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City councillor Brian Skakun had a curt message for cranky callers. Leave City Hall alone and call him if you've got a problem with the way snow is being cleared. "City council sets out the policy for snow removal.

Downtown streets get snow-clearing priority at night. The main downfalls of snow since Thursday have come at night. That means clearance crews have had to go back and start again before getting to the tertiary streets.

A back-country skier lost his life in an avalanche that came down in Kokanee Glacier Provincial Park near Nelson, B.C. Monday. The man, who was buried in the snow slide, was among a group of 15 adult skiers from Alberta and B.C.

Brian Skakun's home phone could have used a switchboard, Tuesday morning, after he made it known through The Citizen that snow removal complaints were welcome at his number.

City councillor Brian Skakun had a curt message for cranky callers. Leave City Hall alone and call him if you've got a problem with the way snow is being cleared. "City council sets out the policy for snow removal.

Two residents of Terrace perished in a house fire Jan. 15 at 4514 Scott Avenue. When Terrace fire department members attended the multi-family residential building about 8:30 a.m., they located one person in a bedroom during the fire.

A 16-year-old girl was struck by a light-coloured sport utility vehicle Jan. 11 at about 1 p.m. in Quesnel at the intersection of Carson Avenue and Front Street.

A motor vehicle collision Jan. 14 on Highway 16 East claimed the life of a Valemount man. Larry Bassaraba, 59, was the driver of a propane truck that was involved in two collisions near Yellowhead Lake.

A panhandler skilled at giving people a sob story to bilk them out of their cash has reached to a new low as far as Gayle Lehmann is concerned - by weasling a cool $40 away from her 17-year-old son. "Shame on him for hitting up a teenager," she said.

Provincial officials are hopeful to have an avalanche that closed Highway 97 north of Prince George on Sunday cleared by this afternoon. The slide took place in the Pine Pass about 70 kilometres north of the Mackenzie highway junction.