2 - The Prince George Citizen - Friday, September 4,1992 B.C. WEATHER OUTLOOK Environment Canada Environnamant Canada Prince George area: Skies are -expected to gradually clear overnight with a 60-per-cent chance of rain and a risk of frost in low-lying areas. Saturday is expected to be mainly sunny with cloudy periods and a 30-per-cent chance of rain. The temperature should dip to 2 to night and rise to 14 Saturday. v- Thursday we had a high of 13.7, an overnight low of 4.1 and 12.6 mm of rain and 0.2 hours of •sunshine were recorded at the airport weather office. A year ago on this date we had •a high of 22.1, an overnight low ..of 5.2, no precipitation and 9.6 hours of sunshine. The outlook for Sunday and Monday is for mainly cloudy skies, a 50-per-cent chance of -rain, overnight lows of between 3 and 4 and daytime highs of 16. The chance of rain is expected to increase to 80 per cent Tuesday .accompanied by an overnight low ,of 6 and a daytime high of 18. The sun will set at 7:54 p.m. today and rise at 6:27 a.m. Saturday. Interior: A Pacific cold front moving eastward out of the south-on interior will leave cool, moist unstable air in its wake. Skies will remain mainly cloudy with a few showers or thundershowers. Chilcotin, Cariboo: Tonight, mainly cloudy. Chance of showers with evening thundershowers. Patchy ground frost. Low 3. Saturday, a mix of sun and cloud. Chance of a shower. High 16. Probability of precipitation in per cent 80 today, 60 tonight and 40 Saturday. Parsnip: Partial clearing overnight. Chance of showers. Frost in low-lying areas. Low 2. Saturday, sunny with cloudy periods. Slight chance of a shower. High 14. Probability of precipitation in per cent 70 today, 60 tonight and 30 Saturday. Bulkley Valley, the Lakes: Tonight, partial clearing overnight. Chance of showers with evening thundershower. Frost in low lying areas. Low 2. Saturday, mainly sunny. Slight chance of showers in the mountains. High 15. Probability of precipitation in per cent 80 today, 60 tonight and 30 Saturday. Okanagan: Tonight, mainly cloudy. A few showers. Chance of thundershowers. Windy at times. Low 8. Saturday, cloudy with sunny periods. Chance of a shower or thundershower. High 21. Probability of precipitation in per cent 80 today, 80 tonight and 40 Saturday. Vancouver: Tonight, cloudy periods. Chance of showers or evening thundershowers. Windy. Low 11. Saturday, sunny with cloudy periods. Chance of a shower. High 18. Probability of precipitation in per cent 60 today, 60 tonight and 40 Saturday. Victoria: Tonight, cloudy periods. Chance of a shower. Low 8. Saturday, sunny with cloudy periods. High 19. Probability of precipitation in per cent 60 today, 40 tonight and 20 Saturday. 5H The Weather Saturday September = Vl /// / ^ Temperatures: LOW/HIGH •. V . ’■ '' >'>. • • :%vx^^v>:v:v:v:v:v:*:y>:<;:;:y>>xw:::< . • *: •: /. x .v •. : ^ ■ ■■ •••<;*•• •• j > ,•* W ' Citizen AIR QUALITY INDEX g| P.O. Jail H3 Plaza 400 [] Van Bien j (1) 9 a.m.-Noon (2) Noon-3 p.m. (3) 3 p.m.-6 pjn. (4) 6 p.m.-9 p.m. (5) 9 p.m.-Midnight (6) Midnight-3 a.m. (7) 3 a.m.-6 ajn. (8) 6 a.m.-9 a.m. NO MEASURABLE TRS READINGS DURING PAST 24 HOURS 40 60 ppb LEVEL B HAZARD LEVEL f 100 120 Peak levels during 3-hour periods to 9 a.m. today. Total Reduced Sulphur compounds (parts per billion) measured by the B.C. Environment Ministry. TEMPERATURES TORONTO (CP) -Tempera- Deaselake 12 -2 005.6 The Pas 15 5 000.0 turns in Celsius; precipitation in Peace River 15 5 003.4 Kenora 17 12 000.2 miSmetres: Whitehorse 9 4 002.7 Thunder Bay 18 8 000.6 Vancouver 19 14 000.4 Yellowknife 6 1 000.0 N. Bay 21 7 002.4 Victoria 21 10 000.0 inuvk 14 7 001.8 Toronto 26 10 007.4 Comox 19 11 003.2 Resolute Bay 1 •4 000.0 Ottawa 15 11 016.6 Port Hardy 16 9 000.0 Eureka --- --- 000.0 Montreal 16 14 040.0 Prince Rupert 14 6 000.0 Alert --- --- 000.0 Fredericton 16 12 002.0 Terrace 16 7 000.2 Cant ridge Bay 6 0 000.0 Charlottetown 16 8 000.0 Penticton 29 17 000.2 Calgary 15 8 000.4 Halifax 19 11 000.0 Kamloops 22 12 003.2 Edmonton 17 8 004.0 St. John's 10 8 004.6 Abbotsford 21 13 000.0 Lethbridge 19 7 000.0 Seattle 22 12 001.3 Cranbrook 25 11 000.0 Medicine Hat 19 9 000.0 Spokane 28 14 000.0 Revelstoke --- --- 000.0 Swift Current 14 5 002.0 Portland 25 17 000.0 Blue River --- --- 000.0 Regina 15 5 000.0 San Francisco 22 14 000.0 Puntzi 13 6 008.4 Saskatoon 19 5 000.0 Los Angeles 24 16 000.0 WMiamsLake 11 5 012.2 Prince Abert 14 2 000.7 Las Vegas 35 22 000.0 Prince George 14 4 012.2 N. Batdeford 17 5 000.0 Reno 25 7 000.0 Mackenzie 16 6 000.0 Winnipeg 19 12 000.2 Phoenix 39 24 000.0 Fort St. John --- --- 000.0 19 8 000.0 New York Cky 27 21 016.3 Fort Nelson 11 1 001.4 Churchil 10 3 000.6 Miami 29 26 014.5 Long range forecast for PRINCE GEORGE SMOKE PARTICLES The concentration of minute smoke particles in the air averaged 38 micfograms per cubic metre in the past 24 hours, which is rated FAIR by the environment ministry. »• jr. e jT. * J S*, »“ V/. 