The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, September 2, 1998 - Ait
DR, RICHARD LUTZ
WELCOMES
Local finds no help
in getting to new job
A LOCAL man who is on
tmployment insurance says
i's wrong there's no help to
appointment to open a file
before any chance of help
make to him from income
he might carn,
DR. DAVIS LINDSAY
came his way. | “That's an invasion of 7" Dr. Davis Lind
get him to a job in Alberta. But Peck says he objected privacy,’’ sald Peck. “I’m Dr. Richerd nr . First Ave.. Lakelse Lak a
Al Peck, who began col- to having to fill out a long simply aot going to sign that to his practice at 2565 First Ave., Lakelse Lake
Jecting employment insur- form outlining his financial piece of paper welfare wants Office hours Monday to Saturday
ae ity ee” cig: ‘Situation, giving the pro- me to sign.”” evening and daytime hours available
mobility program cut two vince permission to gain ac- Peck was scheduled to . , :
years ago should be revived. cess to personal records held start his job earlier this For chiropractic appointments call:
‘What's especially wrong by other agencies and to let week and, as of late last (250\798 2447
is that I can sit on my ass the province. deduct week, said he'd get there Poaer: 638-4889
until November and draw whatever payments it ‘might one way or the other, ger:
every cent of my claim ‘with
no questions asked, but
there’s no money for me to
go to a job,” said Peck last
week,
The job offer comes from
Fox Creek, Alberta and is
for a back hoe operator, a
natural for Peck who has
been a machine operator in
the Terrace area since 1982.
He was laid off last fall
and didn’t have enough time
to qualify for employment
Insurance,
So he borrowed $5,000
from ‘the bank for living and
travel expenses and headed
to Alberta to find enough.
work to qualify,
Peck accomplished that.
over the course of a month
and returned home.
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to the federal government’s.
‘computerized job search
system here to find work
elsewhere. He eventually
comnected = with the
employer in Alberta,
“I'm so far behind it’s
like having no money at
all,” said Peck of his
employment insurance pa-
ments.
“I want off the system be-
cause the system docsn’t
pay enough to survive,”’
Peck.also objects to- his
paying into the system when
he was working but not ice |
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With a federal program ma | " , SAVE up to $3.00
not available, Peck was Tasca
steered to the provincial so-
cial services ministry for,
possible financial = as-
sistance. ;
And that bothered him be- ,
cause he wasn’t on welfare,
didn’t want to go on welfare
and only wanted help to get
to Alberta.
Peck said he was told he
couldn’t be helped because
he dida’t have an active file
and would have to make an
Ministry
slims
down
‘MINISTRY of Forests
budget cuts mean transfer-
ring projects and working
with fewer staff, says a min-
istry official.
“We're more coat-
conscious now than ever be-
fore,’’ said Brian Downie
who has seen vacant posi-
tions go unfilled and em-
ployees get Jess training
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| grams like camp sites where
trail. users are doing their
own upkeep.
‘Recreational sites are
maintained but the public is
having to do more them-
selves,”’ he said.
Since the creation of
Forest Renewal B.C,
(FRBC), the ministry has
become less responsible for
running silviculture pro-
grams, concentrating instead
on managing and enforcing
the Foresta Practices Code.
Since FRBC is financed
largely through the collec-
tion of stumpage fees, the
transfer moves expenses
from a government ministry
to. an industry-funded pro-
gram — another savings for
the ministry’s budget.
“Forest Renewal picked
up the slack,’’ said Butch
Morningstar, FRBC’s acting
regional director, _
The ministry still hand-
les it’s obligations but they
-.. did bave a wide number of
+ . Programs that funded extra
{ ga, They no longer have.
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