The Prince George
Citizen
MONDAY, MAY 13,1991
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COLLECTION OF NEWSPRINT
Recycling day huge success
Citizen photos by Brent Braaten
Volunteers Calais McNabb and Meena Sidhu had to turn people away from the Spruceland newspaper recycling collection depot Saturday because the truck was full. Meanwhile, Lynda and Bill Clalrmont bagged Blue Spruce at Fort George Park to be planted during the tree festival.
HEAVY TOLL ON AREA ROADS
Rash of accidents keeps police busy
by MARILYN STORIE Citizen Staff
Prince George RCMP are scrambling to keep up with a rash of motor vehicle accidents in the Prince George area, with three single-vehicle accidents Saturday after two serious accidents Friday that claimed the lives of four people.
After an 11 a.m. accident Saturday, one treeplanter had to be taken to hospital by helicopter and another by road ambulance after a car rolled on Highway 16 about 23 kilometres east of Pur-den Lake.
Prince George RCMP said the treeplanters’ car left the road to the right and rolled several times. The road was bare and dry at the time.
The 22-year-old driver was transported to Prince George Re-
gional Hospital by helicopter, and the 20-year-old passenger by ambulance.
Both men are residents of Quebec.
None of the injuries were thought to be life-threatening. The driver suffered facial cuts, and the passenger’s	right leg	was
lacerated below the knee.
No charges are being laid, and liquor was not involved, RCMP said.
Shortly before 6 p.m. Saturday six people received minor to serious injuries in a single-vehicle accident on the Upper Fraser Road about six kilometres northeast of Highway 16.
A pickup truck travelling east on Upper Fraser Road entered a ditch and rolled. Four occupants riding in the back of the pickup and one from the passenger com-
partment were thrown from the vehicle.
Police said none of the injuries were believed to be life-threatening.
Four of the people were from Quebec and two from Spain. The vehicle, said RCMP, sustained $1,000 worth of damage and was demolished.
One hour later, Prince George RCMP attended a spectacular three-vehicle accident in the 1600 block of Third Avenue.
According to police, a 20-year-old Prince George man driving west on the downtown street, lost control of his vehicle and crossed the centre line.
The vehicle hit a parked car on Third Avenue, driving the vehicle back 80 feet.
The second vehicle came to rest on the sidewalk in front of Danish
Interiors, directly across from the government building housing Supreme Court.
The first vehicle continued and rammed into a 1988 Mazda pickup with several occupants inside. They were not injured in the accident.
Police said charges of impaired driving are pending against the 20-year-old dnver.
Meanwhile, the names of two men who died Friday in a head-on collision on Highway 16 about 67 kilometres east of Prince George have not been released pending notification of kin. The victims are believed to be from out of province.
Two people in the other vehicle were injured and transported by ambulance and helicopter to Prince George Regional Hospital
after the 6 p.m. accident. Their names have not yet been released.
Gerald Allen McKinnon and William Jack Blakis, both of Prince George, remain in intensive care in hospital after a head-on collision Friday morning on First Avenue.
The two men, reported in stable but critical condition, were injured when a station wagon and a van collided. The driver of the station wagon, Kevin Alfred Prince, died in hospital early Saturday. A passenger in the front seat of the station wagon, Jonathan Girroir, died Friday. Both men were Prince George residents.
The driver of a third vehicle involved in the accident, a pickup, was not injured.
by DIANE BAILEY Citizen Staff
Organizers of Saturday’s newspaper recycling day were so inundated that they may have to hold another collection just to catch the overflow, says the president of the Recycling and Environmental Action and Planning Society.
Sallie Dabb said the group collected between 80 and 100 tons of newsprint. Last year it shipped 50 tons to the recycling plant in Vancouver.
“We filled all four trucks. The only problem was we had to turn some people away because we couldn’t get another truck,” Dabb said today.
Dabb said the crew at the Spruce Street Overwaitea, where she was stationed, had to turn about 20 or 30 people away. Spruceland Overwaitea had to refuse even more than that, she said.
Some people were angry, Dabb said, but organizers had no choice. They would have had to take the papers to the dump otherwise.
Dabb said REAPS has a meeting scheduled for Wednesday and will discuss the possibility of holding another recycling day before winter.
“If we wait and go a year from now, we’ll have twice as much again and that would be impossible,” she said.
Dabb said the overwhelming success of the drive makes it obvious Prince George residents are ready for recycling.
“It tells me people really want it”
The collection itself went much more smoothly than last year, said Dabb. Collection areas were set up at four locations instead of one, and there were forklifts and proper containers this year to ease the process of getting the newsprint ready for transport.
People in general did a much better job of sorting the paper before they dropped it off, although there were still those who “brought us their garbage,” said Dabb.
“You wouldn’t believe some of die things we got. Old shoes, paint brushes, dirty Kleenex.”
People were also confused about why organizers wouldn’t take glossy flyers, since many are marked recyclable. But Dabb said the clay powder used to make the paper glossy requires a different recycling process than ordinary newsprint.
Meanwhile, residents were out planting trees all over the city during the final weekend of the Prince George Tree Festival. Forests for the World and boy scouts from the two local districts held their annual treeplants, while volunteers began a miniature forest in Fort George Park. The Nechako Environment Coalition also sold trees for residents to plant in designated areas around the city or in their own back yards.
KIDNAPPING CHARGE
Winnie Mandela found guilty
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — A Supreme Court judge found Winnie Mandela guilty today of kidnapping four young men from a church home in 1988 and of being an accessory to assault in their beating at her house in the South African township of Soweto.
Mandela, wife of African National Congress leader Nelson Mandela, had been charged with kidnapping and assault, but the judge reduced the assault charge to being an accessory after the fact.
Mandela, 56, and her co-defendants had proclaimed their innocence. The co-defendants, Xoliswa Falati and John Morgan, were each
found guilty of kidnapping and Falati was also found guilty of assault.
The three had been charged in the abduction and beating of four young men from a Methodist Church home in the black township of Soweto. One of the youths was subsequently killed.
Sentencing is at the discretion of the judge. Winnie Mandela and the co-defendants face anything from suspended sentences to lengthy jail terms.
Of Mandela’s claim that she was some 300 kilometres away in Brandfort when the crimes took place, Rand Supreme Court Justice
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M. S. Stegmann said: “Mrs. Mandela had authorized the kidnapping before leaving” home.
Stegmann said Mandela devised “an elaborate story” to try to conceal what happened.
South Africa does not have jury trials and the judge reaches the verdict alone.
The trial heightened tensions between the white government and the black nationalist ANC, which are trying to negotiate the dismantling of the apartheid racial segregation system but are locked in a dispute over ways to end worsening black factional fighting.
Terrace teachers on strike
VANCOUVER (CP) — Teachers in two more B.C. school districts went on strike today after breakdowns in contract bargaining.
Teachers in Terrace, 700 kilometres northwest of Vancouver, and Princeton, 200 kilometres east of here, joined colleagues in the Fort St. John area who closed Peace River North district schools four days ago.
The Terrace district’s 310 teachers set up pickets while marathon contract talks continued with mediator Vince Ready. The walkout left more than 5,000 students without classes.
The union had accused the board of trying to roll back a number of provisions won in the last contract.
Ready was working against a deadline because he was scheduled to fly to Saskatchewan later today to mediate a provincewide nurses’ strike.
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