JULIANNA WHITE, shown here with daughter Savannah, was cleared of a noise offence brought —

A10 - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, September 30, 1998

about by honking her vehicle horn at a police officer.

Horn honker

ticket dropped

JULIANNA WHITE is not in jail or any poorer after winning, a traffic ticket case Sept. 18.

White was fined $100 May 12 by Constable Tom Kalis after she honked her car hom at him for blocking

’ traffic with his police car at

the corner of Lakelse Ave- nue and Ottawa Street.

White said she just wanted to make sure the officer knew drivers behind him were waiting. But when Kalis cleared the intersec- lion, be stopped her and issued her a noise tickel, Determined to fight the ticket on grounds of free- dom of expression and the definition of noise in the current bylaw, White ap- peared in court Sept. 18

She won the case after city bylaw enforcement officer Frank Bowsher told the court the ticket couldn’t

slick because the officer

Police take to the air

USING ©

stopwatches, a

plane and six painted lines

on the highway to Kitimat, officers are preparing to ticket cars from the alr.

“We just have to organize: flight times now that the lines are painted,’’ said Constable Daryl Rainkie of the area highway patrol.

At 500 metres apart, the lines on Hwy37 South make it casicr for an airplane crew to time cars as they cross each line.

“IE it takes you any quick- er than 18 seconds to cross the lines, you’re speeding,”’ said Rainkie.

But officers also check for unsafe passes and tailgaters from their ‘bird’s eye view’

~ in the sky.

Officers in the air then radio down vehicle infonma-

tion to ground crews who

ticket offenders. Rainkic said the service,

. couldn’t be compared to

photo radar or laser equip- ment already in use by local police because it allows of- ficers to spot offenders fastcr without the fear of radar detection.

“Tt adds variety and its another avenue of enforce- ment,’’ he said adding Van- couver officers have been doing air checks since the 80s with planes and helicopters.

Using airplanes to time ears travelling between marked locations here isn’t

new cilher but budget restraints have kept planes grounded for years,

The detachment plans to save money by borrowing the force's Prince Rupert- based plane when it’s here for a couple hours.

And while Rainkic admits putting an officer in the sky may take morc time and money than driving a squad car down the highway, the money docsn’t come out of a specific aircraft budget anymore,

So ihe only direct cost would be if the Prince Rupert plane was down and an hourly rental needed to be chartered.

“There’s. really no: added’ -

needed at least two com- plaints of the noise and be- cause the use of car homs aren’t mentioned in the noise bylaw.

‘When I walked out of ibe court house, I offered to shake the officer’s hand, and he didn’t want to,’’ White said. ‘‘E guess he’s upset.”

cost toil,” ssid Rank,

Lawyers call off legal aid work stoppage

PRIVATE LAWYERS are once again handling first appearances of people who can’t afford to pay a lawyer in Terrace, But that wasn’t always the case.

All summer, lawyers here refused to handle duty council to protest the amount of money the provincial government was willing to pay for legal aid services.

“Tt’s not about the amount lawyers get paid but the amount they (the province) put into the system,”” said Grant Lindsey a lawyer who has handled legal aid ser- vices here for seven years.

He said the strike just didn’t make sense. ‘‘We had no response at all from the government,”’ he said.

All it did was create a hardship for the legal services society and leave people in jail too long, Lindsey added,

So on Sept, 1 Lindsey and other lawyers who handle legal aid services went back to work, preferring to let individual lawyers decide whether they wanted to refuse duty council or not.

And, Lindsey said, lawyers here are ‘‘locally back”’ meaning they’re not going out of town to handle ser- vices in other cities.

And although the decision here was a practical one — he's still glad the strike continues in larger centyes like Vancouver and Kelowna. ‘I’m still unhappy about the degree of funding,” Lindsey said.

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