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Canadian free-style skier Jean-Luc Brassard won gold medal for Canada at Winter Olympics.
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Our golden moment
by Canadian Press LILLEHAMMER — Jean-Luc Brassard of Grande-Ile, Que., erased the disappointment of two years ago and won Canada’s first gold medal of the Winter Olympics with avictory today in freestyle moguls.
Canadian flags and fleur-de-lis waved among the crowd of 10,000 when Brassard, 21, roared into the finish area. The defending world champion pumped his arms in triumph when his winning score flashed on the scoreboard.
“It’s a good feeling,” said
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Brassard, joined after the event by his girlfriend, figure skater Isabelle Brasseur. “That performance was for me, my coach, for the people who supported me all the winter long.”
Brassard topped the field of 16 with 27.24 points. Russia’s Serguei Shoupletsov was second with 26.90 while Brassard’s arch rival, Edgar Grospiron of France took bronze with 26.64 points.
Brassard was favored to win a medal but finished seventh at the 1992 Albertville Games, where moguls were first a medal sport
“Maybe I was more confident in myself here,” he said. “I’m more mature. I have way more experience and I made that experience work for me.”
LOWER MAINLAND, ISLAND
Polluted ‘strip city’ feared
by Canadian Press
VANCOUVER — The Lower Mainland and the east coast of Vancouver Island could become a giant, polluted “strip city” unless the B.C. government immediately contains development, says a government-appointed advisory group.
The B.C. Round Table on the Environment and the Economy asked the cabinet today for a new provincial law to stop the spread of suburbs and a one-year mora-
torium on new suburbs on privately-owned forest lands.
“If you’re a sailor and go out in the middle of Georgia Strait, you don’t need a navigational aid to find the Lower Mainland,” said Joy Leach, the round table chairman and a former Nanaimo mayor.
“You just look for that polluted air that hangs over the Greater Vancouver regional district.
“That air is moving throughout the Georgia Basin, so it’s not just Vancouver’s problem,” she said. “It’s the problem of the whole
community built around that basin.”
The population of the Georgia Basin — a biorcgion that includes Greater Vancouver and stretches from Campbell River on Vancouver Island in the north to Olympia, Wash., in the south — is projected to grow to 10 million from five million within just 25 years.
“Now is the time for us to determine what kind of actions need to be taken to contain the sprawl,” Leach said in an interview Tuesday.
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Tradeoff eyed for UNBC road
by BERNICE TRICK Citizen Staff
Prince George city hall may have to adjust local road programs •n order to finance the completion of University Way, but it won’t affect other projects like the downtown courthouse, Mayor John Backhouse said today.
City council has asked the province to help pay the extra $7.3 million cost to shore up a slide area along Cranbrook Hill, but that money would only come out of its road projects fund — not any other funds, the mayor explained.
“They (province) wouldn’t substitute that financing for something
else like the courthouse,” said Backhouse.
He believes other planned road projects here may have to be delayed in favor of completing the main entrance off 15th Avenue to the main campus of UNBC.
“In putting forth our case we recognize the money will come out of existing programs.
“We may have to adjust our local (road) programs. For example, the Ospika connector between Davies Road and Tynner Boulevard may have to be delayed for another year,” said Backhouse.
The cost of University Way construction increased to about $16
million from the original budgeted estimate of $8.7 million when a buttress had to be constructed to stop the slide.
An ancient slide area reactivated when disturbed during early construction in 1992.
The city asked the province to increase it’s revenue-sharing grant by $4.7 million to help cover the extra cost.
The courthouse, last estimated at about $25 million, is in the province’s budget submissions for 1994, but the budget is not yet approved by the government.
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PRINCE GEORGE
Citizen
Decision disappoints RCMP
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Family and friends of a Prince George family continue to mourn today after a suspicious early-morning fire Monday that killed a city woman and her daughter.
Dead are Joginder Kullar, 39, and Harjit Kullar, 14. Both were killed when fire ripped through their home at 4394 Hill Ave.
Four other members of the family escaped the blaze that gutted their home near D.P. Todd secondary school.
Still listed in serious condition at Vancouver Hospital is Joginder’s father NirmaJ Sangha. Sangha, who was visiting from Vancouver, remains in intensive care with head injuries.
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four people full-time as community officers, but we won’t attempt to do that right now,” said Wilcox.
But he did make a promise to residents.
“We’re going to do the best we can with the resources we have. If the criminal caseload continues to climb, we’ll have to provide the service.”
Couns. Monica Becott and Dan Rogers voted against a recommendation by Coun. Cliff Dezell to hire only two civic workers to free officers for street work.
They preferred to meet Wilcox’s request to free six officers doing administration to provide a total of 10 more active members.
But Mayor John Backhouse and Couns. Don Bassermann, Ron Thiel, Anne Martin, Shirley Grat-ton and Dezell saw the move as an opportunity to ease into expansion.
The move doesn’t mean an increase in the city’s provisional budget or a bigger increase to taxpayers. ‘
Money to pay the $55,000 cost of two civic employees from July through December is to be substituted in place of other proposed budget items this year.
The $252,000 cost of the four policemen for nine months from April though December, was simply brought forward from last year’s budget.
Each member costs about $84,000 for 12 months, of which the federal government pays 10 per cent.
The total police budget is about $9.1 million in 1994.
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family, is listed in stable condition at Prince George Regional Hospital. Two other children, Guijeet, 13, and Paul Kullar, 17, were treated and released for minor injuries.
City RCMP say the cause of the fire is suspicious and still undetermined. The investigation con-
tinues, said Staff Sgt. Wayne Roberts.
“Arson has not been ruled out,” Roberts said Tuesday in a news release.
Meanwhile, a memorial service is being planned for the Kullars at D.P. Todd, where both Harjit and Paul were students. Principal Bruce Jansen said a memorial will likely be held within a week.
Joginder, who was also known as Joy, owned and operated Topper’s Cleaners in downtown Prince George with her family. Members of the Kullar family say they apologize for the brief disruption in service at the family operation.
Earlier reports in The Citizen mistakenly reported Joginder’s name as Narinder.
by BERNICE TRICK Citizen Staff
“I’m disappointed. I’m not happy with the decision,” RCMP Supt. Stan Wilcox said today about Prince George city council’s compromise to increase the local police force.
“Really what I got was two more members,” said Wilcox, who had lobbied for 10 more active policeman on the streets.
Instead, council brought forward four members who were included in the 1993 budget, but never got here due to changes in the federal policing policy.
Those four officers will go to work April 1 and council agreed to add two more members July 1 by hiring two municipal employees to assume the administration work now being done by RCMP members.
“The bare bones of the matter is
that I got $55,000 in this year’s budget,” said Wilcox, referring to the cost of two new municipal workers for a six-month period.
Although Wilcox said he appreciates council’s position to be accountable to taxpayers, he said, “Council ignored a lot of, what I perceive to be, support from the public” to meet police shortfalls.
“When it came down to the 11th hour, the decision was based on dollars and cents — not on the stats and the needs of the community I tried to make clear,” said Wilcox.
With the four new officers the detachment increases to 117 from 113.
The decision will mean community policing programs in two Community Policing Access Centres (CPAC) in the city will take longer to develop.
“I had hoped to put three or
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