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Couple challenges forfeiture request By MARGARET SPEIRS A COUPLE has filed an appeal against an attempt by the provincial government to keep money seized during a police execution of a search warrant earlier this year. Darrell Genaille and Desiree Bolton want $21,380 in Canadian currency and $100 in American currency returned, saying it was seized during a search of a residence at which they don’t live. The attempt to keep the money is being made by the provincial government’s Civil Forfeiture Office which acts to seize property and assets, including money, obtained from activity regarded as illegal even though no criminal charges may have been filed and subsequently proven in court. Court documents filed by the forfeiture office state the seizure took place on or about April 10, 2013 when Terrace RCMP officers obtained a search warrant after receiving information about cocaine being trafficked out of the residence at 4610 Davis Ave.
The money was seized along with a number of items police say was used for selling drugs. The court document filed by the forfeiture office alleges that the money came from purchases of “illegal drugs,” and that the pair “either directly participated in the selling of the illegal drugs or obtained the money directly or indirectly from the sellers of the illegal drugs,” and that the “defendants intended to use the money to purchase illegal drugs,” and “if the money is returned to the defendants, they will likely use it for trafficking in illegal drugs.” The document said the money and proceeds, including interest, should be forfeited immediately and the money and proceeds “be paid into the civil forfeiture account of the [provincial government’s] consolidated revenue fund.” In their denial of the civil forfeiture office’s statement of facts, Genaille and Bolton said they “do not reside at the residence” named on the civil forfeiture documents as 4610 Davis Ave.
They also say that “the money seized from the defendant was not provided by purchasers of substances listed in ... the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act ... at a time prior to or including April 10, 2013. “The money seized from the defendant was obtained in a settlement between the defendant and Insurance Corporation of British Columbia (ICBC).” Genaille and Bolton also say the money seized “is intended to be part of a business venture start-up, started by the defendant....When the money seized from the defendant is returned, it will finance the business venture start-up and equipment upgrade for the defendant.” Following the execution of the search warrant and subsequent investigation, Terrace RCMP officers did forward information federal prosecutors with a recommendation to lay charges. But charges were never laid and the Public Prosecution Service of Canada, has not indicated why they were never laid.
Wednesday, July 24, 2013
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■■ Hanging around Darien Morvan hangs out at Cody Skog’s adventure camp July 17. At the camp, kids try archery, martial arts, board breaking, and use the trampoline, obstacle course and cable bridge.
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‘Summer of 69’ has roots here By AMARA JANSSENS THE FORMER Dog ‘n’ Suds on Lakelse Avenue was a popular hangout for decades, and has special meaning for one Canadian and Juno-award winning song writer—Jim Vallance. Vallance grew up in northern B.C., first in Vanderhoof, before he and his family moved to Terrace, where the nostalgic song about youth and endless days of summer, “Summer of 69,” was partially inspired. “I wrote ‘Summer of 69’ with Bryan Adams for his 1984 album, ‘Reckless.’ We didn’t plan what the song would be about, but after we’d finished the first few lines of lyric it was clear we were writing about our
youth, our school days: first guitars, first bands, first girlfriends, that sort of thing,” Vallance said in an email. The lyrics are incredibly similar to the experience he shared about his time in Terrace. In the summer of 1969, Vallance said he was living in Terrace and had formed his second band with fellow classmates, Alex Iselberg and Howard Froese. He noted his first band was with another set of classmates from Vanderhoof in 1965. “When Bryan sings the line, “I spent my evenings down at the drive-in,” he may have been thinking about drive-in theatres— you know, where you watch a movie from your car—but I was thinking about the Dog ‘n’ Suds on Lakelse Avenue,” Vallance ex-
plained. “I went there a lot, usually with Howard and our friend Ron Ritchie. We’d order fries and root beer and just hang out after school,” he said. “That’s the picture I was seeing when we wrote the ‘drive-in’ lyric.” The summer of 1969 was the first summer the Dog ‘n’ Suds was open, as the official opening was October 12, 1968. Now with the recent selling of the Dog ‘n’ Suds property finalized at the end of June, new owner Don Kirkby plans to turn it into a recreational vehicle campground while paying homage to Vallance’s experience of “Summer of 69” in some way. However for some, the transformation
from drive-in diner to RV campground seems like a dramatic change, despite following pre-determined city zoning regulations. “I’m still struck by this. It seems like an unusual use of the property given what’s on that particular strip. I never thought RV park when I was driving by Sonbadas,” said Terrace city councillor, Bruce Bidgood during the July 8 council meeting. Although most councillors agreed on the uniqueness of the development, they stated that they don’t have much say in how the property can be developed since it fits within the zoning requirements.
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Century-old button blanket being re-made at Nisga’a Museum \COMMUNITY A13
Police investigate cyber crime but public needs to be wary when online \NEWS A5
U17s medal for first time in four years at soccer provincials \SPORTS A17