600jobs saved at Westar mine CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTRE 1 Sewing over 300 special needs children a year in Prince George and area. Supported by The fmnoe George Chtoen J 'A by Canadian Press 2 :-VICTORIA (CP) — Creditors 2 involved in the Westar Mining - bankruptcy have agreed to revive 2 the company’s Greenhills coal * mine and put 600 employees back j to work. j |But the company’s larger 2 Burner mine will remain shut, pro-j longing the hardship of 1,200 j workers there who have been off * thfc job since May. 2 ;News that the Greenhills mine 2 would reopen was greeted with re-j li^f in Sparwood, the southeastern 2 BiC. community hit hardest by the 2; closures. \ »“I’m really pleased,” miner * IMike Skippen said Thursday. - ‘CThis will change everything for W 2‘-2-Added co-worker Steve Patter- - Isdn: ‘‘Now we’re just waiting for 2 a phone call to get back to work.” * -2-The Greenhills operation was '-sfiut earlier this week when parent company Westar was declared : * bankrupt in the face of more than >-$400 million in debts. :**KThe breakthrough was a deal — y;rqached late Wednesday — among C/Westar’s major creditors to extend v‘0reenhills a 60-day line of credit :* !a6d reopen the mine under man- * ‘agement of a court-appointed l;(nistee. ;*|iThe provincial government also /‘agreed to indemnify the mine .^against any future risks other than !*6perating losses — such as an un- * Expected equipment breakdown. ♦! * ‘.The province will also under-»; vvTite costs incurred by the trustee ‘.-Jn finding a private-sector buyer 2 -for Greenhills. ; I Finance Minister Glen Clark, -:wbo helped put the deal together, Upraised the flexibility shown by !-Creditors that include CP Rail, Po-‘hang Steel of Canada Ltd. and - 2 Westshore Terminals Ltd. Out on bail /'-VANCOUVER — A track 2-driver serving five years for crimi--;nal negligence in the deaths of a :jft0ther and daughter at a B.C. 2-Ferry terminal in 1990 was re- leased on bail Thursday pending an appeal. The B.C. Court of Appeal, overruling strong opposition from the Crown, decided the continued confinement of Jatinderpal Singh Ubhi, 25, is not necessary to safeguard the public interest. Justice Harold Hollinrake noted prosecutor Bill Ehrcke said public confidence in the administration of justice will suffer if Ubhi is released pending the appeal. The judge said Ehrcke, recalling Ubhi committed a serious driving offence while awaiting trial on the terminal accident, warned the trucker might be tempted to drive if released. Hollinrake, although he described the Crown’s submission as forceful, noted the suspension of Ubhi’s driving licence will continue during the bail period. Ubhi was convicted of two counts of criminal negligence causing death and five of causing bodily harm after the brakes on his dump truck failed and the vehicle slammed into a van at the ferry terminal in West Vancouver. The prosecution at Ubhi’s jury trial last November relied solely on the argument the trucker was criminally negligent in not inspecting and adjusting his brakes. He was sentenced to 18 months by the trial judge. The B.C. Court of Appeal increased the penalty to five years. Mom angry LANGLEY — A mother is furious after her 12-year-old son was issued a $75 ticket for illegally riding his bicycle on a downtown sidewalk in this Fraser Valley community. Christine Livingstone said her son, Jimmy, was forced on to the sidewalk for the short ride back to his father’s house because he was almost hit by a car. “There’s no bloody way I’m going to pay it,” Livingstone said. “If they (children) are in danger, they should have the right to pro- AROUND B.C. tect themselves. I’m going to fight this.” . Jimmy Livingstone said he was ticketed by an RCMP officer in a patrol car about 8:30 p.m. Wednesday despite telling the officer that he was nearly hit by a car. “He said I shouldn’t ride on the sidewalk. But there were cars going by and I didn’t want to take a