PRINCE GEORGE
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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 5,1995
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Driver seeks to change plea
by PAUL STRICKLAND Citizen Staff
A Prince George man accused after a van fatally struck a Fort St. John teenager here last spring returns to provincial court Oct. 30 to see whether a judge will allow him to change his mind about his guilty plea.
John Joseph Kleinsteuber, 35, received court permission to hire a new lawyer Wednesday. Defence counsel Keith Aartsen told court Kleinsteuber wanted to withdraw the plea.
Crown counsel John Barkwell immediately objected, saying it was the first time the Crown had been officially informed.
Rory James Salter, 16, died of his injuries
after being struck at about 1:40 a.m. May 19 in a convenience-store parking lot at 17th Avenue and Queensway.
Kleinsteuber pleaded guilty in provincial court Aug. 30 to impaired driving causing death. Judge R.B. Macfarlane reserved his decision on sentencing.
Early Wednesday, defence lawyer Simon Wagstaffe asked to be taken off the record as Kleinsteuber’s counsel. Macfarlane granted the request.
Outside the courtroom Wagstaffe said lawyer-client privilege prevented him from commenting on whether he or his client decided he should withdraw from the case.
Kleinsteuber, wearing long hair and prison greens, was remanded in custody.
Halfway through Wednesday morning’s court proceedings, it was hard to hear lawyers’ comments as youths, the majority of them young women, as well as some adults filed into the courtroom and moved to fill benches.
Ten minutes before court reopened Wednesday afternoon, the gallery was packed with people of roughly the same age group. Five minutes later there was standing room only in back.
Sheriffs found seats for a few of the standees by asking some people on benches to move over to make space.
Many wore T-shirts with photographs of Salter and slogans against drunk driving.
After the session was over, the judge had to stop discussion of the next case for two minutes until the commotion of people leaving the courtroom subsided.
Outside, 40 to 50 youths gathered at each corner of Queensway and Fourth Avenue from the start of the business day until mid-after-noon, holding signs asking drivers to honk in support of MADD (Mothers Against Drunk Drivers). They shouted both with glee at motorists who did honk and with some insistence at drivers who did not immediately respond.
Citizen photo by Brent Braaten
Spruce King Colin Campbell signs seven-year-old Jordan McCray’s cast, which doctors secured with a piece of hockey stick.
Youngster a 'King’ for a day
by GORDON HOEKSTRA Citizen Staff
Jordan McCray was probably feeling a little like a king after several Spruce King hockey players visited him at Prince George Regional Hospital Wednesday afternoon.
The seven-year-old is recovering from corrective surgery on his club feet and had his legs propped apart by a short length of hockey stick.
Who better to sign his cast than some hockey players?
He was a little shy at first but then warmed up to Spruce Kings Colin Campbell, Lome Bruce, Marc Girard, team assistant Malcolm Poburan and coach Gus Greco.
They all rolled over to the children’s ward when told how Jordan’s casts had been uniquely fashioned together to cheer him up a little.
They gave him a Spruce King jersey, a team-autographed stick, a pennant and promised to spring for some game tickets when he was ready to come down to the
rink.
The Spruce King players are young role models in the community, said coach Greco, and anytime they can lend a hand they will.
While they were on the children’s ward, they also said hello to a couple of other youngsters.
One was a 12-year-old birthday girl who has leukemia, the other a young boy recovering from a serious bicycle accident.
“Anything we can do to boost their spirits,” said Greco. “It’s never a problem.”
Petter says forestry jobs on increase
by KEN BERNSOHN Citizen Staff
The number of jobs in the forest industry is going up, not down as forecast by a recent Price-Waterhouse report, B.C. Forest Minister Andrew Petter said here Wednesday.
The number of jobs per thousand cubic metres harvested has risen from 1.08 in 1988 to 1.38, Petter told College of New Caledonia students.
This is being borne out at CNC, Petter was told after his speech.
Every single student in the co-operative education program taking courses in Geographic Information Systems in the past quarter had a job by the time they graduated, except for two who went on for university degrees, instructors said.
At CNC Petter released the official government response to the report. He criticized things like the way the report said the harvest was 71 million cubic metres a year when it was actually 66 million, and the way a multiplier factor was used so that for every job actually forecast to be lost in the report three were predicted to go.
Instead of 46,000 jobs lost or even the actual 8,000 direct jobs forecast, Petter said 10,000 jobs were being created.
The 40 students and teachers who met with Petter heard why the government had done the things it had done, including the new Forest Practices Code, Forest Renewal B.C. and other programs. Then they asked questions for more than 40 minutes. In his answers Petter offered clues about what to expect if the NDP is re-elected.
The first question was, “When will you address the tenure system?” that the government uses to give companies rights to harvest timber.
“We had to set the basic ground rules and see how much wood is out there first. In our second term we will address forest tenure,” although there’s disagreement about what should be done, Petter said.
“Once Land and Resource Management Plan working groups have decided on areas to be protected, will they continue?” another student asked.
Petter said LRMPs would zone forest lands and that later he expected them to be the forerunners of Community Resource Boards — ongoing community groups which would deal with land use issues.
INDEX
Ann Landers......... ,.. .49
Bridge.............. ,...37
Business..........21,22,23
City, B.C............ ...2,3
Comics ............. ...26
Coming events....... ...49
Commentary ....... . , , ,5
Crossword .......... ...36
Entertainment...... 25-27
Horoscope .......... ...37
Lotteries ........... . . .8
Lifestyles ......45,46,49,50
Marketplace........ .35-44
Movies.............. ----27
Nation ............. ..6,10
Sports ............. .13-18
Television........... .. .42
World.............. ...7,8
LAND CLAIMS
■ The province is about to get hit with a new land claim — by a tribe with just one member. Page 20
WHAT’S COOKIN’
■ Want to add some pizazz to what has become a pretty routine Thanksgiving dinner in most Canadian homes? Use a peach glaze on the bird this year, try some date and cranberry stuffing, Moroccan carrots and garlic cloves and sour cream in the mashed
minutes r
potatoes. Food dollar. Page 46
LIFESTYLES
■ If you’re planning to spend the winter south of the border its a good idea to travel during daylight hours, get in off the highway by mid afternoon and check out any motels or campground you might want to use. Page 50
ROUGHNECKS
■ What’s the best way to an oil rig worker’s heart — through their stomach of course. Dine with the roughnecks on the Ensign 22 rig in the Alberta backwoods. Page 45
GARDENING
■ There’s a right way and wrong way to get your yard and garden ready for winter, and renewal next spring. Read all about it on page 34.
SCREEN
■ The twin brothers who directed Dead Presidents are a resounding success story, but their film is a grim look at the American Dream. Page 25.
STAGE
■ Two soap opera favorites, Victoria Wyndham and Charles
Keating of Another World, are coming to town to help Prince George Theatre Workshop. Page 27
WORLD
■ The cult guru charged with murder in a nerve gas attack on Tokyo’s subways has confessed to that and other killings, reports said Wednesday. His cult said the confession had been forced. Page 8
LOCAL
■ Shiv Garcha, financial secretary of the biggest IWA-Canada local anywhere, has stepped down and will retire at the end of the year. He is responsible for changing attitudes in the industry in this area and reducing injuries on the job. Page 3
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