Roslynn McCall, tried to cross Hwy16 and Desjardins Rd. May
1 and collided with a transport truck. McCall was killed in the

Police beat—
Woman dies in crash

TERRACE — A 71-year-old Terrace woman was killed in a

__May.]_accident between an ore truck and a pickup at Hwyi6
and Desjardins Road, police say.

RCMP identified the dead woman as Roslynn: McCall.

They said she was driving a blue 1986 Mazda pickup, when
she pulled away from the stop sign at the intersection, in front :

of an oncoming loaded Lomak truck.

She was taken to Mills Memorial Hospital i in sericus condi=

tion, where she later died of related injuries. The other driver
was uninjured,

Police say the collision.is still under investigation, and they
say they are looking for anyone who witnessed the accident or
the driving of either vehicle before the crash. Anyone with in-
formation is’ asked to contact the Terrace detachment at
638-0333.

creases at other northern B.C.“ ‘since 1980-81 — way more than _
Air ort driver ch arge colleges, NWCC president Don the cost of living.” he said, Poe
p Anderson said. The college’s «There seems to be a conser- Terrace’s first “Earth Day Baby". son. ‘of :

A 22-year-old Edmonton man who drove aroun ed tar-

mac at the Terrace-Kitimat airport April 28 and damaged a .

plane has been charged by local police,

Terrace RCMP said the man gained access to the airside of
the airport, drove his vehicle down the taxiway in front of the

* terminal and onto one of the runways. From there, police
said, the man entered 2 Bristol Freighter alrcraft parked near
Trans Provincial Airlines, and damaged one of the alrplane’s
seats and emergency exit.

Damage is estimated at $3,500.

The man is to appear in court May 25 on n charges of
mischief and driving a vehicle at the airport without permis-
sion of alr traffic control,

Thefts probed

Four Terrace residents are Pr charges of possession of ©

stolen property after police raided a local home and seized 91
cartons of cigarettes there last week. ©

RCMP are icon or witnesses when this pickup, driven by -

boost

- raise tuition fees nearly eight

per cent.

Students will protest the pro-
posals at the college’s May 12
board meeting, student associa-
tion spokesman Allan Ballinger
said last week. “We're calling
for a freeze on fees and.a royal
commission on post-secondary
education - funding and ac-
cessibility,’” :

The proposed increases an--
nounced last week call for a 7.9
per cent increase in basic tuition
fees, and a 6.9 per cent increase
in vocational program fees ef-
fective this. fall. All other fees
and rents for students who live
on campus. are to remain un-
changed. Students approved a
new fee in a referendum iast
month to pay $3.75 per semester
for .membership .in the Cana-
dian Federation of Students, a
national student lobby group,

.. The increases ate designed to -

keep the college in line with in-

tuition fee policy is to aim for

: the average of the increases at

other B.C. colleges, ‘but he
noted high fee hikes at some
Lower Mainland colleges were
factored out this year.
“If we'd tried to bring our
fees in line with all the colleges

_ in the province it. would have

been a horrendous increase,” he
explained.

Ballinger called the college’s
averaging method an abdication
of responsibility. ‘‘You
shouldn’t be setting tuition fees
as an average of what other col-

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leges are doing — you should be
setting them according to what
students here can handle.’

‘He said the continuing tuition
fee increases across the province
have outpaced inflation.

“Tuition at NWE€C has in- ©

creased by about 200 per cent

vative movement afoot aimed at
Betting students to pay more
and more of the costs of their
post-secondary education.’”

“If students continue to pay an. -

ever-increasing proportion of

_ Post-secondary education costs,

che warned, a college or univer-
sity: education will be limited to
the rich, '
The fee increases would bring
the maximum a student can pay

at NWCC to $408 per semester, . |:

The increases ‘must be approved

by both the college board and .

the provincial government,

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TERRACE — Provincial politi- highways minister -Rita
cians and members of the Johnston and native affairs
. Nisga’a Tribal Council gathered minister Jack Weisgerber.

RCMP said the investigation stemmed from the theft of |
cigarettes from J and F Distributors. The search and seizure
was carried out early last Friday morning,

Two of the individuals charged were youths, police said,

4868 Lakelse Ava.,

_ adding the case is still being investigated.
piles are also i inyeotpating a break-in at The Terrace Stan-_.

Extra avant received

“TERRACE — The city has
received an extra $35,000 from
‘the provincial government’s
revenue sharing grant program.

Under the program, Terrace
will receive a basic grant of
$78,410 ($76,940 in 1989) and a
further unconditional grant of
$586,667. ($502,986) for a total
of $665,077,

That total is not only up near-
ly $80,000 over last year, but

figure included in the revenue
portion of the 1990 budget.

The city is now waiting to
hear what its allocation will
under the revenue sharing grant
program for water and sewer
systems, Financial assistance
has been requested on seven
projects for a grant total of
$53,200 — slightly more than 25
per cent of the estimated costs
of $202,700.

The requests include $20, 000
towards the cost of replacing
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and Eby and $8,750 for similar
work on Lazeile between Emer-
son and Sparks. ;
Although no announcement

is expected until next week at

the earliest, ‘municipal affairs
minister Lyall Hanson said last
week the’ province would be
handing outa total. of $65
million in 1990/1, nearly double

_the previous year’s figure,
also $35,000 more than the © mn —

April 30 to .recognize ‘the .

“jurisdiction “oF “te road from
Terrace into the Nass Valley,
Up. until March of this year,
jurisdiction for road im-
provements and maintenance

was divided between the §

highways ministry, the forest

service and Skeena Cellulose. | J
A cedar bark ribbon was cut
to mark the assumption by the «

highways ministry. for im-

provements and’ maintenance, —

The first: construction contracts

for what is now called the .

Nisga’a Highway are to be let
this year,

Joining members
‘Nisga’a Tribal Council were

. Skeena MLA Dave Parker,

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