Sisters:
erupts
again

After more than a year of

relative. cooperation, the
‘Ministry of Forests and the
preservationist Seven Sisters
Society are at odds again over
logging on the scenic peaks near
. Cedarvale.

The ministry held a public in-
formation session in Terrace last

night, the object ‘of which
according to spokesman. Gary
- Lloyd was to present options for
‘management of the area and
gather public opinion. . Seven
Sisters. president . Bill. Fell,
however, said the options
presented are in a narrow range
and don’t reflect the Society’s
objectives for the area, which
are primarily recreational in
nature. —

The area in question is about
1,800 hectares of mixed hemlock
and balsam. At Ministry of
Forests rule-of-thumb of 300
cubic meters per hectare, the
available cut is in the order of
§5,000 cubic meters. Gary Lloyd

says that enough timber to keep.

Westar’s Carnaby sawmill oper-
ating for a year; he’s quick to
point out, however, that entire
area would nat be harvested in
one year.

Lloyd also says that if por-
tions or all of the area are
preserved, the timber in question
would have to be removed from
Westar’s annual allowable cut.

The Seven Sisters Society has
maintained that timber in the
area is of marginal commercial
value and that the trees are more
valuable standing as a tourism
and recreation area than felled
and ‘milled into dimension
lumber.

The Northwest president of
the B.C. Wildlife Federation,
Gil Payne, has come out in sup-
port of the logging plan. Payne
said logging will make the alpine
areas of the mountains more ac-
cessible for a greater range of
people, including children and
senior citizens. He also said the
Seven Sisters cut would give
Westar and its contractors the
opportunity to demonstrate that
they can log in a responsible
manner. .

‘(Heaven knows we’ve seen
enough bad logging in this
region,’’ Payne said. ‘This will

This Friday is.a day of grand
achievement for 252 Caledonia
students — it’s graduation day.
_. the end of 12 years of hard
work and a milestone in the
journey to adulthood. Some will
seek employment, others will go
on to college or university — but
for all it?s the end of the relative
“shelter? of the public educa-
tion system and the beginning of
a new “‘freedom’’.

by Tod Strachan

‘And it’s this new freedom, to
make more responsible deci-
sions, that brought a*former

Washington State Highway.
Patrolman, Michael Buck-

ingham, to Caledonia to talk to
the grads. -
He had no ‘problem gaining
the attention of the grads. He
has no ears. His bald head is
dominated by a burnt and scar-
red face. His mangled arnis end

in clumps of much less than 10°

mangled fingers. Buckingham
was a victim of a drinking

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driver’s impairment.

When describing his own acci-

dent, Buckingham made it clear
that he wasn’t talking about
‘“drunks!’. He was talking about
someone who's had a couple of
beers — not drunk, but not
sober. either — impaired. ‘*Two
things have gone out the window
when you take alcohol or
drugs,” he told the grads.
‘Your reaction time and your

ability to make rational deci-

sions.”*

In 1981, Buckingham was 28
years old. A. tall. handsome,
28-year-old patrolman with six
‘years’ experience, he was on eve-
ning patrol. Brian, a 21-year-old
who had been drinking and driv-
ing since he ‘was 16 and never
‘been caught, had just had a few
beer and was on his way home.
Brian was confident he was safe.
He had been drinking and driv-
ing for five years without having
an accident. and there was noth-
_ing to indicate this night should
be any different. He was so con-

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- fident in fact, he didn’t even

bother to use his seat belt.

But this night would be dif-
ferent. As Brian left the pub,
Buckingham pulled in behind
him and turned on the lights and
siren, Under any other condi-
tions, Brian might have stopped
— but he was impaired. He had
to make a quick decision and he
chose wrong — he tried to
outrun the police.

He made another poor deci-
sion when he entered a right had
corner at too high a speed. His
car crossed the center line and

sideswiped his first victim, Dan,

a confident, non-drinker who
believed it could never happen to
him.

_ In an effort to recover from
the crash, Dan swung into the
left hand jane and collided head
on with Buckingham, Bucking-
ham’s gas tank burst into flame,
but with doors welded shut by
the force of the collision there
was no escape. For five minutes,
Buckingham burned in his car

before he: could be rescued. a

Dan was lucky, he received
only minor injuries. And he was
wiser, he knew now it could hap-
pen to him. Brian was lucky too,
at least physically. As his car
spun off the road, he was
thrown out, And for a few
fleeting moments, as his body

flew through the air, he stared at.

his own death — but he landed
in a pile of brush and was only
slightly injured.

But as his injuries: healed,
Brian’s luck became less ap-
parent. Emotionally, he’s not

recovering. He continues to live ,

with the consequences of his
choice to drink and drive. He

still believes that Buckingham —

blames him for his disfigure-
ment, and his sleep is riddled
with flashbacks of the result of
his poor choice. He has even
contemplated suicide to end his
suffering.

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