Health body to disappear this spring THE LONG delayed new way in which health care is managed in the area could begin to take shape this week. Health minister Joy MacPhail is to release soon the names of those on the Terrace Community Health Council. It'll be responsible for the major health care facilities in the area, That’s iow the job of the Terrace Regional Health Care Society due to close down this spring. In many respects the two groups are one and the same as the society already has people sitting on an existing ver- sion of the health council. The new council is to administer the larger health care facilities such as Mills Memorial Hospital, Terraceview Lodge and the Osbome group home — already under the wing of the health care society. Before the new body takes over, the health care society has to disappear. That paperwork process is to start lomor- row night when the health care society votes on a motion to blend itself in with the council. For health care society chair Olga Power it means the be- ginning of the end of several years of waiting for the goveniment to figure out what ii wanted to do. Power said she’s confident the new health council will continue the work of the health care society, But she did say some of the major changes undertaken by the society were unfortunately delayed because of the uncertainty of when it would tum into a community health council. ‘We had been keeping things ata status quo,” said Power. She noled that the society was one of the first in the pro- vince to gather health care services together. That hap- pened in 1988 when the boards goveming Mills and Ter- raceview merged to form the Terrace Regional Health Care Society, Power won't be part of the new health council, saying she agreed to stay on as chair of the health care sociely un- til its powers are transferred. Also set to disappear is the governing structure of the Skeena Health Unit. It’il be run by a society consisting of northwestern community health councils and a beallh min- istry represcutative. None of the health unit’s tasks are due to be transferred over to the community health councils. The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, February 26, 1997 - AS i That’s a lot of pennies! 212 KG OF PENNIES were collected by Danny Biggs, Ben Spang! and other stu- dents at Uplands Elementary. The money will be put towards automating the li- brary at the school, Staff estimate the pennies are worth about $916. Hospital left in dark about budget hike IT’LL BE several months before Mills at the necds of cach hospital before deciding if Mills did receive an increase last year — Memorial Hospital finds out if it'll get more money. Although the provincial government announc- ed last week it'll pump an extra $83 million into hospitals this year, how that applies to individu- al facilities hasn’t been worked out. A health ministry spokesman said that kind of detail won’t be available until after the health ministry's budget is presented as part of the provincial government’s total budget sometime this spring. And even then a ministry committee will look they should get anything at all. “They'll look at population demographics, utilization management, bow a hospital sits in relation to its peers,’® said Susan Gee: Michael Leisinger, ihe chief executive officer at Mills, says he’d be glad even if the haspital’s budget is frozen. “Tt's still better than being cut,” noted Leisinger of what’s going on in Ontario where hospitals have taken n budget decreases of six per cent. te oe ans $4,000 on a budget of approximately $12 mil- lion —~ after years of being frozen. The $83 million increase province-wide works out to 2.8 per cent on last year’s hospital budget of $2.97 billion. Leisinger did nole that roughly half of the amount is devoted to new equipment, decreasing waiting lists and new programs in areas of high population growth and aging pop- ulations. That’ll leave roughly $40 million for general operating cost increases, he said. ade News in Brief Pilots stage picket FIVE STRIKING Air B.C. pilots staged a brief in- formational picket Feb. 21 at the airport to publicize their dispute with their employers and its owner, Air Canada, Air B.C.’s pilots hit the bricks earlier this month after talks with Air Canada aimed at giving them more ac- cess to Air Canada jobs broke off. The pilots, who drove to Terrace from the lower mainland, said they don’t want to take jobs from Air Canada pilots but do want equal access to employment prospects with the company, This strike bas affected operations of all of Air Cana- da’s feeder airline subsidiaries across the country, Air B.C. has chartered aircraft from other companies, including Central Mountain Airlines in Smithers, to provide service during the strike. In the meantime, Halifax police are invesligating an assault that took place against Central Mountain em- ployces in that cily. Central Mountain has aircraft covering Air Canada subsidiary Air Nova’s routes in the Maritimes, Em- ployees of Central Mountain report that a vehicle they were driving was surrounded by other vehicles and that a physical allercation took place with occupants of those vehicles, Clark plugs into youth YOUNG PEOPLE can now tell Glen Clark directly whal they think of him. The premier announced last week the creation of a new web site called A Voice for Youth, which will al- low young people to communicate with him, Clark, who is also the minister responsible for youth, made the announcement at the second annual Premier's Youth Forum, where young people from across the province meel with the premier to discuss youth-related issucs. Over the next few months the site will be enhanced to include links to other important sites, interactive fea- tures, job postings and university information, Also tapping into the Internct is the federal government which is putting up a sile aimed at providing job in- formation to young people. The address of the provincial government’s youth site is www.youth.gov.be.ca Drunk driver guilty A KAMLOOPS man has been found guilty of several charges relating to the 1994 death of 15-year-old Stewart resident Sonia Exner. 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