chance. There were cars squealing their tires. “And I wasn’t going fast (on the sidewalk). I was going with friends, who were walking.” Sgt. Wayne Treleaven, who heads the Langley detachment’s traffic section, said the officer who issued the ticket would be interviewed about the matter. Until then, Treleaven said, he couldn’t comment. “(But) 12 is a little young,’’ he added. “It doesn’t happen often. “My only other observation is we get a lot of complaints from elderly residents in downtown Langley about (bicycles on sidewalks).” Livingstone said she is particularly angry because she often sees members of the RCMP’s bicycle squad riding on sidewalks. Concert set PENTICTON — Picket lines set up by striking electrical workers will not interfere with a Sunday concert by singer Bryan Adams in the southern Okanagan community of Osoyoos. The workers, on strike against West Kootenay Power, removed a picket line Thursday at the concert site. The International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers had been protesting a move by BC Tel to hook temporary telephone lines to the site onto a nearby West Kootenay Power pole. The union is seeking a "hot declaration’’ from the Canadian Labor Congress on such jointly used poles. Bill Taylor, union shop steward for the Oliver-Osoyoos area, said that after talking to the concert’s promoters and the union’s business agent, the parties agreed to remove the picket line to ensure public safety and security at the site. Some of the 18 phone lines being installed by BC Tel were earmarked for emergency purposes. “We thought they should have those lines available,” Taylor said. About 200 electrical workers have been on strike against West Kootenay since July 17. Nearly 100 members of the Office and Technical Employees Union also went on strike against the utility this week, although they had been respecting union picket lies since July. About 30,000 people are expected for Sunday’s concert, which also includes the Steve Miller Band and three other rock groups. Metric muddle VANCOUVER — City council has scrapped a plan to require builders to submit development and building permit plans in metric measurements. The decision Thursday followed protests from industry representatives, who said the requirement would create havoc because much of the material they use is sized in imperial measurements. “This would be the equivalent of converting everything into Swahili,’’ said Dave Witso, a house designer. “This is an issue of communication, not of public safety.” At present, the city’s planning and permits and licences departments accept applications and plans in both imperial and metric measurements, although the zoning and development bylaw has already been converted to metric. Since 1978, the city has gradually worked toward changing all measurement requirements in its bylaws from imperial to metric. However, Al Floyd, administration manager for the planning department’s development permit group, said only a few architects and builders submit plans in metric. John Murphy My experience in Trade & Contracting Insurance will insure you of die best protection possible. “The Insurance People“ Conti Cana ntal *----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> VANCOUVER (CP) — Tourist Alert issued by the RCMP. The fol-2"jowing people, believed travelling in British Columbia, are asked to call the person named for an urgent personal message: ;>2Peter and Olga Remus of Vernon, B.C., call Robert Remus J?TAndrew Caswell of Whitecourt, Alta., call Cori Caswell -22-2 Car la Legare of Edmonton, call home C-*Tim and Tammy Anderson of Vancouver, call Bent Koster HOMES FOR STUDENTS REQUIRED The Fort Ware Indian Band is looking for secure homes to care for four (4) bright & enthusiastic children while they attend school in Prince George. The ages vary through grades 5, 6, 7, 9. The grade 5, 6, 7 students are brother & sisters. Placement together would be ideal but not necessary. Funding is in place for financial care; you would supply the love security and structured living. Students vacations would be in Fort Ware. If you are interested or would like more information, please phone the Prince George Band Office, 563*4161 ask for Debbie. ROSELYNE CAN BE REACHED AT: - Office 564-4663 Pager 561-6046 Bring It Into the Parkhlll Rea Market Open Every Saturday & Sunday For more information Phone 563-5540 or 963-7874 PARKHILL FLEA MARKET Oldest Flea mafftgtIn Prince George’’ f