Richard Gleeson
Northern News Services

NNSL (Jan 13/99) - A thrill ride along Frame Lake has proven very costly for a city snowmobiler.

Clocked at 109 kilometres per hour on the downtown lake in December, on Monday the driver was slapped with a $500 fine, three-month driver's licence suspension and nine months probation by Justice Michel Bourassa.

"It certainly sends a message out there that the courts are taking a dim view of snowmobiles going at high speeds in the city," said municipal enforcement manager Paul Gamble.

The young offender was caught and charged by Muncipal Enforcement Dec. 11. The speed limit on Frame Lake is 30 kilometres per hour. Another young snowmobiler was caught speeding on the same lake a few weeks ago. The teen was charged with going 97 kilometres per hour. He is scheduled to appear in court Feb. 8.

Discussion of a call for a ban on snowmobiles in the city is slated for the Jan. 19 works and public safety meeting.

Among those anticipated to appear at that meeting will be Abe Mackay, who is proposing all travel by snowmobile be banned within the city.