The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, March 19, 2003 - A?- | a « > L) : ® Ss a j one e 48 . Gov't eyes rest / cane ans || Kidney disease strikes families, not onlyindividuals, | | ~ sto p b us i n es ses CAN'T When a Kidney Foundation volunteer knocks on your door, please give generously. : BREATHE THE KIDNEY FOUNDATION OF CANADA PROPERLY www.kidney.ca Bui you can beat the edds on lung disease. Al Your Imaging Heeris Availatile AL. ) Acm yourself oe iainrerier eee rg ie, With the Northefn Photo now provides the latest in digital photo a lung fects service available to this area. The service is 100% customer bd bl from the 8.¢. tung satisfaction guaranteed, Association, The Fuji Frontier 370 system is a state of the art digital mini 7. e THINGS COULD be much J different at one of the area's prime highway rest stops i this summer. The Sanderson rest stop, | 33km east of Terrace on § Hwy 16, is one of 35 across the province which could be home to a seasonal coffee wagon-type venture. ~All told there are 165 rest stops across the pro- vince and locating commer- fj cial interests on. some of J them is one way of recoup- ing some of the $4 million a lab with an on-line digital server installed in the Northern Photo store in Smithers. This server is connected to Kiosks in Northern Photo Terrace and Smithers as well as Northern Drugs in Terrace, Kitimat and Prince Rupert. The system allows year it takes to maintain for secure Digital, Multimedia, Compact Flash, Memory STCX, them, says transportation SD, CD, Smartmedia and XD Cards as well as regular prints. minister Judith Reid. Judith Reid air pollution from Once these have been loaded into the on-line Kiosk computer The province would get residential wood smoke you can crop, adjust brightness, contrast and colour, change to its money from charging the businesses rent. ond culo emissions with sepia or black and white, zoom or add text all using a touch my : ° . . ips from the Association. ; . , Pe . Enhancing services will encourage motorists to take screen, Prints are available in a multitude of sizes including more rest breaks when they are travelling, which will 4x6, 5x7, 8x10 and 10x15. : _ help keep our highways safe,” said Reid. 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Box 34009, Station D #4-A736 LAKELSE AVENUE SHOPPING CENTRE * Services may vary by foxallon: Ak retafer tor detail THE MORNING Air Canada Jazz flight from Van- Vancouver, B.S. 6) 42 Tel: (250) 638-1888 » Fax: (250) 638-1440 ‘ ’ > (Advertising space donated e-mail: nphoto@northerndrugs, com couver and a courier plane couldn't land at the air- NN baithispeblicaion) Mon, to Thue. 9.0.m,-8 pum. # Fri, Pom, «9 pm. ® Sol, 90.m.-6 pan. © Sun, & Holidays - Closed port here March 14 because the new $1.5 million instrument landing system went on the blink. Jazz passengers were instead bussed to Prince Rupert and in-bound passengers, who ended up in Prince Rupert, were bussed to Terrace. Fraser Mackie of the Terrace-Kitimat Airport Society, which runs the airport, said it. was told a “slight electrical default” took place on an anten- nq at about 6 a.m, March !4. The problem was cor- rected later in the morning but not soon enough for the courier plane and Jazz flight, said Mackie. No break for them ’ THIS WEEK may be spring break for a lot of high school students, but a number of northwestern stu- "vis are going ta Northwest Community College instead. They are taking part in a spring break trades camp involving either the mechanics, carpentry, culinary arts and welding programs at the college. Students are paired up with college students dur- ing the camp which began March 17 and ends to- morrow and:takes place-for four hours each day, More ' ‘thait'"30 students have signed up from schools in Terrace, Kitimat, Hazelton, Dease Lake, Houston:- And on March 21, a number of the same students will enter the regional Skills Canada competition, also at the college. Winners from there have a chance to go to a provincial Skills Canada compe- tition later on in Vancouver. At the same.time, a group of culinary students is off to the Northern Institute of Technology in Ed- monton April 5-6 for the Northwest Regional Culi- nary Challenge. Students here have developed re- gional cuisine offerings, including salmon on a cedar plank. Healthy computers THE NORTHERN HEALTH Authority is spending $2.65 million to improve ils computer information ' . system across the north. Z BC's new Fair It'll help better connect heaith care and other fa- cilities when it comes to patient information and PharmaCare program better connect the authority with other health orga- ie nizations elsewhere. Also coming is a better system to connect.men- tal health and home and community services sec- tions of the authority. = me de _ The authority was created by merging 15 smaller FB Se ed ayes poe most BC families currently receiving support ones in late 200] but having merging their compu- a — a aoe ter sysiems ta one large one has been a challenge. . iin nblliy i He Hl . ZIP disk BC's PharmaCare Program is S being modernized to provide fair: access to prescription drug usérs across the province. Under the old program many low-income British Columbians have been - Under the new Fair PharmaCare drug costs than those with higher incomes. program: paying a higher portion of their prescription The new program provides financial assistance | . 280,000 low-income familias will pay less than they do now. 84% of all BC families will | 0 will provide for your prescription drugs. pay the same or less _ starts May 1, 2003 under the new Fair | Under the new Fair PharmaCare program, | PharmaCare program. to those who need it mast: the lower your income, the more assistance the government « For the first time, young BC families with lower -|°will pay the same or less for their prescription | incomeswillbe = . supported with their: ~ _ drug costs. drug costs. For the first time, young BC . Aussie doc speaks THE UNIVERSITY of Northern British Columbia’s plans for a northern physician training program will oes es are get an Australian perspective when Dr. Paul Wor- [- Se ea bh ee with their drug costs, ley from Flinders University speaks to an audience Mf EE a in Prince George and to other people elsewhere, including Terrace, via a video hook up March 25. families with lower incomes will be supported Business Opportunities The Ministry of Transportation is accepting proposals for Seasonal Vending in Highway Rest Areas For more information please go to the BC Bid website http://www.bcbid.gov.beca or contact Elaine Owen at the Skeena District Highways Office (250) 638-6440 i ee -~Proy iia Fraser, interior Northern: . Vancouver Coastal |: Vancou land ' Beamish = sO Health Servibss- ‘+Health | Heath | Health | Heatth. ealth | BATS Sadi 8 - eal, | Health | Ministry of Transportation