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TERRACE — Again this year local and area residents will experience CounterAttack road- blocks.

by Constable Ewen Harvie, Crime Prevention Coordinator

In 1985 Terrace RCMP arrested 274 peo- ple for impaired driving and related offences. With the changes in the Criminal Code for drink- ing and driving, penalties have increased.

With the implementa- tion in Terrace, Kitimat and Prince Rupert areas of the roadside breath analysis unit or A.L.E.R.T., the chances of further convictions have increased.

These units are being put into place for use not only during Spring CounterAttack but year round. This instrument, along with the breathalyzer and blood samples, now makes be- ing caught and convicted that much more of a reality.

Police are interested in making the highways safe, all year round and so the stepped-up CounterAttack program not only takes place at Christmas but at this time of the year as well. Road checks will be set up day or night and at different locations throughout the area.

The following are some sobering facts about drinking and driv- ing in B.C.: .

@ Upon conviction fora first offence, you will lose your driving privileges for six months,

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you could go to jail for up to six months, and your fine could be up to $2,000.

e If you are convicted a second time, you will go to jail, from 14 days to one year.

e If the Crown pro- ceeds on an indictable offence, the maximum jail term is five years.

@ If you are convicted of driving. while im- paired, you will have a permanent criminal record, which could keep you out of some coun- tries or professions.

e If you cause an acci- dent while impaired, ICBC will not cover the

cost of repairing or

replacing your vehicle.

e@ If you drive while im- paired and injure some one, new federal laws say you could spend up to 10 years in jail and lose your driving privileges for up to 10 years.

@ New criminal code legislation says if you are guilty of impaired driv- ing causing death, you could spend up to 14 years in prison and lose your licence for 10 years. @ If you injure or kill someone as the result of driving while impaired, ICBC will sue you to recover the cost of your victim’s claims. Such ac- cidents can feature awards of hundreds of thousands of dollars, and you could be repay- ing those damages for the rest of your life.

e@ If you are charged with impaired driving, you have a 90 percent

chance of being con-

victed. One third of the people sentenced to a B.C. prison are there for drinking and driving of- fences,

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‘smoke free plaque

The Thornhill Primary School became one of the first this year to claim a “smoke free spaces’’ plaque and flag as the prize for being a totally smoke free zone.

by Daniele Berquist

Jim Steel, principal of the school, commented very proudly on having a staff of 22 and all non- smokers. ‘‘Not even our substitutes smoke,’’ he said. I feel that children are less likely to want to start smoking if peers

Smoke-free place

Thornhill Primary School teachers, Jacquie Reld (left, bach), Barbara Howe and Joan Cox with some of the kindergarten children proud- ly display their flag and pla- ques, presented by the B.C. Heart Foundation dectaring the school a “Smoke Free Zone”.

and adults around them, who influence their lives, don’t smoke, Steel add- ed.

Smoke Free Spaces for Kids is the B.C. Heart Foundation program to provide incentive awards to areas that are either wholly or partially smoke free. Co-spon- sored by the B.C. Home and School Federation, the program began last year in schools on Van- couver Island and in the lower mainland. It was found to be very suc- cessful and was then opened to the ‘entire province this fall.

All areas where young | people gather are eligible

for an award, if the area is either partly or entirely free of smoking places. For more information, contact the B.C. Heart Foundation.

Malcolm Hilcove, owner of McDonaid’s in Terrace, presents cheques to representatives of the Terrace and Kitimat Child Development Centres and Mills Memorlai Hospital. The community organizations shared a total of $2500 which was raised

during the McHappy Day event held in Terrace at McDonal dasignated for Ronald McDonald House in Vancouver. Ma

d's April 2. A total of $5,004 was raised. The additional funds are rgaret Dediluke (back, left) accepted funds on behalf of the Ter-

race Child Develoment Center, Cheryl Groves for the Kitimat Child Development Center, and Dorothy Lewis, Mills Memorial Hospital Auxiliary along with Norman Carelius, executive director for Mills Memorial Hospital, accepted cheques on behalf

of the hospital.

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