News In Brief Witnesses wanted POLICE ARE looking for anybody who might have seen a single vehicle accident which took place at approximately 8:45 p.m. on Hwy16 cast of town near Chimdemash Creek. An eastbound grey Mercury Topaz drove into the ditch off of the highway. Police say alcohol was a factor. Those with in- formation can call the RCMP at 638-7400 or Cri- mestoppers at 635-8477, MP speaks out IT’S TIME for the fed- eral Liberal govern- ment to fight for the people of Canada and its lumber industry, Canadian Alliance Skeena MP Andy Bur- ton said in the House of Commons Nov, 6. “Instead of. allowing their MPs to call. the | B.C. Jumber interests ‘nervous Nellies’, they should be working with ‘|| all parties to help the ;| People hurt by. this J U.S.-imposed duty,” said Burton of the lat- est tariff added onto the cost of Canadian softwood going to the United States. He said the federal government’s unwillingness to help B.C, is in contrast to it guaranteeing loans to Bombardier in Quebec so it can do battle with foreign aircraft companies and save jobs there, They cut the fence RCMP ARE lcoking for the person or persons responsible for stealing two ATV Quads, four tires and brand new rims and an outboard motor over- night on Nov. 5 from Acadia Plumbing and Heating on the 5000 block of Keith Ave. They say entry was gained by cutting a fence with wirecutters afler which the items were drag- ged into a field next to Acadia’s storage yard and loaded onto a large van or trick, Those with information can call the RCMP de- tachment at 638-7400, ext. 7405, or Crimestoppers at 635-8477, Andy Burton It'll be a parking lot AN EMPTY lot on the corner of Eby St. and Park Ave. will become a paved parking lot after a pub- lic hearing was held to rezone the property. The property at 3302 Eby St. was zoned as high changed to a mixed commercial-residential down- town designation. The owner plans to build an overflow parking lot there to ease congestion in the adjacent access centre and liquor store parking lot across the street. if density multi-familygsesideatial<.butywill- be;,; Nursing students sought by college NORTHWEST COMMUNITY College officials remain optimistic they'll have a licensed practical nursing program in place by next January. But it may be later in January rather than at the beginning of the month, says college official Barb Sheridan, . The college accelerated plans for a li- censed practical nursing program in Au- gust when the provincial. government. said. it wanted to give approval for a program and wanted it in place by January. Sheridan said the college submitted its complete plan to the B.C. College of Li- censed Practical Nurses, which regulates the profession, last week. At 76 pages in length with 12 tabies and 23 appendices, it is a comprehensive document outlining the program’s intent and is complete with letters of support, she said. “The proposal then goes to a sub com- mittee and it has it for two weeks — until around Nov. 22 or 23,” Sheridan added. “After that we'd expect the site visit — which is crucial.” That site visit by.two people from the licensed practical nursing college ex- amines the college itself and the various health care facilities at which students would do work terms. “| know we're pushing the envelope, but we'd then hope to have an answer by the second or third week of December,” Sheridan said. “That would still mean a start in January, but more likely in the third week of January.” Instructors still have to be hired, but the college feels there are sufficient qua- lified nurses in the area who would be in- terested in teaching, Sheridan continued, The college estimates it'll need the equivalent-af two and. half.full-time: peo- ple‘to teach up to 24 students. , It-has:done a deal with Camosun -Col- lege in Victoria to use ils curriculum, The curriculum has to be adjusted to reflect health issues that are different: in the north compared to the south. ‘The college this week began to distri- bute application packages to potential students who. have high school level’bio-~ logy, English and math courses and who have prior volunteer and/or work exper- ience in a health-related field. Sheridan said the packages will be available for two weeks 80 aS lO ensure a broad regional response. In the meantime, while the college has been told it can expect $94,000 for start up and inilial operaling expenses, that money won't be coming soon, Advanced education ministry official Susan Clancy said’ it will only be sent when the nursing program is approved. second program proposed A SECOND northwest institution wants to start a licensed practical nursing program. The Gitxsan-Wet’suwet’en Education Society in the Hazeltons has plans to stat its program next September by tak- ing up to 24 students. This is in addition to similar plans by Northwest Community College for.a pro- gram to be based in Terrace. Jessica Mikolayczyk, who is puiting together the education society’s program, says the idea is to ease the nursing short- age in the north and to provide ¢mploy- ment for people fram the Hazeltons. | “When you look at the transfer of ‘health services to First Nations, there is a real need to build capacity. By having it here we can make it accessible to people who are in the north already.” “With the struggling resource industry, people are looking at career changes. But -they Jive here, they: have families: here mwandathey. amayanatvha in aupasition to Map ge move,” Mikolayczyk ‘said. The society wants to purchase the li- censed practical nursing curriculum from Northwest Community College. The col- lege is still working through the approval process with the provincial advanced education ministry and the B.C. College of Licensed Practical Nurses which gov- ems the profession. If that doesn’t work out, the society will approach Malaspina University Col- lege in Nanaimo which has had a pro- gram for years. “Our preference is to first negotiate a relationship with Northwest Community College,” said Mikolayezyk. She doesn’t view the society’s plans as competition with Northwest Community College. “The reality is in the Upper Skeena area it isn’t viable for some people ta go to Terrace,” Mikolayczyk continued. She said the society is seeking finan- cing for its program through federal agen- cies with responsibility for aboriginal de- velopment and education, That means it doesn’t have to depend jig upon increasingly scarce provincial health care money or have the approval bathe provincial: governinienk “YS*Although ‘the éducation*society wants to get money from federal aboriginal pro- grams, entry isn’t necessarily restricted to aboriginal people or to people who are northwest residents. “All of our programs are open to anybody,” said Mikolayczyk. 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