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“Paper savers ©

PILES OF paper gathered by loca! businesses and organizations for recycling are now in-Van-
couver thanks to a Skeena secondary class taught by Dan Houpt. Students Lesley Robinson,
Stella Haigh, Suzannah Vande Velde and Clare Jennings were among those collecting the
‘estimated two tons of paper that went down.

Don't hold your breath
for a teachers contract _

STERRACE — The local
‘teachers’ contract expires this
week ‘and both sides concede
talks for a new one will likely
continue into the fall, ©

‘At least 60 articles remain to
be negotiated, Terrace District
Teachers’ Association (TDTA)
president Greig Houlden said.
last week, and the two sides are
at an impasse on 12 more, Only
one article has been agreed
upon. :

Neither side has yet issued
any offers on salaries and.
benefits.

“‘It's getting a little
ridiculous,"" Houlden said. ‘I
was hoping something would be
tearned from last year, but that
doesn’t seem to have

happened.””
The current " contract was

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reached through mediation last : ;

year following a 19-day teacher
strike in January 1989.

Houlden noted labour strife
in the teaching profession is
really nothing new to Terrace:
“In 15 years of. bargaining
history, we’ve- never had a
negotiated settlement. It’s
always gone to arbitration or
mediation.”’

“BCTF (B.C. Teachers
Federation) people tend to look
at things up here and shake their
heads,"’ he. said. ‘‘They think
it’s something in the water.”

But Houlden said the union
executive: has no plans to break
off talks and recommend
teachers take job action.

“Basically we're taking a
long-term view,’’ he «said.
“We're going to carry on

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negotiations for as long as our

membership puts up with it.”
Houlden said the board is re-
jecting nearly all the teachers’
proposals, ‘‘Basically what
we're getting from them now is
‘We reject your proposal, and
let’s get it out of the way so we
can reject the next one.””’
School board spokesman Kris
Chapman said many of the
union’s proposals are camplete-
ly unrealistic, and many are just
recycled versions of already re-

jected clauses. ‘‘'They’re coming.

back with nearly identical
language,”’ she said.

Trustees iast week stopped at-
tending the bargaining sessions.
Chapman said the board can
direct its negotiators just as
easily from the board office. |

Bargaining is to continue this
weekend,

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TERRACE — A nurse found
guilty on several counts of

‘unethical conduct: for counsell-

ing patients on abortion says
she’s thinking about an appeal.

The decision by.a Registered
Nurses Association of B.C.
(RNABC) discipline committee
to issue a reprimand without
conditions doesn’t fuliy address.
what Isobel Brophy calls the key

questions surrounding * abor- -

tion.

“They did not want to ex-
amine the truth about the hurt
that abortions can cause,” said
Brophy last week just after the
decision was released, ©

“They didn’t want to address
the question of rights of a pa-
tient to be fully informed, in-
cluding information on the side
effects, about abortion,’’. she
said. _

Brophy did say the reprimand
is a fairly mild disciplinary
measure and was pleased ‘no
conditions were set on her nurs-
ing activities, :

At the same time, Brophy.
said the reprimand on her nurs-
ing record could hamper any
plans she has to advance in the
profession by becoming an in-
structor or head nurse.

“This is a stain forever on my
record ... I have a reputation of
being a competent and caring
nurse,” she continued.

The charges filed stem from
five allegations Brophy acted
unethically in the period from
Oct. 1986 to June of last year.
They were heard over a five-day
period last month by the
RNAEBC discipline committee.

One of the charges was drop-
ped during the hearing and
several were dismissed by the
comunittee in its decision.

On the charges upheld by the
committee, it ruled Brophy’s ac-
tions “reflects alack of respect,
for ... needs, values and rights
of choice” of the patient.

She objected to the phrasing,

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arge appeal —

_saying it went contrary to her

beliefs about the right of a pa-
tient to have complete informa-
tion about abortion.

“Tf I. didn’t. care about a
woman's needs, I would have
walked away without talking to
her,””. Brophy said,

‘The’ committee also decided
that Brophy endangered the
health of a woman scheduled to
have’ an abortion during the
1989. nursing strike by saying
she and other nurses would
picket the hospital should the
procedure take place.

RNABC ‘documents filed

-- with the charges indicate there

was a risk to the patient's health
and that actions Brophy -said

she and other nurses would’

undertake could have lead to
the identity of the woman being
known.

Brophy rejected the commit-
tee’s finding in this situation,
saying it implied that she would
compromise her nursing train-
ing and respect for the patient,

“The (nurses’)' union, ‘the
doctors and the hospital ad-
ministration put the needs of
this patient secondary to their
concern about a public backlash
should it become known abor-
tions were being done during
the strike,”? she said.

Brophy said her and the posi-
tions of other nurses that abor-

Isobel Brophy

tions should not: have been
scheduled during the strike
when other medical care was
suspended,

Brophy added she would not
hesitate to counsel patients
again if they requested informa-
tion or wanted to talk.

“T wasn’t guilty,” Brophy
said in adding she knew of the
professional risk she was taking
by having such conversations.

Arson investigated

TERRACE — RCMP are conti-
nuing to investigate as arson the
destruction of a building last
week on Copper River road.

Police said the fire — of
unknown origin — destroyed a
building at the North Coast
Road Maintenance paving site
in Thornhill on Copper River
Road.

SUMMER HOURS»

School District No. 88 administration Board Office will be instituting sum- ~
mer hours, effective July 2 to August 31, 1990 inclusive.

Hours willbe 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.

| NOTICE
School District No. 88 (Terrace) «af

Thornhill firefighters arrived
on the scene at about 4:20 a.m.
June 19, But they weren’t able
to save Kentron Construction
Ltd.’s computer control centre
and offices. Police said the
amount of damage to the
building is unknown.

Police said they suspect the
fire could be the result children

playing.

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