terrace RCMP say the unit went off the highway and rolled onto the passenger’s side. The driver, a man” from Port Edward, was shaken up and sustained minor injuries. No charges have been laid, say police.

October'2004 to 3,300 this October. | “Essentially what we have is the

“Yet the number of unemployed .

These people have left,” he contin- . ued.

“They are the people who, if they were here, would be here working.”

It also means that the people who remain as unemployed or who don’t © count themselves as being part of the* labour force are people who would really be hard to get into the labour force, McIntyre added.

“Chainsaw swiped

SOMEONE stole a chainsaw from. a local bissiness some time during the early morning hours.of Nov. 6. Police report the theft of a‘nearly new Husqvarna | ‘model 365 chainsaw with a 24-inch bar from a shop in | ‘the 3200 block of Crescent St.

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