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Learning fish tales

NEWS photo Mike Wakefleid

THE Seymour Saimonid Society hosted the opening on Wednesday of “Gently Down the Seymour,” a new
educational field trip to help students studying salmonids in their classrooms learn about salmon, forests,
water quality, fish habitat and hatcheries.

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Road fracas
investigated

By Robert Galster

News Reporter

AN encounter between
an RCMP officer and a
truck driver brought
out the worst in the
two men last Tuesday
morning.

According to witnesses,
the fracas began when RCMP
Const. George Makowski
blocked a wide-turn lane
while performing a routine
traffic check at the intersec-
tion of Broaksbank and
Cotton. Todd MacDonald, 2
D.C.T. Chambers truck dri-
ver, was unable to make a left
turn as a result and leaned on
his horn to make his point.

“I think he (truck driver)
got a little carried away,” said
a Craftsman — Collision
employee watching the scene
from the body shop’s street
corner vantage point. “He
had a full load behind him
though,” he added.

Although the witness
declined to give his name, he
relayed that the officer proba-
bly over-reacted to the horn
blast.

“The cop didn’t care for
that (horn blast) too much,
next thing you know the cop
opened the (truck) door,” the
man said. “The next thing
you know the cop had him in
cuffs and drags him to the
police car.

The officer released
MacDonald when he realized
the stranded truck was now
blocking two streets, but
something in the driver’s
mannerism caused yet another
exchange.

“He (MacDonald) got

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into his truck ... some more
words -were — exchanged
berween: the driver and the
cop and the door opened and
the cop dragged him out
again.

“That's when the power
guys got involved,” said the
body shop employee.

“Between the power work-
ers, the trucker and the cop ...
everyone knows what it’s like
to try co make a curn in one of
those except the cop,” he
added.

One of the utility line
workers, Ken Olychick
phoned the North Vancouver
RCMP headquarters and
made a complaint.

“} was so aghast that it
took place right in front of my
eyes,” said Olychick. “I didn’t
hear what they said to each
other ... T heard the horn and
pretably would have blown it
myself”

Uuchick said he
approached the officer and
demanded his name. Const.
Makowski complied and
defended himself by stating
that he was stressed because
he has been dealing with drug
pushers and other unscemly
characters.

“It just disgusted me,”
Olychick said.

RCMP Sgt. Bob Beaudoin
received Olychick’s complaint
and said an internal investiga-
tion is under way. :

“As a result of the allega-
tions made I have to follow
through with Const.
Makowski and try to deter-
mine if any irregularities took
place,” said Beaudoin. “We
go into these things with an
open mind and follow
through to the best of our
ability.”

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