aay | Great gear CARL WASSINK, unit chief for the B.C. shows off new equipment paramedics recently acquired. Those are new ‘clamshelis’ — spine boards — which are impermeable to body fluids making them easier to clean and maintain. The sta- Ambulance Service tion also has new jumps kits mace of a fluid resistant material and are more ergonomically designed to reduce weight and stresses on paramedics’ shoulders. They also have new portable radios. SARAH A. ZIMMERMAN PHOTC Terraceview bed closures renew seniors’ worries LOCAL SENIORS say they're afraid some empty beds at Terraceview Lodge are a sign the Northern Health Authority has already be- gun cutbacks there. More than 50 seniors turned cut to a meet- ing with Skeena MLA Roger Harris at the le- gion here Oct. 14. Harris said he will look into the lodge situa- tion, adding the Northern Health Authority had . previously pledged not to cut beds at Terrace- view until new options for seniors assisted liv- ing are ready. “T don’t think we should be closing beds un- lil we have the other services in place and we see if we need them,” Harris told the crowd, He said there are initial signs of the health ‘authority beginning to move to new ways of caring forSeniors, 20.04 0 UN Res * He. said a Goordindlor" pdsilion fortan”addlt day care centre has been advertised and that facility is to go ta five day a week operation. He pointed to plans by Muks-Kum-Ol Hous- | ‘Sacig E VOUCHER ot REE GAME-VOUCHER ¢ FREE GAME VOUCHER # FREE GAME. VOUCHER F F FREE GAME VOU _ Here’s how Lu 365 days a year, 24 hours a day. coming directly from B.C. Gaming. Phone: 250-635-2411 Fax: 200-635-7882 Jackpot Info. 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Some seniors pressed Harris over the tend- ency to med-evac patients in hospital here to Vancouver over the weekend so the intensive care unit here can be closed. | “It doesn’t make sense if you can keep peo- ple here to med-evac them out,” Harris said, _ But he said he believes that situation is nat the result of an attempt to save money, but the result of an ongoing shortage of Irained staff. One woman there who is a consultant on seniors care said the local group needs a better strategy to counter impending culs by. | "its spore aeayerornere, 7) Bpieideriedendt “If you're going to-keep. your. beds you're ms going to. have to have a business. plan to lobby,” Sylvia Thompson said. She said it has to explain how many people FREE GAME VOUCHER Htish Gokanble YIHINOA JWVD.IIad © YIHONOA AWVD Jddd.* YIHONOA IWVD Ides Leet vaerrugeer sce eine ---- The: plan foresees a variety o and who has lost service because of bed Te Strictions. we “If you can’t answer that you can’t compete. at their level,” Thompson said. we Rhetotic about government and health care now being run, as a business. won’t go far eith- er, she said. “Health care was always business,” she said..“Withoul the money it doesn’t work.” ‘The overall NHA plan is to close 25 of the existing 75 beds at Terraceview Lodge over the next three years. ‘ NHA officials have previously said nobody at Terraceview will be moved and. that closures will take place as vacancies arise. A key part of the plan is to use the 50 re-. _ Maining beds at Terraceview Lodge for,seniors: aa gy -- ee iu ve HANS CREAR very liigh level of caf Who hi and home-care services being made available for seniors who can either live at home or at facilities which offer base-level assistance. The King Cat 900 for 2004 is engineered expressly for the intense mountain rlder, Featuring: * Parabolle skis # 150 hp twin with light 4 tite “Sena f community The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, October 22, 2003 - A3 News In Brief New forest ‘vision’ urged CITY COUNCIL is backing coastal forest compa- nies in calling for a “new vision” leading to major reforms in how the industry operates, It passed a motion Oct. 14 proposed by Interfor, Timberwest and Weyerhacuser. . These and other coastal: companies, including West Fraser which owns Skeena. Sawmills here, are trying to strike a new deal with IWA leaders, while the threat.of a strike hangs over the talks. “If we don’t do something.the coast forest indus- try and Terrace as well is going to-be just gone,” councillor David Hill said, Instead of bargaining with a coastal-wide em- ployers association, the TWA now wants votes to be taken company by company. But the. coastal companies are opposing the plan. Bar hour policy okayed A NEW POLICY on late bar hours means council will only consider 4 a.m. closings on New Year’s Eve and the Riverboat Days weekend. Council ap- proved the staff recommendation Oct. 14, Nightclubs had come forward seeking approval for extended hours on a number of occasions they considered “special” but that city council did not. The RCMP recommended against later hours, predicting if would lead to more. problems and higher policing costs. _ So The issue arose after provincial liquor policy re- forms allowed later bar hours — if they're approved by the local town council, The only councillor to oppose the amended poli- cy was Lynne Christiansen, who ‘opposed allowing revellers to drink until 4 a.m. at downtown bars ‘during Riverboat Days. : “We have a really good weekend — a good fami- ly weekend,” she said. “I just don’t see moving in this direction.” City saving policy eased THE CITY’s treasurer has council’s reluctant ap- proval to invest money with institutions other than the Municipal Finance Authority (MFA). The MPA, which acts like a credit union for B.C. cilies and towns, is legendary for delivering lower borrowing costs and higher investment returns for B.C. towns on behalf of their taxpayers. City finance director Judy Degerness wanted to make a trial investment. of $2 million wilh the Bank of Nova Scotia, which she said is now offer-. ing a higher investment savings rate than what MFA can deliver, “I would like to do this and monitor it for a while,” she said. Council approved the request to end the eight- year-old policy of investing only through MFA, although several were uncomfortable with any move that could weaken the institution. - ' “It seems to me members of the family will do better if, we stick together, than if we scatter Funds. yall over the place,” Marylin Davies said. ae “Once they've driven. MFA out of business then’ they could put the screws to us,” David Hull ad- ded. distress within 100 miles of Kitimat are responded to immediately by the Kitimat Marine Rescue Society's volunteers. 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